Lots of fun adventures!!

Burns Bog

Sansue and I went to Burns Bog to grab some caches and an Adventure Lab. I had been thru the bog and did the caches way back in 2015. There are a few new ones in there though, so was able to look for them. We DNF'd 2 caches that were very difficult and had a lot of other DNF's on them. Not because they were missing, but because they were a difficulty 3, and a difficulty 4 1/2. They were meant to be hard to find. We will be back...lol

This trip thru I was able to see the Sunken Tractor that was in there. Well only the part of it that was not under the bog. 

As you can see, the only part above the bog is the front forks and bucket. This was part of the AL. There are no caches on this part of the trail, and probably the reason I did not see it back in 2015 when I was caching here with fellow geocacher, CloseUpMatt.

 This is the tractor stuck in the Bog. It got stuck there a long time ago sometime in the 1970's. The tractor was stolen from the construction site of what is now Scottsdale Mall on Scott Road. The person who stole the tractor decided to have a test drive around the Delta Nature Reserve. Not surprisingly, the tractor was too heavy to be supported by bog soil, and sunk into a sinkhole. The operator probably escaped unharmed.

Years after the incident, another tractor was sent to the site in an attempt to pull out the half-sunken vehicle. Unfortunately, the suction was too great. Not only was the attempt unsuccessful, the rescue tractor got stuck too. It had to be pulled out of the mud by a helicopter.

The tractor sinks a bit more each year. Soon it will be submerged completely. The fuel in the vehicle has been leaking very slowly, and there is evidence of fuel leak even today. On a wet day, you might smell traces of gas. Sometimes, you can see bubbles and liquid fuel emerging onto the surface.

We did a bunch of other caches after we left the Bog, including a TB hotel by the Airport called "WhyVeeAre TB's", which is a play on words as the Airport code is "YVR". This one you also needed to figure out the combination for the lock. I had to message a couple of caching friends as we for some reason couldn't figure it out. But once we got the answer it made sense. 

"WhyVeeAre"

It was a good day to be out and we found a total of 15 caches and 2 DNF's. The next day we only found 4 caches.

Harrison Hot Springs

I went and spent 2 days at Harrison Hot Springs Resort, as I was performing there. Did several caches in Harrison and Agassiz, and 2 of them that were actually inside buildings. The first one was called "Visit Harrison Hot Springs"

It was inside the Sasquatch Museum.

Nice to grab several caches while the weather was nice.

I also headed out to Sasquatch Provincial park to grab a cache as I need to have enough for a challenge cache I am working on and planning to get on our Easter Weekend trip to Golden and the Alberta Border.

Found this cool cache inside the Agassiz Library.This was called "Dewey Remember How to Use this?" Had to do some quiet sleuthing to find this one. Plus a wee bit of help from the staff!!

Always fun to get cool caches like this!!

I grabbed one more on the way home after my 2 day stay at the Resort. It was raining but I have passed this one on the side of the road too many times. Today was the Day!!! People use this for fresh water, 

It is called "Scenic 7-Spring Water".

Weekend puzzles

Went and cleaned up a few Puzzle caches that I have completed, on the weekend with Sansue. This one was interesting as we found this (a car engine and transmission) in the middle of the woods just off the trail. 

Not sure, who would drag something like this as heavy as it is into the woods. But the cache was easy to find as you can see in the next picture.

Been doing a lot of Multi caches lately. Found a cool one called "The Wizarding World of Hume Park"

It had some cool statues made from branches in the park, that you had to find and gather info about to get the final Coordinates.

This is the Map you had to use to find the 3 wizarding creatures.

Alvis the Advising Axolin

Willa the Wishing Walabeast

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Gerald the Gifting Griffon

Very cool to see these in the park!!

Group Caching

Went out with a group of 10 other cachers, to do some caches that you needed a long pole to grab them. I have a 16' extendable pole, so when Bobthegoalie contacted me and asked if I wanted to go with some others to grab several caches that were up in trees, I gladly said Yes.

