The cache is a decon container. It is not winter friendly.
This is one of the caches in a series of caches dedicated to Fallen Flag railroads. Fallen Flags are those railroads that no longer exist either through abandonment or corporate takeover. With each cache will come a short history lesson explaining a little something about the railroad.
DSP&P are the initials of the Denver, South Park, and Pacific railroad. It was a narrow gauge line (3’ between the rails) that started life in Denver in 1874 and was headed to the mining camps in the mountains.
This cache is not at all hard to get near to in just about any car as it is located just off the well maintained Boreas Pass road. This road, with the exception of a very small section on the Como side, is laid on the abandoned roadbed of the Denver, South Park, and Pacific railroad. If you are willing to park at the turnoff to the 4x4 road and walk the 0.3 miles distance to the cache, grandma’s chevy will be more than adequate to get you there. If your vehicle is up to 4x4 standards, then it will be fairly easy to take the 4x4 road down to a location very near the cache.
The building of this part of the railroad over Boreas Pass, a pass named in honor of the Greek god of the North Wind, was anything but an easy task but was necessitated by the need to gain an independent line into Leadville, a need brought on by corporate intrigue and backstabbing. The back story is arrangements had been made with the D&RG railroad to enter Leadville on shared trackage rights on the D&RG tracks from Salida. But push came to shove and the D&RG started charging huge fees for extremely unfavorable schedules for the DSP&P. The solution to the problem was to come into Leadville independently by way of Boreas Pass, descending down to the area of Breckenridge, then on what was to become Frisco. From there it was up Tenmile creek (where I70 is now) past what is currently the Copper Mountain ski area and then up and over the top of Fremont Pass and on down to Leadville. This "little adjustment" to the route ended up crossing the continental divide twice, something not to be taken lightly. To take on this sort of challenge, the fees and bad scheduling must have been really extreme, or else corporate egos must have been hugely inflated.
Getting good coordinates seemed to be a little bit of a challenge at this cache. I averaged a number of readings but still there seemed some inaccuracy that I could just not overcome.
DSP&P Boreas Pass
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