GC2CFAK Traditional Cache Colorado Spirit Quest #326 Elk Mountain Cemetery
Type: Traditional | Size: Micro Micro | Difficulty: 2 out of 5 | Terrain: 2 out of 5
By: res71cue & 010745 @ | Hide Date: 07/27/2010 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N40° 32.430 W106° 56.219 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0

! The Exciting Cache Series!

"COLORADO SPIRIT QUEST"

REMEMBER:

If you are APPREHENSIVE about cemeteries – AVOID this series.

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.

If you are interested in being a part of this project, contact may be made by sending an e-mail to the owner of "Colorado Spirit Quest #1 – Mountain Passage". Use the 'Send Message" link at the center of the page of their profile.

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 and 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.

Each person that places a CSQ cache is responsible for its maintenance.

Thanks to Volunteers: 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, TwoCs, Outdrlvr201, Condor1, 2Cachedivers, arthurat, smilz787, Kyotmoon, Mountain Roamer, Cuttie Pie, SugarPug, Team Tiger Pride, ernie66, drnetwork, Team w-bar-v, Dynamite Rabbit, Twins18, DustyKat, mtnbirders, The Johnson Family, RustyBeerCan & Marma, grymreaper, nteclpr, Irish.Eyes, Moose1 & Mama Moose, Joe Friday, 3cacheteers, Electronicgeek, Jake92, 3cacheteers, Dasha Aussies, KB0UMW, hiking_fool, Tahosa & Sons , tripping, and res71cue.

New VOLUNTEERS are always Welcome

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This is an interesting site for a cemetery cache. It seems like three sites in one. This cemetery served the early settlements of Mystic, Trull, and Lower Elk River. There are several graves here from people who died in the 1918 flu epidemic. Please see the web link for more actual historic information. There is an easy gate to open, please be sure to close it on the way out.
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5 Logs: Found it 5  

Found it 09/23/2017 By Carrie-so-very
It's wet. TFTC

Found it 09/01/2017 By Killian33
I found this one with T-Dawg and my three geohounds. We cached our way from Westminster, Colorado to Vernal, Utah finding new counties and delorme pages. TFTC SL.

Found it 09/01/2017 By T_Dawg303
On a weekend trip with Killian33. TFTC Very wet log!!!

Found it 07/03/2017 By shaylinpetty
Soggy need maintenance

Found it 05/11/2017 By benj59
I absolutely love this series. I've found quite a few in Denver but finding them in the mountains is even more memorable. These places are reflective, serene, contemplative, and somewhat sobering.

I really enjoyed the drive here. In fact I even just turned off the music and enjoyed the quiet and beauty with just the sound of the road.

Thankfully I had saved this in an offline list in Cachly so I didn't need to worry about cell reception. Once I made my way to GZ I checked everything the hint applied to but came up empty. I checked the ground and then sure enough, there it was. Sadly the log was a wet mess as you can see in the picture. I wasn't able to replace it either. I did put the cache back according to the hint though for the next finder.

If you are here, take some time to make your way down the hill and check out the old markers in the cemetery. Definitely worth it. Very interesting especially to see several rocks with no name inscribed. Sadly gone and forgotten.

Overall definitely worth the drive. Although the cache needs some maintenance, I'm still giving this a favorite point for bringing me here. Never would've driven up this way otherwise.


Thanks for the hide res71cue!

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