Near the Arch Traditional Geocache
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Last container gone missing, Now is a magnetic micro near the Arch of the University of Calgary. Upped the difficulty to a 3, as it is a bit tricky. No need to climb. Parking in lot 1(metered) or the parkade ($11/$9 evenings) or take a chance the parking cops don't catch you, but please do not stop on the University Drive. CONGRATS to Edgemonks for FTF
Asking around, I have found out that the arch is part of the old pedestrian overpass the was over Crowchild Trail before the University C-train station was constructed. The Chinook arch, which graces the south entrance to has come victim to the engineers shenanigan and their thirst for proving the theoretical in the actual. An engineering professor unwittingly used the arch as an in-class example, saying that it would not support a car. The next morning, April 4, 1988, however, a red Civic was indeed suspended from the Arch, dangling over the traffic below. Since no one had, until that moment, figured out the calculations needed to safely raise the car, no one knew of a safe way to lower it. What took the students mere hours to accomplish took over a day for the "experts" to undo, with the help of a crane. Click on link to see a picture of the prank. http://people.ucalgary.ca/~nickle/Old_site/campusculture/cararch.jpg
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