btrueblood: I'm glad those who came to find this cache did so with a spirit of adventure, as that was the reason for placing it. Sadly, in 9 years, about 1 cacher per year made the effort...and the container, along with several others, deteriorated in the meantime. Not what was intended at all. Made the trip out in less than ideal conditions (torrential rain, thunder and lightning, hail, grappel, and a snowstorm...with occasional blue sky and sunshine - welcome to spring in the Cascades!). The "road" to the cache is overgrown, as others have noted, and a bit more difficult to traverse than it was before due to more rockslides and thicker thickets...but it was still doable, for a 58+ yr old out-of-shape engineer. Got some photos of the snowy peaks to the south, and a few other places on the way, then one more photo of the snowstorm that drove me back down the hill.
Should also like to take a moment to sneer at the auto-bot that shuts caches down in these remote locations, irritating at best. If nobody comes out in over a year, what is the hurry to close the cache? If cachers would like to see these caches stay put, try fixing the problems you noted, or if not possible, try directly messaging the owner. "Maintenance required" posts just attract the auto-bot and get the cache auto-archived. Then again, if that is what you want, go for it. But it makes a cache owner grumpy, and then he comes 9 miles out into the woods to shut down the nonsense...which is what my opinion of the game now is. Peace out.