443 F.3d 1240, 1243 (10th Cir.2006) (quotation marks and citation omitted). Colo.Rev.Stat. § 38-41-101(1) provides for adverse possession where a plaintiff and/or his predecessors in interest have been in possession of property for more than eighteen years. The possession must be: (1) actual; (2) adverse; (3) hostile; (4) under claim of right; (5) exclusive; and (6) uninterrupted. See generally Salazar v. Terry, 911 P.2d 1086, 1089, n. 4 (Colo. 1996). Plaintiff claims that his adverse possession of the Snowflake began in 1974 when he staked the corners of the property and cut a small trail to a flat spot. Assuming the truth of these allegations, we disagree that this activity constitutes actual possession under Colorado law. See generally Smith v. Hayden, 772 P.2d 47, 52 (Colo.1989) (<HOLDING>); Concord v. Huff, 144 Colo. 72, 355 P.2d 73,
holding that notice of administrative forfeiture sent to prisoner did not require actual notice to the property owner only notice reasonably calculated to apprise a party of the pendency of the action holding that the innocent owner defense hinges upon the claimants actual not constructive knowledge holding that actual posses sion requires some visible means which gives notice of exclusion from the property to the true owner or to the public and of the adverse claimants dominion over it holding that congress intended the qta to provide the exclusive means by which adverse claimants could challenge the united states title to real property emphasis added holding that the tort of conversion accrues where a party exercises wrongful dominion and control over the property to the detriment of the rights of its actual owner