Mar 14/2010
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Geocache Activity 597 |
FIND 544 |
IDENTIFICATION
Difficulty 1; Terrain 1; size large. Creator: BST_Gold_Diggers Date First Hidden: 7/27/2004 Date Last Found: 11/21/2009 Description Lots Of Neat Items
Hint 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 5th search of the day. This turned out to be an easy one, as the container was exposed in the snowbank. At first I didn't realize it was the cache, as it looked like a large piece of scrap metal, but as soon as I had a closer look I was sure I had it. It still took a couple of minutes to figure out how to open it.
Here is my posting to the geocaching.com website:
Great container! The snow no longer totally covers it. TNLNSL. TFTC.
Here are a few photos:
approaching container (those are my footprints)
container with locking mechanism
success!I am now 5/5 for today.
