Difference between revisions of "2014-04-30 49 -115"

Latest revision as of 00:07, 10 August 2020

Location

On crown land 30 meters North of Farstad Way. 20 Km Northeast of Kimberley, British Columbia Canada

Participants

Guzzby

Plans

When I saw this one pop up today, I thought it would be a good chance to get one of the distant geohashes that I need for my minesweeper achievement. This area has always been a favorite place to go for a drive too!. So I decided I would leave about 10:30 am and drive out there. I figured that I would stop in Invermere and have lunch. Then when I got to the hashpoint I was going to pick up two geocaches before coming home.

Expedition

I left the house at 10:30 am. I got to Invermere about 1:00 pm, stopped for lunch and then continued on to Skookumchuk, where the hash point is. I got there about 2:00 pm, the woods at the hash point were fairly thin and it was an easy walk to ground zero. I took a couple of pictures and then walked over to the location of the "b13: dont for get your h20" geocache. From the log files I knew it was around 20 meters from ground zero and near a fence. I searched for about 20 minutes but couldn't find it. The cache owner works at the nearby plant and he saw me looking around and he came over and gave me a hint. Everything clicked, I couldn't believe I missed something so obviously out of place. The cache was very unique and is definitely one of my favorites. The cache owner also placed a second geocache ("b13: the game show") in the area about 200 yards away. It was an easy find, but it was also very unique and it was also one of the largest geocaches I have ever seen. Kudos to the cache owner know as "The Dude"

Photos

View to the north
View to the east
View to the south
View to the west
View of the hashpoint
View from the road
Now that's a large geocache!
Big Horn sheep grazing at the gas station in Radium

Achievements

Guzzby earned the Land geohash achievement

by reaching the (49, -115) geohash on 2014-04-30.

Guzzby earned the Hash collision achievement

by discovering the geocache GC4CN5K 620 meters from the (49, -115) geohash on 2014-04-30.

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 == Location ==
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-On crown land 30 meters north of farstad way. 20 Km Northeast of Kimberley, British Columbia Canada
+On crown land 30 meters North of Farstad Way. 20 Km Northeast of Kimberley, British Columbia Canada
 == Participants ==
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 == Plans ==
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-When i saw this one pop up today, I thought it would be a good chance to get one of the distant ones that I need for my minesweeper achievement. This area has always been a favorite place to go for a drive too!. So I decided I would leave about 10:30 am and drive out there. I figured that I would stop in Invermere and have lunch. Then when I got to the hashpoint I was going to pick up two geocaches before coming home.
+When I saw this one pop up today, I thought it would be a good chance to get one of the distant geohashes that I need for my minesweeper achievement. This area has always been a favorite place to go for a drive too!. So I decided I would leave about 10:30 am and drive out there. I figured that I would stop in Invermere and have lunch. Then when I got to the hashpoint I was going to pick up two geocaches before coming home.
 == Expedition ==
 <!-- how it all turned out. your narrative goes here. -->
+I left the house at 10:30 am. I got to Invermere about 1:00 pm, stopped for lunch and then continued on to Skookumchuk, where the hash point is. I got there about 2:00 pm, the woods at the hash point were fairly thin and it was an easy walk to ground zero. I took a couple of pictures and then walked over to the location of the "b13: dont for get your h20" geocache. From the log files I knew it was around 20 meters from ground zero and near a fence. I searched for about 20 minutes but couldn't find it. The cache owner works at the nearby plant and he saw me looking around and he came over and gave me a hint. Everything clicked, I couldn't believe I missed something so obviously out of place. The cache was very unique and is definitely one of my favorites. The cache owner also placed a second geocache ("b13: the game show") in the area about 200 yards away. It was an easy find, but it was also very unique and it was also one of the largest geocaches I have ever seen. Kudos to the cache owner know as "The Dude"
-== Tracklog ==
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 == Photos ==
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+Image:2014-04-30_49_-115_guzzby1.jpg | View to the north
+Image:2014-04-30_49_-115_guzzby2.jpg | View to the east
+Image:2014-04-30_49_-115_guzzby3.jpg | View to the south
+Image:2014-04-30_49_-115_guzzby4.jpg | View to the west
+Image:2014-04-30_49_-115_guzzby5.jpg | View of the hashpoint
+Image:2014-04-30_49_-115_guzzby6.jpg | View from the road
+Image:2014-04-30_49_-115_guzzby7.jpg | Now that's a large geocache!
+Image:2014-04-30_49_-115_guzzby8.jpg | Big Horn sheep grazing at the gas station in Radium
 </gallery>
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+{{Land geohash | latitude = 49 | longitude = -115 | date = 2014-04-30 | name = [[User:Guzzby|Guzzby]] }}
+{{Hash collision | latitude = 49 | longitude = -115 | date = 2014-04-30 | name = [[User:Guzzby|Guzzby]] | id = GC4CN5K  | link = http://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC4CN5K_b13-dont-for-get-your-h20 | distance = 620 meters | image = 2014-04-25_51_-115_guzzby7.jpg }}
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