Geocache file generated by BrassCapCache BrassCapCache 2026-08-10T00:01:06.0000000-07:00 cache, geocache, groundspeak 2545.912 2010-12-22T01:00:00-07:00 BCP513 Volcano Peak by outforthehunt, Benchmark (1.5/3.5) http://brasscap.albertabattlecache.ca/capbreakdown/BCP513.html Volcano Peak Geocache Geocache|Benchmark Volcano Peak outforthehunt outforthehunt Benchmark Virtual 1.5 3.5 Canada Alberta <a href='http://brasscap.albertabattlecache.ca/capbreakdown/BCP513.html'TARGET='resource window'>Past Finds for BCP513</a> <a href='https://www.geocaching.com/seek/log.aspx?ID=17395&LogType=2'TARGET='resource window'>Log Your Find</a> IN ROCK S. END TOP OF RCK PILE Elevation 2545.912 m ASC BRASS CAP IN ROCK WITH ANCHOR BOLTS. AT THE S END OF THE TOP OF ROCK PILE RESEMBLING A CINDER CONE 10.0M SW OF HIGHEST POINT 2019-06-28T20:00:00 Found it brendan714 BCP513 Volcano Peak N 50° 53.189 W 115° 04.460 Hunthikers and I led an ACC trip out to do the Volcano-McDougall-Old Baldy traverse and as the name suggests, Volcano Peak was our first real stop of the day. Once we got up there, the cap was quickly [FOUND] and the nearby geocache soon followed. Great views and an awesome day out! 2019-06-28T20:00:00 Found it hunthikers BCP513 Volcano Peak [FOUND] Out on a Calgary ACC trip with Brendan714 to scramble the Volcano-McDougall-Old Baldy horseshoe. A fine route ! Collected this cap and adjacent cache on the first and lowest summit of the day. 2015-05-21T20:00:00 Found it Takin it Easy BCP513 Volcano Peak Posted: N50° 53.189 W115° 04.460 GPSr: N50° 53.189 W115° 04.461 With only 1 find since this cap was posted in 2010, It was about time that it was logged again. My son, 2sloths, and I have been planning to do this hike for a couple of years. We were all set to try it back in 2013 only to be halted due to the trail closure after the floods. Today we decided that conditions were perfect to make an attempt. We had scoped out several routes from SH, Spirko and soistheman that departed the Old Baldy Tr at various locations and elected to follow SH's route. The route started out along the well maintained Evan Thomas Tr. At one point the trail had a 100m swath cut out of it from the floods that has been circumvented with a new bypass trail. Wow! From there we hit the Old Baldy Trail that was conveniently marked with gated cairns after almost heading up an incorrect trail about 50m beforehand. The Old Baldy Tr was difficult to follow in places due to flood damage, but as long as we followed the creek, we knew we were OK. The real hike started as we crossed the creek at SH's waypoint. A short steep bushwhack led us to a cut block that was also the edge of a prescribed burn. Then we encountered the nasty bushwhack. I've heard people complain about bushwhacking, but it has never really bothered me. I've heard people complain about steep uphill sections, but they have never really bothered me. Now after a nasty bushwhack up a very steep uphill section and I have finally found what bothers me. Man... that was a battle and I have scars on my arms to prove it. Once we got past the forest, we hit the talus slope. It started very steep and loose but then was pretty typical once things leveled off a bit. As we neared the summit we got squeezed to the left by a snow filled forest and had to cross a 50m stretch of snow covered talus. Walking on the crust worked well until my poles broke through and went into the handles. Then I broke through to my waist. This happened on and off until we got across the short section. It was pretty funny to watch 2sloths cross. It was here that we finally got to see the cone shape peak of Volcano Peak. As we crested the top, the first this we spotted was the brass cap, clearly visible and cemented on the top of a large boulder. The views up here were fantastic and appeared over 360 degrees. We had lunch and spent a good half hour taking in the views. Simply a great cap location. The trip back was rather quick uneventful except for a tick extraction. I've not seen a tick in 7 years of hiking and have now got them 2 hikes in a row. Weird. The bushwhack was much easier going downhill as the bushes pointed downhill and we plowed over them. We were soon back at the car exactly 7 hours after we left covering 12.9km ans 1037m in elevation gain. A great father/son bonding expedition. We are already planning the next cap outing to visit Fisher Ridge Cap among others. Thanks again OFTH for another awesome cap location! 