Alkali Trail Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 5/18/2003
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size: regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

Parking spot for this cache is just off of Hwy.550, just past the Dutch Charlie entrance to Ridgway State Park. Approx. 0.74 hike from where you park, which is N 38 12.411 W 107 43.917. Great trail. If you park at this spot you will need to go through a gate, but you will not have to pay to get into the park. This is public parking and public access. You can also go in the Dutch Charlie entrance, but a park fee or pass is required and the walk to the cache much shorter.

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Kid Friendly Kid Friendly Cache In Trash Out Cache In - Trash Out! Cache available after dark Night caching Dogs Allowed Dogs Allowed
Available year-round Available year-round Bicycles permitted on paths Bicycles permitted on paths Restroom Restrooms available
Available in Winter Accessible in Winter
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is a .50 mm ammo box. Its contents are: dog treats, chew ezz dog chew, candle, action race car, Mardi Gras beads, Home Depot tape measure/key ring and log book with pen and mechanical pencil. After parking you will go through the gate and start on the trail. It is a gradual incline most of the way. Just a couple of steeper parts but nothing to worry about. When you come to a Y which is .61 mile from where you parked (N 38 12.812 W 107 44.103) take the right ( it will head you almost in the direction you just came from. You will come upon a great over look of the reservoir and the San Juan Mountains. From this point you are on your own and also very close. After finding the cache and logging into the log book, please hide the cache as well as you can for this area gets a lot of traffic and if not hidden well could be spotted by others. In the Colorado Atlas this trail is marked as Alkali trail. When I followed it to the entrance to Dutch Charlie there is a sign that says Cookie Tree Trail. I went by what was in the atlas and not the one the park came up with. Please let me know if I am wrong on this name. Thanks to TwoOldBears (of Ridgeway), who were kind enough to e-mail me the answer to the discrepancy in the trail name of Alkali Trail. I knew of it as being Alkali, but then also found out it was called Cookie Tree Trail. Below will explain the two names. This is the e-mail that I received from TwoOldBears. Once again, I would like to extend my thanks to them for this information In your Alkali Trail cache (which we enjoyed, TFTC) you ask in your description about the discrepency in the trail names (Alkali Trail vs. Cookie Tree Trail). The park's name for the trail is a memorial of the Cookie Tree Ranch which is the property that was covered by the lake when the dam was finished & the reservoir began filling in 1987. The park opened in 1989. Between 1884 & 1920 that ranchland was owned by Charles Doelz ("Dutch Charlie") and Alkali Creek ran along the northeast boundary of his land. Thus the origin of the two differing trail names.


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