Hello Fellow cachers,
What a great summer we are having for hitting the trails. have been doing a lot of hiking, mountain biking and off road motorcycle. It seems like not so much city caching anymore, could that be because I have done most of them?
Well, tomorrow Princess! and I are heading to New Brunswick to visit the parents and do a little caching as well. We are hosting an event on August 5th in Campbellton NB on the pier, a place I used to watch my grandfather work as a longshoreman and played there as well. Looking forward to meeting the local cachers and a number of Quebec cachers as it is only a KM to the Quebec side.
My sister, Indynb, who I got into caching two years ago will be there as well. We hope to get a few days of caching in. I suppose I will head out every morning to cache about 0430 and head back about 0800 to wake up Princess! Most of the caches will have the same hint, "Winter Friendly" which means 6 feet or more up a tree, I may need a ladder for some of them. I will post every few days on my caching experience in the East.
Happy caching.. Paulboy
Wednesday, 30 July 2014
Sunday, 13 July 2014
15,000 and counting
As I near my 15,000 cache find, I find my self in Campbell River visiting the Outlaws . I brought my Geohonda with me for caching. I needed 87 caches to reach my goal and have two days to find these caches. I headed out at 0530 hours with bike in tow and parked at Willis road at the start of the DBM, Duncan Bay Mainline logging road and headed out. It was so quite and peaceful and not a sole around.
About 0700 hours a beat up 4X4 came off a side road and asked me how to get to Courtenay. He had most of his windows smashed out and the body was a mess. He took my directions and off he went.
At the morning progressed, it got real hot and the dust was thick, even going to grab caches was dusty, the trees and bushes were covered in dust. By 1030 hours, I had managed to find 85 caches. I was running out of water so I headed back to the truck and watered up and finished up the other side of the DBM and a few caches in town. It is now noon and very hot and I managed to grab 97 caches. So in the end, I reached my goal of finding my 15,000 cache find before heading to New Brunswick at the end of the month.
My OAP event is coming up on August 23rd in Ladysmith, hope to see everyone there. More to come soon and happy caching everyone.
About 0700 hours a beat up 4X4 came off a side road and asked me how to get to Courtenay. He had most of his windows smashed out and the body was a mess. He took my directions and off he went.
At the morning progressed, it got real hot and the dust was thick, even going to grab caches was dusty, the trees and bushes were covered in dust. By 1030 hours, I had managed to find 85 caches. I was running out of water so I headed back to the truck and watered up and finished up the other side of the DBM and a few caches in town. It is now noon and very hot and I managed to grab 97 caches. So in the end, I reached my goal of finding my 15,000 cache find before heading to New Brunswick at the end of the month.
My OAP event is coming up on August 23rd in Ladysmith, hope to see everyone there. More to come soon and happy caching everyone.
Thursday, 3 July 2014
Always Caching
I have not done a post for some time but it is time do write a short post for the start of summer. Since my return from the Vegas trip, I have joined up with the Sunday Caching Group (SCG), we meet most Sundays that we can and do some pretty wild hikes to mountain tops and we have been also looking for a lot of the old Team caches on the Island. I have also been out on the off road Hondas with Cougar Kid every few weeks for some great days of caching mostly on the off roads between Courtenay & Campbell River off the DBM line. I have also been out a with JuRuu doing some hiking on the trails and some urban caching as well. I put together a group to hike the Wesley Ridge a few weeks ago behind Cameron Lake. There were 13 caches on this hike which started up to 600 meters then across the ridge and then down at 900 meters. Going down was the hardest as some of the areas we had to come down via ropes.It took us about 8.5 hours to complete. Some of the trails were not really trails but rather follow the pink ribbon through the woods. The views were so spectacular. It with a great hike with a great crew. It was a good idea that we parked a car at either end of the lake!
Not too much in the works for the rest of the summer but a few hikes in the fall are falling into place, like Mount Arrowsmith.
Princess! & I are heading to New Brunswick in less that a month and I will be caching there as well a little in Quebec which is just across the bridge form where I grew up, Campbellton, NB. It is certainly a different type of caching there as most caches have to be winter friendly, if that is possible. Princess! and I are having an event when we are in NB as there are not many events or cachers in the area. Looking forward to our trip there as it will be nice to see my parents and family.
My numbers are climbing and I am 112 caches away from 15,000.
I will be posting while in NB so anyone who is are interested can read about my caching there.
Paulboy
Not too much in the works for the rest of the summer but a few hikes in the fall are falling into place, like Mount Arrowsmith.
Princess! & I are heading to New Brunswick in less that a month and I will be caching there as well a little in Quebec which is just across the bridge form where I grew up, Campbellton, NB. It is certainly a different type of caching there as most caches have to be winter friendly, if that is possible. Princess! and I are having an event when we are in NB as there are not many events or cachers in the area. Looking forward to our trip there as it will be nice to see my parents and family.
My numbers are climbing and I am 112 caches away from 15,000.
Paulboy
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