CapsuleCollider2D.Cast() can't find any colliders when used with ContactFilter2D with LayerMask

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I’m making an endless-runner-esque game. When my player runs into an obstacle, he loses one life and gets set a safe distance back. I now want to make sure that he isn’t put right on top of another obstacle when he is reset.
For this, I wanted to use the CapsuleCollider2D.Cast() which has an overload where you can pass in a ContactFilter with a Layermask which I wanted to use to make sure I only test against one Layer. When I use the CapsuleCollider2D.Cast() without passing in the contactfilter, it works as intended. When I use the contactfilter, it doesn’t detect the obstacles.
This is how I set up the filter:

    private ContactFilter2D obstFilter;

        obstFilter.useTriggers = false;
//Layer 10 is my layer for obstacles as displayed in the inspector window
        obstFilter.SetLayerMask(Physics2D.GetLayerCollisionMask(10));
        obstFilter.useLayerMask = true;

This is how the cast looks:

            int collTest = myCollider.Cast(Vector2.down, obstFilter, hitBuffer, moveBackDist, true);

By just leaving out the “obstFilter”, I get it to work. Do I missunderstand how ContactFilters work?
Thanks in advance for any help!

Ps: Not a native speaker, so bear with me please.

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You are mistook layer number and layer mask. You suppose to use:

  obstFilter.SetLayerMask(Physics2D.GetLayerCollisionMask(1 << 10));

1 << 10 mean only collide with layer 10