Rio Grande Trail 4.5

05/06/2019 By Diz&Dave
Greetings from the UK?. We are on our holidays!!! We are on a 12-day road trip around Colorado, Utah and Wyoming (a geocaching road trip from Denver to Yellowstone and back again), staying in Air BnB’s en route.
Day 1: One cache near the first Air BnB to get us started
Day 2: Morning caching and dashing around Denver and in the afternoon headed out to the Mount Evans scenic route. Stopped off in Idaho Springs – fabulous Waterfall here, and then cache and dashed along the scenic highway, still snow ?on some of the higher ground. Ended the day with a trip to a TB hotel, in Downtown, and found 21 caches.
Day 3: Left Denver, collecting a few caches on the way to Colorado Springs. Made a snap decision to head out to collect some earthcaches , discovered the amazing Garden of the Gods and the pretty town of Manitou Springs, then headed West to pick up a few challenge caches, staged via the amazing Memorial park for a few more virtuals and ended on a traditional in the carpark near a pub.
Day 4: A trip up to Pike’s Peak and then a slow cache and dash to Glenwood Springs (21 caches in total) and lots of weather ? .
Day 5: Well today we took an unexpected detour. Set out early, undertook and earthcache in Glenwood Springs after breakfast and then decided to try to find a nearby 5/1 that had loads of DNFs, sadly we too had a DNF?, but did collect 2 other caches on the Rio Grande Trail . Then we set off for Vernal, and we had planned a caching route, and collected a few caches in places such as Rifle, but then sadly we lost all reception after a few miles (you’d think we should have learnt by now to download caches when we make plans), and we then accidently picked the wrong road out of Meeker as Google had also gone offline – both of us forgot to check the maps in the suitcases. So we detoured via Craig and met 2 lovely ladies in the information centre, who gave us a couple more maps and told us we had an extra 88 miles to the Dinosaur National Monument , we made use of the free wifi to download some caches we could collect on our new route. We then pressed on, dropped into the Dinosaur information centre (more free wifi) and then decided to head out to Harper’s corner, a lovey scenic drive (we saw 2 deer) and crossed into Utah and back. We took a lovely 2 mile yomp to see the spectacular amazing views and collect a virtual before heading back to Vernal, where rain stopped play, so we picked up a Papa John’s pizza and headed to the Air BnB for a cup of tea and a beer.

Glad to find this after DNF'ing the tree. Diz found after a short search, the plants here smelled great.

TFTC ?

04/29/2019 By Nettipoo
Fun day out on the ebikes. TFTC!

09/03/2018 By stridget
My only find along the trail today. Many of the caches seemed to be in places not really compatible with spandex and bike sandals, and trying to walk without my cane. I was glad I could get to this one. Thanks!

08/21/2018 By wildargs
Got it - in good condition. Thanks

08/18/2018 By indiandunes
Finally got around to grabbing this hide. Thanks for the quick easy one.