2015-05-21T20:00:00 Found it 2Sloths BCP513 Volcano Peak My dad (TiE) and I arrived at the trailhead at around 9:00. We were eager to get this one under our belt after bailing on it 2 years back due to a trail closure. This is one of the hardest hike I have done in a long while and it was pretty satisfying to reach the summit. The first part of this hike along the Evan-Thomas trail was pretty easy. It was impressive seeing the damage of the 2013 floods. One section of the trail was completely eroded away resulting in a 20m cliff. We could see where the trail continues on top of a small cliff up ahead. Luckily there was an alternate trail that detoured around the erosion. We broke off the Evan-Thomas trail and traveled up some drainage for a bit. We got caught up on a trail heading away from the drainage a few times but we always quickly found our way back. We broke off right up a short steep section of bushwack before we reached the cutblock. I knew going into this hike we would encounter some heavy bushwack but this was one of the toughest bushwacks I have yet to encounter. Immediately after the cut block the incline quickly steepened and the trees in forest had many tendrils of terror in every which direction. This made the moving slow but it was extremely satisfying to reach the talus slope and put the trees behind us. We couldn't see the summit yet at this point. Dads experience hiking really showed on the talus as I couldn't keep up with him going up or down it. We came across the odd deep patch of snow. We were able to walk on top of it for the most part but would sink down to our hips the odd time we were not careful. After we conquered the talus slopes we took in a few moments to take in the view and then made a final push towards the top of the "cindercone". We soaked in some more beautiful views from the top and then quickly found the cache and brass cap on the top before eating our lunch. It was a pretty tough trek getting to the summits but the views were well worth it. We picked a pretty good day for this climb as the weather was really beautiful. Coming down the talus and bushwack was much easier than on the way up. Overall a fantastic hike! 2010-12-24T20:00:00 Found it Sleepy_hollow BCP513 – Volcano Peak I got a seemingly later start this morning, but one that was still before sunrise at the trailhead. The moon was close to full and the whole trailhead area was lit up by the brilliant moon. I quickly hit this familiar trail and enjoyed the groomed trail down to the junction 1.5 km east. The secondary trail that leads to the Old Baldy Trail turn off was in good shape as it has seen quite a bit of recent traffic. The Old Baldy Trail junction is well marked with several cairns and it reminds me of the Headwall Lakes Trailhead. The trip up the Old Baldy Trail went well as the trail was nicely packed. I followed Bob Spirko’s track log for his trip up Volcano or as he refers to it as Little McDougall. Bob leaves the Old Baldy Trail about 500 metres from the trailhead, crosses the drainage and heads uphill through a steep overgrown forest. I stayed on the trail to about the 1 km mark and headed up the same steep hill, but with less bushwhacking required. Two hundred metres or so up the hill you hit a clear cut, which is at first welcome, but soon you realize the need to cross a significant debris field from the forestry operation. Once past the debris field, you encounter a stiff uphill climb through fairly thick bush. At the top of the forest you emerge into a talus field, with fairly stable rock on the way up the hill, but less so on the way down. The talus field lightens about 600 – 700 metres from the cap. I simply followed the west edge of the ridge to avoid most of the rock and drifted snow. The last 500 metres was quite a journey with extremely strong winds – it kind of reminded me of the Fisher Ridge Cap a few kilometres to the SE. I quickly found myself near GZ, and found two anchor bolts in nearby rock that is probably related to the cap – but no sign of the cap. I spent a good 45 minutes tracking down the cap, which was close to the area between the two bolts. I found the cap under several flat pieces of rock and only made the find due to the white matting used at this site. The matting was also used at Fortress Ridge and Mount Loomis, so this gave me the encouragement to dig deeper despite the freezing cold wind at the summit. After capturing the money shot, I proceeded to take several other shots of this amazing cap site – I’ll post a few of these a little later. I didn’t stay on the summit for lunch with the high winds and instead headed back to the vehicle. My round trip track log showed a distance of 11.6 km with just under 1100 metres of elevation. Simply a terrific spot for a cap – thanks OFTH for setting it up!