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GC7DQB3
Mountain Vista Series: A Tribute To egroeg38!Type: Traditional | Size: Micro 
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| Terrain:  By: Denali41 @ | Hide Date: 10/17/2017 | Status: Available Country: United States | State: Colorado Coordinates: N40° 41.627 W105° 18.635 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0 
In August 2009, egroeg38 hid his earliest “creation” as the first cache in the superb sequence that is today recognized by geocachers as the “Mountain Vista Series”. Since that initial, epochal, hide he’s added 53 more challenging, clever caches to this series. Yes! The series now numbers 54 superb caches! Each is noteworthy for its creativity, with its details meticulously planned out and executed. The cumulative hours spent by all the cachers who have tried to find these 54 marvels must be staggering. I can only relate to my personal time expenditures in this regard, and to the many frustrations I’ve experienced during my searches followed by the elation and adrenaline-like rush associated with each find! I suspect that most or all geocachers who have scored on a majority of George’s Mountain Vista Series caches have felt similar emotional swings to those that I’ve had. Another hallmark of the Mountain Vista Series is each cache has always been carefully maintained. In 2014 George added to the variety of his NoCo hides by offering up 13 exquisite head-scratchers in his MAX series.  GEORGE CREATING ANOTHER BRILLIANT CACHE The other day my puppy Orizaba and I hiked up Hewlett Gulch to do maintenance checks on my three Traditional caches and a Multi-cache stage that are accessed by this gulch. As Zaba and came down the trail I looked at an area that years ago had “hosted” a Traditional cache that has been archived for a long time. I had an “AHA!” moment. The circumstance was one that George would have chosen for another Mountain Vista Series cache, had the locality been reasonably close to Mountain Vista Drive. Because of this, and because George has had a special relationship to my nearby cache memorializing Miss Katie, I detoured off the trail to see if I could make a hide similar to any of the themes egroeg38 might use in such a setting–you know, an evil hide in a spot that has a plethora of evil hide possibilities! My review didn’t take long before a specific location was the new home to a micro. It’s hidden as a tribute to egroeg38, for all the fun he’s provided to the NoCo geocaching community since that first hide in August 2009. Thanks for all of these great adventures, George. And enjoy your tribute. A note on the Difficulty rating. On so many egroeg38 caches the rating assigned to the cache Difficulty seems a bit (or more) low. In keeping with this theme, I might have done the same here--either inadvertently or purposely. Or, the Difficulty star rating might be right on the button. You decide, and let me know your thoughts in your Found it log. Oh, and PLEASE replace the cache exactly where you found it, to maintain the challenge for future searchers. In 2012 I presented another tribute cache to egroeg38, “Below George’s First” (GC41JDD). The photo of George used in that cache was taken by his wife Rachel. She has also provided the photo used above, in this cache description. Thank you, Rachel!
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