GC56GGK Tornado Alley
Type: Mystery | Size: Micro | Difficulty: | Terrain:
By: SnailMan1 @ | Hide Date: 06/07/2014 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N38° 50.240 W104° 51.550 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0

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Tornados, who would of thought that they would occur in Colorado Springs proper, but they do occur. In June of 1979 I remember watching the clouds over Manitou spinning which was very unusually. After awhile I started to see the clouds reach for the ground and I watched in fascination. I soon realized that I was watching a Tornado form and I eventually decided it was time to seek shelter. The Tornado did touchdown, once in Manitou where it ripped up some old trees in a park and then again near this cache location where it damaged a few buildings. Other establishments that have disappeared (although not related to the tornado) are PPNB, The Hall Of Presidents Wax Museum (across the street) and the old Van Briggle Pottery which finally went under several years ago.

Puzzle:
A=Colorado Springs, CO, June 24, 1979
B=Limon, CO, June 6, 1990
C=Taloga, OK, August 21, 1979
D=Wichita Falls, TX, April 10, 1979
E=Woodward, OK, April 9 1947
F=Grant, OK, June 5, 1966

N 38° 50.(A-1)B(C+2) W 104° 51.D(E+4)F

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Congrats to Hartsdale for the FTF!

Additional Waypoints

01/09/2019 By Traveling_Jack
Third day in Colorado Springs. An early end of day allows me to grab some caches.

Solved back home prior to traveling to Colorado. Luckily no tornado today and I could find the final easily. Cache and log ok.

Greetings from France

Thanks SnailMan1 for the cache

07/03/2018 By Kroozer
Lived in tornado alley for many years, so had to do this puzzle. Signed log. Thanks for the cache!

03/03/2018 By m4fun
Tftc first one in awhile. Beautiful day to be out

05/29/2017 By Tehachapi Fords
While staying at the AF Academy FamCamp we did a lot of caching in the Springs area before heading to SD. I remember some of these tornados in OK.

01/21/2017 By TexDoc56
I headed to Bear Creek Park and points north to pick up a few. Weather was perfect.
I solved this awhile ago and since I was in the vicinity, I stopped off for this one and found it where expected.

Thanks for the cache, SnailMan1

01/14/2017 By weizen
SL - thanks