Poudrecacher Favorite - Poudre Valley Canal

CONGRATULATIONS TO MOOSETAG FOR BEING FIRST TO FIND!!!

Poudrecacher , a geocacher who lives in the Poudre Canyon, placed a series of unique and innovative caches in and around the Poudre River Canyon. His “Nature Bats Last” series was a delight featuring varied and challenging hides. They became the favorite of many who geocached the Poudre Canyon. There comes a time when maintaining caches become physically challenging and Mother Nature says it is time to move on. This was the case with Poudrecacher, who with great remorse, had to archive many of his caches. So as to not lose these very special caches, ten of them are being re-born in a new series called “Poudrecacher Favorite”. This will allow these innovative caches to live on for the geocaching community to enjoy. Thanks Poudrecacher for allowing the rebirth of your caches and for the enjoyment you have given to geocachers seeking your caches!

Description from the original cache page:

As you enter lower Poudre Canyon by crossing the cattle guard, you'll immediately see a large concrete siphon on your right. This siphon delivers Colorado-Big Thompson Project water from Horsetooth Reservoir under the Poudre River, under Highway 14, and into the Poudre Valley Canal. Head a short ways west and pull over to the right at mile marker 120. Please do not block the mailboxes."Cooperation was an important social element in nineteenth century America and was often the reality of the irrigated American West. This was not the mythical Wild West dominated by rugged, independent cowboys. Cache la Poudre irrigators, like most western farmers, were transplanted easterners, usually of European descent, who wanted to own land and farm regardless of the dry climate they encountered. One cannot underestimate the importance of cooperation when marshalling water in the West." (Rose Laflin)

Welcome to the Poudre Valley Canal!
This canal is owned by the Windsor Reservoir and Canal Company headquartered in Eaton, CO. Water is taken out of the Poudre River a half-mile upstream and is used to fill irrigation storage reservoirs out east.

Here in Larimer County, our annual winter snowfall provides us our most valuable natural resource...water. The Poudre River originates high in the mountains of Rocky Mountain National Park and flows 150 miles eastward before emptying into the South Platte River just east of Greeley. The Poudre Valley Canal is but one of many man-made water control structures.

But, no matter how many water management structures we continue to build, it won't increase the snowfall.

We're a thinkin' she still bats last, eh? Have fun and enjoy beautiful Poudre Canyon!