Kidd Creek Cache Traditional Cache

This cache has been archived.

Skookum Bear: As the cache owner has not indicated that they have visited the cache location to replace it if it was missing, perform needed maintenance, or verify that it is still there within a reasonable amount of time, I am regretfully archiving the cache to clear it from the active cache database and open the area to new caching opportunities. If the cache owner would like to replace a cache at this location, please submit a new geocache listing and it will be reviewed under the current Geocaching guidelines.

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Skookum Bear
Community Volunteer Reviewer

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Hidden : 7/18/2002
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

This Geocache is located in the Purcell Mountains at the Kidd Creek Rest Area. The cache is located about 160 metres from the parking lot (N49 09.744' W116 15.918').

David Thompson, the well known Hudson Bay Company trader and mapmaker,after spending four days trading in the Creston area, travelled through here guided by Chief Uglyhead of the Kootenay tribe in late May 1808.

Later in 1865 the Dewdney Trail was contracted and built by Edgar Dewdney. It was a pack trail four feet wide from Hope to the goldfields at Wild Horse Creek, a distance of four hundred miles. It cost $74,000 and was paid for by a tax levied on gold taken out of the country by American miners.

Today highway 3 roughly follows that same route.

Take your dog for a short walk along the well defined trail. Notice the holly plants along the way, and also look for signs of timber cutting early in the last century. You will see stumps with the springboard notches still in them.

You are not far from the old Kitchener Airfield, where each winter snowmobile races are held. On the long weekend in May come to watch the mudbog races. A real dirty thrill!

The cache is in a clear plastic container with a snap on lid, sitting at the base of a group of three cedar trees, hidden by natural vegetation.

Original contents: Sharpening Stone, a child's doll, point and shoot camera case, Health & Hobby CD rom, "Zebra Family" book by Jane Goodall, a Football Travel game, small Stanley tape measure, Soap Stone plaque, Official Vanderhoof Pin, and the Log book and pencil.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Lbh xabj lbh ner pybfr jura lbh svaq guerr irel ybj fghzcf. Ybbx sbe gur gerr prqne gerrf sebz guvf cbvag.

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)


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