Warm Weather Geocaching In Assiniboine Forest

Happy St. Patricks Day

Clue Junior Game Cache



Saturday morning dawned to +8 C, and by midday was +19! It was such a beautiful spring day, the sky was blue the sun was shining and the birds were singing, a perfect day to out enjoying the outdoors.  We were going to try to finish the geocaches in Assiniboine Forest today, we did not finish! But I am okay with that I have enjoyed caching in the forest very much and will be sad to put it to rest. We had a little bit of a chuckle on our first find, the co ordinates were telling us that the cache should be across a fence that we could see no way around.  A woman was coming out of a zoo building and Gerry was going to ask her if it was possible to come around in the fence, I was just standing back and looking around and I spotted something! I say to him "never mind" I found it!  This one was part of the "Clue Junior Game" Now off across the highway and on to find "Beer In A Tree" this title had me puzzled since I saw it!  Well it turned out to be a beer bottle shaped tin, a Moosehead! Neat, another find by the girl half of GeoPartnerS!  Yeahhhh 2 for the girl 0 for the boy.





The next caches description said, finding the cache won't be hard but retrieving it will be! The boys geoeyes saw this one pronto and  getting it down was no problem, but now what? How to put it back in place, unless you are good at climbing trees!  

the find




Putting it back



It's thata way

We forgot to take a picture of Gers next find! This is the cache that we put Veronica the Bear Travel Bug into.  As you can see it's getting a bit warm out! There was no breeze at all in the forest and at times we were working pretty hard slugging through tall dry grass and fallen trees

We also had some water to wade through and ditches to cross! Thank goodness for rubber boots!  There is not as much water as there could be because of limited snowfall this year.  There were very few patches of snow left anywhere, what a change from the last time we cached in the forest! 



Stage 1 of a multi

This is stage 1 of a multi cache, this is our first multi.  The multi stage caches are more work because, this one had 3 stages but you get to only log it as 1 find.  Not good for numbers if that is what you are after on a particular day.  We didn't mind it! This was named  Snow Fantasy.

In the neat little containers are the co ordinates to the next stage.  The stage 1 container was a figurine with a pill bottle attached to it, to hold the information.  Stage 2 was a mask which held the information to stage 3, the final and the mother load!

Snow Fantasy

The dragon slayer



Look at all the jewels!

We were needing a bit of a rest at this point so what could be better then to play a little?

Playing dress up



number 3



Okay enough playing around! It's time to carry on! We are heading to pick up the last 3 caches in the Clue Jr. Game, this one is number 3!

On our next trip into the forest we will solve the mystery of the missing chocolate cake!

number 4



number 5

We managed to get 10 geocaches today but logged 8! Today we are 2 tired Cachers!  We did a lot of walking!  Here is the deer that I have been waiting to take a picture of, today we saw several of them!  It is so nice to see some wildlife.

An abandoned shelter.  We have seen a few of these in the forest in the last few months.  Two tired and thirsty cachers with sore feet and sore legs heading back to the car!  We had a very good and successful day!  I have to say again it was so nice to spend this beautiful spring day in the outdoors.

Have fun caching
GeoPartnerS
Caching since 2011

Cardiff Alberta

All Girl Team In Cardiff



Happy Birthday!

Number 1 find on the way to caching in Cardiff on

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Monday, we had tryed for this one on our first day caching but muggles kept us from attempting it.  Today was muggle free and quiet so it was a rather quick find for a cache that was not supposed to be winter friendly. 
This next one was in the bush, we had a little bit of bushwacking, we looked for this one for quite awhile, but had no idea what we were looking for as we only had co ordinates, no size no clues! We were about to leave and go onto the next place but K&Ccache spotted it, good geoeyes! perserverance does pay off.

The next one is by the golf course, we are walking downhill towards the cache and I spot it before I even get close to it.  It is an emergency box which is very well sealed and kept everything nice and dry.  We discovered a travel bug named Veronica The Bear.  I decide to take the travel bug with me to Winnipeg.  Veronica has an interesting story which can be found here.  I will move her on in the next few weeks, till I place her she will travel with me.  Veronica is the first travel bug that I have taken, I have discovered quite a few.

This is a picture of Veronica The Travelling Bear. Her tracking code is DXVVN3.

To get to this cache we had to drive down a very soft and muddy road, K&Ccache mobile was very dirty when we go out of there!

This was another walk up and grab, we did have a bit of a walk to get to it and out of it.

Our last one, another walk through snow that was hard slugging through.  This was through another little park next to a farm yard.  This was a walk up and spot for Chicksteroo.  The walk back to the geomobile was a long one for me, I was played out!  This was the last one of the day.  This picture is of the park across the road from where we found the cache, looks like a fun park for kids to play in.

Saying goodbye to caching for today!  Thank you Morinville and area for the geocaches, and for taking me to, and  showing me areas, and taking me outdoors to enjoy your town!  I will be back for more adventures in the future.

Have fun caching
GeoPartnerS
Caching since 2011

Geocaching in St. Albert Alberta

Two Daughters and Mama!


Chicksteroos first find

Sunday, and the sun is shining for us again!  We are heading into St. Albert today for our caching adventures.  Today I am using Kal's GPS and it was so nice to just plug it into the computer and download the co ordinates, wow so easy, I love it! Here again in St Albert we discovered the little neighborhood parks.  These little parks will be so nice to discover in the summertime, they have benches to sit on and enjoy the scenery.  I am always amazed at how many little parks each town has.  What a wonderful way to discover them!  K&Ccache is a great pilot and navigator, getting around to all the spots that we had to get to, with limited help from the map that had a very few street names on it.  Our first destination! We walked along the paved path till we got to the park and the gps was telling us it was in a tree, Chicksteroos geosenses were on high alert and she found it pronto, her very first, and here's the proof!
The temperature was in the low +'s again today with a little bit of breeze

which makes it a bit chilly at times.  Off to our next find through another little park and then around a fence to a spruce tree!  I am not sure who made this find, K&Ccache may have seen it first, but there was a little to do about touching it!  You touch it, no I don't want to!  What if it moves...what if it bites me? I rather it bite you!



It was K&Ccaches find!

As always click on the pics to enlarge!

Hummmm, do birds nest when there is still snow?  It did look realistic, the bird was faced away from the front of the nest and that made it hard to tell that it was a decoy!  It was certainly a fun cache, we liked this one.  I marked this one as a favorite of mine.  I believe that for every 10 finds you get to pick 1 favorite. 

The next one was through another park with a little bit of bushwacking in some fairly thick undergrowth.  This one was a small ammo box hidden under a stump, it was pretty neat.  There were a few tradeables in it, they were all in good shape and nice and dry.  I did not see any garbage swag in any of the caches that we looked in over the weekend, all neat stuff for the right person.  We took nothing and where we could we left a ladybug fridge magnet and a sig card.  Both girls spotted this one.

 Somewhere in between these caches I found one which was my only one of the day.  It was a micro that was laying on the ground so we signed it and I hung it back up.  We seemed to have missed getting a picture of this one.  Just for the record, I was not skunked!  The next find was a lock and lock container in another little park.  Most of these were quite easy finds.

On to another little park with a little bit of bushwacking for find number 6 which was another small ammo box, the ammo boxes are a real nice container if you are hiding in the bush.  There is lots of room to put tradeables and the box keeps everything really nice and dry.  For the most part they can be quite easy to find because of the size so you have to make getting to it a bit of a challenge.  Although they can be hidden well in the right spot, like the one hidden in the stump, if it were not for the clue it would have been hard to find.


K&Ccaches find.

There was a rabbit at the end of this path but it ducked behind the snow bank just as I took the picture.  These are the paths that the towns have from the street to the parks.  One park may have a few paths to it, great planning on the citys part.

Have fun caching
GeoPartnerS
Caching since 2011

Morinville Geocaching Day 2

And Then There Were 3!

