GC83CCH Traditional Cache Hazmat Horsey
Type: Traditional | Size: Micro Micro | Difficulty: 2 out of 5 | Terrain: 1.5 out of 5
By: Historic Croochie @ | Hide Date: 02/09/2019 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N39° 51.092 W105° 10.708 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
Dogs  Recommended for kids  Takes less than an hour  Not Available during winter  Motorcycles  Stealth required  Park and Grab 

History (Please Read)


The Cold War Horse is a memorial created to acknowledge Rocky Flats, its workers and the surrounding community.



Rocky Flats was a nuclear weapons production facility that was a massive manufacturer during the Cold War.

The facility manufactured almost all plutonium triggers for the US before it shut down after 40 years.

Roughly 70,000 plutonium triggers were produced here. Plutonium is a radioactive and toxic material.

Because of this, extra precautions had to be made. However, the water, soil, and air were

contaminated with radiation.

After a fire at the facility in 1969 citizens protested. In 1989 the FBI raided the grounds. This was led by Jon Lipsky.

They found many violations and production was halted. The plant was put on the EPA Superfund Cleanup list

in 1993. The owners of the facility pleaded guilty and the plant closed.


The cleanup price estimate was $37 billion dollars and would take 70 years. Kaiser Hill came up with a

$7 billion plan that would take only 10 years. They put it into action.

The Cold War Horse was dedicated 10 years after the cleanup on October 18th, 2015.

On September 7th, 2015, the sculpture was vandalized.

“The sculpture was pulled out of the ground with a truck, then it was beaten with a sledgehammer,” said the artist

Jeff Gipe. He said the fix would take months.

Gipe's father worked at the facility for 20 years. He used to live near the facility but moved to New York.


Cache


Cache is an un-camoed micro. Please hide back as found.

Note that cache isn't accessible in the snow.

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 Logs

24 Logs: Found it 20  Didn't find it 1  Write note 1  Owner Maintenance 2  

Found it 01/22/2022 By Alpenist
TFTC Found this cache with FLM

Found it 09/25/2021 By Lord Mike
Quick find sign. Thanks.

Write note 08/25/2021 By 1951dr
just biking around

Found it 08/25/2021 By 1951dr
just biking around

Didn't find it 08/15/2021 By meganb83
We looked around the horse and nearby objects, but we’re not able to find anything. It was difficult because most of the area is roped off.

Found it 04/05/2020 By geopug2014
Took a couple of photos with the horse with my covid mask. Thanks so much!
Stay well,
Geopug2014

Found it 03/22/2020 By MateoMaximus
Found it with a little bit of looking around, liner to the poney

Found it 01/27/2020 By jillbertlv
Girl Scouts rule!!

Found it 11/24/2019 By AnK639
Great sculpture. Thanks. Thought the hide would be closer ro the horse

Found it 11/17/2019 By Moose1
Tftc! A special place.....

Found it 06/28/2019 By ecanderson
Horsey is now fully refurbished and right side up (hoof side down). Very interesting story here. Thanks for bringing us.

Found it 06/28/2019 By CoBiker
Enjoyed the Cold War horse. I was happy to see it has been repaired! TFTC

Found it 06/22/2019 By MJR-BJE
Great cache! Had fun learning about the Cold War horse and Rocky Flats.

Found it 06/16/2019 By lmr3767
It was well placed. A nice scenic location where you can learn some history. Also, horses are great! It sounded interesting and it didn’t disappoint.

Found it 05/25/2019 By Kroozer
Interesting sculpture! Such a shame that someone had to vandalize it. Had driven past it before, but didn’t realize that there was a cache hidden by it. Signed log. Thanks for the history and the cache! Giving it a fav for pointing out the unusual sculpture!

Found it 05/14/2019 By DES
Down from Boulder to have lunch in Golden, decided to grab a few on the way. SL. I worked at Rocky Flats for 28 years.

Found it 05/11/2019 By Knyte7
Thanks for history of the site. K7

Found it 04/28/2019 By Grayfalcon
TFTC!

Found it 04/07/2019 By Lewilson24
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Found it 02/20/2019 By Mirabec
Easy find, thanks for the history

Found it 02/20/2019 By Miles ToGeo
I was out getting a cache or two and I remembered this cache was here. I was glad for the pull-over and little snow cover. The coordinates took me to the right spot for a fast find.

Owner Maintenance 02/12/2019 By Croochie
Added Attributes. Thanks to pjcai for pointing those out.

Found it 02/11/2019 By pjcai
First to find at 12:21 pm on 2/11/19. Surprised that I managed to get the FTF on this since it was published over 24 hours ago

Owner Maintenance 02/10/2019 By Croochie
Updated history text. Thanks to DES for pointing it out.