Little Cottonwood Trail

Geocaching on Little Cottonwood Trail

So far our ratio isn't that hot. When we went out geocaching up Little Cottonwood Trail, we wanted to find the three geocaches we had mapped, and we only found one. We blame the snow though. Most geocaches don't seem to be easily found in 3.5 feet of snow...

The first step...

When we stayed ON the trail, it was packed enough that we could still hike it relatively well. If we went off-trail at all, we really should have been equipped with snowshoes. But we don't have any. So we just sink down past our boots up to our knees and keep going!! It's very, very hard and tiring but a lot of fun and just feels silly.

Beautiful scenery! PS Thats where the mountain goats hang out... we didn't see them this time, but we saw three last time we were in this area...

Trailside Creek

Yup... this happened.

Are you surprised?

Beautiful house hidden up in the mountain

First geocache attempt: 

Name-- "Holes"

Clue-- "Bottom right. Wire Loop."

This is what we saw when we got there. Our GPS told us to turn around and look on the other side of the trail... but I thought we should check the obvious place first... Considering the name was "Holes"

The holes in the rocks are made from dynamite, when they are trying to move large boulders from the mountains

Success!!

TINY logbook inside!

I am really enjoying geocaching. Again, our record isn't stellar so far, but it's fun to try! We have found our GPS is only accurate up to like 10-15 feet. Doesn't seem like a lot, but when you are in dense forest and it could be 10-15 feet anywhere, up, down, burried, and deep in snow... it makes an insane difference. This is where the clues of the person who hid them really come in handy. Clues like "rock" really are just annoying, but some other clues don't give it away, but help you have an idea of where to look.

Second Geocache Attempt:

Name-- "A little bit creepy"

Clue-- "Wood, near old pavillion"

 Well, we found the pavillion

Brad getting eaten...

 It wasn't in there...

 This is where that "10-15ft" made a huge difference. It kept taking us in tight circles around an area, but with so much snow, seeing hidden spots in trees, etc was nearly impossible. We spent a good amount of time here but failed to find it :/

The hike back

 So cool :)

 Love it :)

 Underside of the icicles :)

We had a great hike and a fun time! It was a beautiful hike in an area I love to be in because the cliff-faces are so close and prominent.

I went a little crazy on the images today, it was just a long fun snow hike. Hope you enjoy them!