The Juan de Fuca Trail and area

On Sat. Sept. 10th, Landchatch and I stared to do most of the caches between Sooke and China Beach Parking site, along the water side. It was a wonderful day both weather wise and in our search of those caches that took us up and down the trails to the beaches.
We started out at 0600 ours in Ladysmith and drove to China Beach via the Island highway. In our quest for the day, we managed to find 35 caches with 4 DNF's. We started at China Beack and cached towards Sooke doing a few caches in Sooke before heading home at 1800 hours. It was a long day and we hike well over 15 km,s.
It is our quest to do all of the Juan de Fuca Trail over the next few months depending the weather.
On Sat. Sept. 17th, we decided to start the trail at China Beach and again left ladysmith at 0600 hours and headed for the parking area via the Sooke way. We arrived just before 0800 hours as we stopped for one cache that we had a DNF on last Sat. and searched until we found it, great way to start off the day. We parked about 350 meters on the road near a bridge past the China Beach parking and it saved us a bit of  hike. The weather was overcast with a lot of fog and rain but still a nice day. As we started out on the trail, 10 woman hikers were coming from hiking the trail and camping. The 11 km hike took us a little over 4 hours to get back to the road and then had to hike back to the truck took over an hour on the road as we only had one truck this time. The hike back to the truck was a little over 7 KM's. We encountered another 8 hikers/campers along the way.
The trails were in good shape and mostly dry and not too many puddles. The views were wonderful but the fog and rain did limit some of the views of the wonderful area we were in. I can see this trail getting a little tough as the rains become more frequent over the winter. We managed to find the nine caches along this portion of the trail, and two of them had DNF's from the last cachers here.
Our quest is to start where we left of in a few weeks and do another section of the trail and hopefully we can get a few more cachers in order to do a longer section.
I will be adding some photos later on to show the area for you.
After our lunch we started for home heading towards Port Renfrew and out to Lake Cowichan caching along the way finding another 7 caches. This brought our total to 17 cache finds for the day and so happy to get some of the trail done. Geocaching My Way of Life  Paulboy

Paulboy & Cougar Kid's Geocaching Adventure Day # 8

This has been a great trip overall, Our adventure has taken us from Calgary to Medcine Hat, down to Montana,  to Lethbridge and back to Calgary for our last day of caching.
Today we did most of the Flames Geo-Art but it was a tough go as a lot of the caches were in need of repairs, many DNF,s and all the caches were little nanos stuck in the ground. One short section we could not drive with our suv. Not what we expected when we got here but not the less we did most of them.
The second section we did was the Dog Pound and it was great series. All the caches were fake rocks with a tube in them and they were all in good shape and dry. We managed to get145 caches today before 1600 hours and heading back to the hotel about an hour away.
In total we travelled over 1000 KM, found about 1300 caches, had two events and got to find/do an amazing cache that was set up for us in Lethbridge. Cougar Kid did all the driving and I did all the runing from the car through the tall grasses avoiding gofer holes. Never did see any rattle snakes and that was a good thing.
This evening we had supper with my good friend, John & Lisa and also my cousin John and his wife Shelley drove from Red Deer to join us.So nice to see everyone.
All that is left is to fly home in a few hours. hope you enjoyed our adventure and thanks for following. Geocahing My Way of Life  Paulboy

Paulboy & Cougar Kid's Geocaching Adventure # Day 7

This is day seven of the adventure and what a ride it has been. We started early this morning and did almost all urban caches in the Lethbridge area. The weather was not as hot as it has been but none the less warm. We even did a few short hikes in parks around town. We managed to find 85 caches in eirht hours.
We had our second travel event at Pizza Hut and ten cachers showed up, even one from medcine Hat.
We are getting ready for the last day doing PQ updates and trying to get the maxium caches we can on our last day. Also having supper with my old friends John & Lisa and my cousin John and his wife Shelley who are coming from Red Deer tomorrow night. So it is a close for this day and will post our last day tomorrow night with a wrap up on Sunday.
My cache find are now at a new level. My goal for the year was 20,000 and today I made the find. Have a great night.

Paulboy & Cougar Kid's Geocachng Adventure Day 6

Well it was time to say goodbye to Medcine Hat and after a breakfast at the hotel, we set our sights for the Canada/USA border to Montana about 0600 hours. We cached along the way finding about 15 roadside caches. We arrived at the border about 1130 hours and had lunch before crossing into more desert. We cached about 5 hours plus driving and managed to find about 125 USA caches. We were driving through more range roads in a 35+ degree weather and it was some hot running back and forth from the car to the fence line. I think I lost another 5 pounds. We saw a few wild animals and not many humans. We had a chat with a few farmers and they were a lot nicer than the physo bitch we ran into a few days ago. At 1700 hours and still well over 1 1/2 hours of driving to get to the hotel, we called it a day and our day is now over. We will cache the city tomorrow and have our event that evening. Off to bed now as a little tired..My finds to date are 19,974, only 26 to go for 20,000.
Geocaching My Way of Life  Paulboy