With the closest geocache to get being
140km away and I need to save it until Thanksgiving as I need it to
complete the
VLH-11-11-11 Challenge, I decided to head down the highway to do something else today.
VLH-11-11-11 Challenge, I decided to head down the highway to do something else today.
I started out this morning thinking I
would place a cache up here in the Yukon. I headed to a spot that I
had stopped at before on one of my Whitehorse trips that I thought
would be an interesting place for a cache. It was about 120km away.
On the way there I made several stops to check out the scenery and
took lots of pictures. One stop along the highway I noticed something
big, brown, and moving off in the distance down near a small river. I
was able to get off a few shots with my camera of a couple of moose
moving thru the swampy area.
Moose |
I continued down the Alaska highway
marking cool looking spots with my GPSr knowing that I would stop on
the way back to check them out.
I had talked to my wife(Angelcheeks)
the night before and was telling her about this spot I was heading
to, and she suggested that it may be able to be an earthcache. I got
to the rest area that I wanted to place a cache at, and upon further
investigation I decided I would try to get it published as an
Earthcache.
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Well, now I still had a fully stocked
medium sized lock'n'lock container in my backpack...what to do with
it?? Maybe one of the cool spots I marked along the way would prove
to be worthy of a cache.
So off I head back towards Watson Lake,
stopping at some rest areas and such. One of the places I stop is the
Rancheria Falls recreation site.
I check out the area and notice the
trail map and decide to grab my backpack and can
of bear spray(Bears are everywhere up here) This is the first trip I took where I did not see one.
I head on down the trail which quickly
turns into a well maintained boardwalk.
I get to the end and come across the
viewpoint area overlooking the falls.
I believe this is a great place to put
a cache to bring people here to see this beautiful view.
I take a bunch of photo's, hide the
cache just under the viewpoint boardwalk area, mark it with my GPSr
and head back towards the parking area.
On the way back to town, I make a few
more stops, and take a few more pics. I even stop at the fire hall in
Upper Liard to complete a worldwide geocaching challenge. (challenge
caches are new to geocaching where you have to take a photo of
yourself at a specific place, or doing something specific)
I also submitted a Challenge cache this week as well.
All in all a great ending to the week.
This coming week I get to go home to my wife, new baby, and kids.
Then we are off to Victoria, Edmonton, Calgary, and Kelowna (all
within 1 week) but you will have to wait to read that adventure in my
next blog.
Keep on Caching!!
Chris Yuill
Magicman65
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