Mar 7/2010
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Geocache Activity 592 |
FIND 539 |
IDENTIFICATION
Difficulty 1; Terrain 2; size regular. Creator: Mustang and Mare Date First Hidden: 4/21/2005 Date Last Found: 9/29/2009 Description Close to Mountain View. Cache should be fairly easy in the summer, but maybe not so much in the winter. Cache is in a green coffee can.
Hint Look for a pile of logs. Comments
PLANNING
I have had my eye on a few caches in the south-west corner of the province for almost a year. With the weather ideal, and with cabin fever, I was itching to get some fresh air. So I made a quick decision this morning to hit the road and see what developed. I downloaded 5 caches that I had never tried to find, 3 in Police Outpost provincial park and two others that were within 20 miles of this park.
I am also keeping track of the caches that I find that are located within Alberta's provincial parks. There is a new cache (GC222BN) with the following challenge: to find a cache in at least 60 Alberta Provincial Parks. There are 75 parks in the province and 65 of these have at least one cache in them. So far I have only found caches in 3 of them. If I find one in Police Outpost provincial park my total will rise to 4.
OUTCOME
Having finished searching for the 2 caches in Police Outpost provincial park (and deciding not to search for the third one), I set my Garmin to the next closest which was about 20 km further west and near Payne Lake. I drove to the end of the road and then saw the ATV route up the hill. The cache was about a half a kilometre up this route, which was snow covered but firm. The cache itself was easy to find.
Here is my posting to the geocaching.com website:
There was still snow on the ground, but I was able to follow some ATV tracks along a "pathway" to the cache site. TNLNSL. TFTC.
Here are a few photos:
ATV route
more route
pile of logs
container is now an ammo can
stashI am now 3/3 for today. The remaining cache on my Garmin would involve a hike of almost 4 km (one way) and it was almost 3 PM so that was not a serious consideration. It was a grand day to be out.
