Cache la Poudre Specialty Coffee Roasters, LLC
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HISTORY
The Cache la Poudre River begins high in the peaks of Colorado's Rocky Mountain National Park along the Continental Divide. Flowing north and east through Roosevelt National Forest, it tumbles down the slopes of the Front Range and meanders through the city of Fort Collins onward toward its confluence with the South Platte River east of Greeley.
Legend tells it, that in the Fall of 1836, a group of French trappers and traders from John Jacob Astor's American Fur Company crossed into Larimer County. As they approached the Cache la Poudre River before nightfall, they camped for the night before fording the river on their way to the Laramie Plains. A severe snowstorm blew into the area overnight and delayed the wagon train for over a week. After the weather broke, the wagon supplies had to be lightened before proceeding. A large pit was dug and the supplies, which included several hundred pounds of gunpowder, were carefully buried. After several months, the French trappers returned to the area to find their supplies successfully concealed, nothing removed.
Hence the name Cache la Poudre: the hiding place (cache) of the powder (poudre).
Forget the French lessons, the Wild West way to pronounce Cache la Poudre is 'cash luh pewder".
The Cache la Poudre River begins high in the peaks of Colorado's Rocky Mountain National Park along the Continental Divide. Flowing north and east through Roosevelt National Forest, it tumbles down the slopes of the Front Range and meanders through the city of Fort Collins onward toward its confluence with the South Platte River east of Greeley.
Legend tells it, that in the Fall of 1836, a group of French trappers and traders from John Jacob Astor's American Fur Company crossed into Larimer County. As they approached the Cache la Poudre River before nightfall, they camped for the night before fording the river on their way to the Laramie Plains. A severe snowstorm blew into the area overnight and delayed the wagon train for over a week. After the weather broke, the wagon supplies had to be lightened before proceeding. A large pit was dug and the supplies, which included several hundred pounds of gunpowder, were carefully buried. After several months, the French trappers returned to the area to find their supplies successfully concealed, nothing removed.
Hence the name Cache la Poudre: the hiding place (cache) of the powder (poudre).
Forget the French lessons, the Wild West way to pronounce Cache la Poudre is 'cash luh pewder".
