GC7CW5N Louden Ditch
Type: Traditional | Size: Micro | Difficulty: | Terrain:
By: Joe Grim @ | Hide Date: 09/26/2017 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N40° 24.861 W105° 07.745 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
     

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A tribute to Louden Ditch

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This is Eloïse's first geocache hide!  It's named after the ditch that flows past this point.  In 1888, Aaron Benson began to dig the Louden Ditch to provide water to nearby farmland.  It diverts water from the Big Thompson River 6 miles upstream at the mouth of the Big Thompson Canyon, passing through a couple tunnels along the way, including at Devils Backbone.  From this cache, it continues another 18 miles through north Loveland to where it ends in west Windsor, with whatever remaining water pouring into a drainage that flows into the Cache la Poudre River.  It loses 180 feet in elevation along its length.

The cache is a small pill bottle: too small for any pencil I own, so please bring your own to sign.  Once done signing, please replace the cache in such a way so you can be sure it won't fall out.

Here is an aerial image showing the entite length of Louden Ditch, colored by elevation:

07/21/2018 By jaredandkayla
Great hide, great ride (found while biking)

07/17/2018 By doglover&pups
Excellent! TFTC

07/16/2018 By denherk
The place it kept telling us to look was like in the little trees. Difficulty should be much higher than a 2.

07/07/2018 By rdrmarcus

07/07/2018 By LUCASGRAY
I found it and