GC24J1A Colorado Spirit Quest #309 - Trinidad Masonic
Type: Traditional | Size: Micro | Difficulty: | Terrain:
By: Grand High Pobah @ | Hide Date: 02/25/2010 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N37° 11.116 W104° 30.606 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
               

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!! Exciting New Cache Series!!

 

“COLORADO SPIRIT QUEST”

The Colorado Spirit Quest is a series of Caches placed by many individuals, near cemeteries and historic sites in hopes of paying respect to the many pioneer ancestors that have ‘walked’ before us.

There are hundreds of cemeteries in the rural and mountain communities across Colorado.  This series will introduce you to many of them.

The cache pages will provide a virtual history tour of the cemeteries and tombstones.

COLORADO SPIRIT QUEST is not affiliated with any other ‘Spirit Quest’ group.  Special thanks and credit are given to SixDogTeam who started the Indiana Spirit Quest in 2004. The idea has rapidly spread into many states.

The CSQ endeavor is an enormous and relentless task.  It cannot be accomplished by just one or two people.  This project will only flourish if there is a multitude of volunteer cachers  willing to place these caches. 

After locating the cache container, take some time to reflect back on the lives of those pioneers and the effort it took to make Colorado such a great state.

If you are interested in joining the “Walking Through History Clan” contact may be made by sending an e-mail to the owner of “Colorado Spirit Quest #1 – Mo untain Passage”.  Use the ‘Send Message” link at the center of the page of their profile.

Each person that places a CSQ cache is responsible for its maintenance.

REMEMBER:

If you are APPREHENSIVE about cemeteries – AVOID this series.

Thanks to Clan Members: Greasepot, Taylorgeotracker, Ivy Dog Parents, Team Boogity3, Grand High Pobah, Boborr 80909, Imusttravel2000, Buzz Lightyear I, Sandhill 49er, MrVolkswagen, Isisfan, LadyCoots, Rockymtn8iv, Fork-L-Man, *Sparky*, TwoCs, Outdrlvr201, Condor1, 2Cachedivers, arthurat, smilz787, Kyotmoon, Mountain Roamer, SugarPug, Team Tiger Pride, ernie66, drnetwork, Team w-bar-v and Dynamite Rabbit.   New Clan members are always Welcome

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The cache container is a camoed 35mm film canister.  You will not need to enter the cemetery to find the cache and it is available 24 hours a day

This cemetery itself is open from 8:00 to 4:30 and contains 2000+ headstones with the oldest dating from 1858.  Based on the size of this cemetery, it would appear that the Masons were a very stong community influnce in this part of Colorado.

The entrance arrangement is a little unusual with an outside gate and an inside gate farther to the north. The cemetery proper lies beyond the north gate.

An interesting detail about approaching the cemetery from I25 is that you will cross a street that is paved with bricks laid in a herringbone pattern.

06/01/2019 By dramaman59
TFTC! In town doing touristy stuff.

05/29/2019 By SPat ABQ
Travelling from denver to abq for a few days. Nice to stop and stretch our legs and get a cache. Brisk 45 degrees out here today. Taking a look around the cemetery. Large one. Beautiful spot. TFTFUN SL

05/28/2019 By FresnoDancingFool
Nice and easy for my first find of the day; good job and TFTC; 358 days in a row now!

05/12/2019 By PapiNFoxy
We were traveling back through Trinidad and had to get another cache in this beautiful city. We pulled off the highway and drove around to find the cache. We love caching in Trinidad and we love cemetery hides. This was fun for us and we put our mark on this cemetery as ours. Tftc sl

04/13/2019 By esydrahawk
Found again with jdionne303

09/02/2018 By miriamethubert
Quick find on our way down. TFTC, SL

08/09/2018 By Killian33
This was a quick cache and dash with my three geohounds. We cached our way from Denver to Santa Fe to compete in a rodeo. Thanks for the quick stop along the highway. SL.

07/27/2018 By starsharon + Hubbie
Traveling through the area from Nebraska to New Mexico for a few days

07/23/2018 By EulessAg
07/22/2018 (7 of 11) Overall Find # 4436
2:30:00 PM: Las Animas County, Colorado - DeLorme: CO-093

Caching from Denver back to home in DFW. Nice quick grab ahead of a nasty thunderstorm moving in. Thanks for the cache!

06/30/2018 By LeewayeDiscGolf
Quick find on our way back down from Simpson's Rest. Neat place. We did see the cool brick street.

12/30/2017 By THeSKuLL
I went for a road trip for the New Year's weekend. It was mainly to fill in several Colorado counties as well as a rare county that starts with "U" to finally fulfill a Nickname via County letters challenge cache. Thankfully, that county was Union, which is conveniently on the border of Colorado. I also targeted Spirit Quest caches as they are good to grab and typically always available.

I made it all the way down through OK, the corner of TX, and back up through NM ending in Buena Vista, CO where my favorite brew location is. I saw a low of 4°F in Eastern CO, 58°F in NM, and back down to about 16°F in the Morning in BV. I woke up to a gorgeous mountian view. It was an awesome drive!

I got 20+ caches, 10 Colorado counties, 8 Spirit Quest caches, 2 new states, and a whole lotta "ME" time!

TFTC!