Sept 20/2010 |
Geocache Activity 841 |
FIND 776 |
IDENTIFICATION
Difficulty 2; Terrain 2; size micro; Creator: browneyedsusan Date First Hidden: 8/16/2010 Date Last Found: 9/19/2010 Description Parking available at N 52 52.269 W 118 03.733 Garbage and washroom facilities available in the parking area. Use the wooden stairs to reach the cache. Please keep within the boundaries. Please be careful in the winter as the stairs can be icy. The section of the Athabasca River nominated to the Canadian Heritage Rivers System is 168 km long and lies entirely within Jasper National Park. Take the time to read the plaque located near the cache location. In accordance with Jasper National Park guidelines no trading items or things that might attract wildlife are to be left in this cache. Please bring your own pen.
Hint Can be reached by standing on the stone steps. Comments
PLANNING
We will be spending 2 days in Jasper on our way to Kelowna. I have identified a few new caches in the near vicinity of the townsite and will see how many I can find.
OUTCOME
3:40 PM This was my 4th search of the day. This cache was on Old Fort Point, a short drive from town and a place I spent many hours as a boy.
Here is my posting to the geocaching.com website:
Great hide. Nice hint. SL. TFTC. Here are two photos:
container hanging in the spruce tree
Nosweat6060 reaching for the containerI am now 4/4 for today. I am so familiar with this area that I forgot to take any photos of the scenery.
