Bellingham,
located only 10 minutes south of the Canadian border, has long been a popular
destination for Canadians to part with their cash. Over the past 10 years, the
declining Canadian dollar has resulted in a lot less BC plates on the streets
of Bellingham. Recent improvements in the Canuck buck, will hopefully bring the
cross-border cash spenders back to town. To jump start the progression, we hope
to bring some cross-border cachers, as well as Washington cachers together in
hunt for some US cache.
The posted coordinates are not of the first stop, but the last. The first stop is GCF0F9, just south of the Truck Crossing. We meet in the parking lot, near the tailhead to the first cache at 7:00 AM
on Saturday, February 28th, and reconvene at the last waypoint, the above posted coordinates (Red Robin at
Bellis Fair) at 7:00 PM to toast the success of our day of geocaching. What
happens in between is up to you. Cache as a group, individually, in reverse
order, skip a few, or add few caches on your own if you like.
Per other recent cache machines, please remember the most important rule...
if you find a cache, you MUST also rehide the cache as good or better than
you found it. You cannot just sign the log, pass the cache to the next finder
and then move on. You find it, you hide it.
Cache machines are about sharing an incredible unique experience with other
cachers. If you have not experienced one first hand, it is our hope that the
Bellingham Cache Machine will allow you opportunity to see for yourself, by
participating, the enjoyment, pleasure and shear panic that a cache machine
promises to deliver.
SPECIAL NOTES:
- The route we have provided is a guide only. Errors and Omissions are expected.
- The
official FRS radio channel for this event is channel 2. If you have FRS
radios, tuning in is half the fun.
- Access to several caches on the route (GCF006), GC2218) will
be affected by tides in Bellingham Bay. You may wish to alter your route
schedule accordingly. Tides
for Bellingham Bay, February 28, 2004...
| Low Tide |
5:35 am |
2.25m |
|
Sunrise |
6:56 am |
| High Tide |
9:00 am |
2.16m |
|
Daylight |
10h 54m |
| Low Tide |
5:42 pm |
0.43m |
|
Sunset |
5:50 pm |
- Cache GCH6MJ is a web cam cache. It is our hope that as many cachers as
possible can gather at the cache location together and we can capture a web
cam group shot... a cache machine first! Please try to be at the cache location
at 11:30 am if you can attend. Vancouver geocacher, TLG has graciously
offered to capture the requisite image for us.
- Special thanks go to Bellingham cacher, Hairy Plotter, who has provided
much needed advice in the route planning of this event.
| Files |
Description |
Updated |
| Route map |
Proposed BCM Route including turn-by-turn instructions to each cache. (5.2 Mb PDF) |
Feb 22 (FINAL) |
| GPS .loc |
EasyGPS LOC file including all Bellingham area caches on the BCM. Upload
this file to your GPS and you your are set to go. (30 Kb LOC) |
Feb 22
(FINAL) |
| Cache Pages |
Printer friendly version of all the cache pages on the BCM. A must for
the non-paperless cachers. (1.9 Mb PDF) |
Feb 23
(FINAL) |
| Checklist |
Linked cache list. Print out and record your
finds en route, then open the html file locally and access the cache
pages for easy logging.(2 Kb html) |
Feb 22
(FINAL) |
PS: Permission to use the cache machine concept made popular
in WA, has been granted by TravisL in exchange for a pocket full of geocoins.
:-)
Be sure to visit
BCgeocaching.com |