The Wet Coast Explorers

Geo-Dually ('03 Ford F-350) pulling the Geo-Pod with the Geo-Bikes on the back. Dashboard and handlebar mounts for the GPSr. Photo taken at the Engineer's Road cache on the Hope-Princeton Highway in BC.

Coming down from Vancouver, BC with Mrs. WCE for her first CM experience. Just reserved at the Best Western Chieftain Inn after looking at the comments on the Red Lion and changing our mind. Hope to be down in time for dinner on Friday night, but there is a lot of caches between here and there!

For all of Canada: http://grand_high_pobah.home.comcast.net/Canada1.html Not that it's about the numbers...

How about the first cache in Antartica: GCA252 Ross Island by Transantarctic http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=GCA252 Hidden: 10/29/2002 Or the most southern cache: GCHN13 No Further South From Here by RSWrench http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=GCHN13 Hidden: 2/8/2004

I've got a 76S and love it, but if I was getting a new one, the 60CS would be the one for me!

Hey, wait a second - I recognize someone there! Oh ya, that's where I was suffering from oxygen deprevation after ascending the steps from hell. MrP had since removed that ear ring as I think it was bothering his neck Here's a pic of the whole Wet Coast Explorers team:

Garmin GPSMAP 76S for the record

You can walk. Old folks like me enjoy driving there in style, so I'll stick to my F-350 lariat diesel crew cab full-box with duelies on the rear. Okay, I use it for more geocaching, but man I love my truck with the GPSr mount on the dash!

I don't believe it is so much a finder/non-finder trait that separates geocachers from geo-muggles. In my experience, an aptitude for being a problem solver is more applicable here. Whether you are hunting or hiding caches, both involve enjoying solving problems and being good at it. Geocaching involves reasoning, creative thinking, information processing, decision making and judgment - all descriptors of problem solving. Each geocache that we do involves solving a new problem, some much harder than others but problems none the less.

So what caches were you thinking of doing tomorrow?

Damm, I missed that zuuk had just bumped this old posting up and wasted a few minutes shaking my head over the list provided. Ran a query and this is what I got for unfound BC caches: Geocache by cruising northwest of 49 Rednecks & Wildflowers by Team Dagg pedly cache by Brian,Chris,Hugh,Rendezvous Nourse Creek Cache by Hart & Nell Brian's Bluff by whistle punk and the Zone Ranger Squeely McNeily by Psyco Green River Road / Darien Gap 1 by MiG Macdonald Island Cache by Zon Blainie Blaster by Psyco Woodpecker by Psycho as falls widgeon, so falls widgeon falls by canadazuuk Saltspring Sunsets by Steve (Licorice) and Ian Onion Lake Cache by Aaron, Chris & Dave 7 Mile Cache by ALCSplorers Charlotte Lake Island by Team Giblert UnderCover Operation by scootergirlandboy Twice Lucky, BC by Pro Mappers and Twice Lucky crew moberly madness by punxernumber1 and family Kokanee Lake Micro by Kootenay Finders Club (and the Jones') BALD BEACH by racinguy and the Pitcrew Drury Days by gpseakayaker OraeJox Switch - Mt Albert Edward by Khromatikos Sointula Cache by Brad & Myrna Geo KACH by agolas Fire and Water by funquest Young Creek (Eastbranch) by B.A.G. Yellow as the Flaming Bridge by MercRocks with help from Luc & Tom Kokanee Viewpoint by RCTRECKER Sheep's Eye View by Team Toyo Cable as a Bridge by MercRocks Eeerie Cache by kootenay-ites Sugar Loaf Surprize by GrizzzT Zoom In Zoom Out by 7edm+7emm Heritage by Larry, Curley and Moe boo track by MTboy She Keeps On Walking by tlg 3RD Rock From The Sun-Cacher by Linksys Mt Gardner (bowen island) by AlsidPrime(MountainCacher) I Am Stumped by trapper01

There was a black toque sitting on the covered picnic table were we collected ourselves and had some hot chocolate after the hike. Just about everyone was gone except for a small gathering in the parking lot when we left so I'm not sure if anyone would have picked it up - we didn't pick it up thinking that someone would realize they were missing it and come back to get it. Sorry.

