For really serious, this is a difficult cache to get to. It involves some very daunting bouldering up a very steep slope. If you're unsure at any point, turn back! Just be safe, guys. Also I'd doubt the ability of a dog to get up here, even the formidable pup Orizaba.
PRIZE CHALLENGE! Because this peak was so hard (for me) to get to, for as long as I can afford to do it, I will send a $25 Starbucks gift certificate (via email) to anyone who actually makes it up here. Here's the rules: Only one per account or group. You have to log a photo of yourself on the peak holding the container, and you have to email me your Geocaching.com username and a description of the pattern on the inside of the lid. It's a secret! Please don't post it in logs.
See that snowy peak way in the distance to the south? That mountain is about 27 kilometers away, which is the circumference of the Large Hadron Collider, or LHC.
Look at the distance of that mountain. Now imagine a massive ring of superconducting magnets and tunnels arcing out to the left and right, meeting at a point 1/3 the distance. Now imagine it blasting lead ions around the ring 11,000 revolutions per second, only 3 meters per second less than the speed of light.
The LHC is the most massive and astoundingly complex machine the human species has ever built. It probes the composition of the universe. One of the discoveries made with it was confirmation of the Higgs boson, the subatomic particle that confers mass to you and the mountains and trees all around you.
The next version of the LHC is already in planning stages. Its diameter alone will be far past that peak!