Colorado: Geocaching through the years

06/09/2019 By Spooty
[Found it at 1236.
Boy did I try way too hard for this one. Last night, at home, I was planning on this challenge.] Hey, there's a trail from the east - let's take that. Well, I did. Unfortunately I hadn't paid attention to the elevation bands on the map. It was just about a thousand-foot climb in maybe .75 miles. It was somewhat busy too; people (mostly younger than me) were going up and down, and a few dogs too. I made it to the "second" top, where I was about .25mi from GZ. Hey, it looks a lot lower down there. After the fact, I found that I'd climbed to a spot about 500' higher than the cache. I suppose I could have continued and descended off-trail to GZ, but that would have been much dumber than I'd already been. So I descended the trail and decided to drive along the road to check out a smarter approach. [It turned out that my approach was similar to that of "Back Country Horsemen"'s. The last .15 miles were a little tricky. Luckily, I was thoughtful at a couple of critical decision points, and made it to GZ without really bushwhacking - I was surprised that it could be done! Once there, I managed to find the cache container in just a minute or two. It sure looked like the real thing, and I noted the replacement log that was installed three years ago.

I qualify for this challenge. I don't always trust Project-GC challenge checkers, so I compiled my list of qualifiers by hand (these caches are all in Colorado):

GC18 "Tarryall" - Placed on 7/2/2000 - Found on 10/23/2014
GC2799 "El Diablo - The Spine out West" - Placed on 11/11/2001 - Found on 5/6/2014
GC87E2 "The Other Side of Green Mountain" - Placed on 9/1/2002 - Found on 6/2/2005
GCGTDM "Denver South Park & Pacific Railroad" - Placed on 9/1/2003 - Found on 8/18/2015
GCJMF9 "Omega-1 (Where No Hand Has Gone Before)" - Placed on 6/5/2004 - Found on 12/28/2004
GCMXY6 "S Platte Cacher Hwy-Over the Road Less Traveled" - Placed on 2/25/2005 - Found on 3/21/2005
GCWD6C "Mondo's One Degree of Separation (SETexas)" - Placed on 6/3/2006 - Found on 11/2/2012
GC10B37 "Butterbean&Punkin (children's nicknames from Dad)" - Placed on 1/12/2007 - Found on 11/27/2014
GC1JGNJ "Colorado Spirit Quest #156 - Prairie View Cemetery" - Placed on 11/28/2008 - Found on 4/19/2010
GC1Y33X "Colorado Spirit Quest #249 - Dr. A H Coulson Grave" - Placed on 8/28/2009 - Found on 10/7/2012
GC2HATP "Colorado Spirit Quest #298 - Valley View Cemetery" - Placed on 10/26/2010 - Found on 3/26/2015
GC3049K "Colorado Spirit Quest #199 - St Mary's Cemetery No" - Placed on 6/1/2011 - Found on 10/23/2014
GC3BQNV "Estrek's tribute to chili peppers - Cayenne Redux" - Placed on 1/29/2012 - Found on 6/13/2016
GC4QKRP "Welcome to Olney Springs West...Do You Feel Lucky?" - Placed on 10/20/2013 - Found on 3/26/2015
GC52H8C "Third Annual Columbine Open Space Clean-up (2014)" - Placed on 5/3/2014 - Found on 5/3/2014
GC5KJAE "11th Annual Memorial CITO Heil Valley Homestead" - Placed on 4/25/2015 - Found on 4/25/2015
GC6HXEP "GCCO ADOPT A ROAD CITO Part 2 - June 2016" - Placed on 6/25/2016 - Found on 6/25/2016
GC73AV7 "15 Virtual caches in 15 States Traveler Challenge" - Placed on 4/4/2017 - Found on 10/13/2017
GC7HDKQ "Thelma & Louise: Aims High Aims Low" - Placed on 1/20/2018 - Found on 11/26/2018
GC808N7 "Monday Morning Meetup 119" - Placed on 1/14/2019 - Found on 1/14/2019

The challenge was interesting enough, but I'll give this cache a Favorite point for how memorable I made it. :)
TNLNSL. TFTChallengeC!]

