Aug 5/2010 |
Geocache Activity 792 |
FIND 729 |
IDENTIFICATION
Difficulty 3; Terrain 2.5; size regular; Creator: Gretta Date First Hidden: 4/03/2005 Date Last Found: 7/28/2010 Description 12.20 km south of The Town of Brooks, in a marshy area lays a treasure. This treasure is within a Provincial Park, along a common path. Don't let this trick you into thinking it is an easy find. Those Muskrats like to hide their treasures very, very well. Hint where the duck playvegetation is plentiful Comments
PLANNING
I created a set of 6 searches in two Provincial Parks. I then added another 8 searches for backup in the event that I finished searching for the first six and still had time on my hands. The goal was to add 2 more provincial parks to my total for Alberta. Eventually I will have searched in almost all of the parks in the province that have caches. This promises to be a full day, with lots of driving to and from the search areas.
OUTCOME
9:55 am. I drove a short distance to the other end of the hiking trail and then headed north hoping to find 3 caches along the trail. As I approached the area for the first of these I realized that it would be about a hundred meters off the trail in fairly dense bush with high grass everywhere. The mosquitoes were very bad and I had to spray myself with Off before venturing off the trail. This looked like it might be very difficult, but I spotted a small log that had been chewed at one end, moved it, and the container was underneath.
Here is my posting to the geocaching.com website:
Approaching the area made me apprehensive, but it turned out to be a quick find. Good coordinates. First time at this end of the trail. TNLNSL. TFTC. Here are a few photos:
hiking trail
off trail
log
container
I am now 2/2 for today.
