What better way to celebrate 10 Years of Geocaching then to take a
moment to look back at some of the "firsts" for our area.
The first cache to be hidden in the West Kootenays was
Tamblyn Family Reunion (GC16BE) near Crawford Bay which was
hidden on August 10, 2001.
This was the first cache we searched for shortly after hearing
about Geocaching - we owned an archaic GPS and our search was
unsuccessful. Shortly after upgrading our GPS we returned to Pilot
Bay and made our first successful find.
In celebration of 10 Years of Geocaching we have hidden 12
caches that you will need to visit - in any order - to find our
100th Geocache hide "10 Years Later" (GC25RB6).
8 of the caches - the "zero" - are located in Kinnaird along a
very interesting hiking trail. Stay on the trail until close to the
cache (the most direct route isn't always the best approach). At
some of the caches basic route finding skills may be required.
At 4 of the caches you need to park just off highway 3 in a
little pull off (coords provided). There is a short little scramble
required to get onto an old road - thus the terrain rating. Once on
the road it is easy going - some sections are a little over grown
while passing through an old logging area but only light bush
whacking is required.
At ten of the cache sites you will find a clue that is written
on the first page of the log book, as well as on the lid. Write
this clue down. Two of the caches do not have a clue - but we're
not going to tell you which caches those are.
After you have found all ten clues you will need to put the clues
into this sequence. N49 AB.CDE W117 FG.HIJ
Each segment is a standalone cache, you are of course welcome to
log if you don't have time to find all of the "10 Years Of
Geocaching" celebration caches.