05/16/2018 By Bhob
2000 - GC67 - 2005 July 22
2001 - GC2F20 - 2004 February 9
2002 - GC9A28 - 2003 November 28
2003 - GCH75E - 2003 November 30
2004 - GCHG88 - 2004 January 18
2005 - GCMD44 - 2005 January 8
2006 - GCRV2T - 2006 January 5
2007 - GC10H0G - 2007 January 26
2008 - GC17YAR - 2008 January 4
2009 - GC1KBV1 - 2009 January 2
2010 - GC1ZY4D - 2010 January 8
2011 - GC2M47B - 2011 January 7
2012 - GC3A5ZP - 2012 January 9
2013 - GC4681B - 2013 March 1
2014 - GC4WGWG - 2014 January 9
2015 - GC5KF35 - 2015 January 19
2016 - GC698G8 - 2016 January 7
2017 - GC6Z3HH - 2017 January 13
2018 - GC7GP0G - 2018 January 4

11/15/2017 By Back Country Horsemen
Wow I can't believe I just put so much effort into such a low rated challenge cache. I just climbed Mt Morrison so I thought I'd take a spin up here & finally clear this one out. Well, you can't park at either end of the two track that shows on GE so I had to park a ways down the road where it is legal and walk through the high grass just to get started. Then puff puff up & up through the dried & stickery knapweed finally to the cache. I know i qualify, but now I still need to go home & research my list!

09/24/2017 By nickgatt
#31694 Quick hike to the cache, but got soaking wet in the rain. TFTC

I've completed Jasmer x 4. Attached is the number of my Colorado finds for each year from 2000 to 2010.

03/20/2017 By grizzlycacher
I took advantage of my Spring Break week to get out and get some caches that have been on my short list. I had been waiting on this one to get Tarryall which I got in 2015. I just haven't gotten up here to get this find. The no parking sign has been giving me issues since I wasn't sure where else to approach from. I was able to run up the hill early this morning and make the find with no trouble.

My qualifying caches :

2000 - GC18 Tarryall - 10/13/15
2001 - GC746 Stanleyish - 9/26/09
2002 - GC3337 Out of the Blue - 1/25/15
2003 - GCBE1F Hidden Park - 9/8/12
2004 - GCHGJX West Fork Trail Cache - 2/8/10
2005 - GCME9Q Run For the Border - 9/6/09
2006 - GCRVCV Bennigan's First Cache - 6/18/12
2007 - GC104QY Nice House - 1/15/11
2008 - GC18BKE Twig - 2/11/11
2009 - GC1KBPC Box of Balls - 2/5/11
2010 - GC22JGE My Design Cache - 1/30/10
2011 - GC2KZCD animjason's D/T Challenge - 4/3/12
2012 - GC3A5N5 The Barton Five Hotel - 3/15/13
2013 - GC44AXN Christmas is Over - 4/18/15
2014 - GC4WTWM Elephant Rock - 8/31/14
2015 - GC5JNAX Big Mama Jama - 10/3/15
2016 - GC698G8 Going Cuckoo at DCL-RB - 3/6/16
2017 - GC6ZBHR Mountain Unicycling: Yes You Can - 1/21/17

10/30/2016 By icezebra11
Denali41, his puppy Orizaba, and I traveled from Wellington and Loveland to the Morrison area today to hike and cache on Mount Morrison. And what a beautiful day it was! After hiking to the top of the mountain and finding all the caches along the way, we drove west to this cache. Denali41 had logged this cache long ago so Zaba and I made the hike to GZ. The cache was quickly in hand and I signed the fairly fresh log. My stats are public and you can see that I have complete the Jasmer so I qualify for this "mini-Jasmer." Thanks Greasepot!!!