Above the 'Bird, above the birds Multi-Cache
Above the 'Bird, above the birds
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4-part cache overlooking Snowbird, visit a Tibetan tree shrine along the way, the views are unbelievable and adrenaline boosting.
To get this cache you’ll need to gain altitude by thousands feet, on or around an exposed knife-edge ridge.
Park either 100 yards below the Old Little Cottonwood Road junction in Snowbird (don’t go through the gate with a no-tresspassing sign, just turn sharply right before the gate), or 200 yards beyond the junction (no menacing signs there but a bit of bushwack). Once you reach Part 1, please look up and decide if you plan to continue. It is quite a bit more difficult to return from Parts 2 and 3, but from the final Part 4, you just need to gain a nudge more elevation and then descend by a track on the ridge going East. MOCKBA’s advice is to stay on the ridge whenever possible, but Dorkteam6 sometimes suggests staying ways below the ridge, first on the left, later mostly on the right. You can’t confuse a ridge with much else, but please e-mail Dorkteam6 for details if you plan on detouring around.
After placing the cache, both of us agreed that it is a true 4.5 level. It may take about 3 hours to get there, judging from our speed up there. It certainly took us longer because of the way the cache was placed. One of us would go ahead and place the next part, and call the other one on the cell phone to write down the new coordinates and the hints. This way we didn’t have to backtrack much, but it halved the speed. Actually we did have to backtrack a bit – at Part 2, where Dorkteam6 overshoot the location by ways, and part 3, where MOCKBA’s camera took a long tumble far down a ravine. We retrieved the camera, but was badly mangled and it looks like the pictures from Earl Eagle, Miner’s Last, Pittsburg group, Uintas and Clerical Error – No Trail cache are all gone. And no images for this one either 
. Because of the way the hints were communicated, they may be just a bit too sparse. So we are spelling out some of the Part 2 and 3 hints in the encrypted section.
Parts 1 and 2 are in dark plastic wide-mouth bottles. Parts 3 and 4 are in shiny round screw-cap aluminum containers.
Please disregard the intermediate waypoint listed in Part 1 hint sheet. We’ll correct it in the near future, just use the info on Part 2 in the meantime.
The cache was intended to be a rest stop for WheaterGuy Cach-U-Nut #96. He can see the summit where he spent the previous winter right across the valley. It looks like he’s up to one more lonely winter up in the Wasatch. In addition to the Cach-U-Nut, the cache originally contained:-
traditional Russian bird charm, made in Northern Russia from a splintered piece of wood (it is very delicate and shouldn't be moved out without a proper container)
- a toy
- precision screwdriver
- big seashell
MOCKBA quotinent | Safety recommendations
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Cneg 1 vf va gur ebbgf bs gur gbc-zbfg gerr nzbat 3 ovt cvarf, Cneg 2 vf whfg A bs n fgnaqvat qrnq gerr, naq Cneg 3 vf va gur ebbgf bs na hcghearq qrnq gerr.