Happy New Year

 Caching into the New Year!!

New Years Eve in the States!!!

Booked a NYE gig down in Bellingham, Wash.

Susan and I headed down early to grab several caches before my event. Susan is on crutches right now, so we had to just do some drive up and easy to get to caches.

We were able to get 1 Virtual, 1 Letterbox cache, 1 Whereigo, 1 puzzle cache and several Traditional caches for a total of 19 caches.

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The Year End Stats are in!!!

Every Year Groundspeak sends out a snapshot of your yearly stats, and it's always a cool thing to look at:

Here’s a look at some stats more specific to you and how you geocached in 2025:

644   This is your total number of finds in 2025. We bet you found some pretty cool caches along the way!

GCGA0N   This is the oldest placed cache you found in 2025. This cache was waiting for that special moment when you logged it!

Snapshot! Say Cheese! Did you share images in your logs? Take a walk down memory lane:

This is the first image you posted in 2025. Aww, do you remember that moment?

This is the last image you posted in 2025. It’s like it happened yesterday!

12   This is the number of distinct cache types you logged during the year. You really aimed for variety!

Adventure Lab® Cache   Adventure Lab® Caches were your top cache type in 2025! You don’t follow the status quo and aren’t afraid to try new things. Way to go on creating your own path!

2   This is the total number of countries you cached in 2025. You explored geocaches far and wide!

GCA2025 9044 Favorite points This is the most Favorited cache that you found in 2025. Take a walk down memory lane and revisit what made this cache so special!

7   This is the number of Events you attended in 2025. Oh, the places you’ve been and the geocachers you’ve met!

17   This is the number of souvenirs you received in 2025. There are more souvenirs out there! See a list of all the souvenirs you could earn.

10/9/2025 130 finds This was your busiest caching day of 2025. You were on a mission!

81   This is the total number of days you geocached in 2025. Way to fill in that calendar!

23   This is the number of Favorite points you awarded to geocaches. You had lots of love to give and you didn’t hold back!

46   You received this many Favorite points on your owned caches in 2025. The community really loves your geocaches!

56   This is the number of Treasures you collected in 2025. How many will you collect in 2026?

5   This is the number of geocaches you hid in 2025. Thank you for contributing to your geocaching community!

2025 wasn't too bad for caching. Found 644 finds this past year, not too bad. 

Oldest cache I found this past year was a Virtual in Santa Barbara, California when I got off the cruise ship for a few hours. 

12 different distinct cache types, Only 81 caching days though, that's not that many. Might need to get out more often this year. 

When I read on my 2025 stats from above that I did 130 finds in one day, I was like..."When did I do that??"

I then looked to see that it was the date I was flying back home from San Diego after my 5 days on a cruise ship, and I did 26 Adventure Labs at the Airport. The crazy part was I did all 130 finds in less than 30 minutes. Must be a record for sure!! Lol

Booked a private Party in Anacortes, Wash. this month, so I headed down early so I could grab a few caches. Took Susan with me as well.

Here is a pic of a cool looking downspout found near a cache called Gutters.

Found a total of 1 Puzzle cache, 1 multi, and 14 traditional caches

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Next month, I will be heading to Vancouver Island over to Ucluelet on the west side of the island for a show.....But more about that in Next months Blog....

Well that's it for this month!!

Keep on caching!!

Chris Yuill

Magicman65

Christmas Caching

Vancouver Island Caches

Had a corporate Gig in Nanaimo, so I went over early so I could grab a few caches. Ended up just getting 2 in Parksville area, plus 1 Adventure Lab at an outside Museum.

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Skagit Valley Trip

Booked a corporate show down in the States at the Skagit Valley Casino.

I took Susan (Sansue) with me, and we grabbed several caches on the way there. A couple of the caches we got, I had already got from other trips across the border.

We did a total of 2 Adventure Labs, and 3 caches, but I only could log one of them, since I found the other two already.

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Mount Currie Trip

Booked a corporate show in Mount Currie and thought I would try and find a few caches on the way. 

Grabbed 1 cache that was a 5 Gallon Bucket hanging in a tree. It was on a rope and pulley, so you could lower it down to sign the log inside.

I also stopped in Pemberton, as I did a walkaround gig there in the summertime and I was checking out a sign board at that time, about a slide that has happened several years past which closed a roadway. I thought this would make a perfect earth cache so this time I decided to grab some more information, and pictures of the sign boards and do a little research and build a new earth cache for people coming through the area. Look for it to be published soon hopefully.

The 2010 Mount Meager landslide was a large catastrophic debris Avalanche that occurred in southwestern British Columbia, Canada, on August 6 at 3:27 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time.

 More than 45,000,000 m³ (1.6×10⁹ ft³) of debris slid down Mount Meager, temporarily blocking Meager Creek and destroying local bridges, roads and equipment. It was one of the largest landslides in Canadian history and one of over 20 landslides to have occurred from the Mount Meager Massif in the last 10,000 years.

Last month when I was in Squamish for a gig, I noticed there was only one adventure lab here, so I decided maybe I should try and put an adventure lab in town.
I noticed there was a lot of murals in town so I thought that would be perfect so I started looking at some of the murals, but then when I went near to where I was doing my gig at it was a cool new park that it just opened with lots of artwork and interesting things so I decided to do the adventure lab there all five and one little area nice little walking tour of the park I got all the information. I built an adventure lab when I got home and then a few days later I noticed another adventure lab got published there in town shortly after I was gone today going through there. I stopped to do the adventure lab that is in mine and it is of the murals in town. Very funny coincidence? 
And the cool part was, I was actually the first one to log this new adventure lab!!

