Travel Ingot Geocoin Wandering Tracks Gold Ingot Geocoin

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Released:
Monday, January 23, 2012
Origin:
Wisconsin, United States
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Wandering Tracks began their journey under the midnight sun at the Arctic Circle in Alaska, a committment to a new life of discovery, strength of character, generosity, and mis-adventures! May our hearts and tracks take us to places we yearn to see for ourselves and never lose the exhilaration of learning and exploring our beautiful earth! We wish this coin to go before us and see the world as our ambassadors.

 

9/16/2014 This geocoin deactivated as the Gold Ingot was stolen and a yellow lego piece was returned to us.

About This Item

Wandering Tracks enjoyed many years of gold panning in Alaska, happy to have shovel, pans and sluice box in as many creeks as possible. One of our favorites and close to home was Pedro Creek, famous for being ground zero for a gold rush in 1902!

Felix Pedro discovered gold in the Tanana Hills northeast of Fairbanks on or about July 22, 1902 in a small unnamed stream (now known as "Pedro Creek") northeast of Fairbanks, prompting him to exclaim "There's gold in them there hills", and triggering a full-scale gold rush. In 1947, the Felix Pedro Monument was erected at mile 16.1 of the Steese Highway north of Fairbanks, near Pedro Creek. Since that time, the annual Fairbanks Golden Days celebration begins with a rededication of the Felix Pedro Monument. The Alaskaland Park in mid-town Fairbanks, originally opened in 1967 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Alaska Purchase from the Russian Empire, was renamed Pioneer Park on July 22nd, 2002, at the 100th anniversary of Pedro's gold discovery. http://fairbanks-alaska.com/gold-rush-history.htm 

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    Retrieve It from a Cache 2/27/2012 icabith retrieved it from pirate's treasure Florida   Visit Log

    Found this bug last night up high in a tree on beautiful Captiva Island, FL. My two sons and one daughter are excited to bring it home from our vacation so that it can further its travels!
    Dropped Off 2/26/2012 Wandering Tracks placed it in pirate's treasure Florida - 1,439.56 miles  Visit Log

    Dropped the gold ingot into the Pirates Treasure for NorthKnights.

    This entry was edited by Wandering Tracks on Monday, 27 February 2012 at 15:12:06 UTC.
    Discovered It 1/31/2012 hunter-killer discovered it   Visit Log

    Discovered this at [url=http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=b3cebbdc-96be-4351-a8c1-d47ac9fa9efa] The 5th Annual Not so Super Pizza & Cachin' Event [/url] Thanks for sharing
    Grab It (Not from a Cache) 1/30/2012 northknights grabbed it   Visit Log

    Picked this up in Hayward yesterday and we are going to give it a ride to Florida when we go there on vacation with the grandkids. We will give it a good home and hope it goes far.
    Discovered It 1/29/2012 KatChi0717 discovered it   Visit Log

    Discovered this at <a href="http://coord.info/GC393DH">The 5th Annual Not so Super Pizza & Cachin' Event</a>. Thanks for sharing!
    Discovered It 1/29/2012 sandlanders discovered it   Visit Log

    We've seen gold ingot coins before, but this one has a nice story behind it. Great way to share some gold history and some WT history through this coin, Wandering Tracks! We were glad we could discover it at the pizza event in Hayward, and it was great seeing you there, too. Hope we have some gold panning stories of our own to tell after our trip to Alaska this summer.
    Discovered It 1/29/2012 scaffdogs discovered it   Visit Log

    Discovered at HCH's "The 5th Annual Not so Super Pizza & Cachin' Event."
    Discovered It 1/29/2012 chiroptera79 discovered it   Visit Log

    Discovered while Kantender and I cached with Wandering Tracks and attended the 5th Annual Not so Super Pizza & Cachin' event in Hayward, WI. Thanks for sharing!
    Discovered It 1/29/2012 lostcheq discovered it   Visit Log

    DISCOVERED at the 5th Annual Not So Super Pizza Caching Event, Hayward WI
    Visited 1/29/2012 Wandering Tracks took it to The 5th Annual Not so Super Pizza & Cachin' Event Wisconsin   Visit Log
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