As I mentioned to DeBoggy on the trail yesterday, you need to watch the winds that pick up on Harrison which can very quickly whip the water into something scarry even for larger boats. In kayaks/canoes it's quite dangerous if you aren't experienced in those conditions. Harrison isn't a renowned windsurfing lake for nothing! On a more positive note, here are some nice photos of what you may see on this trip. And there are a number of camping options including, on the west side of the lake: 20 MILE BAY HALE CREEK and on the east side: BEAR CREEK CASCADE PENINSULA COGBURN BEACH Here's a map.

And a huge congratulations to SylvrStorm on his 100th find at Blood Beach today (well yesterday now)! Way to go!

Looking forward to seeing everyone's new geocaching gear at the Belcarra (mini) Blitz on the 27th. Pass the word to anybody new to the sport that's getting a GPSr for Xmas. We've got at least one family that should be joining us with their brand new first-time GPSr and are looking at the event cache as their

Hey Alsid, check out the new Garmin GPSMAP 60CS. If there was any hope that Santa would bring me a new GPS, that's the one I'd ask for, but she said definitely, absolutely NO! I better watch it or I'll just get a lump of coal.

Since this is an international community, some of you may want to check out the Timezone Converter

Will the spot even get 10 minutes? Most of these media spots are a couple of minutes at best. Have to agree with DeBoggy on this one. Maybe we should mention something about geo-pirates... oops, did I say that? Agreed, although I'd be scared stiff of what my kids might say. Our dads a freak who drags us out in rain, sleet and snow or to 5 caches in one day... he's obsessed!

You might want to take a look at some of the existing media coverage, especially the latest Special Assignment: Geocaching (Windows Media) report from KOVR 13, Sacramento

Just dropping in on this thread. Interesting debate, especially the distance/maintainability discussion. I know of one cacher who has caches in 18 countries on 7 continents: Antarctica Australia Botswana Canada China Ecuador France Japan Jordan Mexico Mongolia Namibia Spain Thailand United Kingdom United States Zambia Zimbabwe Some people are born with wanderlust...

Or more accurately, this thread This duplicate thread should be closed...

Whoa there Purple Fever. We're from the Wet/West/Left Coast. RobertM and Jomarac5 are also from over here. I'm surprised by the general lack of discussion on this topic from all over Canada - I would have thought that this issue would have had more interest/debate. My guess is that people are distracted from the forums right now with Xmas prep. As I've stated previously in this forum, I agree with the points you make and I'll add that I would also love to part of any positive organization of geocachers.

I would sure like to see this feature added. Currently, I'm updating this manually here for my Port Mann Travel Bug Exchange. The default sort on the page is supposed to encourage visitors to perhaps take one of the TBs that has been in the cache a little too long.

We don't need to organize to hold these kinds of events. What we need is motivated individuals who think that it would be a good idea and just do it. I support gm100guy's position that we should let Cache-tech and others involved in the Ontario thing, or a regional Ontario association, deal with the problems in Ontario. When we encounter the same problems here in BC, and I'm positive that we will one day, then we will look to our friends in Ontario for their experience and guidance, just as we will look south of the border. But I fully expect the fight to be a regional one. My preference/vote is for a bottom up approach with a national association if and when there are enough organized regional groups to support/justify it.

Is this an Ontario organization or a national one? The thread title implies an Ontario one and if so, I object to a name like the Canadian Cachers Association - Ontario is not equal to Canada. I'm not trying to provoke a 'center of the universe' off-thread thing here, just stating the obvious. Our cousins to the south of us seem to organize by state and I'm not sure why we wouldn't follow the same path. Check out Keystone Approver's post here plus this post from the Organized Geocaching forum. Now I know some of you are going to say that we just don't have the numbers that our southern cousins do, and I'll give you that point. But I also believe that there are regional issues that are better addressed by regional organizations. If we had well established regional organizations going, then I wouldn't have a problem with an umbrella national organization that each regional one, in turn, could join. Just my CAN$0.02 worth. PS. MrPeabody and I recently bought and set up www.geocachers.ca thinking in part that this might be a place for all regional organizations to hang their hats, but we haven't developed the idea beyond the chatting about it stage. We did try and get the www.geocaching.ca domain last summer when it was up for renewal, but Ebenezer Thevasagayam (they guy who's sitting on it) renewed it at the very last second.