GC67Y5R Colorado Puzzle #12
Type: Mystery | Size: Micro | Difficulty: | Terrain:
By: Barasaur @ | Hide Date: 12/22/2015 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N40° 32.550 W104° 56.150 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0

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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.

773.65 °401 W 452.23 °04 N

Additional Waypoints

05/02/2019 By Spooty
Found it at 1454. I managed to spot this one right away. Actually, I didn't notice until after the fact, just now, that recent finders had been finding two cache containers. Beats me whether that's still the case, since I didn't think to look for anything else. The one I found was in kind of an unusual position, but safe enough, I guess.
TNLNSL. TFTC!

04/24/2019 By chuppalloop
Tftc found with artguru20

04/24/2019 By artguru20@gmail.com
Found with chuppalloop. TFTC!

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. Found two caches, signed both logs.

01/04/2019 By GotYour6
Two containers / stamped both! Thanks for the puzzles! Thanks for placing this cache for us to find.

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)

08/17/2018 By EstesLynne
Solving these is sometimes just a matter of how you look at them...got this quickly. The final, however, was in a melted plastic box next to some burned-looking ditch weeds; nothing to keep out the weather. So, I donated a pill bottle (OK, OK, not glamorous, but I had it with me) in hopes that it would serve a little better--until the next fire. TFTC!

08/17/2018 By BugRanger
Plastic cache container was melted, all the way into the baggies inside. We replaced w pill bottle. Looks like a small ditch fire recently. TFTC!

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!

05/28/2018 By Edwards654
Thank thanks for the fun puzzle and the quick find. Tftc