Take a Camera to Lolo's Riverfront Park Traditional Cache
Take a Camera to Lolo's Riverfront Park
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While doing our Spring Maintenance visits, we decided to place a
film canister along the path between the Lolo Riverfront Park and
our Bitterroot River cache. Please don't access this from Hwy 93,
there is private land and a swamp in between. Instead, go to the
Lolo Riverfront Park and walk the trail. Parking coordinates are
provided below.
We hope you enjoy this little cache and the walk to it! Take a
camera... but watch for skeeters! Avoid this park if the skeeters
are bad as they will drive you crazy.
Film canisters are becoming a rare item. It used to seem like they
grew on trees... Everyone had a bunch of them and everyone used
them for holding all sorts of stuff. Then... along came digital
cameras and this type of film became unnecessary for most
people.
We hope you like this cache. It is pretty simple.. a film can in a
stump. No surprises, it is even a fairly lonely stump most of the
time, so you can find the spot pretty easily. Please be cautious
rewinding the logbook so others can enjoy the cache!
One of Jen's fondest memories is of her Dad's special camera
holder. It was like a bandoleer for film canisters and batteries,
worn around the neck, with the camera hanging from it. He rarely
left home without it and was always ready for a chance to take a
photo or two, but never too many as he didn't want to run out of
film.
There was this one time, back in 1989, that we left home for the
airport to take a vacation and Dad didn't realize that he had left
his camera on the dining room table. He turned all sorts of
interesting colors but we reassured him that we each had our cheap
little cameras with us so he could borrow them. The whole trip he
was worried that we wouldn't be able to get close enough to get
good photos and the lack of his camera with it's exchangeable zoom
lenses and such was going to be noticed when it came time for the
family slide shows.
It turned out that we managed to take just as many good photos with
our cheap little cameras and nobody ever had to know he didn't have
the "good" camera with us. Even better, since we got to take many
of the photos instead of him, Dad is actually in a few pictures
from that trip!
Cameras and slide shows have been a huge part of our family over
the years. We used to sit down with all the family we could gather
together in a dark room and watch slide shows and talk about our
trips with them all. Nowadays everyone posts photos to Flicker or
other online sites but it doesn't feel quite the same.
Even now, Dean and I love to put together a slide show on DVD and
show off our trips to family and friends. Amazingly, they usually
put up with it pretty well.
Enjoy the cache!
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