GC68XPG Unknown Cache Colorado Puzzle #14
Type: Mystery | Size: Micro Micro | Difficulty: 1.5 out of 5 | Terrain: 1.5 out of 5
By: Barasaur @ | Hide Date: 09/24/2015 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N40° 32.575 W104° 55.200 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0



The word 'colorado' means 'colored' or 'colored red' in Spanish. The Colorado state was named after the Colorado River, which Spanish explorers named 'Río Colorado' (meaning 'colored river') for the red silt the river carried from the mountains

Colorado is the only U.S. state that lies entirely above 1000 meters elevation. Its lowest point, 3,317 feet (1,011 m) in elevation is the highest low elevation point of any state, and is higher than the highest elevation points of 18 states. Colorado contains 75% of the land area of the U.S. with an altitude over 10,000 feet

The United States federal government owns more than 1/3 of the land in Colorado.

The 13th step of the state capital building in Denver is exactly 1 mile high above sea level

I am placing some caches around that will be mostly P & G for everyone to enjoy.

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Handies Peak

Windom Peak
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Mount Massive
Mount Lincoln
Mount Elbert

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Grays Peak
Blanca Peak

La Plata Peak
La Plata Peak
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Little Bear Peak
Mount Elbert

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10 Logs: Found it 10  

Found it 05/01/2019 By Spooty
Found it at 1342.
This puzzle was a bit easy to solve, but I can see how cachers might waste time trying different approaches to it. Maybe I got lucky with my first idea.
I managed to spot this one right away. But right before logging this, just now, I read the previous finder's log from a few weeks earlier (4/6/19), and it sounds like maybe there were two cache containers at GZ (i.e., the original and a probable throwdown), and if so, I probably found the latter. Oh, well. There was a little water inside the cache container, which I poured out, but the log was doing just fine inside its little baggie.
TNLNSL. TFTC!

Found it 04/06/2019 By BriaTeragram
Dud&Plato had shown me a few of the puzzles in the series that he couldn't figure out. After a bit of looking and thinking I managed to figure out the answers. He had already looked for and logged a bunch of them, but when we went out today he was nice enough to stop at all of the caches so I could sign the logs. It was a pretty nice day out, not too hot and not too cold. If I'd had more time I would have even consider walking the whole way around, but had other things I needed to do today. I had a lot of fun solving the puzzles and looking for the caches. Sad to say we did have one DNF, but we'll try looking again sometime to finish the geoart. TFTC|SL

If there is anything specific to share about any of the caches it will be noted after this point. This cache had no cover so I looked around for something to give it a bit more cover. Ended up finding something a lot flatter that looked familiar laying out in the open. Sure enough, another cache. Signed and replaced it where I expect it was originally tucked away.

Found it 01/04/2019 By GotYour6
Thanks for another puzzle cache for us to find!

Found it 12/20/2018 By Dud&Plato
Ah one of the puzzles I didn't have too much trouble with. There's some slight disagreement on the numbers, but really nothing that slowed me down. Think it was my second attempt at the checker that made sure I was on the right track. Had to park up the street a bit away from the location of this cache, but otherwise, it was a quick find. Getting back into my car, a friendly neighbor waved and we were both on our way. Cache and log are in good shape on this one. TFTC|SL

Found it 10/26/2018 By AZtravelers
While visiting NOCO and our daughter in Severance, I needed to do some caching. I had some in mind, but after attending last Monday's weekly event, I decided that Barasaur caches would be more appropriate. I solved some Colorado puzzles and plotted the Colorado traditional caches, hopped on the bike, and had fun in the Colorado sun. Thanks Barasaur for the events and this fun series. All caches were in good shape (except one moist one and one DNF)

Found it 08/17/2018 By EstesLynne
Pretty quickly figured out how to go about this one. If I remember correctly, it wasn't quite as straightforward as I thought it would be, but I got it in the end. Got the cache today, too. TFTC!

Found it 08/17/2018 By BugRanger
Quick find with EstesLynne. TFTC!

Found it 07/12/2018 By fam2go
Solved these before we came up so we knew where we were going. Glad to have another geo art! This one, most of the caches were easy but some weren't there so we replaced them. Don't know how long they have been missing, guess people are just logging finds because we didn't see any DNFs. We were thankful for the ones on the dirt roads or the few that had decent pull offs. Several times we walked a ways from safe parking but some were very scary to even walk to because of the busy roads. We managed to get this series pretty quickly then moved on to the next. Thanks for the art and pointing us in the right direction on some!

Found it 03/31/2018 By estrek
A quick C and D. SL TFTC

Found it 12/09/2017 By quinnster212
The puzzle was pretty easy to figure out once you knew what to look for. Found the cache! Thanks for the Colorado puzzle.