Me hooking the cache

Group photo

Oliver making the grab

Oliver having a quick break

The cool thing besides getting some High terrain 5 caches, is that the Geochallenge of the month is to help someone caching, so this will qualify me for that!!

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TCHALS Planning trip

Finally making the trip to gather some more info to get my AL up and running.

The plan is to head to Merritt, Kelowna, Vernon, Armstrong, Sicamous, Revelstoke, Golden and then the Alberta Border to finish up my Trans Canada Highway Adventure Lab, so I can post it and make it Live. On the way home, we will head back a slightly different way thru Salmon Arm and into Kamloops and back south towards Hope and Vancouver. Of course lots of caching will happen as well. But more about in next month's blog!!! Until then stay safe, be kind, and enjoy life!!

Well that's it for this month,

Keep on caching!!

Chris Yuill

Magicman65

Weekend Caching

Kanaka Creek Caching

Went to Kanaka creek for a bike ride and to grab a few caches while there of course.

Kanaka Creek is named for the Hawaiians who were employed by the Hudson Bay Company at Fort Langley across the river.

A very active waterway, with lots of animals utilizing the slower flow of water.

A nice walkaround to learn about the area and the river and how it has been used in years past.

It was a nice partly walking and some biking trails. Nicely well maintained and lots of info.

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 RichmondC150 caches

Working on finishing the last of the Geo Tour of the Richmond caches called Richmond “Canada 150”

These caches were placed to celebrate Canada’s 150th Birthday. There is 20 caches in this series, and the last geotour they did was 30 caches. I have completed that one a couple years back. I had 8 left to do, and we got 5 easily but 2 of them were disabled the day we went for them so could not get them. Also 1 of them we could not get to as the parking lot was full, so we decided to go do some other caches.

Terra Nova park

We went to Terra Nova Rural Park and found several caches including several of the Richmond geotours, a multi cache, several traditionals and two puzzles that were Bonus caches for the 2 Adventure Labs that were also in the Park.

Owl house for the Barn Owls

Some cool caches we found....(SPOILER ALERT!!!)

Now you See it!!!

Now you Don't!!

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Family Day Weekend Caching

We went out caching every day this weekend, and even on Family Day as the sun was shining, and it was a beautiful day. We got 2 cache's only on Saturday as it was raining, but I needed a Multi for a challenge I am working on. On Sunday we got 11 caches, of which 3 were puzzles, 1 was a Multi, and the rest were traditional's. On Monday(Family Day) we grabbed 6 traditional's and 3 Multi's and one was even an FTF!!!

A few cool sights we saw this weekend while caching.  This was a different Barn Owl than the last one we saw.

Bee's at work!!

We didn't see any slugs!!

This guy was so close, I could have almost touched him.

This "Weeping Willow" reminded me of the Womping Willow on "Harry Potter"

Geochallenge Caching

Right now I am working on a geochallenge (Actually when am I Not working on a geochallenge? lol)

This one (Actually 2) are called "A Month of Multi's Challenge" and "Any Two Months of Multi's Challenge"

Both of them, you need to fill your monthly calendar with Multi Caches. You could use finds from previous years. I started working on this and planned on filling in February and March's Calendar with a Multi everyday.

 In February, I needed to get 10 Multi's on the days I did not previously have a multi, and for March I need to fill 8 spots. 

This is my yearly calendar of Multi Caches found on the specific days. This is my calendar before I started the 2 challenges. Looking to fill February and March to start....we will see from there. lol
EDIT NOTE: So after working on this challenge for February, I noticed the calendar did not change when I looked at the checker thru Project GC. Sent a message to the Challenge cache owner, and was told the RED squares are the dates I need to fill not the completed dates....Argggg....The white dates are the ones I need to do. Oh well start from scratch. Gotta decide which months I want to do now. lol

Easter Weekend Trip

In April on the Easter long weekend, Sansue and I plan on heading to Merritt, Kelowna, Vernon, Armstrong, Sicamous, Revelstoke, Golden and then the Alberta Border to finish up my Trans Canada Highway Adventure Lab, so I can post it and make it Live. Of course I have plenty of caches planned to grab also. But more about that next Month after the trip.

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

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

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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