Mar 27/2010
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Geocache Activity 617 |
FIND 561 |
IDENTIFICATION
Difficulty 2; Terrain 1; size micro Creator: PASSTRACKER Date First Hidden: 2/16/2010 Date Last Found: 3/20/2010 Description BYOP as this cache is a mirco! The cache is located a short distance from a playgound area and a baseball diamond in Hillcrest. This area can be infested with muggles come spring and summer, so care must be taken when searching. Enjoy the view! Hint Conifer! Comments
PLANNING
I created a plan for searching for 7 geocaches in the Hillcrest/Bellevue area of the Crossnest Pass. Looking at the descriptions for these caches I sensed there would be both some hiking as well as some difficult searches as there were a number of micro-sized caches in the group. I figured 7 searches would take much of the day and I was not too confident of finding all of them. On the other hand this is a beautiful part of the province and I enjoy being among the mountains at any time. The weather forecast was for sunshine but with some wind.
I was taking my sling pack as well as my Panasonic DMC-ZS3 camera. I am still trying to develop, and stick to, a more rigorous routine of keeping track of the timing of each search plus taking more photos of the search.
OUTCOME
This was the first search in my plan to look for 7 geocaches. I left the truck at 9:25 am, parking it by the ball diamond. I walked along the outside perimeter of the diamond and was fortunate to spot the container as soon as I approached the tree. Time of find was 9:30. I took a couple of photos, signed the log, and was back at the truck at 9:37. The wind was up and it was still quite cool - miserable actually.
Here is my posting to the geocaching.com website:
The clue helped narrow the search area, and this was one cache that needed a small search area. SL. TFTC. Here are the photos:
approaching the cache area
2 more photos to be added later
I am now 2/2 for today.