Another Island trip

Booked a Corporate show in Victoria the week before Christmas. Went over to the island on the first sailing so I could also grab some caches. I ended up getting 16 stages of  9 different Adventure Labs, and 5 Virtual Caches. 

I like when you can go to one spot and there is a cache or virtual and also a stage of an AL. "Mile 0" was one of these spots.

One of the Virtuals was the "Terry Fox Marathon of Hope" Statue.

Below is an excerpt from the Caching page:

Terry began his Marathon of Hope on April 12, 1980 to raise money for cancer research. The journey started near St. John's, Newfoundland with the intent of running the equivalent of one full marathon (42 kilometers) a day until he reached Victoria, British Columbia. The Marathon started off with little fanfare but Terry’s journey soon grabbed the public’s attention and soon events were scheduled to greet Terry along the way. Terry quite frequently provided speeches, media interviews, and attended sporting events – anything he could do to raise awareness of cancer research. On September 1, 1980 near Thunder Bay, Ontario, Terry fell ill and was admitted to hospital. The following day, after running for 143 days and 5,373 kilometers, Terry announced that his cancer had returned and had spread to his lungs. Terry underwent months of chemotherapy and other treatments before eventually passing away on June 28, 1981 at the age of 22.

Terry had raised $1.7 million during the Marathon of Hope and another $10 million was raised in the weeks after the run ended. The first annual Terry Fox Run was held on September 13, 1981 and has been organized in over 60 countries, and attracts more than three million people annually. The Terry Fox Run is the world's largest one-day fundraiser for cancer research, and has raised over $850 million dollars.

Next Month will be the start of a New Year...2026, with lots of cool things to come, lots of shows, and of course lots of caching trips....But, more about that Next Month. Until then stay safe, cache often, and have an awesome New Year!!!

Well that's it for this month!!

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!

Keep on caching!!

Chris Yuill

Magicman65

Seasonal Traveling

 Squamish

Fishy Bike Rack

I booked a wedding gig for some walk around Magic in Squamish on a weekend, so I headed that way a bit early so I could grab some geocaches along the way as well as in Squamish
It’s nice if you can cache along the route to your

final destination as it helps break up the trip although, this trip isn’t that far maybe about an hour and a half from my place it’s still nice to stop and stretch your legs and grab a cache, enjoy some scenery and then head down the road further towards the next cache and the final destination

I got into town early and was doing a couple of caches near my event in a new park and I checked to see if there was any Adventure Labs in the area and realized there’s only one adventure lab in town.

I thought this new park would make a great adventure lab so while I was there geocaching I also grabbed some coordinates and a bunch of pictures of some of the cool artwork 

at the park, and a week or so later after being home, I built a new Adventure Lab in Squamish. I am looking forward to seeing the reviews on it when cachers start finding it.

I also signed up for Happy Holidays mission 2025 again this year.

I've been doing it for the past few years. It was set up by Laval K-9, and how it works, is first you say you want to participate, and then she matches you with another cacher somewhere and you send out a Christmas Card and an unactivated Geocoin to them, and you get a card and a coin from some other cacher. It's a nice way to connect with other cachers during the holidays.

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Sunshine Coast

Booked a corporate gig over on the sunshine Coast in Sechelt.
Went over early in the morning with Sansue. 

The first cache we grabbed was called "Ferry Beach". Many trips I have taken to the Sunshine Coast, but didn't grab it for fear of missing my Ferry. 

It is right by the ferry terminal in Langdale and it has been on my list for a long time, but I’ve never had the time to get it this time, so as soon as we got off the ferry we parked went over onto the beach and grabbed it as our first cache of the day, no rush!! Good view of the Ferry we were just on from the Cache site.

Did several more on our way to Sechelt, including an earthcache, which was at one of the pitstops for amazing race Canada, which was very cool to go there to see it. 

When I watched the amazing race in Canada and they said they were over by Sechelt at this location. I quickly searched for it on Google maps. This was last year and I found the place and of course searched to see if there was any geocache there and behold there was an earthcache which was very cool so we got it on this trip. 

Did a quick google search to get the info, as you can see in the picture.

The Mandala is in Robert Creek, BC

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Prince George

Headed to Prince George for a corporate gig. I was just thru here a couple months ago back in August when I flew into PG, rented a car and headed 2 hours north to McLeod Lake community for a festive family friendly show for the town. 
Grabbed only one cache this trip but it was a cool one called “The Maze”

it was a 3D printed container but you had to twist and turn it as you pulled it apart in order to follow the track to do so. Very fun gadget container. Took me about 5 minutes to get it open. It was the closest cache to my hotel. 

Usually when I go to Prince George I go over to see Mr. PG and get a picture with him. 

This trip I didn’t have time but I did pass him several times while Ubering (Is that a word? Actually in PG they don't have Uber, they have "Uride) ) from airport to hotel and hotel to Venue for my show. 

Next month I am headed to Vancouver Island twice, once to Nanaimo, and once to Victoria for Corporate gigs, also to Lake Errock, Skagit Valley Casino, and Mount Currie for shows........BUT More about that in Next Months Blog........

Well that's it for this month!!

Keep on caching!!

Chris Yuill

Magicman65