The Marathon Man

I downloaded version 0.69 Beta 4 to my Oregon 200 I like that the trail colour is a lighter red (although thinner) which no longer looks like my tracking colour (black) Trail lines don't run over the geocache icon on the Oregon 200. And I just updated the Oregon Firware on my unit. Great work - Thanks

Lets see: 3 for a 2-D lock 4 for a 3-D Lock Could it be 5 for a 4-D lock

Of course, up in Canada if you want to find a benchmark while driving along the highways, especially in Northern Ontario, all you have to look for is the orange tube marker on a short metal post very near the benchmark location. I see them all the time along the highway.

How about one day after you have been released from the hospital after double-bypass heart surgery, you look for geocaches on the way home. I did that in November 2006. We found about 5-6 on the 3 day trip home - only the 1.0-1.5 terrain ones though. In 2008 we headed down to Dallas through Minnesota on vacation and it took us 3 days to get through Minnesota from Thunder Bay south because we were geocaching.

That's life in Northern Ontario - I have had at least a half dozen of my caches "discovered" by bear and destroyed.

That was fast - I should have made it harder NWOBEAR - you are the winner

Canadian Inventions What Canadian invented the following items and what year did they invent these? 1. Basketball 2. Superman 3. Bromine 4. Robertson Screw 5. Snowblower 6. Television Camera 7. Zipper 8. Plexiglas 9. Marquis Wheat 10. Newsprint 11. Lawn Sprinkler 12. Jolly Jumper 13. Instant Mashed Potatoes 14. Garbage Bags 15. Goalie Mask

pnutbeagle, The Monster Beagles" and I did 45 of the caches on the rails-to-trails in Brantford over about 5 hours on January 11. All fairly easy to find - only 1 DNF - but a lot of walking - Great Series and we only did 2 sections

Here's my list: 1. Coors Light Beer 2. Burger King 3. Bounty Paper Towels 4. Crest Toothpaste 5. Energizer Batteries 6. Ford Motor Company 7. Greyhound Bus Lines 8. Irish Spring Soap 9, Lay's Potato Chips 10. Meow Mix 11. Rolaids 12. Subway Restaurents 13. Taco Bell 14. Timex watches 15. Zenith Electronics

sure that will work, Hamgram was very close Check out cache GC1Y01Z - The Last Spike for more information and pictures Your turn

A list like this is available for the archived "Ontario Geocaching Treasure Hunt Series" caches put out by the Canadian Ecology Centre a couple of years ago. One of the reviewers, Cach-Tech I think has done this. The list is available in one of the forum topics. I can't remember which one at the moment. The list shows the caches that are still in place which have not been removed yet. As geocachers remove these caches, as requested by CEC and Cache-Tech, they are taken off the list when they get notification of this. In the meantime, if a geocacher finds them they can still be claimed as a find

pnutbeagle and I were the FTF's on this cache. This is one great cache more because of the area than anything I would nominate "Jimmy's Castle" on White Otter Lake, northwest of Atikokan, Ontario. This cache is only assessable by water (canoe/power boat) or by Float Plane. My family flew to this cache by Float Plane. I can not get into geocaching.com website at the moment to get the GC code for the cache. Another is "Mining Cold Hard Cache Too" in St. Catharines, Ontario. We also want to go for "Mining Cold Hard Cache" at some point (near Queenston Heights) Another great one is "The Crack" near Neys in Northern Ontario (D5/T5) - Shared the FTF on this one with pnutbeagle and Hunter-Killer

You think that is bad in your area - come further north. We have snow that can stay sometimes from October to April in a bad year. We can even have snowstorms in May. That is life in Northern Ontario.

OK Folks, an event named "Snowshoe for the Caches" has been submitted for Saturday, January 23, 2010. If you are in the area, please plan to attend. Watch for the event to be published

Your boat isn't called the "Minnow", would it?

I think that CacheDrone does consider where the cache is and whether there are DNF's on it and hopefully the geocacher "traffic" in that area. In my area of Northern Ontario (North shore of Lake Superior) there is very little geocaching activity in the winter due to snow and weather conditions. But there are some die-hards out there, especially in Thunder Bay. I have 2 caches that have been out since Feb 8, 2008, which not been found. They also do NOT have any DNF's. The only logs on the caches are mine from a maintenance run last February. I will be making a maintenance run sometime in the next month or so, partially because it is a great walk to the cache (snowshoes required) in the winter. In fact, I believe that although both caches are winter friendly, hanging in trees, one of them is not assessable in the summer by boat. Cache is at the North end of the lake. You can get to probably 100 metres from the cache, but then there is only impassable swamp to the cache location (which is on dry land). I am not even sure if you can bushwhack to the cache. The second cache on the same lake can be reached by boat, but the winter is the best time to find it. Major bushwhacking for nearly a kilometre would be required if going by land (probably 2 km to the furthest one). There are no trails to the cache locations. If fact, I did receive a kind note from CacheDrone about the maintenance check I did last winter. So he does recognize when the effort is made to do the maintenance on unfound caches. I also have 2 other caches that have not been found in a while (since 2007) (Geocite has found them). There are NO DNF's on these cache either. I will complete maintenance runs on them in the spring (canoe or boat and the proper weather conditions required). The final cache locations are not assessable in the winter do to ice conditions - most of the winter there is no ice. Travel to the cache location is best in the early morning when there is no wind, thus no waves. The one thing to remember about winter geocaching - there are no bugs (especially Black Flies)

Before you attempt any of my 3 unfound cache, you had better research what is required to even get to the cache location, especially on 2 if them.

GCJW3R Tony's Strip was one of those interesting good caches. I first found debris from the cache after it was destroyed by a bear shortly after it was released in 2004. My son and I had bushwhacked from the highway south of the cache (I was pulling a fifth wheel camper trailer at the time). When we got to the cache site we found the runway and discovered I could have driven my truck and fifth wheel in - there was lots of room to turn around. But the cache had been destroyed by a bear so there was just pieces of it around. I returned about 2 months later to find the cache again after it had been replaced by a ammo can. I was able to drive the truck and trailer to within 50 metres of the cache location. Please note that the cache will be buried in the snow during winter.

With all of my caches in Northern Ontario, they tend not to be found very often, but I do check every e-mail that comes in and if problems are identified, I try to deal with them in a timely manner, I have one disabled at the moment because the object it is attached to was moved about 400 meters and is now blocked off with construction. So I give at less monthly updates on its status. The other caches are checked periodically, sometimes by friends and family but most of the time by myself. Any with problems are dealt with as soon as I can. A lot of my caches only receive 2-4 visits or less per year. I still have 3 that have not been found yet (2 of them 2 years old and they are checked about yearly). So it can be done. By the way I submitted a new cache today for approval. Well I did find 9 caches on Jan 3/10 and 6 caches on Jan 4/10 in the Thunder Bay area. That's my best for the first week in January

I would have been out - but the nearest unfound cache is 2 hours drive away from where I live in Northern Ontario

Yes, it is around Jackfish. You have to walk about 2 kilometer along hte railway tracks from the nearest spot you can drive to it. What was erected there to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the driving of The Last Spike?

Not quite near Schreiber but in the general area +/- 30 km

OK, this one may take a little bit of work: Where was the last spike in the CP Rail Road driven between Montreal and Winnipeg on May 16th 1885? When was it was re-enacted there by veterans and some original participants? What object located at this place commemorates this achievement?

OK I think I got it - the last one was difficult Molson 7-Up Raid Remington Texaco Coca-Cola Schiltz Wendy's Burger Kin IKEA

Well said "SooMukwas"