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Mar 27/2010

Geocache Activity 621

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GCQ2FM

Frank Slide Micro Cache

N 49° 36.085 W 114° 23.604

Difficulty 1.5; Terrain 2.5; size micro Creator: The_Master_11 Date First Hidden: 8/8/2005 Date Last Found: 3/13/2010
Crowsnest Pass

Description This cache was placed beside the Frank Slide Interpreter Centre. While finding the cache remember to stop by for a quick visit. They have a gift shop which opens around 12 the Centre itself should open any time around 9 in the morning. At the Centre you can learn more about the history of the disaster. The cache is a camouflaged film canister but shouldn't be very hard to find. You can park within 50 Meters of the cache at the museum parking. Enjoy!

Hint Search the trees.

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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 fifth search in my plan to look for 7 geocaches. As the cache was close to the parking area I left my sling pack in the truck and just took the GPS, camera, notepad and (of course) a pen. The cache was further away than I thought and it was uphill, but even so it turned out to be an easy find.

Here is my posting to the geocaching.com website:

Nice view of the slide from the cache area. Always nice to stretch the legs a bit. SL. TFTC.

Here are a few photos:

approaching the cache site

camouflaged film container

view of Frank slide from cache area

I am now 5/6 for today.

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GCQ2FM	Frank Slide Micro Cache	N 49° 36.085 W 114° 23.604
	Difficulty 1.5; Terrain 2.5; size micro Creator: The_Master_11 Date First Hidden: 8/8/2005 Date Last Found: 3/13/2010	Crowsnest Pass
Description	This cache was placed beside the Frank Slide Interpreter Centre. While finding the cache remember to stop by for a quick visit. They have a gift shop which opens around 12 the Centre itself should open any time around 9 in the morning. At the Centre you can learn more about the history of the disaster. The cache is a camouflaged film canister but shouldn't be very hard to find. You can park within 50 Meters of the cache at the museum parking. Enjoy!
Hint	Search the trees.
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