WWII Quartz Mine Traditional Cache
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Parking is at 9,000 feet elevation. 1/2 mile+ hike one way with about 200 feet gain.. 30 minute round trip walk without dawdling. Nice scenery.
A sturdy ammo can replaced a one-gallon can painted green in summer 2012? with a daffodil book mark, a cloth bookmark from Budapest, a small fantasy action figure, a baggy with a few local rocks & the log. The items are all different now. Updated Oct 29, 2012.
From US 285 east/north of Bailey take Park County Road 43 or 43a to PC Rd 47 to Stagecoach Dr. North (right) to the end of Stagecoach and park at N 39d 30.980; W 105d 31.411. (Mapquest is better than the map on the Geocache site.)
Go north across the Forest Service road closed sign and follow the old road/trail up the hill. Ignore the first fork to the left and slightly downhill. When you get within sight of the top of the hill, take the distinct fork to the left which goes only slightly uphill. In a short distance tailings from the mine cross the trail. Go up the hill a few feet to the mine. The cache is inside the open pit.
We live nearby. When our foundation was poured in the 1970's one of the concrete drivers knew right where our house was because he hauled quartz out of the mine during World War Two. (I think the crystals were used for radios?)
The chips & debris on the ground are from a fire mitigation project in 2007. Large machines with toothed rollers ground the trees over and then ground the trunks up and left some fairly big pieces of logs. The debris was supposed to be burned in 2008 but didn't happen and probably won't now. Probably 8-9 of every 10 trees were removed. The remaining trees became isolated and many have blown over.
Additional Hints
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ng onfr bs uvture jnyy. ebpxf gung qba'g orybat.
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