X-Rock Traditional Cache
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A cache hidden near a premier rock climbing area
Directions: Take highway 550 north out of Durango. Just as you’re leaving town, turn left (west) into the parking lot for Mercy Medical Center North Campus & the D.O.T. Park in the parking lot labelled "X-Rock Parking", to the south of the building. Follow the trail running above the medical building. Soon you’ll come to a sign that says “Notice. Climbing is hazardous…”. Follow this trail north. You’ll pass many interesting rock faces and on a nice day there will be many interested climbers working the ‘problems’. When you come to X-Rock itself, you should recognize it*. The cache is beyond X-Rock. If there are climbers nearby, please be discreet in opening the cache. The cache is a small ammo box. Please hide the cachebox well when you are done, as this area gets a fair amount of foot traffic. The walk from the parking spot to the cache is .25 mile each way, over moderately rough terrain.
*If you don’t know what X-rock is and you want to be really sure you will recognize it, drive past the waypoint on 550, looking northwest from the road. X-rock is the large rock with a crack shaped like an X.
Note 8/7/04: The original cache was plundered. Today I replaced the cache, in a nearby location, a bit better concealed from the climbers.
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