Apr 17/2010
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Geocache Activity 633 |
FIND 575 |
IDENTIFICATION
Difficulty 1.5; Terrain 1.5; size micro Creator: Elementry Date First Hidden: 4/4/2010 Date Last Found: 4/9/2010 Description The view of turtle mountain. This Post –World War I memorial was erected in honour of the three sons of Daniel Dunlop Sr. During World war I, Dunlop Sr. And three sons ,enlisted in the Canadian Army and were sent overseas. The Father returned safe but the 3 sons did not.Dunlop Sr. Wanted a mamorial to his three sons in their home town and arranged for the feild gun and two Vickers machine guns to be set up. Today ,the “Dunlop Guns” serve as Frank’s Cenotaph
Hint Comments
PLANNING
This morning I planned to attend a photography field trip in the Crowsnest Pass. I then thought I would try to combine this with some geocaching in the same area. There are a number of new caches in this area and since it is almost an hour and a half drive to get here, I wanted to make the most of the trip. This time I was going to focus on the Bellevue area. I am slowly working my west through the Pass. Since I had no sense of how long the photography field trip would last, I decided to make notes for only 4 caches in the immediate vicinity of the field trip.
OUTCOME
The photography field trip took a break at noon for lunch. I decided to leave the group at that point and spend the afternoon geocaching. This was my second search. Time of find: 1:25 PM.
I could see the memorial as I drove by. I parked on the side of the road and returned to the field gun. I walked up to the gun and began looking around it. There was an obvious cross bar and when I reached behind it I could feel the magnetic bison tube. It was the first place I tried. Sometimes one gets lucky early.
Here is my posting to the geocaching.com website:
I found the container in a logical location. Thanks for the story about the Dunlops. Caches like this are a special treat! SL. Here are a few photos:
cache area
a sad list
container
I am now 2/2 for today.
