While scouting out the terrain near the Black Tower, Coppermine88 and couloir probed into the slot canyons, looking for new places for a 5/5 cache. Stay tuned for more details.
Kamloops Cachers Trip to GeoWoodstock Mega Event July 3 – 5, 2010.
(contributed by ProCrasTin8)
Friday:
The Kpneiders, CGQ, Jazzpurrr and Pro & Cras Tin8 started their trip with a meeting at Starbucks at 8:00 am.( we were all on time ) We set out as a convoy to the border and all arrived at Sumas around the same time. We than stopped to explore and cache the Sumas and Lynden area.
We stopped for lunch/supper in Lynden and continued on to arrive at the Lake Sammamish State Park to take in the final hour of the Friday Night Meet & Greet Laua.
We got to sign the log book which was a giant surfboard. There were lots of displays, cachers and travel bugs to discover. We checked into our hotel after 8 pm ; Marriott Residence Inn Redmond ; spending just enough time in our room to drop our suitcases and load our gps. We than walked the downtown area of Redmond looking for a cache around a dog – having other cachers and an officer on a segway to help us. Later we walked through some lovely trails caching, using Pro’s flashlight for the last cache. We arrived back in our hotel well after dark and very tired.
Saturday:
We were up by 8:00 and off to Carnation once all our gps’s finally got loaded. We cached the lovely Carnation area and than off to GeoWoodstock held at Remlinger Farms. Parking was about a km from the event but we discovered many car travel bugs along the way and saw many different license plates from all over the US.
As we arrived we all got our pictures taken in front of the GeoWoodstock sign and the largest ammo box we have ever seen. Keith got interviewed for some groundspeak video that they were making on GeoWoodstock.
We spent the next few hours visiting the different booths, talking to fellow cachers, doing an accuracy gps activity and getting a BC cachers picture taken. We also got to meet Mountainman and some of us even got pictures with him and Signal.
After GeoWoodstock we cached in the area along an old railway bed and the trails with many other cachers. We then cached around the community of Carnation while CGQ and Jazzpurrr went for refreshments we decided to do a simple multi. This simple multi for us was not simple and involved climbing fences with the help of Keith. We than cached our way back to our hotel by ll:30 just in time to attend the end of the Midnight Geocoin Madness II. We saw many beautiful and unique geocoin collections, some being as large as 500 coins. It was finally time for some refreshments and off to bed around 1:30.
Sunday:
We set out to travel to the Original Cache placed in 2000. We started to cache along the way but soon realized it would take 2 days to get there at this rate so we headed straight to the cache. It was quite a trip we left at l0:00 in the morning and arrived at the Original around 5:00 to have our pictures taken. This worked out to be CGQ’s 1000th find so it is a very memorable occasion for Craig. We continued to cache in the area for the next couple of hours.
One that will stick out in our minds other than the Original cache is called Holy Macro
It consisted of a huge red barrel about 4 feet tall that held 3,500 film canister one with the logbook in it. On arriving we could hear all this snapping and popping when we investigated 3 lady cachers were already hard at work searching for the canister with the log. We joined in without hesitation for what seemed to be forever and finally Jazzpurrr found the log after about 2500 empties.
We continued to cache until dark approached and we realized we had a 5 hour drive back to Redmond. Later we decided it was time for supper so at l:30 in the morning we filled the cars and our bellies and drove on arriving back at our hotel at 3:30 after a long but fun day.
Monday:
We were off to do the Misson 9: Tunnel of Light (APE cache). But of course before we got there we had to pick a few caches along the way. Saw some really great old trains and nice little parks. We stopped and did an earth cache at Snoqualmin Falls. We arrived at the Snoqualmin Forest Trails and started up the mountain for the APE cache. It was a nice climb up to the cache and the scenery was beautiful.
This was Jazzpurrr’s l,000th cache. Congrats. We had to do one more cache and down the mountain. It was time for farewells as CGQ, Jazzpurrr and Kpneider’s were heading home after a great weekend.
When we first planned to attend Pro noticed that Kpneiders had completed the Peace Series on a previous trip. It soon became our goal to solve the 42 Puzzle caches before we left and we succeeded the night before we departed. This is a great series of puzzle caches they are all different and fun to solve. Since we did not have time during the weekend we decided to stay in Seattle for a couple of days to complete the Peace series. This was an interesting 2 days of intense caching as you had to find all of them to get the coordinates to the final cache. They are split between the two sides of Lake Washington.
If you want more information on the Peace Series it is located on Lake Washington and you can see the great Peace Sign.
- ProCrasTin8
Hello – 2010 Cache Blitz
The Blitz voting will be ending on August 1st. Remember to vote for all the blitz caches you have visited over the past 3 months.
Look for the Blitz wrap-up event near you, where the prizes will be awarded.
August 12th:
BCGA 2010 Blitz Wrap Up – Thompson Okanagan
August 14th:
BCGA 2010 Blitz Wrap Up – Lower Mainland
BCGA 2010 Blitz Wrap Up – Fraser Valley
BCGA 2010 Blitz Wrap Up – Northern BC
BCGA 2010 Blitz Wrap Up – Island South
BCGA 2010 Blitz Wrap Up – Island Central/North
August 21st:
BCGA 2010 Blitz Wrap Up – Kootenay Rockies
Coin update
We are just in the process of getting samples from the mint. Once they are approved and we have chosen all the platings and colours, we will start sales on the website. We will also be selling BCGA pins at the same time.
We hope everyone is having a wonderful summer of caching!
Ted, Kelly, Sharon, Irene, Ginger, Andrew and Tom
When we first started caching in 2005 there was 1 cache at Lac Le Jeune. Since we spend a lot of weekends up there throughout the year we placed a few caches in the area. Five years later and there are over 60 caches in the area. I have started placing caches around the lake along the Gus Johnson trail and hope to have caches all along the 10km loop sometime in the near future. This begs the question “Is the Lac Le Jeune area getting too cache saturated?” (if there is such a thing)
Comments welcome.
Next week the Girl Guides are having a camp to celebrate the 100th anniversary. A friend of my parents is involved in the planning and I was asked to help with the geocaching activity. It is the second most popular activity. There will be 3 sessions at Kenna Cartwright Park & one for the younger girls at the ranch they are staying at.
If anyone is interested in helping, Debi, Rod, & myself, please contact me.
The BCGA Blitz has been on for a couple of months now and the final deadline for all voting is coming up. In these last 10 days try to focus on B10 caches, log them, then click on the icon at the bottom of the listing to vote for your favorites. The voting ends Aug. 1 and the awards for the Thompson – Okanagan region will be presented on Aug. 12th at Lac le Jeune (link). Support BC Geocaching by finding these caches and registering your votes!
Congratulations are in order this summer. Ccloud (Leanne) reached 1000 caches recently!
Congratulations to mbackmeyer (Mark) who has found 1100 geocaches. That was fast!
Sometime this summer, Mrs Zee hit the 2000 mark, then has moved to over 2100 caches! More congratulations…
