I looked upon the courthouse and nodded in approval. The Routt County Courthouse is definitely a rock of solidity in a town of tourists. You can see and feel that transience, whether it’s the appropriately quaint but hip Main Street that doesn’t seem to hold up a few blocks off the road or the cabins almost stacked on top of one another coming into town. Based on those, I expected the courthouse to be some horribly novel design that would make me sad, but I was more than happy to be proven wrong in that regard.
Of course, being in Steamboat Springs, what better cache to find than the EarthCache at Steamboat Springs? Luckily, Colorado’s county challenge is cache agnostic, unlike Nebraska’s, Wyoming’s, or some others I could mention. I could feel the warmth radiating from the water, sulfurous in scent. Why on earth would I expect to find a hot sulfur spring? I did some reading about how and why the spring developed and learned a little about how it kicked off tourism at the town’s inception. I submitted my answers, logged the cache, and then, with my work there done, took one last inhale of sulfur and returned to the car. I got back on US-40 and continued westward, stopping for a bit in…
Geocaching While Black 