Bike Caching

Virtual Caching

I love Virtual caches, and I recently did a new Virtual cache called "Wait for me Daddy" in New Westminster, It was a recreation of a famous picture of a father going off to war. Excerpt from the cache page:

Wait for Me, Daddy is a sculpture based on a famous World War II era image from The Province newspaper. On October 1, 1940, photographer Claude P. Dettloff was setting up to capture a column of Canadian soldiers marching down Eighth Street, at the intersection of Columbia Street (present-day Hyack Square), as they headed to war. While Dettloff was getting ready to take the picture, five-year-old Warren "Whitey" Bernard ran from his mother's grasp to reach his father Private Jack Bernard's outstretched hand. The poignant image Dettloff captured was picked up all over the world.

While I was there I also completed another stage of the Adventure Lab that I had started last month. Another cool reason for AL's and Virtual's is they can be in the same spot as other caches. It's like a "2 for 1" deal. lol

There is actually the starting point of a Multi cache nearby as well, but I didn't have time to start it.

Caching in White Rock, Richmond, and U.B.C.

I decided I needed to get a couple puzzles off my map of "Completed Puzzles" I seem to work on a lot of puzzles, but then when I complete them, I don't always get them right away. So I end up with a map full of completed puzzles as you can see in the pic. A lot of times by the time I go to get the puzzle cache I have solved some time back the cache has been archived. lol. Too many times that has happened to me. 

As you can see, I have several I need to go get to complete them and get them off my list. So today I decided I need to knock some of my map.

Speaking of puzzle caches I have solved, I found on one of my geocaching apps another list of puzzle finals I started a long time ago as seen in this picture:

 As I went thru some of them, I noticed several are already archived and not around anymore. Lol. I guess I need to start getting some off my list soon, before they all magically disappear!! 

We started the day by heading to White Rock to do one puzzle cache. While there we decided to also do an Adventure Lab about Murals.

This Whale mural was part of the AL we did while in White Rock, and it was also part of a 25 stage Multi cache called "Battleships in White Rock" that I had completed back in 2017.

This Mural is on the side of the Theatre

NOTE: 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!!!

This was an alley called  "Mural Alley"

We then headed to Richmond to grab a couple caches from one of  the Richmond Geotour's that I needed. From there we headed all the way out to U.B.C. for a cool cache that I saw a friend post a video of on Face Book called "M m m my Corona! where you use a typewriter to log your find. Then we found another completed puzzle cache called "UBC Virtual Tour" where you had to go on a street view tour thru google maps to find clues to get the co-ordinates to the final, which I completed some time back.

This is the box that the typewriter was in. I shot a video of Susan logging the cache but for some reason I can not download it here.

A total of 108km round trip for 5 caches and 1 AL. But now I have 2 less puzzles on my large completed list. 

Bike caching

Susan and I recently purchased folding bikes. They are easy to carry and I can get both of them into my car. We took them out last weekend for a test drive and got 14 caches down a trail, but was able to get back to the car without the big long walk. They will come in handy on trails for caching. We are planning several more bike trips for caching.

A nice day for a bike ride along the waterfront!!

Susan and her New Bike!!

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Trans Canada Adventure lab series

As you can see by this map, the TCALS is starting to take shape across Canada. These are all the live ones right now and more are being added. I am almost ready to get mine live which is from Golden, BC to the Alberta border. This has been a fun project to work on and has changed since I started it, but still lots of fun. I was originally going to do from Revelstoke to the Alta. Border, but then another caching team was wanting to do from Revelstoke to Golden. I had only 6 locations set up from Golden to the border, so I had to replace the 4 that I gave up. Then I found out one of my spots was no longer accessible so that changed it to only 5 spots I had. I was able to find five more very cool spots to get all 10 locations for my AL. My original area was 216 km and then I changed it to 71km and gave away 145km. Quite a difference in area.

I hope to have more on that soon, so stay tuned!!

Until then, Stay Safe, Get Vaccinated, Wear your Mask, and Wash your Hands!!!

Well that's it for this month,

Keep on caching!!

Chris Yuill

Magicman65