Head over to the nearby road named Discovery Drive, and prepare your GPSr to collect the circumference and area of the campus.
Head of in a south direction, and keep the buildings of the campus to your right as much as possible (stay on Innovation Drive, and then around North Ring Road). You should be able to take a tour around the campus, past the 10 buildings that house the R&D labs that make up the Carling Campus. This route will at one point passes through a wooded area (currently void of geocaches), as well as past a pond on your left that is the home of some Canadian geese. Please take care at the goose-crossing: ducklings in the area during spring! Complete the circuit, and admire your GPSr.
Your mission will be to collect two pieces of information about your trip:
- The total distance of your journey (circumference): A.B km
- The area of the closed loop you have traveled: CD ha
Ignore the decimal point in the distance A.B, and add to CD. We'll call the sum YZ. Subtract YZ from the North and West coordinates posted, and this should take you to the nearby GZ.
The cache is a 2-kg peanut butter jar, and at time of placing contains:
- 2 Nortel Yo-Yo’s
- 1 Nortel MP3 pouch
- 6x17AC DMS Line Card
- Nortel Twister thing
- Nortel Networks Pen
- Nortel Fridge Magnet
- 3 Smiley Stickers
- 2 mini toy Simba flashlights
And of course, a logbook, pencil, and Geocaching manifesto.
Hope you enjoy the tour of the area. Might be a bit busy during the regular day, but easy parking and peaceful in the evenings and weekends. Lots of geese at the cement pond in the summer, and I’ve seen deer in the parking lot at dusk.
Optimal mode of transportation to complete this cache is your bicycle, however you could drive (slowly) or walk. Couch potatoes might also be able to derive info via Google Earth, but what fun is that?
Enjoy.