GC6969T Colorado Puzzle #15
Type: Mystery | Size: Micro | Difficulty: | Terrain:
By: Barasaur @ | Hide Date: 05/15/2016 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N40° 32.550 W104° 55.100 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0

---

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.

Additional Waypoints

04/28/2019 By Spooty
Found it at 1030.
This was a fun little puzzle, but it took me 2 tries to get the right solution.
Once I got to GZ, it took me just a minute or two to spot the cache container. I thought it might have been a "throwdown", but then I saw that the CO had replaced the container almost 2 years ago, and that the last finder (a few weeks ago) had replaced the log, so I guess it's all legit.
TNLNSL. TFTC!

04/20/2019 By chuppalloop
Tftc found with artguru20

04/20/2019 By artguru20@gmail.com
Found with chuppalloop. TFTC!

04/06/2019 By BriaTeragram
Dud&Plato had shown me a few of the puzzles in the series that he couldn't figure out. After a bit of looking and thinking I managed to figure out the answers. He had already looked for and logged a bunch of them, but when we went out today he was nice enough to stop at all of the caches so I could sign the logs. It was a pretty nice day out, not too hot and not too cold. If I'd had more time I would have even consider walking the whole way around, but had other things I needed to do today. I had a lot of fun solving the puzzles and looking for the caches. Sad to say we did have one DNF, but we'll try looking again sometime to finish the geoart. TFTC|SL

If there is anything specific to share about any of the caches it will be noted after this point. Found the cache container, it was even hidden but container no log. Added new paper and replaced where found.

01/04/2019 By GotYour6
Thanks for placing this puzzle cache for us to find!

08/17/2018 By EstesLynne
Solved this one quickly--it was pretty obvious how to go about it. Today BugRanger and I came out here to finally get all the puzzles and the geo-art, and found this container quickly too. TFTC!

08/17/2018 By BugRanger
Quick find with EstesLynne. UPR. 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!

12/10/2017 By quinnster212
Found the replacement cache. Thanks for the cache

10/25/2017 By 9-rushman&farmgirl79
I was back in this area picking up some challenge caches and also a few puzzles. This one was gone the last time I was here. I saw that it had been replaced so I thought I would stop and grab it. I finally spotted it about 35 ft to the East from the GZ. Thanks for a fun puzzle to solve. Stamped the log and we're off to the next one. [8d][8d] SL TFTC