Soul City Downtown Traditional Cache
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The partner site to Soul City Uptown. Cache is on a pretty trail through Ponderosa pines and scattered boulders.
Original contents:
pink hair combs, red baby shoes, piece of sidewalk chalk, map postcard, 'downwind' button, purple plastic bracelet, 10 pence Irish coin, party blower, shark ring, seashell, seed packet, 'button bug' travel bug.
Park at N37 18.172, W107 52.365. To get to this trailhead, begin on Main Street (Rte 550). Go west on 32nd street. Take a right onto West 4th Avenue. Go one block, and then the road turns to dirt and that's the trailhead parking lot.
Go up the Animas City Mountain trail from the parking lot. (There is a split at the very beginning, you want to take the trail to the left.) This is the only strenuous part of the access. Head west off the trail when you get to the power lines, at N 37 18.190 W 107 52.530. The hike will be much easier if you stay on the trail. The cache is within sight of the path at N 37 18.350 W 107 52.683.
To return to the parking area: head back the way you came. For fun, you can take a slightly different trail back by bearing left at the split in the trail at N 37 18.321 W 107 52.695. This secondary trail rejoins the Animas Mountain trail at N 37 18.214 W 107 52.519. You'll end up within a few yards of the place you left from, but get to look at a different set of impressive boulders.
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To go on to Soul City Uptown:continue along this same trail, heading toward N 37 18.674 W 107 52.795. When your GPS shows you are even with this waypoint, leave the trail and bushwack toward the cliff, heading up the slope through the trees. The rocks bounce your signal around so you won't necessarily end up right at the waypoint. However, there are 3 ways that I know of that will get you up the cliff, so use your scouting abilities and enjoy! The route requires bushwacking, using hands and feet, and being very, very careful. Once you are on top of the cliff, Soul City Uptown is about 500 ft east along a faint trail. The cache is about 15 ft from the trail. -DanceGypsy
p.s. Another cache, called A.T.M., is also located near the Animas City Mountain trail at N37 18.260 W 107 52.506. You can visit both my Soul City caches and also A.T.M. cache, in about a 2 hour loop. Either go ParkingSpot-->Downtown-->up the cliff-->Uptown-->A.T.M.-->ParkingSpot (the easier way, I think) or the reverse: parkingspot-->A.T.M.-->Uptown-->down the cliff-->Downtown-->parking spot.
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