The TICO series is brought to you by Team TICO, a group of Ontario Geocachers interested in preserving trading caches as part of our hobby. Team TICO feels that geocaches containing interesting and unique trading items are an important and enjoyable part of the whole Geocaching experience. Historically, the original caches were all trading caches. In order to maintain the quality of trade items in caches, we believe that people should leave items of equal or higher value to replace items taken whenever you make a trade. Otherwise the trading items are reduced to an accumulation of “junk” items of no interest to anyone – in essence a dead trading cache. Our motto’s are:
“TRADE UP, TRADE EVEN, TRADE OFTEN” and “HELP KEEP THIS CACHE TRASH FREE”.
Whenever you see our red and black logo on a cache, please remember what it stands for and respect the intentions of those who placed the cache.
Parking found at- N: 44 20.045 W: 79 43.658
At one point, the hills that you will be walking on along this cache were once
part of the Lake Simcoe shoreline. This area contains some of the largest Pine
trees to be found in Simcoe County, and in Southern Ontario. Thankfully this
land has been accepted as environmentally protected, and will remain peaceful
as it is now for years to come. Although developers have been encroaching on
this land, they have been good to design the very nature of this land into their
designs, and preserve such a wonderful area.
This cache will only touch the surface of what can be found throughout this
entire area. I encourage you to wander around this area and explore all that
is to be seen. When placing the cache, I ran into and spoke with an Arborist
who was studying Pine trees in the area, and showed me what is believed to be
the largest Pine tree in Simcoe County, and Southern Ontario. You can see this
rare item nearby the cache final at: N44 20.118 W79 43.674
Stand underneath this tree and look up.. Marvelous! Also make sure to wander
on over to Bear Creek Geocache which you will also be able to find in this area!