Geocache file generated by BrassCapCache BrassCapCache 2026-07-13T00:01:09.0000000-07:00 cache, geocache, groundspeak 1830.141 2007-09-14T02:00:00-06:00 BCP421 Marble Mountain by outforthehunt, Benchmark (1.5/3) http://brasscap.albertabattlecache.ca/capbreakdown/BCP421.html Marble Mountain Geocache Geocache|Benchmark Marble Mountain outforthehunt outforthehunt Benchmark Virtual 1.5 3 Canada Alberta <a href='http://brasscap.albertabattlecache.ca/capbreakdown/BCP421.html'TARGET='resource window'>Past Finds for BCP421</a> <a href='https://www.geocaching.com/seek/log.aspx?ID=17395&LogType=2'TARGET='resource window'>Log Your Find</a> SMALL RCK CAIRN AROUND STATION AT THE HIGHEST POINT ON MARBLE MOUNTAIN.SMALL ROCK CAIRN BUILT AROUND STATION elevation 1830m 2016-10-02T20:00:00 Found it Viajero Perdido BCP421 - Marble Mountain Did the loop clockwise, starting with Rich Man then traversing over (ha!) to this adjacent peak. Didn't look at the map closely enough - this is the one that involves all the hard work. Had no trouble finding the cap. After enjoying the view, I simply had to move my foot. <img src="/images/icons/icon_smile.gif" border="0" align="middle" /> Thanks. I remember making a mental note on the way up, shortcut the cutblock back to the car. I'm glad I didn't shortcut through the first cutblock I encountered on the way down, or the second. That would've ended badly - there are how many? Anyway, a check of the GPS gave me the bad news - not there yet - and kept me out of trouble. 2013-06-30T20:00:00 Found it Andronicus BCP421 Marble Mountain What a great hike. We parked at the trail head shown on Open Cycle Maps (N51 53.447 W115 12.494) First we headed up to "Rich Man" geocache to the NW of the brass cap. Then we continued on up Marble Mountain. That was a steep climb! There are trails off of the main one that are not as steep, but they are longer. We just went strait up. Then a nice ridge walk on a nice trail to the summit. We met 2 dirt bikers at the top and had a nice chat. We then did the decent to the South of the peak. That was also steep. Then the up and down, up and down to get back to the original trail. All in all a great hike. It was around 25°C out, so it was quite warm. We all took turns dipping our heads in the creek near the end of the hike. My GPS had a strange glitch (slow lock?) that resulted in the first 1/2h of the hike being messed up, so I don't have all the data that I usualy do. It was around 8.3km total distance. From my track log Measured : N51° 54.169 W115° 12.411 Listed: N51° 54.170 W115° 12.409 Photos to follow... 2013-05-10T20:00:00 Found it Takin it Easy BCP421 Marble Mountain Posted N51° 54.170 W115° 12.409 GPSr N51° 54.172 W115° 12.409 When I realized how close to 500 cap finds I was last week, it became a mission to hit that milestone this month. Today's target was the closest shoulder season hike with a cap I have yet to find. All my main cap finding buddies have already got Marble Mountain, but fortunately Teenage TiE, or should I say TiE Jr now that he is 20 years old, agreed to join his old man on the adventure. We left at a reasonable hour and arrived at the TH just before 11AM. The earlier weather forecasts of cold and showers proved wrong and the weather was perfect for this hike (mid teens, slight breeze and clear skies). The road in was actually in great shape and could easily be managed by a car (no massive ruts or mud puddles). On a rainy day things may change though. We elected to hike the square trail route as shown in the SA Trail Maps and went in a counter clockwise direction. The hike up was essentially along a "pitchy" cutline that had some minor reversals in it was well as some flat spots. It was similar to the Ram Falls Ridge and Idlewilde Mtn cap ascents. We took our time and arrived at the cap in just about an hour after hiking 3.4km and gaining about 400m in elevation. The cap was a quick find at the summit embedded in the rock. There were great views in all directions to be taken in. I can't believe this one has not been found in almost 2 years. We had lunch up top, took the required photos and then descended down the backside for the route back. The backside still had some snow patches and was muddy in some sections, but not too bad. There was one steep down section and a minor reversal, but it was a nice change from the trek up. We took some time to visit the last remaining cache on the trail and were soon heading straight for the truck with the iPhone blaring tunes and us singing along. The route back covered about 5.6km, making it a 9km hike and took about 90 minutes from the top. A great warm-up hike with my son before he heads off to his summer job and another great cap location. 