GC3HC0E Traditional Cache [Citation Needed] #7: The Coldest Place On Earth
Type: Traditional | Size: Regular Regular | Difficulty: 1.5 out of 5 | Terrain: 1.5 out of 5
By: Triggur @ | Hide Date: 04/18/2012 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N40° 22.300 W104° 59.351 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
Stealth required  Park and Grab 

#7 in a series of fact-filled caches filled with facts
This is a remarkable location, so take a deep breathe and savor this:

You are standing at the coldest location on Earth.

You probably don't feel it now as much as you feel the mosquito bites swelling on your neck, but it's true.

About 10 meters away you will notice a small patch of ground apparently smoking.  THAT'S NOT SMOKE, it's an ultra-cold vapor of methane and notrogen, the anti-matter equivalent of nitrogen.

If you can't see it, you're probably standing on it or there's a sunspot.

Due to the peculiar geology underlying this location-- an uncommonly deep deposit of a mineral called thermibonite-- and the electromagnetic current of a tectonic fault running from this spot to the continental divide, the soil temperature here sometimes reaches -712 below zero!

That's mighty cold even with a good parka.

Some scientists conjecture that the hottest place on earth lies on the exact opposite side of the globe, but everyone knows it's really Houston, Texas.


Members of a recent expedition to Johnstown, Colorado. The expedition reported reaching Johnstown and then contact was lost. All members are missing and presumed bored.

You're looking for a good old fashioned ammo can with lots of room for schwag.  Initial contents:
* log
* pen
* Flarp Putty (evidently "Flarp" is more marketable that "fart", but let's call it what it is; it's a toy you squish and it farts)
* 3 skinny glow sticks
* 1 geocaching glow stick
* playdoh


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6 Logs: Found it 2  Didn't find it 4  

Found it 08/24/2018 By cbw
Third attempt. Still no luck with this one.

Didn't find it 08/08/2018 By phtmrosy
:(

Didn't find it 08/08/2018 By lilly_Rosenthal
Noooo

Didn't find it 04/02/2018 By sheepherder
Found location but did not find your cache

Didn't find it 04/02/2018 By quinnster212
Searched the whole area. Seriously couldn’t find it.

Found it 09/17/2017 By dustyriver
Good cache find after attending Honor Flight Northern Colorado ceremony, sending our vets to Washington DC to see the memorials/monuments in their name. I25 is the fast way home, service road is the cache way home. Great Sunday morning for caching my way home, Best Wishes, DustRiver