NS Spirit Trail: Where Were You in '72? Traditional Cache
Highlander 71: My thanks go out to all who have visited this cache. After nearly 8 full years of existence, the time has come to put it out to pasture. I was sad to discover the hiding spot has been compromised by the arrival of a homeless person, but seeing the shopping cart full of garbage only 2 metres from the cache really creeps me out and I don't wish to inflict that upon any fellow cache-seeker.
NS Spirit Trail: Where Were You in '72?
Please note Use of geocaching.com services is subject to the terms and conditions
in our disclaimer.
North Vancouver's Welch Street corridor is home to the newest segment of the North Shore Spirit Trail. The pre-existing greenway running nearly the entire way from Pemberton Avenue to Whonoak meant the development of this section of the multi-use, accessible Spirit Trail pathway was completed very quickly. I hope you enjoy your walk to locate this cache.
Back in the late summer of 1972 I was taking some photography courses at Capilano College (now Capilano University), which at that time had no campus to call its own, existing in many bits & pieces scattered all across the North Shore. The photography and media centre was housed not far from this cache location, in the 1800 block of Welch Street, and I spent a lot of time in that building learning about things like f-stops, film speeds, and photo processing.
On September 28, the 8th& final game of the Canada-Soviet Summit Series took place right before a major class assignment, worth half our final grade, was due. Of course, the facility was crowded with desperate students working feverishly to complete their portfolios, but we were not too busy to bend a couple of wire coat hangers into a makeshift TV antenna and stick it on the back of a small set that normally served as a video monitor.
Once the game had begun, many of us managed to find a suitable spot where we could continue working on our projects while still keeping an eye on the game. Naturally, as the final minutes of the third period were winding down, all work had ceased. Every person in the building was focused on that little black & white screen, the lucky ones on the edge of their seats, the rest either standing at the back or sprawled on the floor up front.
When Foster Hewitt spoke the magical words “Henderson has scored for Canada!" the room erupted. It was an incredible moment in Canadian sporting history, one that became indelibly etched into the memory, and the pressures of our looming deadline were temporarily swept away amid the euphoric celebration that followed.
So, where were you in '72?
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
fbhgu bs svefg (be ynfg) pureel gerr, svaq gur jrfgrea Jrfgrea Erq Prqne
Treasures
You'll collect a digital Treasure from one of these collections when you find and log this geocache:
Loading Treasures