Geochallenge of the month
I talked about Adventure Labs in last months blog, and then found out that the geochallenge of the month for August, was to find an AL. Of course, I easily went and found one with my little boy. Plus I am planning on getting 2 of them in Banff near the end of the month.
This Adventure Lab had a few cool places to visit. My little boy enjoyed the train and other stuff at the museum
These locations were nice and close to each other (3 in the same location) making it easy to complete.
Plus since being awarded one last month, I have set mine up and it is already seeing some action.
It is about Port Moody, which is also known as "The City of the Arts" And it takes you to a few different types of art commissions in Port Moody. If you are in the area, please check it out!!Adventure in White rock
Went out one Saturday to White Rock, BC for some caching, on the way there it was a steady rain, even when we got there it was still lightly raining but we decided to venture out. Before long we were carrying our jackets and umbrella, as the sun came out and it became a beautiful day for caching and checking out the town.
Susan and her new friend!!
The Pier in White Rock is Canada's Longest Pier. Parts of it were recently rebuilt, as it was damaged during a storm in December of 2018. The cost to rebuild it was $16.2 Million.
Record winds caused the collapse of the middle section of the White Rock Pier in 2018. One man had to be rescued from the far end of the pier by Helicopter.
Is this boulder the reason the town got it's name or did they paint it to reflect the name of the town?? Hmmm, not quite sure, but it is an Earthcache!!
It was a busy day on the pier and in White Rock once the sun came out, but we were still able to do some caching and stay safe while social distancing.Hollywood North
Went out caching on the following day after our White Rock adventure, to Langley area to get the Hollywood North Adventure Lab, and the Bonus Adventure Lab cache, but of course got some other caches as well while in the area.
The ammo can looked like a movie marker. The AL(Adventure Lab) had us go to several movie locations including places for scenes from "Riverdale", "Bates Motel", "Smallville", "Van Helsing", and a Hallmark Movie called "The Perfect Catch"
This was a fun cache and it scared Sansue when she went to open it, so that made it funner......for me!! LOLTrip to Lake Louise, Banff, Jasper, and Edmonton
Day 1 (Aug 19): Home to Revelstoke
Headed out on the road, and our first stop was Merritt to let Sansue grab a couple of cool gadget caches that I have already got but thought she would enjoy them. After that is was down the road to Kamloops, and then towards Revelstoke. We only found 6 more on the way there, but one was an FTF!!! Yay, Susan's first FTF and my 401st!!! lol
The Last Spike Monument
Day 2 (Aug 20): Revelstoke to Banff
After a good rest, we woke up early and headed out for the day, we got several caches during the drive as well as in and around Banff and Canmore. A total of 12 caches for me and 13 for Susan as 1 of them was an earthcache that I own in Glacier National Park, called "The Rock Garden Trail"
Headed out on the road, and our first stop was Merritt to let Sansue grab a couple of cool gadget caches that I have already got but thought she would enjoy them. After that is was down the road to Kamloops, and then towards Revelstoke. We only found 6 more on the way there, but one was an FTF!!! Yay, Susan's first FTF and my 401st!!! lol
The Last Spike Monument
Day 2 (Aug 20): Revelstoke to Banff
After a good rest, we woke up early and headed out for the day, we got several caches during the drive as well as in and around Banff and Canmore. A total of 12 caches for me and 13 for Susan as 1 of them was an earthcache that I own in Glacier National Park, called "The Rock Garden Trail"
Rock Garden Trail
Can you guess where we are??
The Great Divide, depending what side of this concrete monument you are, you are either in BC, or Alberta.
Lake LouiseNOTE: The highlighted or underlined words in my blog can be clicked on as they are links to other cool stuff!! Also if you click on any of the pictures they become bigger!!!
Onward to Edmonton
Day 3 (Aug 21): Banff to EdmontonWe headed off to Edmonton after a night in Banff, and along the way we got several caches, including doing a drive-by Earthcache.
"I once caught a fish this BIG!!"
7 caches today in and around the city, including a tricky one at West Edmonton Mall
Day 5 (Aug 23): Edmonton to Fort Saskatchewan
Found 9 caches, and Susan found 10 as I took her to Alberta's First ever cache which was also Canada's 2nd ever cache called "Strathcona Wilderness 1".
We also were just heading into the woods on a dead end road to do a cool cache called Keys, keys, keys, when a patrol car rolled up on us and checked my license and registration. Not the first time I have been questioned by the police while caching.
After he left we proceeded to the cache and as you can guess by the name there was a lock and about 50 keys and only 1 would open up the lock.
We ended up going thru them about 2 and a half times before getting lucky. lolOn the same dead end road we found one that needed a 9 volt battery to get the code to the lock. An $8.77 investment to grab a cache!!
We then headed thru Elk Island Park and saw 1 Buffalo and grabbed a few caches.
OOOOPS, Wrong Bison!!!
Day 6 (Aug 24): Fort Saskatchewan to Edmonton
I only found 3 today on route to the city, but they had some high fave counts and were out in the country. I took Susan to one that I had already found out that way also.
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Heading for Jasper and Home!
Day 7 (Aug 25): Edmonton to Jasper
16 caches today on the trip from Edmonton, and in Jasper, including a Multi and 2 Virtuals, and one of the traditionals was a FTF!!!, plus we saw a fair bit of wildlife. We also completed an Adventure Lab that was pretty much the same locations as the Multi cache we did, just different questions to be answered.
Spotted this cool looking free library while caching in Jasper. No cache at it, but pretty cool!!
Day 8 (Aug 26): Jasper to Home
We found 11 caches today while traveling home from Jasper, as it was a nice day to travel.
Bear in the area, but we still went for the cache. lol
Mount Robson Park
An awesome trip with my sweetheart, and I found a total of 58 traditional's, 2 Multi's, 1 Earthcache, 1 Puzzle cache, 7 Virtual's, 3 FTF's, and one Adventure lab. Weather was great and had a few nice visit's with family. Not too bad!!!
In Jasper, Alberta with Jasper the Bear
Well that's it for this month,
Keep on caching!!
Chris Yuill
Magicman65
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