Hang Up and Hike #2 Traditional Cache

This cache has been archived.

climbingdivers: Greetings climbingdivers,

It looks like your cache has been under the weather for some time. While I feel that Geocaching.com should hold the location for you and block other cachers from entering the area around this cache for a reasonable amount of time, we can't do so forever.

Please either repair/replace this cache in the next thirty days, or archive it so that someone else can place a cache in the area, and cachers can once again enjoy visiting this location.

If the reason the cache is under the weather is something out of your control, such as construction or flooding, please post a note on the cache page with your best guess of when the conditions will improve. If the situation is temporary and is something out of your control, there is no need to archive the cache at this time. Please however, add a note to the cache page detailing the situation to allow others to understand the situation - and - to prevent this from being archived for inactivity.

I want to thank you for the time that you have taken to contribute to geocaching in the past and am looking forward to seeing your cache up and running in the future.

Thanks for your understanding,

GeoCrater
Community Volunteer Reviewer for Geocaching.com

Adios, numero dos. This time for good.

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Hidden : 8/4/2012
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
4.5 out of 5

Size: Size: small (small)

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Geocache Description:


Another of the variant of the "Hang Up" series. These aren't going to show up as fast as the Hang Up and Drive caches but hopefully people will enjoy them. This cache is located on top of Emigrant Peak. Unfortunately on this one you will have cell phone coverage, at least on the route we took, but you might as well turn off your phone and enjoy the hike.

This could still be considered a Park & Grab. But, you'll be parking at a trailhead, grabbing your water, pack, bear repellent, trekking poles, whatever else you need to get there. Plan and be ready for sudden and extreme weather changes. Below the tree line, you are in grizzly bear country, so plan accordingly and take the necessary precautions (bear spray, noise, etc.). During the summer, be watchful for potential lightning conditions. The cache is on the tip of a lightning rod!

There are spectacular views from the top. You can see the Gallatin Range, The Bridger Range, a lot of Yellowstone and the Tetons, and a lot of the Absaroka and Beartooths, and some of the Crazies.

This could be a puzzle cache for you personally, but no worries, this doesn't require a phd (piled higher and deeper), or a computer beyond downloading this information. You do need to figure out which trailhead to leave from. Options are from Six Mile Creek, where we left from and returned to, or Emigrant Creek/Gulch. Either way, expect about a 5,000 foot elevation gain in less than 4 miles. But don't worry, you lose the same amount of elevation going down! If you're coming from Six Mile Creek, park at the coordinates listed. Don't bother driving any further up the road, you'll just be backing up to get back to the parking area. Take the trail about 1.75 miles to a barb wire fence. Follow the fence uphill until it ends. From there, take the trail along the ridge to the top. In places the trail is good, in places you have to use your imagination, but it always shows up again. One of the people we saw opted to "bushwhack to the left" from the fence line into a large draw north of the peak, then get on a ridge north of the peak, then follow it to the top. That apparently adds at least an hour to the trip, and a lot of scree slope misery. I have no info on the route from Emigrant Creek other than a person who took that route said: "It's really steep!"

Oh yeah, the cache. It's a small plastic container, about 3" x 2" X 2". Kinda small for hidden in the rocks, but I'm posting spoiler pictures so you don't get up there only to log a DNF. The cache is behind/under some rocks about 10 feet west of the cairn on top. There is a cache log in the container, but no writing implement, so you'll have to bring your own. There is some room for small trading items, but I'd recommend against leaving trackables because they may sit there for a long time, and some trackable owners don't like that. But it's up to you. Don't confuse the red nalgene bottle or cookie tin at the cairn for the geocache. They are for the peak log.

Believe it or not, you may have to watch for muggles.

If you also log benchmarks, hey, you're in luck! There are two on the peak.

Please re-hide the cache as you find it.

Okay, hang up and get hiking! Enjoy!

July 14, 2013: Sometime between when the cache was hidden and the FTF was made, it was muggled. Not sure why, but apparently some nameless, faceless person had a problem with it where it was hidden. I have moved the cache a short distance where it should be less conspicuous. If you find the two benchmarks, the cache is roughly in the middle, about 10 feet down the hill from the cairn.

Congratulations to Diesel350 for FTF!!!

Congratulations to sclinger for FTF!!!*

Diesel350 found the muggled spot. It's a long way up there, so since he had pictures of the empty hiding spot, I let him sign the replacement logbook before I put a new cache on the hill.

*sclinger gets credit for the first to sign the log on the hill.

Congrats to both!!!

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