Limekiln Gulches Traditional Cache

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flutiste: Muggled again. The trail up to the cache has become steep and difficult to navigate, and it's easy to slip and fall on the way down. I'm considering to archive this geocache, unless I find another hiding spot that's more user friendly and harder to muggle. It really is a nice place for a geocache.

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Hidden : 5/28/2011
Difficulty:
3 out of 5
Terrain:
3 out of 5

Size: Size: other (other)

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Geocache Description:

Right in between two gulches, both named "Limekiln Gulch", there's a kid's fishing pond and...a lime kiln!
Cache is beside the Pitkin Road (Co Rd 76). Take a short, steep, rubbly climb to the cache. Wear good shoes. BYOP and TWEEZERS! Another lime kiln remnant can be found along the dirt road up the easternmost gulch.
Elevation at the cache: 9355'

The lime kilns of Gunnison County date back to the 1800's. They were used to "bake" calcium carbonate-bearing rocks into lime. In this particular lime kiln, limestone was mined just above the kiln and rolled down the hill and baked in the kiln. The lime was used for cement, chinking for log cabins, and also in smelters. After the railroad came to Gunnison County in 1881, the lime kilns became obsolete.

Cache blends with the surroundings and contains a logbook only -- no room for trade items. The cache container is not what you would normally expect to find, so search creatively. BYOP and TWEEZERS. BE STEALTHY -- you can be seen from the road.
Please re-hide it well -- this is a high kid-aged muggle area.

Additional Hints ()

Yrnir ab fgbar haghearq va gur yvggyr pnirea. Or pnershy jung lbh gbff nfvqr!

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)

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