GC28CBP Traditional Cache Colorado Spirit Quest #315 - Jansen Cemetery
Type: Traditional | Size: Micro Micro | Difficulty: 2.5 out of 5 | Terrain: 1.5 out of 5
By: Grand High Pobah @ | Hide Date: 05/03/2010 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N37° 09.586 W104° 32.816 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
Takes less than an hour  Not Available during winter  Parking available  Bicycles  Motorcycles  Horses  Stroller accessible  Needs maintenance 

!! 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 but, because of the access through a residential area, suggested caching time might better be limited to daylight hours

The cemetery itself has a rather large areal extent but only contains about 50 headstones with the oldest dating back to 1906.  Many of the headstones were made out of a soft stone that the weather has not been kind to.  All or most of the information on those headstones has been lost except where they were painted (see photo) which seems to have protected them.

The approach is from the intersection of the Highway of Legends, Colorado 12, with County Road 67.3.  Follow CR 67.3 to the turn off within a couple of hundred feet of the cache location.

Update 03/07/2011 -- I have decided to raise the difficuty to 2.5 based on the number of DNF's I have received.
Update 04/13/2012 - I have removed the hint because of reports that the cache has been moved and the hint is no longer accurate
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7 Logs: Found it 7  

Found it 05/28/2019 By annbuzz
Boom.

Found it 04/20/2019 By RubiconNomad
Found while out cruising with a friend. Gorgeous day for Geocaching! Grabbed a pin and left one from the Alien HWY series! TFTC!

Found it 05/13/2018 By esydrahawk
In dire need of CITO

Found it 07/04/2017 By acachingcat
Today, Smithj9 and I left the Colorado Springs area and cached our way down towards Trinidad. We saw and learned a lot about the areas we visited today. Thanks for placing and maintaining these caches for us to enjoy while visiting from Florida.

Found it 07/04/2017 By smithj9
Acachingcat and I came to the area from Florida. We had an absolutely blast. We added 7 new states to our states. We saw so many things and learned so much history in all the areas we visited. We climbed mountains, saw flat land with cows and corn, saw elk, moose, marmot, deer, prong horn, sheep, goats and many small animals. We enjoyed all the tall mountains we drove through even though breathing was a bit taxing for us flat landers. I appreciate all the CO's placing these for us to find and keeping us so entertained. We have really enjoyed these spirit quest ones.,

Found it 07/02/2017 By andi.co
Really bad area. There was so many shot gun shells and other random trash seemed like more then a day of CITO is deserved here. Other than that, got the cache and got outta there. Had a great time on my road trip through Southern Colorado with Triceclimber!

Found it 06/12/2017 By lesslost2
First burial apparently took place in 1901,which means some of the oldest "residents" could have been alive when the U.S. added the area to its land mass (1848?). Run-down cemetery but interesting nonetheless. Thanks for getting us here.