"Road Trippin"

 Harrison Hot Springs

Went to Harrison Hot Springs for the Fraser Valley Magic Company Annual Picnic, and wanted to get at least one cache. There is Virtual out there that is called "searching for sasquatch"

I've been out to Harrison several times and don't recall seeing this cache, even though it has been there since 2022. So this time I really wanted to get it. The requirements to logging the cache was to take a picture with one of the many Sasquatch statues, or items depicting Sasquatch on it in town, BUT you can't use the three prominent carvings in town. 

These are the one when you come into town at the town sign, the one downtown on a bench that you can sit beside, and the one at the Sasquatch Museum in town.

 (Yes there is a sasquatch museum) Located in Harrison Hot Springs (about 120 km east of Vancouver), this facility is Canada's only museum specifically dedicated to the Sasquatch.

There are several other sasquatch figures, statues, or paintings of him around town but you have to search. 

I didn't have time to search as I went straight to the house of one of our club members where we were having the Picnic at, but I did see one on the way thru town and thought I can stop by on the way out of town. They have a beautiful property, with lots of cool signs in the two covered outside area's as you can see in the picture.

As I was looking around, I spotted something that would help me be able to log the cache.

I was able to use this photo to log the Virtual, and I bet no other Geocacher will find this Sasquatch wall as it's on private property!!!

A great big thank you to the Host's Dave and Cathie for opening up thier home for us as well!!

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Whistler trip

I headed out to Whistler as I had a show out there and on the way there, I did some Caching to complete the Geochallenge of the month for July. (I found out about it early as I am a Patreon of "The Geocaching Vlogger") The objective was to find at least three different icons in the same day. I ended up finding five different icons. (Virtual, Adventure Lab, Traditional, Multi, and Letterbox)

I found a virtual cache which was right at the same area as my Adventure Lab that I own out that way in Squamish.

This cool art instalation is called "Welcome Gate" and is actually also one of the stages of my Adventure lab called "SP'AKW'US Feather Park"

 I also found a traditional cache in the area, and then in Whistler Village I did a 4 stage multi cache.

Loved this cool sign I spotted on my walk for the Multi cache

After my show on the way home, I stopped just off the highway and grabbed a letterbox cache, which was actually up in a tree. (Make sure you read the hint first)

I did not know that, but luckily, I always carry my extendible pole in the back of my car.

Ice Cream Event

Headed out with Susan (Caching name is Sansue) for a geocaching event called "7th annual sunday sundaes"

Its always a well attended event. 

We grabbed 3 caches before the event as well. 

Large group of cachers made this a great event. Check out the Logbook!! 

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States Caching

Headed down to the States as I booked a wedding gig down in Edmonds, Washington.

We stopped in Blaine do do some Adventure Labs, as there is a new series of AL's being made at the border that is geoart, and will spell out CAN/USA 

As you can see from the pic, it is not quite finished

I got a total of 228 stages at the border. If you recall a couple months ago in my blog I talked about the AL Geoart I was part of over in Victoria on the Island. That one has a total of 124 AL's and the one here at the border will have 76 AL's when completed.

We then headed to Arlington, Wash. to get a cache I did on my last trip to the states. It was called "the Switchboard", which was a really cool gadget cache, so I decided to take Susan to it. 

In fact I revisited 4 caches that I had aready done, so she could see them as they were very cool. 

We stopped at the Library in Edmonds to get this cache.

It was called "Signals story-Edmonds library"

We got several more in Edmonds. I got 5 traditional's and 2 Multi caches 

I found a total of 7 caches and 2 AL's in Edmonds bringing my total for the day counting all  the AL Stages in Blaine to 237 finds for the day

 

 

(Technically that is the most finds I have found in one day, but I won't count it as it is mostly made up of Adventure Labs)

It was a beautiful day in Edmonds, and awesome for caching, and walking the pier. 

We tryed to get a cache that was inside a metal tub in a bench but my telescopic magnet that I brought specifically for this cache was to wide to fit between the boards of the seat. We did another cache nearby and in it was a small pin with a magnet on it. I took it and we went back to the cache. I hooked part of the cache(a small metal chain) and as I brought it up the magnet 

and chain connected to the metal tube. Leaving me with no cache in hand...oooops. Oh well, next time we are there I will be more prepared.

Next month I will be heading to Penticton, Kelowna, and Vegas, so I will be grabbing some select caches.....But more about that in Next months Blog....

Well that's it for this month!!

Off to Kelowna, Penticton and VEGAS BABY!!!

Keep on Caching

Chris Yuill

Magicman65

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