Cascade Flume Cache Traditional Cache
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Fairly easy hike up a forest road to 9262 ft. altitude. You can get very close with a true 4-wheel drive.
The Cascade Flume cache will take you on a quite easy 3/4 mile hike up Cascade Creek in the San Juan mountains of southwestern Colorado.
The first feature of the hike will be an open wooden flume that carries water from Cascade Creek to a series of lakes, ending with Electra Lake. This lake is the supply for the Tacoma hydroelectric power plant. The power plant puts its water directly into the Animas River, alongside the Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge train route.
About 30 miles north of Durango, Colorado, on US Hwy. 550 is the Durango Mountain Resort, home to Purgatory Ski Area, and about 2 miles further north at a sharp curve is the access gate to Cascade Creek.
Drive west up the forest road past a few summer cabins and park on the left just before reaching a wooden bridge over the flume.
Hike up the forest road from the bridge (about 3/4 mile) to the end of the vehicle road. At the turn around area, go south toward the creek, and find the Cascade Flume cache under a broken off tree stump.
Take time to rest and picnic on the creek bank and enjoy the beautiful, rushing water. Lots of bugs and flies most of the year so be sure to take bug repellant.
Original items in the Tupperware container are logbook and pencils, 4 AA batteries, a digital pedometer, plastic kazoo, a small sewing machine doodad, and TB Conan’s Son (TBHZWA).
Conan’s Son is an original Ski Purgatory refrigerator magnet. He likes to travel the high country and is not afraid to get off the beaten path.
The original container has been replaced with a plastic container. The original cache must have been smashed and covered by a deadfall so the new cache has been relocated close by.
Additional Hints
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