GC2PT3F Traditional Cache Kenny Engert
Type: Traditional | Size: Regular Regular | Difficulty: 3 out of 5 | Terrain: 4 out of 5
By: nickgatt @ | Hide Date: 03/05/2011 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N40° 17.919 W105° 25.141 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
Dogs  Takes more than an hour  Significant hike  Available during winter  Not Wheelchair accessible  Bicycles  Long Hike (+10km) 

Kenny Engert
by nickgatt


This cache is hidden between the Engert Homestead (which was burned down in the Big Elk Burn in 2002) and Kenny Mountain (Kenny WHO?)

There's no one named Kenny Engert, but I think this is a better name than "Halfway between Kenny Mountain and Engert Homestead!"

There's a silver bullet cache with blank log for the FTF to deploy somewhere. Please let me know where it ends up.

During the winter, crampons and/or snowshoes may be necessary. If you want to bicycle to the cache, you should wait until summer. This is a very challenging ride.

Congratulations to Denali41 for FTF!

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6 Logs: Found it 4  Write note 2  

Found it 05/15/2019 By Barngineer
Beautiful day and nobody here but me and my dog! I enjoyed everything about the hike to get here. Thanks for the adventure!

Found it 11/16/2017 By icezebra11
Holy shin-bustin' deadfall Batman!!! The weather is supposed to be snowy tomorrow so I decided I needed to get a good hike in before the white stuff flew. I debated with myself on where to go and ended up choosing Kenny Mountain. The cache on top and the one a short distance below have been lonely a very long time so I wanted to pay them a visit.

I had not been up the Lion's Gulch trail since before the 2013 floods caused all the damage and closed the trail for almost 4 years. My intended route for today was to hike up to Homestead Meadows and then follow the old two-track around toward the Engert homestead. Once I parked at the trailhead and headed down the hill I guess my memory of the old trail clouded my vision and I took a wrong turn. I ended up following the creek downstream thinking the new trail would cut back on higher ground. I was wrong. I went far enough to know it wasn't cutting back so I turned around and headed back upstream. That's when I decided to attack the mountain head on and to just follow the ridge up, up, up. It was definitely steep but I'll take the steepness any day compared to the deadfall I encountered higher on the mountain. The only saving grace was that the terrain with all the deadfall wasn't nearly as steep as it was down lower.

I eventually got up to the trail to the Engert homestead about a 1/4 mile east of "Kenny Engert" so I decided to just keep going to "Kenny WHO?" which was almost another 1/2 mile away, with nothing but deadfall between me and the cache. I ended up going down one time but other than a scrape on the shin, I didn't hurt anything.

After finding and logging "Kenny WHO?" I headed back down the ridge and into the deadfall. Man I was sure glad when I got back to the two-track! I arrived at GZ for this cache and began my search. It took me probably about 10 minutes to find it but I was successful. I signed the log and when I closed it back up the container cracked. The plastic was pretty brittle from the years of being in the elements. I placed it in a way to try and keep the moisture out of it. I didn't have another container otherwise I would have replaced it. So the next seeker might want to bring a new lock-n-lock to replace it. (Picture attached) But who knows how many more years that will be! BigSmile

On my return I took my originally planned path back to Homestead Meadows and down Lion's Gulch. It was longer but much more pleasant than the way I came up. Thanks nickgatt for placing this nice backcountry cache!!!

Found it 05/02/2012 By animjason
Found with sassydil on our way to the top. This was a nice resting point before the final push! Shared my lunch with some really big ants but they didn't bite so they earned it :) TFTC!

Found it 05/02/2012 By sassydil
Long walk and lots of hidey holes, but the coordinates were good so we didn;t have to search too long. After this stop we made the trek up Kenny Mountain.

Write note 10/02/2011 By kaiwarrior
We were tempted to go after this cache today, but after looking up the hill decided it was better left for a "days target" cache. We had the virtual in our sights for today.

Write note 09/30/2011 By nickgatt
Changed terrain rating from 3.5 to 4, because Kenny Who was increased to 5. This cache is on the trail to Kenny Who, but is a little easier to get to.