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Colorado Spirit Quest #146 - St. Francis Traditional Cache

This cache has been archived.

Grand High Pobah: It sounds like it is best to archive this cache in the light of the presence of No Trespassing signs. THanks to all who visited.

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Hidden : 1/21/2009
Difficulty:
1 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:


!! Exciting New Cache Series!!

 

“COLORADO SPIRIT QUEST”

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.

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.  It cannot be accomplished by just one or two people.  This project 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.

If you are interested in joining the “Walking Through History Clan” contact may be made by sending an e-mail to the owner of “Colorado Spirit Quest #1 – Mo untain Passage”.  Use the ‘Send Message” link at the center of the page of their profile.

Each person that places a CSQ cache is responsible for its maintenance.

REMEMBER:

If you are APPREHENSIVE about cemeteries – AVOID this series.

Thanks to Clan Members: Greasepot, Taylorgeotracker, Ivy Dog Parents, Team Boogity3, and Grand High Pobah, CDirtO, FulComers,  Boborr 80909,  Imusttravel2000, Buzz Lightyear I, Sandhillers, and MrVolkswagen.   New Clan members are always Welcome

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This is an easy to find micro cache located at what might be considered a fence line for the cemetery.

When I first came looking for this cemetery all I had to go on was a notation in the description for Mondo's Vollmar cache. Greasepot was along that day and she suggested that we go to the nearby hill and look for it there. I, being a guy, would have nothing to do with this suggestion becuase of course I knew it wouldn't be up there. So we searched and searched all the locations I thought likely and came up empty. After I got home I took a look at some online topo sheets and located the cemetery. Where? Right where Greasepot said to go look, of course!

This cemetery appears to have been used up until at least the 1930's. It is currently in disuse. All the graves I looked at were for hispanics who had probably mostly lived in Vollmar or the surrounding area. Wander through the area and consider what life might have been like about 80 years ago during the depression.

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