Silver Star ~ FTF!

Went skiing at Silver Star today, and after seeing the new multi cache listed, couldn't resist going for the First-to-Find.

Since I wrote a lot for the log, and I'm tired I thought I'd just paste my log instead of rewriting it all again.

FTF
WOOT!!!

Today was the last day skiing with the school and, by chance, I checked Geocaching thinking that if there were any new caches since last I checked, I wouldn't want to miss them. 
Good thing I did. This was definitely a more enjoyable way to spend a day, skiing around, on easy trails, answering questions, before finally heading to the final. 

Upon getting my ski's I immediately went off for the first stage, the paw prints. Headed off, counted, and then down to the chair lift. Then I realized I had forgotten to grab my lift ticket from my teacher. Ooops. Thankfully I managed to make it up that time without getting checked. 

Once I had the lift ticket, I headed down to the comet again, off to do stage 2. While not necessary and not having a cellphone, I just took a picture of myself there. (Hopefully I'll remember to post it later)

Then off for the long ski to Stage 3. Just to realize I can't seem to reach it from the top of the comet. Headed down under the Attridge chair, and then up it. By the way, the Attridge chair has got to be the sketchiest and slowest chair around (aside from the green)
On top, I soon found the pole I was looking for, hiked up to it and got the number. 

Then I had to race back to make it to my lesson in time. Thankfully I did make it. 
After the lesson ended, I was stuck going all the way up the comet, across the top, down under Attridge, across the road and up Silver Queen, before I made it to Stage 4. There I did some quick counting. During which the Lift Attendant came out and asked what I was doing. I told him and he said I must be part of some scavenger hunt going on the day. :p

Now down to the Silver Woods side to grab the next info, up to the top, and writing down the number. Made it to the backside after some time involving cross country, uphill and restricted area. Saw the large structure, then raced back to the main building to report in for lunch and figure out final destination. 

Plugged in the co-ords and was racing all the way around back again. Came around the area of stage 7 and thought something must be wrong, as there was nowhere there to hide anything. Checking my GPS i realized I had only changed the waypoint name, but not the co-ords, so plugged in proper co-ords and was off. 

Had a little bit of time wandering around with skis, in the deep snow before finding the string. Pulled it up and YESSS!!!

Got my FTF. Lots of travelbugs and items in here. Took the FTF prize, thanks, and a bunch of trackables to move along. 

Overall good multi. Fun way to spend a day during the ski season, easy for beginner ski/boarders also. 
Thanks for the Cache!

Glad to finally have the chance to cache again. Winter is far to cold and miserable for very much fun caching opportunities.

A Geocaching Holiday - Day 2

My Second day starts and the first thing on the list to do is a hike around Hicks Lake.
So we take about a 45 minute drive up past Harrison Lake and over to Hicks Lake.

This little trail is quite nice, just a round the lake thing.
We started off and it went pretty well. Only 1 DNF the entire time.
Once we got half way round, the trail got alot better (in my opinion).

Now we get cool bridges...

Also got to use sardis two's GPS, which is a lot nicer than mine. Has all the cache info right on the GPS.

An interesting find along that trail was a cache called Thogards Secret Burnination Cache.

This one was a traditional on the site, but it had the makings of a letterbox. 

You had to draw a dragon.

And then we quickly grabbed a few nearby ones before heading home.

So after having lunch, i was off to go and bike the one side of the trail that circles Cultus Lake. 

There is a series of caches along this route called, Give R Take, with a total of 26 once you do the whole around the lake trail. 

For this part i did the last 13 of them.

Most of them looked like this.

No problem. The only problem is that this side of the trail goes like straight up and then straight down and then staright up and then straight down and then... well you get the idea.

These people had obviously never heard of switchbacks. Or just staying at the same elevation. 

Despite all the hills, this trail was a fun bike. There were also a few short side trips you could make for nearby caches too:

Teapot Hill

Taking a quick break

Buttermilk Cache

The Bejeweled Cache was a quick jog into a seriously mossy spot! 

--->

And finally the letterbox at the end

Now that I finished the trail, I'm off to cache in Cultus until nightfall, when we'll do another Night Cache.

So I managed to do a few more finds before dark, although i also had about 4 DNF's in here too. 

Of course I couldn't resist doing a cache with this nearby!

And so here's the found cache

This Nightcache was way simpler than the other one, although it was no less fun.

Love the ending!

Feel Watched?!?

It was rather creepy. All the trees had eyes

All in all a great day. Set a new GeoFrenzy record, of 38 caches in one day! W00T!
Now to get some sleep before tomorrow's caching

Winter Caching

It's been a long time since i was actually out caching! Today, i managed to get a chance to do 2 close by caches left in the Salmon Arm area.

I drove out, (yes drove! Got my license on the 17th...) and we got cache #1, EZ Cache, first. Glad to get this one as it's been around a long time and i don't get out here very often, aside from XC skiing.

Below is me and Cache:

After this cache, we drove up to the chalet, so i could go run 1km straight into the snowy woods after the next one.

Found between a Camel and Ermine next. Then for a very long snowy trek back.

All in all it was a great trip. Nice to finally get out caching again.