GC6Y1E2 Greenbeard's Treasure
Type: Mystery | Size: Regular | Difficulty: | Terrain:
By: Greenbeard @ | Hide Date: 12/11/2016 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N39° 03.798 W104° 50.514 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
                             

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Not long ago, a pirate decided to bury his treasure in the wonderful land of Colorado. I always thought that pirates in Colorado seemed a bit farfetched. I mean, Colorado. Pirates. That's crazy. Colorado, is like, far away from the sea. But legends and rumors state that some pirates washed ashore, and decided to break some pirate stereotypes by heading inland as far as Monument, Colorado to hide treasure. These legends are obviously greatly exaggerated …or so I thought.

Recently, while looking through old library books (because that's what I like to do for fun sometimes), I found an old map to one of these alleged treasure stashes. Unfortunately, the map was all weird and encoded. It belonged to a pirate named Greenbeard. Don't even ask, because I have no idea. I know that Blackbeard's beard was black, but, you know what? It doesn't even matter. What matters is that legend says that Greenbeard was a tyrannical pirate, and ruthless.

Greenbeard is said to have hidden three separate caches of treasure throughout Colorado. Each contains a vague clue to his final treasure. Once you have all the vague pieces of the puzzle, you will be able to hopeful decode the location of Greenbeard's final treasure trove. These "stashes" could be compared to primordial geocaches. Anyways, you're probably wondering why I'm telling you this. I like treasure, but not danger. I was thinking, "What if you like treasure AND danger?" If so, it's a win-win. You retrieve the treasure, solve the clues, and not get killed, and then we share it, 20-80. Sounds like a fair deal to me.

Be careful though, because it's a dangerous hunt, and if you get hurt along the way and can't find the treasure, then I don't get my 80 percent. So it should be simple. Find each of Greenbeards three stashes, locate the clue in each one, put the vague puzzle pieces together, find the treasure, and give it to me.

When searching for each piece, please do not remove the clue from the cache, and do not remove any hints along the search for the cache, as others after you will need them. There is a Broncos blank license plate for the FTF. Good luck, and be careful.

Additional Waypoints

02/02/2019 By COpackrat
Aargh, matey! After some serious clue gathering, we arrived at Greenbeard's Treasure and signed our names on the scroll there. Looks like some scruffy hooligans had already retrieved the valuable booty, so we went back to our ship empty-handed. :-( Thanks for the interesting adventure!

02/02/2019 By Kerewin0430
Out caching with COpackrat on this beautiful day. After obtaining the third very vague clue, we put together our best guess and went to where we hoped the final would be. Thank goodness for the satellite image feature on Google maps! We explored the only place that seemed to make sense to us, but it didn't appear to match the map at all, so after several hundred feet, we backtracked and PAF'd. They confirmed that we were in the proper spot, just hadn't gotten far enough for the map to make sense. Second time's the charm! Thanks for this interesting adventure!

01/26/2019 By gampa&gamma
We started this adventure back on 28 December 2016. Because the first stop was a bit, um...... ho-hum, we were not terribly motivated to keep up the treasure hunt (especially with a 20/80 payout!) We got around to the second stop a bit more than six months later. The clue there had us scratching our heads a little, but we were a tiny more intrigued. So fast forward to last week when we had cabin fever from the recent snow and cold. Monday was a beautiful caching day so we thought we would head out for the third stop and get prepared for the final. We had a blast "ice skating" on the PLINKO board and made the find without issue. gampa came up with a quick easy way to decipher the last clue and soon we had what we thought was a great treasure hidey-hole. Alas, we headed to an area about a tenth of a mile from where Greenbeard had cleverly hidden the cache. We wasted about an hour searching in vain and finally reached out to a previous finder. Duh! Once headed in the correct direction we had no problem with mummies, danger or death. Signed the slightly damp log and headed for home very pleased we decided to stick with this adventure. A favorite point for fun, fortune and foolery!

07/03/2018 By YamaGypsy
Lemonheadmafia's first tunnel cache. After we had lunch nearby we came over here so I could show him this style of cache. Lol, he said next time he'll serve as ground support. Sl, thanks!

04/19/2018 By ColoradoSmith
Replaced container with a smaller container so that it won't get washed away. Sorry about the wait on this one. Please rehide as found.

04/19/2018 By ColoradoSmith
Replaced container with a smaller container so that it won't get washed away. Sorry about the wait on this one. Please rehide as found.

04/13/2018 By ColoradoSmith
...Yeah... Sorry o.O
Been busy with school and stuff but I'll make sure I fix this cache within the next week or so :P

04/13/2018 By Alpine Reviewer
I noticed your cache might need some owner attention/maintenance. Caches that need repair or maintenance should normally be taken care of within a few weeks. Please check on this cache and either repair/replace it and post a log to indicate you have done so, or archive it and pick up any remaining cache contents as soon as possible. Please contact me if you have any questions. If there is no evidence on the cache page that the cache has gotten attention (e.g. cache enabled or note posted to cache page) in a few weeks it may need to be archived.

Thank you,
Alpine Reviewer
Volunteer Geocache Reviewer

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