! The Exciting Cache Series!
“COLORADO SPIRIT QUEST”
REMEMBER:
If you are APPREHENSIVE about cemeteries – AVOID this series.
The Colorado Spirit Quest is a series of Caches placed by many individuals, near cemeteries and historic sites in hopes of paying respect to the many pioneer ancestors that have ‘walked’ before us.
If you are interested in being a part of this project, contact may be made by sending an e-mail to the owner of “Colorado Spirit Quest #1 – Mountain Passage”. Use the ‘Send Message” link at the center of the page of their profile.
There are hundreds of cemeteries in the rural and mountain communities across Colorado. This series will introduce you to many of them.
The cache pages will provide a virtual history tour of the cemeteries and tombstones.
COLORADO SPIRIT QUEST is not affiliated with any other ‘Spirit Quest’ group. Special thanks and credit are given to SixDogTeam who started the Indiana Spirit Quest in 2004. The idea has rapidly spread into many states.
The CSQ endeavor is an enormous and relentless task and will only flourish if there is a multitude of volunteer cachers willing to place these caches.
After locating the cache container, take some time to reflect back on the lives of those pioneers and the effort it took to make Colorado such a great state.
Each person that places a CSQ cache is responsible for its maintenance.
Thanks to Volunteers: Greasepot, Taylorgeotracker, Ivy Dog Parents, Team Boogity3, Grand High Pobah, Boborr 80909, Imusttravel2000, Buzz Lightyear I, Sandhill 49er, MrVolkswagen, Isisfan, LadyCoots, Rockymtn8iv, Fork-L-Man, TwoCs, Outdrlvr201, Condor1, 2Cachedivers, arthurat, smilz787, Kyotmoon, Mountain Roamer, Cuttie Pie, SugarPug, Team Tiger Pride, ernie66, drnetwork, Team w-bar-v, Dynamite Rabbit, Twins18, DustyKat, mtnbirders, The Johnson Family, RustyBeerCan & Marma, grymreaper, nteclpr, Irish.Eyes, Moose1 & Mama Moose, Joe Friday, 3cacheteers, Electronicgeek, Jake92, 3cacheteers, Dasha Aussies, KB0UMW, hiking_fool, and Tahosa & Sons, Denali41, Kingjr.
New VOLUNTEERS are always Welcome
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Kingjr pays a visit to Ms. Lyon
The honor of the ~FTF~ goes to COpackrat when she did her Tahosa-ganza, a caching feat that I've never seen or heard of. Imagine 24 of my caches in a week. WOW
And a very hearty congratulations to Kingjr, for an awesome place to assist me with a nice cache location.If he did not find the grave this cache would not of been possible.Thank you Justin. His cache hunt was an amazing tale of survival and use of the GPS in the backcountry. Sometimes you can find more that a cache in them thar hills. And after this adventure the Jinxes of Kitty have become quite apparent. Just ask those who have looked they will tell you of several very interesting caching adventures.
Here is a map of the begining of your sojourn. Bring a detailed map to plot your route after you find the 1st clue.
Trails Illustrated Map of Old Flowers Area
The Map used by Kitty's Parents when they settled the area.
East Side of Pine Mountain, the first waypoint, but where is the micro in the woods.
The elusive story of Cipango and Ms. Lyon
According to Jay Bosworth who has lived to the West of one of the waypoints from the cache known as The Sage Points the Way since 1894, Cipango was started by a Mr. Safely and his son. The Koenig brothers were also early settlers up there and they owned a mountain of quartz, that was impregnated with berillum. It is believed that this strata of white rock runs east and west no telling how far. Cipango was established on this strata because they thought there was gold in it.
It was Jay Bosworth that led the original search party back in the 1960's. to the lonely grave far west of his cabin. And according to the story the grave was in an aspen grove, not far from an abandoned saw mill site. It is only a short distance west of the old ghost town of cipango.
And that is about the only information that Mr. Dunning had in his book, Over Hill and Dale.