Rocky Mountain High Cache Traditional Cache
Rocky Mountain High Cache
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This cache is located on a nicely groomed, yellow-gated road off Rt. 219. You can drive to within 10 feet of the cache. However, the terrain is rated a 3 because it will involve you being careful in retrieving it. Much leaf coverage so tread carefully. Not recommended for young children.
John Denver’s folk-rock song, “Rocky Mountain High”, is one of Curly Top’s favorite songs. It went to number nine on the US Hot 100 in 1973.
According to the Wikipedia encyclopedia, it was inspired by John Denver’s love for the state of Colorado. “The seventh stanza makes a reference to destruction of the mountains’ beauty by commercial tourism.” “The song briefly became controversial that year when the U.S. federal Communications Commission was permitted by a legal ruling to crack down on music deemed to promote drug abuse. Numerous radio stations cautiously banned the song until Denver publicly explained that the “high” was his innocent description of the sense of peace he found in the Rockies. In 1985, Denver testified before Congress in the Parents Music Resource Center hearings about his experience:
‘This was obviously done by people who had never seen or been to the Rocky Mountains, and also had never experienced the elation, celebration of life, or the joy in living that one feels when he observes something as wondrous as the Perseids meteor shower on a moonless, cloudless night, when there are so many stars that you have a shadow from the starlight, and you are out camping with your friends, your best friends, and introducing them to one of nature’s most spectacular light shows for the first time.’”
“It’s a Colorado Rocky Mountain high
I’ve seen it rainin’ fire in the sky
I know he’d be a poorer man if he never saw an eagle fly
rocky mountain high (high Colorado), rocky mountain high (high Colorado)….”
We have experienced those same feelings of elation and awe at some of the caches we have done in the hills of this beautiful state of Pennsylvania.
FTF: St. Vrain Mountain Green Jeep and/or a Zippo Constant Light
Additional Hints
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