4 to go to #500. Thanks OFTH! 2011-07-31T20:00:00 Found it Klondike Mike BCP421 - Marble Mountain We had a great day in the area exploring. We came over from the richman cache to the west and left heading towards to big bertha to the east. There is a well defined trail sytem through here be it rather steep in sections. The view from the cap is fantastic. We arrived to nice weather, low 20's, partly cloudy with a breeze. We took a few pictures and took in the views for awhile before moving on. Thanks for the cap, that I should have got to sooner. 2009-09-11T20:00:00 Found it van der Decken BCP421 - Marble Mountain Elev. 1836 metres RedRouge is correct. This is a mountain. It may not have rocky crags at the top, but man, is that thing [i]steep[/i]! I managed to drive my little car to the start of the trail shown on the Calgary Area Trail Maps. Yes, that road is passable by normal cars. In fair weather. If there's snow on the ground, forget it. If it's rained anytime recently, also forget it. But it was dusty bone dry today and with a bit of care around a couple of potholes and keeping the speed down to about 20 kph on average even on the "good" bits, you can traverse the entire 3.4km distance from #734 before beginning your walk. I guess BVPete's car munching pothole had eaten recently and wasn't hungry enough for a Corolla today! I wouldn't want to met a vehicle coming the other way mind you, but today I had the entire mountain to myself. Like Moose Mountain, the trail begins by going downhill. Oh, it's nothing like Buggeration Hill (tm BVPete), but it was a bit worrisome. It also goes in the wrong direction, but once I caught a look at the cut line that leads up the mountain, I completely forgot about such minor quibbles. It just goes up, and up, and up... or so it appears. The reality is a bit worse; every so often you lose a bit of elevation, but then gain it all back again in the space of 20 horizontal metres or so; every dip seemed to be followed by the steepest uphill parts. But since I was trekking alone, I could set my own pace and actually arrived at the end of the cutline hardly out of breath at all. I was sweating though, even with the barely 20C temperatures; there was hardly any breeze, but there was plenty of blue sky and sunshine. This part of the trail is definitely not cut out for hikers; it's a borne and bred trail for ATVs. It's not until I reached the end of the cutline that I started to get some hint of the vistas I'd see from the summit. The only view I had from the cutline (other than the interminable uphill climb) is a thin slice of a view off to the west. Everything else was cut off by the forest on both sides. After leaving the cutline there was one last relatively gentle ascent through the forest before it was time for the final push. It wasn't a cut-line this time, just a steep, open, rocky trail leading steeply upwards. It's here where the views really started to reveal themselves, but I was so close to the summit at this point that I just pushed on. When I finally hit the summit, I was immediately enveloped in a clouds of flying insects. They didn't seem to bite (not that I gave them much chance when I could), but boy, did they ever want to land on me. And DEET? They laughed at DEET. Right about then I was really wishing for just a bit more wind... just enough to blow them away. If I moved off the summit they weren't too bad, but in order to get the cap shots I had to pretty much hold my breath and swat with the hand that wasn't holding the camera. Take a look at the context shot for the cap; that isn't dust on the lens that you see on the left hand side of the picture; that's a cloud of bugs! The cap itself is easy to find; just look for the highest bit of the summit and you'll be very close. It's in reasonable shape, but has suffered a few dings and such over the past couple of decades or so. I didn't see any sign of a rock cairn around it, but given the number of beer cans I CITO'd off the summit, well... you can probably guess what happened to the cairn! Continued in [url=http://www.geocaching.com/seek/log.aspx?LUID=24041cd0-3cc4-43b3-9f6a-a0884e198906]next log[/url] [This entry was edited by van der Decken on Friday, September 11, 2009 at 11:37:00 PM.]