Butterfly Pass

06/24/2019 By bucknuts

The Bride and I had weddings in Kansas City on June 21st and then another one in Omaha on June 29th. I told her I really wasn’t interested in driving to Kansas City and driving home for 9 hours and then a few days later drive all the way back same direction for 13 hours. So we decided we would take a mini vacation in between weddings and head to Colorado for a week. We rented a car, but little did we know the car was going to be a Cadillac sedan, and I’m thinking this is going to be my caching mobile for this trip.

###So over the course of the 11 days, we visited 10 states. I was able to get 5 caches that were Year 2000 including Mingo. I was able to get the oldest cache in 3 states…Kansas, Colorado and New Mexico. Colored the state of New Mexico RED and put 3940 miles on the rental car. ###

This trip started out in Kansas City as the wedding was on Friday. So we cached the morning of Friday and did the Powercat challenges near Gladstone area. Loved walking the sidewalk, we did get a downpour on us, so hoped into a local spot for lunch and then once the rains lifted we went hiking again. Then went to the wedding on Friday night. Then next day on Saturday, went caching with Gnomecat, Louinliberty and Debrajean grabbing a few caches that I had handpicked out. Was great to see my KC friends for the 2nd weekend in a row after the previous week in Indiana and by the end of this trip it will be 3 weeks in a row. Had an amazing dinner at Gnomecats and enjoyed the great hospitality.

Then on Sunday June 23 is where the journey begins. We headed towards Colorado Springs and grabbed Mingo on the way there. This day was about 9 hours of driving and grabbed a few caches in the Colorado Springs area before meeting up with friends in the afternoon.

Monday June 24 was always going to be a big day both driving and hiking. We started it off by going to Paul Barkley (2nd 2000 year cache). Got lucky as that section of the park was closed to people on Tuesday due to electric work being done. Then from there the Cadillac took us to Geocache (3rd 2000 cache). Then after that we headed to Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Tuesday June 25 we cached in Albuquerque in the morning doing a few wherigos and then headed over to the oldest cache in the state. Found the place to park and made the short hike up the hill. Then went across the way and did the Hangman hiking series. After we completed that we headed to Santa Fe to visit and then back to Colorado Springs.

Wednesday June 26th, we got up and headed off to Tarryall (4th 2000 year), those that get nervous about driving well the Cadillac made it just fine. After that we headed to Pikes Peak, it opened late because the car race practice was that morning. We drove up to mile 16 and then shuttle to the top because of the renovations to the new visitor center at top. After this we are now heading back East. We get to Kansas and find Airakee and then spend the night in Kearney. I was able to watch on the phone Vanderbilt win the World Series…Go Vandy Boys

Thursday June 27, drive to Omaha and meet the KC crew for the 3 week in a row and we drive to Sioux Falls to get the State Bird.

Friday June 28th, finish the last 21 of the Ficks Fizzy we had left. Bad news was on 61 Gnomecat fell in the ditch and went over his head in the water. The ditch had probably 8ft of water. Then headed to Omaha and did some challenges and parted ways

Saturday June 29th, some light caching before wedding and then came home on Sunday 13.5 hour drive.

Thanks to all the hiders. Earthcaches and Virtuals have sent answers. Challenges will either have a picture or available via public profile. Was able to leave my signature pencil in a few caches. Thanks for the cache-signed log.

06/22/2019 By ARKS
After a bumpy drive this was a good place to rest a bit. Thanks for the hide.

06/07/2019 By Stephenjha
Second day of caching road trip to Colorado with KCCG. Spending the day covering the miles and collecting counties and interesting caches. Today is day 2632 of my daily streak. Thank you for placing this cache.

06/07/2019 By KCCG
Adding a new county here and enjoying the incredible view!

Kicking off the summer with a great American road trip to celebrate M4ISU’s belated birthday! After months of planning, I am finally on the road with Stephenjha as my copilot. I am logging as we go which makes it easier to keep track of the HUGE playlist we are hoping to accomplish. If all goes well, I’ll drive 2500+ miles, add 50+ new counties, see 5 different states, find some cool cemeteries, increase my Fizzy and Jasmer progress, find 20+ virtuals, a handful of Earthcaches, a Wherigo, and maybe a webcam or 2! It’s going to be a crazy weekend!

TFTC. SL. Thanks for placing this hide for my enjoyment, I really appreciate your effort! CACHE ON!!!

05/31/2019 By Teako_Fahey
Thought to hard about it at first but found it shortly after

09/14/2018 By Rusty & Libby
I just realized Cachly didn’t post our find log when we did this cache with friends. Caching and 4 wheeling found container a ways down the hill.

09/14/2018 By NakedNHappyHunter
The container was found down the hill.
A new log and bag was put in the container.
Under a few rocks at base of tree.
On a many month & state caching adventure. Took a quick break and found this.
Found with GoofyBareHunter

09/14/2018 By GoofyBareHunter
Found with NakedNHappyHunter while here in area to get oldest cache and continuing on a road trip across country......
TFTC!
Had to go down the hill abit....but located it and placed it where we thought it should be...

07/27/2018 By Wonder Woman II
Searched and searched, there has been very heavy rains in this area. Could it have been washed down the hill?

06/26/2018 By Ari_is_awesome
It was hard to find!!