This cache is a reincarnation of Scouter Herb and Mrs B's fine cache that was located here. It vanished a few years ago and I decided that it should be replaced with a new one. With Scouter Herb's permission I have used his original text pretty much verbatim. Now everyone who previously found it can find it all over again.
Park at the West Bragg Creek Trail System Parking lot and take the Snowshoe Hare Trail to the northeast or the new Interpretive Trail (which starts at the east end of the parking lot). Both trails are well marked.
The cache is located on the edge of clearing on the Snowshoe Hare Trail. In the clearing, in the summer, you will see the cement foundations of the Bragg Creek Youth Hostel, which was the first Hostel in North America.
This was the Hostel's 3rd location. After being established in 1933 in a tent on White Avenue in Bragg Creek (see Scouter Herb" & Mrs B's cache GC44VNR), it was, a year later, rebuilt as a more permanent structure on Tom Fullerton’s “Last Break Ranch” about 3 km north of Bragg Creek (now the road to Wintergreen), where it remained until 1947. Scouter Herb & Mrs B had planned on putting a cache near that site, but as the Wintergreen Road is narrow, with deep ditches, there would have been no place to park near the ranch, except in private drive ways, so they elected not to.
A number years after it closed at the ranch, the third and final edition of the Hostel was built in what is now the West Bragg Creek area of Kananaskis. The old road which led up to the Hostel is found, on the right, just after the cattle guard and inside the gates. The bridge which used to go over the creek to the Hostel was long ago washed out so access is no good that way without fording the creek. The Hostel only operated a few years at this final location, before it burned down in 1984.
There are finder's cards for the first 24 finders