 Saturday brought another beautiful day, although the wind was a little chilly today but temperture was probably the low +'s, +3 or 4? The girl half of K&Ccache and Provit and myself headed out to pick up a few caches.  Morinville has nice paved trails from the street to the parks, so we headed to the park on one of the trails and slugged it through the snow, which was quite hard going!  We got to the first cache which we thought should be in a tree, but after the 3 of us searching for what seemed like a long time we decided to give it up, thinking that maybe the cache was gone.  Our next target was another one at the other end of this park and so we headed to it.  This one was in a tree as well, again the 3 of us searched and expanded our area and we came up empty.  We saw where we thought this one should be but there was no cache to be found.  Oh man this is getting a little discouraging, we don't mind not finding one, but two in a row is just too much for us! So we head to the next spot which is another little park, it is amazing just how many little parks that towns have.  We would never discover them unless we were involved in an activity such as geocaching.  Provit found this one easily.  My GPS was sending me on a little wild goose chase but Provits smartphone took her right to it.  It was a micro placed in a tree as well.

Yeahhh! We know that at least we will not be skunked today!  Now its time to head over to our next geocache, this one should be quite easy, it seems to be on or around the cemetary gate.  It's a nano, so we would think that it should be magnetic and on metal.  But we have found out that just because it is magnetic does not mean that it's on metal!  So the 3 of us searched and searched on the gate, on the trees, on the ground and expanded our search.  Some people were calling this one a drive up and grab! We just came up empty.  We went back to this cache 2 more times and came up empty each time. Then we came back once with the guy half of K&Ccache and Chicksteroo and we came up empty as well.   I have put a watch on this listing, I am just about certain that it is MIA!

The Three Muskateers!

This is on a golf course
that K&Ccache golfs at.

This is the St. Jean Baptiste Roman Catholic Church.  It is a grande looking building built in 1907, click on the link for more information.

I am adding a few pictures that I took on our way into Edmonton earlier in the day.

This was the back yard of an
acreage that is for sale.



Have fun caching

GeoPartnerS

Caching since 2011

Geocaching In Morinville Alberta

Visiting & Caching!



#1
 and the first one found by K&Ccache

 I was visiting in Morinville for the weekend and we decided on Friday afternoon to go and grab a few caches.  The temperature was about +7 with no wind, it was a beautiful day for a walk and some outdoor activity.  The day was a little bit of driving and then a little bit of walking.  We walked on a nice paved trail to get to the first cache. The trails are used for walking, roller blading and I am not sure if biking is allowed on the trails.  The girl half of K&Ccache had her geoeyes and geosenses on high alert because she was the "finder" of the day!  We practically followed the previous finders foot tracks to this one.  The foot prints can sure be spoilers at this time of year.  Next we headed across the highway
from Morinville, there is a little lake with stocked fish, there were a few fishermen on the lake this afternoon but they were paying no mind to us.  There were staring down their fishholes.  They are the kind of muggles we like!  We were walking in pretty deep snow at this point but that did not stop us, we trecked on!  It was an easy find for K&Ccache!


#2 find by the lake



The road to get close into this spot was really quite soft and muddy, K&Ccache's Geomobile was very muddy, and so were we! But through thick and thin that cache has to get looked for and hopefully found!  Off to our next destination which was a bit of a walk on a nice trail through a park and then some slugging through the snow.  This one was a magnetic, but we are walking along a wooden fence?  I spot a metal post on the other side of the barb wire and I decide to crawl under the fence to go and check the post out, but I look up as I am crossing the fence and VOILA there is the cache tucked neatly up against the wood.  There was a metal disk attached to the wood for the magnetic cache to stick to.  We liked this one a lot.  We did not expect to see it on wood, but that is the name of the game, and a CO who has put some thought into hiding the cache.  A different hide makes it interesting and fun for the seekers.



#3 on the fence

This last one was by the Morinville Leagion, the memorial is dedicated to our heros who served our country. 

This cache was a little tricky as well, usually when looking in a tree the cache is placed by the tree truck, this one was not, it was at the tip of the branch.

This is what the plaque reads.

DEDICATED TO SERVICEMEN, SERVICEWOMEN AND RCMP MEMBERS WHO SERVED AT HOME AND ABROAD BOER WAR - WW1 - WW 11 KOREA WAR - UN PEACEKEEPING MISSIONS - NATO MISSIONS - AFGHANISTAN WAR PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE MAY WE EVER REMEMBER THEM.

Have fun caching

GeoPartnerS

Caching since 2011