The "Old Prevarication" Cache

07/04/2019 By Kerewin0430
Holy cow, I wish that this was a liar's log. Came up to Denver to get some specific caches I needed for some challenges. At the very first cache, I drew blood in multiple areas. Found the next one and then dnf'd the next that I was really hoping to find. Chickened out on the next big one on the hit-list, and was grateful to have a more confident monkey with me. Continued to hike and cache despite the extremely hot weather, dnf'd another one of the ones I had really hoped to find, and then finally, now that I came for this one on my way home, have been stranded feet from the cache but unable to get out of the car due to a torrential rain and hail storm. I had been sitting here for entirely too long, so I finally decided that I was just going to go for it. Got beat up by hail
, but finally signed the log! Thank you for placing this one!

06/09/2019 By ernie66
I've done my share of guardrail caches, but never 200 feet above ground! It was impossible to reach even with the longest ToTT I had with me. How did you get that giant cache up there?!? I finally gave up on the ToTT and used my rope to just climb up there. I'm sure all the dog walkers on the trail below stopped to gawk at the spectacle but I had to concentrate so I couldn't stop to check. In the end the cache was retrieved, my name was inscribed, and the cache was replaced. And I lived to tell the tale. TFTC!

03/20/2019 By Thierry B
Why did nobody warn of rattlesnakes? I know, March in Colorado we should not have any rattlers around. But when you are close enough to lava, it is warmed enough for them. Could the CO add the dangerous animal icon?

01/21/2019 By prerules
I had been looking at this one for a while. I contacted the CO for a hint on the puzzle and he told me to go to Amazon. I then texted some previous finders and all they said was to be ready for an adventure. Thanks a lot!

Well, I went to Amazon and purchased all the gear I would need for this (that I didn't already have, which was nothing). After I paid the $10,000 bill, I waited two days for everything to arrive (I could have saved some money if I hadn't choose all the Prime options). Anyways, 48 hours later, everything arrived. You should have seen the driver trying to unload all of it into our garage.

Well, today AlexJGriff, EmmaKGriff and myself piled everything into (and on top of) the truck and set out. The first thing we did when arriving at the specified location was to drive past the parking lot and laugh at all the people who actually pay to park. What idiots. We just pulled off on the side of the road and unloaded everything.

The first thing was to tie the boat around our waist so we could pull it through the snow. Next, we strapped our nordic skis to our backs and put on the snowshoes and began the long trek up the side of the mountain.

After a long hike of about 5 miles, we finally reached the top of the ridge. AlexJGriff strapped on his skis to ski down the other side to the lake. He didn't wait for us. So, EmmaKGriff and I just threw everything into the boat and hoped in, using it like a sled. You should have seen the look on Alex's face as we went flying by him and straight into the lake - classic!

While we waited on Alex to get to the bottom of the hill, we searched for our final destination - the island in the middle of the lake with a lone tree about 120 feet high. When we arrived, EmmaKGriff said she would make the climb up the tree to retrieve the container. She strapped on her gear and up she went. While we waited, Alex decided to check out the abandoned mine. He took my flashlight and descended into darkness under the lake.

Emma came down with the box (which looked to be an old army bomb). That probably explained the sign at the edge of the island warning of dangerous items all around. She signed her name and I signed my name. Then she climbed back up to put it back.

Alex came back and told us the mine was a waste of time. He asked where the log was and I said Emma put it back. Screaming ensued and we just laughed as Alex put the gear on to go and get the prize. Wow, Emma is a much better climber than Alex as it took him nearly an hour to get up the tree!

When he was finally done and back down we looked up at the ridge we had to go back over to get home and saw something funny. It looked like someone from Texas in a big cowboy hat and lone star flag on a pole. "Stupid tourists," was all Alex could say.

We decided that we had no intention of lugging all of that equipment back to the car so we just dropped the beacon, pulled out the communication device and asked Scotty to beam us up. Instantly we transported back to the location of the car, only to find it booted with a nice little parking ticket on the window.

Guess we should have paid the parking fee after all.

