This cache was hidden for the SCAR event, and should not be sought out until after 5:30 pm on May 30th. Any logs posted before that will be deleted.
This is a cache I placed to celebrate the history of North Park and Archibald Park. The area of North Park was originally homesteaded by a Mr. Slick. When the CPR railway came through along 33rd St in 1907, he sold his land. The lots were split up between a few different men, so the area was not developed all at once. In fact one of these men let early traveling circuses set up on his land there. Kids from the area used to scrounge around in the grass looking for change after the circus left.
Over the years North Park was home to several interesting features. There used to be several wallows with buffalo rubbing stones in them (large rocks worn smooth by the buffalo as they scratched themselves). Pest Hill (now Archibald Hill) was the location of a former hospital where sick people would be taken during the many epidemics of the early 1900s. North Park was once home to a creek which either fed or drained from sloughs similar to the ones near the airport on Idylwyld Drive. Story has it that many years ago that remnants of a creek bed were found when digging a foundation for a house in the 1400 block of 7th Ave N. I like to think that the area where I hid this cache is where the creek used to flow as it drained into the river. I have no proof, but it's not a bad fantasy to have!
The cache is a small camotape lock'n'lock container hidden in a stand of trees along a small valley at the north end of Archibald Park. It looks like muggles have made several trails through the area, so take care. Please rehide cache very well.
CONGRATULATIONS TO CHEVELLE FOR THE FTF!