GC6Y1D1 Location
Type: Letterbox | Size: Small | Difficulty: | Terrain:
By: Greenbeard @ | Hide Date: 12/11/2016 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N38° 55.809 W104° 48.262 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
             

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Not long ago, a pirate decided to bury his treasure in the wonderful land of Colorado. I always thought that pirates in Colorado seemed a bit farfetched. I mean, Colorado. Pirates.  That’s crazy. Colorado, is like, far away from the sea. But legends and rumors state that some pirates washed ashore, and decided to break some pirate stereotypes by heading inland as far as Monument, Colorado to hide treasure. These legends are obviously greatly exaggerated …or so I thought.

Recently, while looking through old library books (because that’s what I like to do for fun sometimes), I found an old map to one of these alleged treasure stashes. Unfortunately, the map was all weird and encoded. It belonged to a pirate named Greenbeard. Don’t even ask, because I have no idea. I know that Blackbeard’s beard was black, but, you know what? It doesn’t even matter. What matters is that legend says that Greenbeard was a tyrannical pirate, and ruthless.

Greenbeard is said to have hidden three separate caches of treasure throughout Colorado. Each contains a vague clue to his final treasure. Once you have all the vague pieces of the puzzle, you will be able to hopeful decode the location of Greenbeard’s final treasure trove. These “stashes” could be compared to primordial geocaches. Anyways, you’re probably wondering why I’m telling you this. I like treasure, but not danger. I was thinking, “What if you like treasure AND danger?” If so, it’s a win-win. You retrieve the treasure, solve the clues, and not get killed, and then we share it, 20-80. Sounds like a fair deal to me.

Be careful though, because it’s a dangerous hunt, and if you get hurt along the way and can’t find the treasure, then I don’t get my 80 percent. So it should be simple. Find each of Greenbeards three stashes, locate the clue in each one, put the vague puzzle pieces together, find the treasure, and give it to me.

When searching for each piece, please do not remove the clue from the cache, as others after you will need it. Greenbeard can be kinda cheap, so there’s a cool bracelet the he bought at Wal-Mart from the clearance aisle for like, 25 cents. Greenbeard will award this as a FTF prize. Also, Greenbeard forgot to put the clue and log in a zip-lock baggie, so he would greatly appreciate if another cache could bring a zip-lock baggie for the clue and log to be in.

1. Start at the parking area

2. Head to N 38 55.821 W 104 48.222 and find the small trail.

3. Follow this trial, er, trail, South-ish, until it intersects Cottonwood Creek Trail. 

Additional Waypoints

P06Y1D1 - n 38 55.809 W 104 48.262
N 38° 55.809 W 104° 48.262
Parking

06/17/2019 By K Trackers
To be honest, I had missed the posting of this 3D/3T Letterbox so I was surprised to see it when I was casing for today’s target. I’m wary of caches like this, but decided to give it a try. It was threatening to rain by the time I reached the staging area, but I decided to press on anyway since I had already planned to get wet. I goofed at the very start by taking the dirt road instead of “the trail,” but fortunately self-corrected before it was too late. Since I was moving on the lower road, I had to cross the smaller creek and move up the embankment which blocked my vision of what was ahead. As I began thinking about what the heck this plinko thing is, I was a bit concerned. In my mind’s eye, I pictured some man made field widget in a state of disrepair or muggled that would prevent me from finishing the cache, because that is the kind of luck I have.

Once I reached the top of the embankment and looked ahead I stopped dead in my tracks. Woah, that is a plinko machine alright. It actually looked more like Dragon’s Teeth in a concrete anti-tank obstacle, but I digress. The Cottonwood Creek was rather low today, so I managed to stay feet dry through luck and using some of my best Spiderman moves. The algae on the plinko was pretty slippery, but fortunately there was also plenty of dry spots due to the low water level and that it hadn’t rained yet. I am good at both negotiating difficult terrain and falling down, so I successfully made it to the top since I am neither a plinko ball or a tank. I’m glad I didn’t have to do this with a heavier water flow.

I managed to stay feet dry until I got to the very top, but this is where things got more difficult for me. I quickly slipped on a patch of algae, but it was fine since I am very skilled and experienced at falling down. Finding the cache was pretty hard based on how I read the cache description. This is one of the reasons I am wary of caches like this, depending on how instructions are written or read, hunts can wind up being very hard. For me, things always get very hard if it is remotely possible. I followed the instructions to the best of my ability but came up empty. Not wanting to DNF, I searched a bit more aggressively, to include some areas I maybe shouldn’t have been without going on private property. Not wanting to leave empty handed, I decided to clear the entire top level and eventually made the find about 20 – 40 feet from where I had been looking. Seeing this location, I understood what the cache description was trying to say, but that isn’t what I read. If I had to write the instructions, I would have written:

6. Climb to the top on the Plink-O Machine until the pavement levels out and there is a sloped wall on each side of you.

7. Follow the path until you spot the wooden fence on the right that has open, slotted planks.

8. The cache will be on your right.

After signing the log, I needed to get out of here before the rain started since I was not willing to beta tester for a concrete water slide. In order to get the full cache experience, I made sure I said “boink, boink” and “plink, plink” as I bounced my way back down. After all of that, I was happy to get back to my vehicle still dry, without and scrapes or bruises, andthis fun cache now firmly in my “found it” column. This is a great cache site (I’m jealous) and I’m glad the CO did it some justice instead of just hiding a pill bottle somewhere like most people would do. Thanks the CO for placing this fun cache for all of us to find, TFTC.

06/04/2019 By BeastNtheTrail
AWESOME FIND! We loved it! Super dangerous, and loved every minute of it. Tftc.

02/25/2019 By R&B CO
While looking through my drafts for signed challenges I now qualify for I found the saved draft for this cache that I completed and signed 4/18/18. After reading the recent logs it brought back lots of memories of the challenges in completing this letterbox cache. Lots of fun. TFTC

01/21/2019 By gampa&gamma
Today was a nice day before the blizzard rolls in tonight, so we were in the mood to hike a little and cache a little. We felt silly getting our trekking poles out of the trunk at parking, but we were thankful that we had them when we did some climbing on icy surfaces to get to the cache. Quick find. Signed log and copied the hint. Thanks for the fun letterbox cache.

01/13/2019 By COpackrat
Another clue that we were able to track down today. Had fun crossing the water and climbing up the Plinko obstacle. Thanks for the fun on a nice day!!

08/13/2018 By WingsAndTales
I have had this on my to do list for quite a while. I was in the area with the Monday Musketeers today and we made the find. TFTC

08/13/2018 By CJ Tag
Found this one today while caching with our group, Monday Musketeers, TFTC

08/13/2018 By ngrrfan
Figured it all out and found an interesting route to the cache. TFTC

03/27/2018 By HelloMummy
Not a good cache to get when the water is flowing and the plinko is icy...lol! But I made it. I went the wrong way in the beginning because I didn't follow instructions but found it easy when I read it again. Thank you for making me earn this one!

06/05/2017 By YamaGypsy
Second clue needed for the final. Took some navigating to get to the cache but all is in good shape. Tftc!