June caching and Events

 Events and Caching

Went to a few Caching events this month and when I was at the one in Port Coquitlam, I asked if anyone had done the nearby multi called "Poco Persnicketty Peripatetic Puzzler"

I had all the info already and looked for it in the past, but couldn't find it. One of the cachers at the event gave me all the info and when I compared it to mine, I had one date wrong.

With the new info, after the event, I now had the cache in hand. It was a very cool cache and nicely made. 

The Co-ords and hint brought me to this Gas meter, but the cache was underneath. I was expecting a magnetic key holder but found a much larger cache as you see in the next pic.

Nice to see some larger magnetic caches in urban areas, instead of little micro's that we seem to have too many in the area.

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I had a show booked in White Rock one morning, so I headed there so I would be early. When I got to the venue at 9am I was told the show was set up for 1:30pm??? I wrote it down wrong in my calendar. Well, what do you do when you are super early for an event and have to fill some time?? Go caching!!!

I went and had some breakfast and then I headed down towards the pier in White Rock, grabbing a few easy caches on the way. I ended up finding a total of seven caches, and then I went back to the Venue.

It's nice to be able to have something to do to fill in time. White Rock Pier is claimed to be the Longest Pier in Canada.

White Rock Pier is a 470-metre-long (1,540 ft) pier in White Rock, British Columbia. Originally built in 1914, it was a dock for steamships that arrived when the Great Northern Railway began operation. On December 20, 2018, the pier was severely damaged during a wind storm. It is estimated that the cost to rebuild the pier is $16.2 million. The pier was repaired and reopened in 2019.

Cross Border Caching and Magic Shows

I started working on some Blaine, Washington area puzzles. Susan and I have got most of the regular caches in that area, so needed to get some puzzles solved since we pop down there from time to time. I also booked a gig in Renton, Wash. So I wanted to grab several caches on the way down.

 I only got 3 as the weather was not being cooperative. I got 2 virtuals and 1 earthcache.

This was a 2 stage Virtual. It took me to a cemetary and to this large Memorial for the founders of the town of Everett, Washington.

Another cool virtual I found was a Dragon on top of a building in downtown Everett.

Its hard to see the full dragon from the street. Apparently, the eyes and mouth light up at night.

Grabbed a few local caches this past weekend while at my little boy's swim meet. Several in the park we were at, so I got 6 over the 2 days in between his events.

Squamish Day Trip

Headed to Squamish as I had 2 shows there. Of course I went early to grab some caches.

Went into Porteau Cove on the way as there was a Traditional cache and 2 Earthcaches there. Beautiful views from here.

This was one of the cool Earthcaches I was able to do while there.

It is called "Joints" Here is a small excerpt from the cache page:

The most prominent joints occur in the most well-consolidated, lithified, and highly competent rock such as the quartz diorite in this area. Joints may be open fractures or filled by various materials. Joints infilled by precipitated minerals are called veins and joints filled by solidified magma are called dikes.

Joints which dip towards a road, such as in this location, can lead great loss of life as the rock can slide down the  joints.  More than 18% of the total number of Canada’s landslide related deaths (>600) occur in the Sea to Sky Corridor.  The slides along the sea to sky corridor were caused by debris flows and rocks slipping down joint planes onto cars.

In the town of Squamish they had a cool climbing rock in the middle of a park where the Virtual cache was. Its for kids to climb.

From here you can also see the "Chief" which is a mountain Cliff that rock climbers go up.

The Stawamus Chiefis one of the most popular hiking trails around Vancouver and is also a popular rock climbing site. Often referred to as the ‘The Chief’ or ‘Squamish Chief’, this hike is located in Stawamus Chief Provincial Park in the District of Squamish.

Ended up getting a total of 11 caches, and 3 stages of 2 different AL's

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Bellingham Trip

Went to an event in Bellingham on Monday the 19th. It was an special event called "Maker Magic: Beyond the Green Box"

This event is part of a special series highlighting high quality caches. Geocachers who log “Attended” on Maker Magic: Beyond the Green Box will receive the official Maker Magic souvenir. 

We started the trip off by going across the border on Sunday evening, and headed to Silver Reef Casino where I had a comped room. We got up the next morning and headed off caching nearby. After grabbing several puzzle caches in the "X-Men" series, we headed towards Bellingham. 

Bellingham has an abundance of Little Free Library's and it seems as if there is a cache at each one of them.

All of them are nicely made, well stocked and maintained.

Some are downtown, while others are more rural

Here is Susan looking for the cache in the Library

So many cool little Free Library's

 

Last time thru here we grabbed several as well. In total we have found at least 9 and I am sure there is some more there to get.

We ended the day grabbing some supper and headed to the event. It was very well attended and several cachers from BC came down for this special event.

At the Event, there was this Travel Bug that you see here in the picture. It was called "The Football." You had to Figure out the code before the timer ran out in order to see the TB number.

On the way home we stopped for one more puzzle cache that was on my list called "Who Let The Frogs Out, Ribbit, ribbit, ribbit" The cache page says:

* Retrieval of this cache requires a 20+ foot reaching pole TOTT. Please do not attempt to remove the cache without the use of an appropriate TOTT.  Do not attempt unless you are confident that you can return the cache to the same location.

I have a 16 foot extendable pole, but I also have a 10 foot extending pole, so I duct taped the two together and was able to reach it. We then put it back and headed back across the border. A fun trip!!

VEGAS Here we Come!!!

So I am heading to Vegas at the end of June in a few days with Susan(sansue) and 2 Muggles. We will be there for 5 days only and seeing 4 shows, going out to the desert to "Seven Magic Mountain's", "Red Rock Canyon", and the "Hoover Dam", and I have a list made of 54 caches. I am not sure if we will be able to get them all. lol 

We will also check out my Adventure Lab that I created right from my place in Port Moody, BC.

I was able to set it up as I have been there enough times and had taken lots of pictures as usual. I will let Susan do it to make sure its working properly. I have had 16 people do it so far, and no one has mentioned any issues, and it has a 4.9 star rating.

This sign was at "Seven Magic Mountain's" When

I was there a few years ago.

Lets hope the Snakes can read and stay off the Path. Lol

Well that's it for this month!!

Keep on caching!!

Chris Yuill

Magicman65