GC3047X Colorado Spirit Quest #178 - Otero County Cemetery
Type: Traditional | Size: Micro | Difficulty: | Terrain:
By: Grand High Pobah @ | Hide Date: 06/01/2011 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N37° 58.074 W103° 34.638 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
             

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!! 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.

This cemetery contains about 200 metal markers and 1 headstone making the grave of a military veteran. His marker, the only one with a date on it, notes 1961.


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06/13/2019 By chipleader
another day on my #roadtrip2019....
started in lamar, Colorado, and drove all the way down to Albuquerque, NM...
saw a lot of nice Little towns and found some boxes.. :-)

for this one:

short stop… easy...

no trade
logtime: 9.35 am
#5949

thanks a lot to all the owners!

chipleader
from switzerland

ps. please excuse my copy-paste-logs...

05/28/2019 By FresnoDancingFool
I parked in what I thought was a convenient spot, and found that I was less than 20 feet from GZ. I walked over, spotted something, and soon was signing the log. Nice job and TFTC!

05/21/2019 By Qaz
Found this cache along the way down to Geowoodstock. Started the trip off with a 13-county loop around Colorado to try and get some of the counties that I am not normally near or might get to again. After that it was a nice trip of 5 States in one day as I travel further to Fort Worth, Texas. Tons of awesome caches preselected for counties, virtuals, earthcache or the age of the cache. Some got picked because they looked interesting as I drove through the area. So many good stops along the way took a 11-hour drive into a three-day drive. All the corners of the states along the way are great places to stop as well. I met other cachers along the way and ran into some headed the same direction. At a couple points I met up with a couple police officers and got to chat with them about geocaching. Another great reason to keep some printouts of what geocaching is in your car with you at all times. Thank you to all of the cache owners for keeping these active for all of us to find on our travels. I usually put jokes in all of my logs but these logs are already going on long enough and honestly after 7 days of solo caching and the extreme cache hunting going on in Texas, I’m tired of caching! Now on to the hard part, documenting everything I saw and did while on this trip. So many photo and caches, its been a amazing trip. Again, thank you to all the CO’s and other cachers I met this past week!

04/16/2019 By smeeet
Very intriguing indeed. If more information is located on the crosses, please share. TNLN. SL. TFTC.

04/15/2019 By poeanne
I am doing a solo run through southeast Colorado trying to pick up counties and DeLorme squares. This is day one of my three day journey.

This was my last stop of the day and I was thrilled to get another sprit quest, especially before dark!!

I'm in Colorado for a family ski trip, and I couldn't resist coming a couple of days early and grabbing a few more Colorado counties!! This was the cache I chose for Otero County!!

07/24/2018 By famous.adventurers
Quick, easy find. TFTC!

07/24/2018 By taylorsgeotracker
Quick cache in an interesting “cemetery?”

05/10/2018 By SEEK84
Spending the night in La Junta. Grabbed this one with jaguars96 as we enjoy finding cemetery caches to add to the collection. Thanks for a cool historic cemetery.

05/09/2018 By jaguars96
Traveling and geocaching with SEEK84 as we travel from our winter home in Arizona to South Dakota. Found the cache and signed the log. Thanks Grand High Pobah for the cache.

05/06/2018 By MaxB on the River
Brought MaxB's Escorted TB Group Tour by to find cache while working on caching counties. Today we found 4 new NM and 2 new CO counties. All caches were in great shape.

TNLN

Thanks for the cache.