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10-10-10 Don't CITO Here! Traditional Cache

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katcogo: AFter a lot of thought I decided to archive this series. it was set up as an activity for a 10-10-10 event on Oct 10, 2010 that besides celebrating 10-10-10 and 10 years of Geocaching it was an attempt to break a previous record for finds logged in a day (it did). It has had a great run.

The location here seems to have a double whammy of fire ants and stinging nettles, neither are friendly to geocachers. Sad to see it go.

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Hidden : 10/3/2010
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:


Welcome to one of Burnaby's newer parks with an interesting history

It was placed as part of the 10-10-10 Flash & Scatter event
which included this and other unpublished
caches.


Pollinator garden for bees & butterflies

Taylor Park is located off the beautiful Southpoint Drive. Not too long ago though, Taylor Park was the Stride Ave. Dump and Southpoint Drive was the heavily wooded Stride Ave.
The view from the playground is pretty spectacular.

One of the more unusual structures is a building that looks like washrooms but actually is the Gas Blower Building that collects the off gasses from the landfill. It has a stack that is used to occasionally flare built up gasses.

Big building for gas, little building has a pit toilet for us. Hmm.

From the City of Burnaby Website:

From the early 1900’s until the late 80’s this land was known as the Stride Avenue Landfill.
An extensive remediation program has since transformed the land into spectacular parkland.

Located in southeast Burnaby near the Edmonds’ Skytrain station, some of the features of the park include a family area, youth area, dog off leash area, mosaic art created from local high school art classes; ball hockey court and casual sports field.

The first phase of Taylor Park was completed in the Fall 2005. It features a family area, with a colourful multi play structure, a net playing structure, a swing set, picnic tables, fountains, trees and sandbox. Buried beneath the sand are artefacts made of concrete and resin that represent many of the items found in the “old Stride landfill” – such things as can, doll, baseball, an apple core and other treasures.
An art tower houses artefacts representing the landfill, including toys donated by the children at Taylor Park School.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)