Mar 14/2010
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Geocache Activity 596 |
FIND 543 |
IDENTIFICATION
Difficulty 1; Terrain 1; size regular. Creator: kitkatt1960 Date First Hidden: 7/23/2006 Date Last Found: 2/6/2010 Description One of two locations in Canada where the Yucca Plant grows naturally! Don't be put off by looking at the online maps. There is a very unique viewing location in this immediate area. A "one of a kind" "world class" exhibit. Besides..... I'm Predjudicial...I spent nine years in the associated building ..... 200 days per year.
Hint Wind is a Factor! Comments
PLANNING
I have been wanting to place 2 or 3 caches in the area west of Medicine Hat for some time. This morning I gathered my gear together and took two containers with me to place in a couple of special spots. I then downloaded the details for 6 existing caches in that area that I might be able to look for if I have the time.
The first two existing caches were just off Highway 3 between Bow Island and Seven Persons. These turned out to be straight forward. The third cache was about 15 km south of Seven Persons just off highway 887. The cache was located in Red Rock Coulee, an interesting geologic site, which I knew about but had never visited. After finding this cache I headed out to the area where I was hoping to locate a couple of new caches. However it quickly became apparent that there was too much snow on the ground so I aborted that idea and focused on trying to find the remaining 3 caches which formed a loop along the back roads to Bow Island.
OUTCOME
This was my 4th search of the day. We had been once before, but that was in my pre-geocaching days. Although the museum was closed, the grounds were open. I wandered around a bit before I finally zeroed in on the cache area. At first I was sure it had something to do with the windmills, but the coordinates put me in another part of the displays. Once again footing was tricky. The area near the cache was particularly bad and there was nothing for it but to persevere. One I had the container in hand I returned to the truck to fill in the logbook. The wind was brutal and my hands were so cold I doubted I could write.
Here is my posting to the geocaching.com website:
The grounds were very soft and mushy. I made some great footprints that will impress people a 100,000 years from now if they are preserved. TNLNSL. TFTC. This is a great museum.
Here are a few photos:
appraoching cache area
cache
swag
footprints
windmillI am now 4/4 for today.