Nicely done. Signed log.

Thanks fearthefish for giving me a reason to get outside. It’s always worth it when you are enjoying nature. There is nothing better than acting like a kid again, digging through weeds and climbing trees, all to sign my name on a piece of paper.

Found with Cachly for IOS. Geocache find #487.

01/21/2019 By emmakgriff
TFTC. Found with Prerules and AlexJGriff. Prerules will tell more.

08/21/2018 By LandD7475
Doug&Cindy09 and I had a great time. He has posted our adventures for both of us. I sure was glad I was not the one in the water being the anchor. However, I was sad when my GPS hit the water. What's up with Dat? I will miss that GPS. If the next caches find it please email me.

08/21/2018 By DOUG&CINDY09
We came to Colorado for a vacation with LandD7475. After scoping out the area we decided to give this 5/5 a try. This really proved to be a mighty adventure.
We spent our first evening going thru our "How to Solve a Puzzle" book. No solutions presented themselves. The internet revealed no answers either. We decided to check out the Amazon and were able to acquire our answers and our TOTT. Fully equipped we headed out to get the cache.
After paying the extortion prices to park the car we started on our trek. It did not take long for us to need a water break. By now it was snowing so we slipped on our snowshoes to finish our hike to the mines.Upon entering the mines we slipped off our snowshoes and put on our miners light so we could see. Good thing we did. The huge drop off was narrowly missed due to our advanced preparations. It took us longer to get thru than we expected. Finally we could see daylight. After shoving all of our gear out the small opening we were in need of another water break. From this height we were able to see the lake. So we strapped on our skis and started our descent. When we reached the lake we removed our skis and prepared for the next stage. It was at this point that we realized that we had left the pump for the raft in the cache mobile. Forty-five minutes later the raft was inflated and we needed another water break. Time to put the raft in the water.
However, now we had a new problem. The wind had picked up and we were about to lose the raft. Good thing we had prepared so well. We soon had the raft tied to a large tree. I put on my waders and prepared to send LandD7475 out in the raft. After a short time he was able to zero in on the GZ. I was glad as my feet were freezing from standing in the ice water holding the rope. Good thing we had not left the GPS in the cache mobile! LandD7475 glanced into the water and saw the cache floating on the surface. Obviously JSQuak had not secured the cache at the right depth. Upon seeing the cache LandD7475 jumped up with excitement. That is when his GPS hit the water. I shouted, "What's up with Dat?".
In a mixture of sadness and joy LandD7475 signed the log for both of us. I pulled him back into shore. We deflated the raft and packed up our gear. The trek back was much easier. We were able to find the easy path back out that we always miss on the way in. Thanks for a wonderful time.
I have written this up for both of us because LandD7475 is still sad over the loss of his GPS. We will be hanging on to our gear for any future caches you may hide.

07/21/2018 By CShare
JSQuack and I came here just to find Kit Carson as I heard he had his last compfire in the area.

After we paid the parking fees, I climbed a tree to get a better view of the path we'd need to take to find this cache. It did not seem to require a significant hike.

Then the Colorado weather got nasty and it started to snow. So we had to get out our snowshoes to proceed further. We were losing time, so I switched to skis to go downhill faster.

At the bottom of the hill, we found a mine which looked like a dangerous area. I wasn't a tourist so I dug out my wireless beacon and flashlight and went down under.

There I found an underground lake, and luckily there was a boat docked. So in the boat we went.

Oh no, now I think this GZ final is under water ! So I made JSQuack put on his scuba gear to go get it.

Well, that was a significant hike and required more than an hour. But it was indeed an adventure.

TFTC

07/21/2018 By JSQuack
A fun (????) find with CShare as we drove over to the Mingo area.

If I didn't fear the fish before, I do now !!! We were warned with the D5/T5, but neglected to review the cache attributes.

I still shudder when thinking about our ordeal, and don't wish to revisit the gory details.

TFTC! Smile

07/11/2018 By WindAtMyBack
This was a fun find with @LostinDenver TFTC and the lifelong jokes.