• Hidden with Team Blue Rubicon's Bubbaraye. Some twisted tales for your enjoyment!
  
  CAUTION! THIS IS A ROUGH ROAD! HIGH-CLEARANCE VEHICLE REQUIRED TO SAFELY LOG THESE CACHES! EACH IS PLACED AT A SAFE TURN-OUT.

  !!!!! If you are the first to find these caches, please only take ONE first to find prize and leave the other FTF prizes for others to enjoy!!!!!!!!!!!

  The Six Swans

  < >A king goes hunting in the forest, but gets lost, and has to agree to a witch's terms to get out again: he has to marry her daughter, who takes a disliking to the king's children from his previous marriage. So she enchants shirts and throws them onto the six boys, who turn into swans. The daughter manages to stay hidden throughout this whole shebang.The father, who is not terribly bright, wants to take his daughter back to the castle with him, where doubtless the stepmother is waiting to do terrible things to her. Off the girl wanders, to find her brothers. She sees them enter a hut and take off their swan skins. They tell her the only way to disenchant them is to spend six years without talking or laughing, and sew them six shirts of asters (a flower). That sounds okay enough for her.She spends a while hanging out in a tree and sewing. A king's huntsmen see her and try to persuade her to speak or come down from the tree. Instead of answering them, she throws down her clothing, one piece at a time (totally the rational response). When the king sees her, he falls in love with her and marries her even though she's remaining silent the whole time.The king, unfortunately, has an evil mother, who steals away each baby that the maiden gives birth to, and smears the maiden's mouth with blood, to suggest that she ate her babies. The maiden obviously can't speak to defend herself, so after the third time this happens, the king agrees to let the court sentence her to death.Right as she's tied to the stake, her swan-brothers fly up, and she tosses the shirts on them. They become human again, except for the little brother who's missing his left arm since she didn't have time to finish the left sleeve. They kill the king's mother, find the hidden babies, and everyone's happy.

09/14/2017 By Back Country Horsemen
Had to do a little searching but I finally came up with it.

05/14/2016 By jacobbouley
Out mountain caching today. TFTC

05/13/2016 By tamiuron
Thanks, RubiconNomad! It took me a long time to finally spot this one even though it is not that small. This morning I came up to the mountains to find geocaches in both Clear Creek and Gilpin counties. The roads were a lot rougher than I expected, and there was still snow in some sections. I am glad I was able to do a loop and not have to go back the way I came. We recently bought a Subaru Forester, so we had the all wheel drive and ground clearance necessary for these roads, but it was a new experience for me. The Hyundai Elantra and Toyota Camry would never have made it. It was a lot of fun, and I hope to come back to the mountains several more times in the next few months on the paved and unpaved roads in the area.
--tamiuron, sign nano logs TRON

09/23/2014 By Grand High Pobah
12:28. Got this one by walking up the road from the west. Not too hard a find but it did take just a little looking. TFTC. TNLNSL.

09/23/2014 By Greasepot
Had a great time out today with the goal being going up to Loch Lomand. The aspens are in all their splendor now, and there was weather moving in. Not long before all this is covered by snow again . Thanks! GreasePot from Golden, CO