Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Christmas day walk by the airport


We took advantage an unusually mild, sunny Christmas day to go for a long walk on the dike by the airport. The sand flats were beautiful and one place had numerous bear tracks preserved in the mud. The dogs had a great time and we found about 4 interesting caches. Katie went to dinner with her boy-friends family and Mike didn't feel like coming on the walk.
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Tree series of caches

On Dec 23rd we went for a beautiful, snowy winter walk on the horse and hiker trails ,to place a series of 6 caches. These caches will be published for the Pink Mug event on Jan 11th. This is an area where our family has traditionally gone on a Christmas eve walk. It's alwaysa special place in the winter.
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December birthday


Turning 3

Dec fun



December pictures from our house and a trip to Wildlights on my birthday.


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Monday, December 13, 2010

Lorax series of caches

To celebrate our year of geocaching and 500 finds, we decided to put some caches out in Barnhartvale. The first series we did was 2 kid caches and a micro in a series based on the Lorax book. We hid them in an area that was devastated by the pine beetle and then by overly aggressive slavage logging, so the story of the Lorax seemed to really fit. Even though we put them out in the mist of very cold (-20C) weather and even though they were aimed at children we've had a lot of response from the geocaching community. We've had 16 people find them already and a local cacher, Couloir has added to the series. He also did a write up about them on the Interior Geocaching Blog

.Lorax Caches

Interior Geocaching blog



Katie at " at the far end of town"


Katie and Muffy looking for Couloir's cache.

We took Katie out to do our caches and we all found Couloir's

Caching in Nov.

Near the end of November, we went on a beautiful winter walk above Rosehill to finish off a puzzle cache that we had started. It was snowy, but sunny and it turned out to be a great walk. The puzzle cache was amazing and our favourite of all that we have done this year. It turned out to be almost our 500th find.



Rick at the final stage of  "4 Elements"