GC67KGG Colorado Puzzle #7
Type: Mystery | Size: Micro | Difficulty: | Terrain:
By: Barasaur @ | Hide Date: 04/15/2016 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N40° 32.825 W104° 56.025 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0

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The word 'colorado' means 'colored' or 'colored red' in Spanish. The Colorado state was named after the Colorado River, which Spanish explorers named 'Río Colorado' (meaning 'colored river') for the red silt the river carried from the mountains

Colorado is the only U.S. state that lies entirely above 1000 meters elevation. Its lowest point, 3,317 feet (1,011 m) in elevation is the highest low elevation point of any state, and is higher than the highest elevation points of 18 states. Colorado contains 75% of the land area of the U.S. with an altitude over 10,000 feet

The United States federal government owns more than 1/3 of the land in Colorado.

The 13th step of the state capital building in Denver is exactly 1 mile high above sea level

I am placing some caches around that will be mostly P & G for everyone to enjoy.

January 12, 1999 — January 9, 2007
January 9, 1951 — January 11, 1955
August 1, 1876 — January 14, 1879
January 13, 1885 — January 11, 1887
January 8, 1889 — January 13, 1891
January 12, 1897 — January 10, 1899
January 13, 1885 — January 11, 1887
January 11, 1887 — January 8, 1889
January 11, 1887 — January 8, 1889
January 8, 1895 — January 12, 1897
January 12, 1897 — January 10, 1899

Additional Waypoints

04/06/2019 By BriaTeragram
Looked all over GZ for this cache and couldn't come up with anything. Only one in the whole series we didn't find. Even drove by it a second time to see if any of the other hides could give us a better idea on where to look, but no dice. Unlike a lot of other areas this location had no trash. I expect that it may have been recently cleaned up and that the cache may have been a victim. Or we may just have been off our game.

04/06/2019 By Dud&Plato
So the day ends with a sad story. I said I would come back to hunt this one with more time. I did. Really gave it a good looking over from pretty much any angle I could think of. Even noticed it was supposedly replaced just a few months ago. This... is now the one cache left I have in the series. :( Suppose it will require one more stop to complete. So it goes! Really enjoyed the second run at the series today, so thank you very much again Barasaur! I will be back...

01/04/2019 By GotYour6
Replaced the container with CO’s permission. Thanks for placing this puzzle cache for us to find!

12/20/2018 By Dud&Plato
Oh man, sometimes bad things come in three's. This was my third DNF of the day, but hey I had just taken a DNF, and was in a big hurry AND light was running thin. Gave the usual nooks and crannies a poke, but had to move on without a longer hunt. On the to do list for when I return! Thanks for the hunt!

08/18/2018 By Pixel Magic
With a little help from a friend we were able to find this cache container.
Log was wet and we dried it out.

tftc Hope you are well

08/17/2018 By EstesLynne
I solved this one quite a while back, but waited until they were all solved and the weather was right to come get this geo-art. It wasn't too hard to figure out what to do here, especially given the general puzzle theme, and the container was a quick find today. TFTC!

08/17/2018 By BugRanger
Found w EstesLynne. Always thought this would make a fun container. TFTC!

07/12/2018 By fam2go
Solved these before we came up so we knew where we were going. Glad to have another geo art! This one, most of the caches were easy but some weren't there so we replaced them. Don't know how long they have been missing, guess people are just logging finds because we didn't see any DNFs. We were thankful for the ones on the dirt roads or the few that had decent pull offs. Several times we walked a ways from safe parking but some were very scary to even walk to because of the busy roads. We managed to get this series pretty quickly then moved on to the next. Thanks for the art and pointing us in the right direction on some!

12/13/2017 By Barasaur
Verified and replaced the container. Happy Caching.