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BC Parks is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year. The
first BC Park was Strathcona Park on Vancouver Island which was
officially created on March 1, 1911.
Today, the parks system in British Columbia is one of our
greatest resources. Currently 14.26% (13.5 million hectares) of
British Columbia's land base is protected.
There are more than 340 campgrounds, 6000 km of hiking trails, 118
boat launches and 263 day-use areas in B.C.'s provincial park
system.
BC Parks and the BC Geocaching Association are partnered along
with the Year of Science to invite you to explore BC Parks.
This is one of 100 caches placed in parks throughout BC. Each
cache will have a unique trackable geocoin available for the first
3 finders.
There are also BC Parks trade items, BC Geocaching Association
buttons, and Year of Science pins.
There is a maximum of one coin per Geocaching account. Please
trade fairly for all items in the cache. If you have a coin from
another cache, please leave it for another cacher - you would want
them to do the same for you.
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Leiner River Forest Service Recreation
Site
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There are activities going on in BC Parks all year to celebrate
this wonderful anniversary.
2011 is also the Year of Science in BC.
There are events and a collection of interesting stories about
people who chose Science.
Here is the list of all the
BC Parks 100 caches
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Leiner River (also known as Russian River) recreation site is
composed of a small forest service campsite and trail. It is
located about 3 km east of the village of Tahsis.
While en-route to the cache from Gold River, and if it’s safe
to do so, stop at the Leiner Bridge to take in the amazing view of
the river and its amazing turquoise colour (depending on the time
of year).
The cache is located near the start of the trail. The GPS
reception here is spotty at best, so I’ve included a hint to
help find the cache container.