NORTH VANCOUVER PUBLIC ART 13 - THE LYNNMOUR MULTI-CACHE TRILOGY:
(GCAM4MW, GCARY2F, and GCARY6G)
Public Art presents to you a trilogy of multi-caches that can be found in & around the Lynnmour neighbourhood. These multi-caches are all accessible by vehicle, on foot, or by bicycle. However, please do your geocaching safely, and therefore do not park or stop on Highway 1 or any of its access ramps, or cross any of those vehicle routes anywhere that is unsafe. It is not necessary to put yourself in any danger, as all the geocache locations are in accessible areas only, and safe parking areas and pedestrian & bicycle pathways are indicated by the cache waypoints.
The name Lynnmour is taken from Lynn Creek and the Seymour River, because this area lies in between them. The neighbourhood name usually only refers to the lowlands, close to where both streams drain into Burrard Inlet. In pre-colonial history, the area was part of the traditional terrirory of the Squamish ( Sḵwx̱wú7mesh ), Tsleil-Waututh ( səlilwətaɬ ), and Musqueam ( xʷməθkʷəy̓əm ) first nations. Today, the area is heavily developed, and perhaps the most crucial area for transportation infrastructure within all of North Vancouver. It is a place where arterial roads from central North Vancouver, Lynn Valley, and the Seymour areas all come together, and funnel traffic to and from Highway 1, and the Ironworkers Memorial Bridge located further south at Second Narrows. Between 2016 and 2022, there was a massive modernization project that rebuilt several bridges, overpasses, and highway ramps. Today it is a more modern interchange complex than the previous configuration, and a lot of additional work was also done to improve the other aspects of the area's accessibility, with bike and pedestrian pathways all around it and even allowing non-vehicular traffic to cross safely underneath the highway. There are several popular parks and walking trails around the edges of the interchange complex. Last but certainly not least, there are several pieces of public artwork that were added to the Lynnmour neighbourhood to imporve the aesthetic qualities of the area which is otherwise defined by its critical public infrastructure.
LILLOOET TRAIL MARKERS:
This area hosts a related pair of artworks, "Trees and Trail Markers", by Claudia Cuesta and Bill Baker.
"Trees" concerns the artistic glass gates that adorn the perimeter of the Wedgewood townhome development adjacent to this park. These gates work together to create a form of visual poetry that expresses the rhythms of the forest in nearby Inter River Park. The plaque explaining this artwork can be found at the west corner of the park, near Orwell Street and East Keith Road. (Feel free to take a look at the art, but please do not intrude upon the gates, as these lead to peoples' homes.)
"Trail Markers" incorporates two decorated boulders which mark the end of the historical Lillooet Cattle Trail. Completed in 1887, the trail was built through one of the most rugged sections of BC to bring cattle from grasslands of Lillooet BC to Vancouver. Sadly the trail saw only one cattle drive take place, as the steep terrain along the route proved too difficult for the animals to navigate. The two boulders are located along the east-west sidewalk running along the northern edge of this trangular park. One boulder features an engraved poem by a well-known indigenous storyteller, and the other features engraved animals in the style of petroglyphs. The plaque explaining this artwork can be found at the east corner of the park, where Old Lillooet Road meets Premier Street.
(Cache creator note: Trees And Trail Markers, GC2WNWE, was a previous Public Art geocache, archived in 2015, which also featured these artworks.)
SOLVING THIS CACHE:
This geocache concerns itself with the Trail Markers artwork, specifically the boulders. The cache itself is not located at the posted coordinates. Most of the clues can be found by looking at the dark boulder at the posted coordinates, which features the storyteller's poem regarding the cattle trail. The remaining clues can be found at the other, light-coloured, boulder with the petroglyphs, which is located approximately 60 m. further east, along the sidewalk (see the waypoint).
To discover the final location of the cache, figure out the following clues, then apply them to the coordinates formula given below:
Clue A: On the very top line of text, how many letters are in the last word ?
Clue B: Two years are listed after the storyteller's name. What is the second digit of the second year?
Clue C: What is the fourth digit of the second year ?
Clue D: On the very first line of the poem, how many letters in the last word ?
Clue E: How many lines of text are contained in the bottom two paragraphs of the poem?
Clue F: On the white boulder to the east, how many animals are depicted on this stone ?
COORDINATES FORMULA:
N 49° 18.EAF′ W 123° 01.BDC′
A checksum has been provided in the hint to help confirm your final result.
The cache is a micro sized container, and you will need to bring your own pen or pencil to sign the log sheet.
Please be stealthy when accessing the cache, and please put it back in the same way it was hidden.
(If you are doing the third in the series, you might want to solve that before going to find this.)
* First-To-Find for this cache series was achieved by aPlant4 *