GC82K57 Traditional Cache Smudgewater Castle
Type: Traditional | Size: Micro Micro | Difficulty: 2 out of 5 | Terrain: 1 out of 5
By: dustyriver @ | Hide Date: 01/18/2019 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N39° 50.949 W105° 00.238 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
Available at all times  Available during winter  Wheelchair accessible 

Welcome to this edition of Kilroy's Fractured History.
This week we shall learn the story behind Smudgewater Castle.
It was built in the Kingdom of Kurkstine during the 1500s.
To save on construction costs, the castle was built of dissolvable
materials.
Within the first three decades the castle began to dissolve due to
the heavy rains that occur in Kurkstine. The structure became
unlivable. Abandon, the structure continued to dissolve over the
centuries.
In 1903, a shoppng center was built in the area. A roadway and parking
area was built for public use. It is known that a time capsule was placed
at that time. Today the remains of Smudgewater Castle are often called the
Smudgewater speed bump.

Today is your time to find the "time capsule", pick the log
out with tweezers and sign the log. Show future visitors that you have visited
Smudgewater Castle.

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24 Logs: Found it 22  Didn't find it 1  Publish Listing 1  

Didn't find it 02/13/2022 By Emoboi87
Its probably still there just couldnt find

Found it 08/10/2021 By Rob14erGuy
Quick stop while eating pizza, thanks

Found it 06/18/2021 By FayColSalTom
Out today running errands. My caching buddies said this one was an easy find so that was my target for the day. Thanks for this one.

Found it 06/18/2021 By GotYour6
Caching with Turtleboy29 today finding lots of puzzles we solved during the stay home period and some traditionals on the way. Signing the logs with GYT29- first initial of each of our caching names.

Thank you dustyriver for placing and maintaining this cache for us to find.

GotYour6
Berthoud, Colorado
Find # 6130

Found it 06/18/2021 By turtleboy29
Found with GotYour6. Thanks for the fun

Found it 03/08/2020 By The Scarlet Beaver
Excellent hiding spot! TFTC

Found it 03/02/2020 By Deannalynn420
We started geocaching one year ago today. This was a fun anniversary find. Thanks

Found it 02/14/2020 By Nighthawkers
Visiting the area for my youngest child’s basketball tournament, stopped by the grocery store to pick up some valentines ?? TFTC, DustyRiver!

Found it 02/02/2020 By cfrauen
02 for 02 on 02-02-2020 … TFTC SL

Found it 01/31/2020 By Inmountains
Quick find on my way to work.

Found it 04/09/2019 By jacobboulder
Quick find with tracylhs. Getting some caches in Westminster on this very nice spring day. SL. TFTC!

Find #4265

Found it 04/09/2019 By tracylhs
Thanks, Kilroy!

Found it 04/04/2019 By _BriGuy_
Out and about and figured I'd swing by to make the find.
SL.TFTC!

Found it 03/27/2019 By Fork L Man
took a bit to find nice hide TFTC/bruce

Found it 03/25/2019 By #1 Beefers
Out with GanderGoose after a fine 77's event this morning. Thank you for this placement dustyriver.

Found it 01/29/2019 By Miles ToGeo
A chilly day. I was glad I could park close. The cache wasn't were I thought it was but I did find it.

Found it 01/25/2019 By Edwards654
Much better weather than when it was found the first time. There's been more snow since then, so mine were the only tracks. Nicely done. Thanks, Dusty.

Found it 01/22/2019 By 2lablovers
Found the time capsule on the way to the puzzle event. Thanks for the fun.

Found it 01/20/2019 By mondou2
Enjoyed the hunt for this cache. SL. Thanks for the fun!

Found it 01/20/2019 By LostinDenver
Today I started my geo-adventure in the Globeville area, moving north toward Thornton. Only 2 DNF's, so it was a great day!
This one gave my geo-sense and geo-skills a run for their money. Love the placement and container. Tftc!

Found it 01/19/2019 By SeekDaCache
We headed out to cache our way to the "What's so special about One Nineteen?" Event in Parker. It must be my lucky day on the way back to the car, I found a quarter on the ground in the parking lot. Very nice hide, SL,TFTC

Found it 01/18/2019 By BPickens
I was trying for first to find but got here to late. Oh well I am second to find. Nice hide! TFTC
After I found this cache I found Jayden and Opa # 3, GC82JW1. I am all excited because I was first to find Jayden and Opa # 3. Only my second FTF ever. Ya! Ya! Ya!. I needed to share that so I put it in this log. YA!

Found it 01/18/2019 By lasouthpaw
I planned on heading out at lunch today to grab a puzzle, and then it started snowing between 9:30 and 10. Well… by lunchtime it was even worse. What if maybe there’s one under a skirt I can more or less pick up from the car? Eh, ok, I’ll look. Then I saw the green dot with the magic FTF banner across it. Wait a second, I check email and sure enough it published about an hour before. Man, I hate snow. Like a cat hates water. Probably other people don’t like snow, either. Ok, I’ll just go look. I drove on over to GZ, big flakes, slippy slushy roads and all. When I got there I wound up parking and reparking a couple times. For a geocacher, my sense of direction is not good! Dusty’s coordinates are usually spot-on, so I decided to give it a go. I’m still learning about snow and did not expect to get attacked by flakes the second I stepped out of the car. I could tell within a minute I was covered! I didn’t see any footprints (good sign) so I got to work. Decided to change my angle and made the find pretty quickly. Of course I didn’t follow directions and left the tweezers in the car. Once back in the car, I could see in the mirrors my hair was so wet it looked like I just stepped out of the shower. Unrolled the blank log and did a happy seat wiggle! (no room for a dance) Put the cache back, did the best I could to towel off my hair with my sleeves, and dried a little more of it with the car heater turned all the way up. LOL I don’t know why I do this to myself, but I guess I feel like I don’t get many opportunities to get an FTF. Or maybe I’m a little more FTF hound-y than I care to admit. Sorry to complain about the snow, but it added to the adventure today and I always appreciate a new cache.

Thank you dustyriver for the {*FTF*} at 12:12 and find #3132! Yes, I’m that kind of crazy!

Publish Listing 01/18/2019 By Heartland Cacher
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