GC33KX2 October 10th~Columbus Day
Type: Traditional | Size: Small | Difficulty: | Terrain:
By: Imusttravel2000 @ | Hide Date: 09/05/2011 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N39° 25.975 W104° 04.954 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
   

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When: Second Monday in October

For decades and decades, American history books and school teaching told us that Christopher Columbus discovered America. What those books and teachings did not give credit to was the fact that Native Americans were already here first and truly discovered America. It also gave little mention to the fact that Nordic explorers had travelled down the eastern cost of Canada thousands of years earlier.

Today, we celebrate Columbus day for what it accurately is. Columbus did discover the existence of the New World for Europeans who until then, believed the world was flat and ended somewhere in the Atlantic. And, the focus is more upon discovery of the "New World", and less upon Columbus himself.

Did You Know? Columbus day is sometimes referred to as "Discoverer's Day".

Some key facts (in case you forgot them since grade school):

Columbus Discovered America in 1492. He originally set sail on August 3, 1492, but had trouble with the ships, stopping at the Canary Islands for a month. The ships left the Canary Islands on September 3,1492.
He travelled with three ships: The Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria
While Columbus was an Italian, he could not find funding in Italy, so he turned to the King of Spain. King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella provided the funding.
He did not land on the U.S. mainland. He landed on an island in the Caribbean. While many believe he landed on San Salvador, there is still debate on which island he originally landed on.

05/27/2019 By EJBHGV
Out caching on Memorial Day near Deer Trail.
Mostly Extinct animals and Days in October.
Thanks to al CO's for making the game possible.

05/18/2019 By Unkle Fester
Been caching all around this area lately. good weather... TFTC

09/04/2018 By Mean Kitty
Find #49137

Its been a long hot summer in Texas, I've been trying to get out and do a caching trip a couple of times this summer, but it never worked out. Finally managed to get a week off, and am so happy to be out here in Colorado. The weather if perfect, and there is a load of caches that need my name on Thanks so much for the hide imusttravel2000, I really enjoyed finiding this cache!

04/27/2018 By Brewman65
Had a nice visit to Colorado, and found a lot of caches

10/13/2017 By L O S T - S O U L
TFTC

Enjoying another day traversing the countryside, acquiring many miles and boosting cache numbers and others in between along the power trails!
Nothing better than caching along the back country roads of America! Thanks for placing these out here. Most were in good shape in these sections however i did replaced wet logs and broken containers as needed. Initialed logs

08/26/2017 By lasouthpaw
This one was just hanging out. It was full of water, luckily the baggie held up and the log was dry. My service was a little spotty here, but got the job done. TFTC - #1723

I had a much needed geocaching adventure today. I drove over from Denver to Goodland (KS) last night. Got up this morning and continued east to Mingo. Wound up caching my way there and then back towards Denver, ending with a power trail-ish run between Limon and Deer Trail. Got to see lots of sunflowers and even some antelope along the way. Cachly was acting funny, I'm pretty sure it wasn't bringing up all the caches, but oh well. Wound up caching until the sun went down. Now for all those logs…

04/23/2017 By Rohatx
Thank you for the hide!
The container was full of water but the Baggie has held up. TFTC!

01/08/2017 By 2lablovers
Finally some nice weather - warming up and the snow is melting. Time for some caching. Headed for the plains. We were a bit worried that the dirt roads might be muddy but had no problems. Only one DNF the whole day. Caches were in good condition except a couple cracked ones we replaced. Thanks to all the cache owners who placed and maintain these caches.