Welcome to the Blue Goose GeoTour!
Since you must fly or boat to get to nearly all of Alaska’s Refuges, we are bringing the refuges to you! The Blue Goose GeoTour (BGGT) is a series of 16 geocaches that have been hidden at 16 of the 223 Anchorage Parks. Each geocache features one of Alaska's amazing National Wildlife Refuges.
This cache features Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge. In southwest Alaska, the waters of the Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers flow through a vast "treeless plain," or tundra that forms the heart of the Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge. Almost 70% of this 19 million acre refuge is below 100 feet in elevation, and consists of a broad, flat delta stitched through with rivers and streams and dotted with countless lakes, sloughs and ponds. Bordering this expanse of tundra and wetlands are forest and shrub habitat and uplands sporting mountains more than 4000 feet high. The refuge also includes two large islands - Nelson and Nunivak. The Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta is among the most populated rural areas in Alaska and within the refuge, 35 villages and nearly 25,000 Yup'ik Eskimo people make their home. Along with this population comes a region rich in culture where residents dependent on resources to support an active subsistence way of life.
Prizes
Each cache contains a special First to Find (FTF) prize with up to 10 additional prizes. Caches also contain a trivia question that is answered by following a virtual clue printed on passport cards in the cache. The first 50 people to visit all 16 caches and submit your completed trivia postcard will receive a custom Alaska National Wildlife Refuges path tag. All submissions will be eligible for other fabulous prizes, but the more you caches you log, the better your chances are of winning!
Take the Blue Goose GeoTour
1. Link to the GPS coordinates on Geocaching.com by searching the Hidden by Username: “Blue_Goose” or the Cache Name: “BGGT”.
2.With your GPS or smartphone find up to 16 refuge geocaches.
3.Within each cache is a passport card with a trivia question. Take a passport card and follow its virtual path to answer the question.
4. To track which caches you’ve visited and trivia questions you’ve answered, download a passport and postcard .
5. Submit your trivia answers via postcard to:
Blue Goose GeoTour
Alaska NWRS, MS 235
1011 E Tudor Road
Anchorage, AK 99503
Or via email to: wild4ak@gmail.com
Deadline for submitting entries is November 14, 2012.
Don't forget to “stamp” your Anchorage Park Foundation Park Passport using the Anchorage Parks app . Good luck and happy geocaching!
The Blue Goose GeoTour was made possible by:
