Sunday, August 29, 2010

A Geocaching Holiday - Day 4 & 5

Day 4:
My final day of Geocaching in the Chilliwack area.
After spending most of the morning before church trying to solve a puzzle cache, I was glad to be able to do that one first thing after church ended. Then biked back to house to go with my Uncle for the rest of the Give R Take series.

After parking the truck at the end, we went to the beginning, (with their 2nd vehicle) and were dropped off there.
Almost immediately after being dropped off I was doing two things.
Enjoying the abundant blackberries, and searching for the first cache, which was really close.
Found the next three relatively quickly also.
Then we were on the actual trail. This side was quite different from the other. Yes it was still steep, but it was much more entertaining, because it was a mountain bike trail. Made me wish all over again that i had a nice mountain bike.

This Guy Didn't wipe out. The following Did.
As it got further we went into more of the technical stuff, like bridges, jumps, ramps and such.
The First of Many to Come
Another Bridge
A Really High One
A Long One
In case you're getting bored of the jumps, enjoy a Christmas Tree!
Yes there's a Cache right behind it! 
And back to the jumps...
Another Long One! 
A Cache and Trackable I Dropped

A Big Jump
Anyway, sorry for those who may be getting bored of the bike trail pics. That ended then, and we were back on a different FSR road. Hiked along that until turning off onto a dirtbike trail.
Onto a Different Trail
From there we followed a bunch of different dirt-bike trails getting a cache every 700m or so.
All in all we got 15 caches along this trail. Came out near the truck and got to see these neat stone statues.
Interesting Statue. There was 2 of these
After that my Mom picked me up not long later. And we headed to Maple Ridge, where we were staying at friends.

Day 5:
 Day 5 started with me having to have a doctors appointment at 3pm in Vancouver. However, that still meant I had 4 hours to go and get some caches before we had to leave. Off on their bike which they lent me.
Managed to grab 9 caches in Maple Ridge and saw this very unique tree
The tree on the right grew sideways and joined up with the left tree. Completely joined, this is just 1 tree! 
Also managed to snag a letterbox, private property cache, and a few small caches in Vancouver.

Then it was time to finally head home.  Well, that is after a quick stop in Vernon. (and 1 more cache!)

And so my Geocaching Holiday came to an end. But i did get 100+ caches and lots of biking!
Was it worth it? Totally!

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