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The Wild Bunch Traditional Cache

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IgnotusPeverell: Greetings Cheyenne Mountain State Park, I'm IgnotusPeverell, one of the volunteer reviewers for caches submitted to Geocaching.com.

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Hidden : 1/1/2007
Difficulty:
1 out of 5
Terrain:
3 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:

Trade only small unscented items.

The cache is about half way around a 3.29 mile easy, mostly flat loop trail with minor elevation gain. Great for fitness training, the trail runs through a prairie dog town, so watch out; these cute critters are watching too.


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Cheyenne Mountain State Park

Day use fee or Colorado state park pass required.



Imagine the old west and how travelers, ranchers, or even outlaws used areas like this. Speaking of outlaws....

The third and final second-in-command for the outlaw group, “The Wild Bunch”, was Harry Longabaugh, aka: “The Sundance Kid”. His nickname was derived from the jail time he spent in Sundance, Wyoming. The leader of “The Wild Bunch” was “Butch Cassidy” also known as "The Gentleman Robber”. The ranch hand mentor of Robert LeRoy Parker’s was Mike Cassidy; over time Robert also took up the trade of being a Butcher, hence the nickname “Butch Cassidy”.

There are various possible conclusions to the story of “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid”. The ending of the movie "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kidd" is not one of the possibilities though. They either killed themselves after the house they were holed up in, in Bolivia, was surrounded; Sundance was killed along with another man and Butch escaped (it is reported that “Butch” attended family reunions and was seen by others long after his 1908 “death”); or Sundance also slipped away to live with his girl friend and the third person in their South American outlaw adventures, Etta Place. Etta had disappeared from the group and recorded history some month prior to their final episode.

Although the most successful outlaw group of the “Wild West”, they seldom fired a round, Butch Cassidy had never been reported to have killed anyone; instead they relied on the genius of Butch Cassidy and his research of their targets. From the location of this cache, you can image how outlaws could hole-up in the hills and watch a trail or railway and plan their outlaw deeds. Maybe Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid rode through this area as they traveled from Wyoming to New Mexico.

Please stick to trails as much as possible, if you see a trail forming close to the cache, avoid it. Remember, when hiking off trail do not hike single file, if hiking on a single track trail walk in single file. Aviod making a single track trail

PARK ONLY IN PARKING LOTS...DO NOT PARK ALONG THE ROADWAY OR IN FRONT OF LOCKED GATES

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

fubeg jnlf bss genvy

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)