Tour of Carvngs - Near Durango CO

In September 2012, we spent a week near Durango Co at Vallecito Lake Resort.  After we had been there several days, I was checking for geocaches and saw there was one a few hundred feet away titled "Tour of Carvings".   When we first arrived I noticed a chain saw carved statue of some sort near the entrance and guessed that was it.  After I read further about the cache I found it was a puzzle cache where you have to find the answers to questions in order to solve the puzzle and find the actual cache.  I found out there was more than one statue...there had been 15 of these carved....a very interesting story. 

We decided to find all the statues and solve the puzzle...

 "The Tour of Carvings Project is a comeback story of the Vallecito community following the Missionary Ridge Fire of`2002 near the city of Durango, in SW Colorado. Between June 9 and July 28, over 70,000 acres were burned at a cost of 40.8 million dollars. Over 4,000 firefighters and support personnel helped extinguish the fire. The participants and equipment included 87 fire fighting crews, 18 helicopters and 10 slurry bombers. One life was lost when an experienced tree feller was cutting one tree when another nearby tree fell on him."

You can read the rest of this interesting story at: Tour of Carvings