We recently celebrated our 300th find. During the last several
months, our family had a lot of fun chasing amo boxes, Tupperware
containers, 35 mm film canister and unusual objects (such as
electrical boxes or Brass Caps survey monuments).
We decided to pay tribute to some of our fellow geocachers who
made us drive around town and all over the place in search of those
elusive prizes.
This particular one is for Geo-Explorer, now known as Klondike
Mike. It is located in a park near Wayne Gretzky Drive. Don’t
stop by the side of the road, there are better ways to access the
cache!
Geo-Explorer is the first geocachers we met on the trails (well,
sort of). When we started geocaching again, after retiring for
almost three years, we went on a hunt to a nearby cache (First Home
in Edmonton) hoping to be the first finders. The cache was set very
near our home so we though we had a good chance at an FTF. When we
got there, we saw a car parked by the side of the road, only meters
away from the cache. That was Geo-Explorer, but we didn’t
know it at the time. We got scared (!), took off and decided to do
other caches and come back to that one later in the day. We learned
a bit later that Geo-Explorer was after this cache to raise his FTF
count, a challenge he and GPSVIXEN had set up between them two. We
met Geo-Explorer for real a little later at the second annual
Edmonton cache event in February of 2005. Since then, we met him
and his family a couple of times and had good time with them.
Geo-Explorer sent us on interesting hunts in Sherwood Park,
Edmonton and even as far as Lac Ste-Anne. He even set a couple
cache at the lake (one on an island) just for us because he knew we
were coming for the weekend! Geo-Explorer, this one is for you.
Thank you!
Update (Aug 22, 2005): Geo-Explorer just
recently went down into Alberta geocaching history by being the
first finder of Alberta's very first cache "Strathcona Wilderness 1 (GCA6)".
Congratulations Geo-Explorer!!!
There is a FTF prize, but wait… Here a
little twist:
Hopefully Geo-Explorer will be FTF to claim the prize, but if
that’s not the case, the FTF may decide to keep the prize or
leave it for Geo-Explorer. The next finder, if still not
Geo-Explorer, may also decide to keep it or leave it and so
on… until the prize is claimed by either Geo-Explorer or any
other finder. Good luck!
Happy hunting and Thank You Geo-Explorer.
FTF Update: Geo-X was, of course, FTF on his
own tribute cache. He claimed his prize. Congratulations!