Aug 5/2010 |
Geocache Activity 795 |
FIND 732 |
IDENTIFICATION
Difficulty 2; Terrain 2.5; size regular; Creator: tarbaby1 Date First Hidden: 9/04/2004 Date Last Found: 8/02/2010 Description A short walk from the Headless Hadrosaur exhibit in Dinosaur Provincial Park. Take the Public Loop Road which extends from the campsite. Park at the Headless Hadrosaur exhibit -- N50 45.846 W111 29.820. The cache is a few hundred meters away from the exhibit. Hint Stand on the rock ledge and look north. Immediately below you will see some large rocks. The cache is in a hole on top of the rocks. 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
1:05 PM. It was about a 30 minute drive from Kinbrook Provincial Park to Dinosaur Provincial Park. I parked the truck at the Headless Hadrosaur exhibit and then walked into the desolate area. I realized that I was soon going to be out of sight of the truck and made sure of a couple of landmarks so I wouldn't get lost. There was no obvious path and the terrain had me going up and down a few hills and gulleys before I finally arrived at the cache site.
Here is my posting to the geocaching.com website:
My first time off the beaten track in this type of terrain. Fascinating. Important to keep one's sense of direction for the return trip. TNLNSL. TFTC. Here are a few photos:
exhibit information
Hadrosaur bones
on the way to the cache
container at bottom of rocks
view of cache area
I finally remembered to take photo of 30 mm (12") ruler
cache area
mudstone
more mudstone
still more mudstone
I am now 5/5 for today.
