GC4HX94 Traditional Cache This where it started for us-and ended for others
Type: Traditional | Size: Micro Micro | Difficulty: 1 out of 5 | Terrain: 3 out of 5
By: Tammy and The Chief @ | Hide Date: 08/03/2013 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N37° 14.876 W105° 02.101 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
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Bison tube about the size of 35 mm tube at a Pioneer Cemetery

Close pull-off parking, do not cross the fence line . Something "nano"-like for the FTF!

This is a significant spot for me--I have always liked old cemeteries and especially pioneer cemeteries. In 2008 while out for a drive  my husband and i spotted this plot.  I scampered up the hill to take a look. Standing there and contemplating the history I came across a pill bottle with a scrap of paper in it. I was so intrigued and once I read the paperwork I became so excited! I was hopping up and down and my husband down the hill thought I'd found gold! No, what I'd found, accidentally, was my first cache. It took me two more years to actually get going as a cacher but I never forgot the excitement I felt that day. 

 

Today we found ourselves passing the same spot and I scampered up the hill to finally log the cache, but sadly it is no longer listed and only a remnant is left of the original. I "Happened" to have a tube in the car and planted another cache. Good times!

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5 Logs: Found it 5  

Found it 09/15/2018 By GoofyBareHunter
Found with NakedNHappyHunter while out on a road trip thru a few states from Tampa, FL. TFTC!

Found it 09/15/2018 By NakedNHappyHunter
On a many month & state caching adventure. Took a quick break and found this.
Found with GoofyBareHunter

Found it 07/27/2018 By Wonder Woman II
Beautiful view and country, tftc

Found it 07/24/2018 By GeoVet91
Found nice & quick. Thanks for placing! SL, TFTC

Found it 06/05/2018 By Boreal Walker
I ended up on an epic adventure with yellowdogs and jREST. I really wanted to go and find GC19. So, I picked a five day stretch to make my attempt. I roped in a couple of caching friends into the misadventure and we were off with my two geodogs. The five of us made an interesting group. We drove over 3000 miles on the trip going out and back. Since we enjoy the same types of caches it was easy to come up with a list. We target the three main kinds of caches: oldies, virtuals, and earthcaches. We threw in a few others mainly to grab a cache in the 72 counties we headed through. Really got to light up that county map. Ended up with 152 caches in the found pile.

The first night was a little rough. We got a late start and headed into some heavy rain. We already had a hotel reserved in Sioux City, IA; so we knew we had to get there. Found one cache to fill the day in for me. The first day was spent caching our way across northern Nebraska. We had a line of counties that we wanted to grab. Some pretty country once you get further west. It is always nice to see the varied topography of the states we visit. After finding 35 caches, we called it a night in Scotts Bluff.
Day 2 dawned sunny, but cool. We wanted to get past Denver, but our route was longer than anticipated. So we ended up a little short. Got to see some interesting spots though. We hit the high point in Nebraska, cached along a lonely stretch of highway in Colorado, picked up some virtuals in the Denver area, before heading into the mountains for the Cache Across America. We continued exploring the mountains before finding a place to sleep for the night west of Denver.

On the third day, we made it into Denver after some virtuals and then headed south through the mountains to GC 19. We made it. The road was open and the weather perfect. Lots of warnings about the fire danger. We picked up a few other caches and even took a detour into New Mexico so yellowdogs could light up the state. Nice. I love it when a plan comes together.

Day 4 found us in Trinidad. We had a long way to go and a short time to get there. Luckily, at this point the route was pretty straight forward. We headed north roughly to Nebraska. We did take a detour to grab GC31. I already had it, but we were too close not to add it to the list. We ended up caching longer than anticipated due to a lack of sleeping options. Finally found a place in Thedford.

Our last day was short and to the point. We had a line of counties between us and the Iowa border and we wanted to find a cache in each of them. We found one or two caches in each of them before hitting the border at noon. Right on schedule After that, it was just a matter of beating feet home.

Thanks to all the COs that placed or created a cache for us to find on this trip. Without you, we would not have found have the interesting places we ended up. I couldn't think of a better way to spend vacation. We used our Team Barcelona stamp to mark all the physical logs.

Decided to take the long way back to the interstate and just enjoy the scenery. We wanted to get a cache in Las Animas county, so why not an old people garden. We found a spot to pull the car off and then went up the hill to ground zero. Quick find for us.

XNSL TFTC