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Now that winter is well upon us, those who are snap happy should have some good shots that exemplify both winter and geocaching. Anyone interested in sharing?

 

I'll kick things off with one taken on the waterfront in Oakville (Ontario) after a windstorm a couple weeks back. For those willing to brave the cold, this can be found at GCWXMQ.

 

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(more of my winter pics at http://pbruch.dyndns.org/cm ) Paul's Pictures

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Who's holding the BFL in the background pointing straight up?

 

Not sure, but I'll bet TOMTEC's crew was downtown somewhere that night.....

 

Now that's just funny... I actually ended up downtown that evening prepping a replacement wiring harness for a friend's short-arc HID project. I'm pretty sure that's not the beam in your photo though, as his was only switched on for 10 seconds or so.

 

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TOMTEC

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Hey Dudes! Haven't been caching too much this Winter but did take in a few photo shoots. Love all the ones you have all posted here. Here are a few from the past couple of weeks.

 

Where is that darned cache! Tiffany Falls - Hamilton

 

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Slave flash unit inside small ice-cave at Sherman Falls - Hamilton area

 

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Hilton Falls

 

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Run-off from Hilton Falls

 

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Feeding Birds at Hilton Falls

 

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A few photos from Rideau Falls, in Ottawa. They had the dam open and the ice was flowin'!

 

This is one of the first pictures I took when I arrived.

 

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I took this one when I left a half hour later. Note how much the ice piled up!

 

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A few other cool pics. (no pun intended!)

 

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I have more here.

 

Scott

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Hey Dudes! Haven't been caching too much this Winter but did take in a few photo shoots. Love all the ones you have all posted here. Here are a few from the past couple of weeks.

 

Where is that darned cache! Tiffany Falls - Hamilton

 

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I like the footwear! Could have used that I couple times on the weekend. Definately be a step up from yac trax!

 

fizbot

 

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A few photos from Rideau Falls, in Ottawa. They had the dam open and the ice was flowin'!

 

This is one of the first pictures I took when I arrived.

 

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I took this one when I left a half hour later. Note how much the ice piled up!

 

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A few other cool pics. (no pun intended!)

 

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I have more here.

 

Scott

 

Fantastic shots.

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:rolleyes: ugh! How do I get a picture in the reply box? It won't let me copy and paste from my files. I want to join this thread.

 

Guiderchachi

 

You have to upload the picture somewhere, then reference it using the little "tree" icon in the tool bar. Basically, your picture is stored somewhere on the web, and you insert a pointer to it in your post.

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When it goes KRACK

 

I was walking to work Monday morning and just about halfway there I slipped on some ice in front of Metro Vendome. My ankle just made a crack noise and I knew I was not goona walk away alone from this.

 

I was lucky a nice woman came over to see if she could help me up and we decided it be best to get help has she was about to cross the street to get help from a transportation building her husband arrived and gave me a lift, first to two potential clinics but both were closed so he took me to the hospital which was on his way to work.

 

Landed at Saint Luc Hospital at about 8am, then waited to be seen for a little while, then Xrays, then diagnose...turns out I have a fractured ankle, but lucky for me nothing is broken or has moved, so no need for an operation only a cast need be done. Wow that was simple, right? Well no, turns out that Saint Luc Hospital doesnt do casts (I kid you not!) So they try and locate an Ortho to do the job elsewhere. Nobody wants to come over to do the job, so I will need to move to another hospital via Ambulance. Okay, lets go! Well no we can't ship you right now, all the specialist have gone or ar too busy to see me right now so you will have to spend the night and get to Notre Dame hospital tomorow morning.

 

Arrrrggg, there is no such thing as sleeping on a stetcher in a corridor of a hospital, club med watch out!

 

Anyways, I eventually got back home Thusday afternnon with a purple fibreglass cast which should be on me for the next 6 weeks.

 

So here are my winter photos for the next little while:

 

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I guess it's only 1 star caches for me for a while... :) :roll:

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When it goes KRACK

 

I was walking to work Monday morning and just about halfway there I slipped on some ice in front of Metro Vendome. My ankle just made a crack noise and I knew I was not goona walk away alone from this.

 

I was lucky a nice woman came over to see if she could help me up and we decided it be best to get help has she was about to cross the street to get help from a transportation building her husband arrived and gave me a lift, first to two potential clinics but both were closed so he took me to the hospital which was on his way to work.

 

Landed at Saint Luc Hospital at about 8am, then waited to be seen for a little while, then Xrays, then diagnose...turns out I have a fractured ankle, but lucky for me nothing is broken or has moved, so no need for an operation only a cast need be done. Wow that was simple, right? Well no, turns out that Saint Luc Hospital doesnt do casts (I kid you not!) So they try and locate an Ortho to do the job elsewhere. Nobody wants to come over to do the job, so I will need to move to another hospital via Ambulance. Okay, lets go! Well no we can't ship you right now, all the specialist have gone or ar too busy to see me right now so you will have to spend the night and get to Notre Dame hospital tomorow morning.

 

Arrrrggg, there is no such thing as sleeping on a stetcher in a corridor of a hospital, club med watch out!

 

Anyways, I eventually got back home Thusday afternnon with a purple fibreglass cast which should be on me for the next 6 weeks.

 

So here are my winter photos for the next little while:

 

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I guess it's only 1 star caches for me for a while... :laughing: :roll:

 

Is that a geocoin being designed on the monitor there?

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When it goes KRACK...

...I guess it's only 1 star caches for me for a while... :laughing: :roll:

Is that a geocoin being designed on the monitor there?

 

Actually the coin is already made, it's a decoder coin for the ZTélé Quebec geocaching games, I was just currently doing a GIF animation for their cache websites:

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This is the decoder coin:

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More information about the race can be found here:

Événement Geocaching Nerdz 2007

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Winter on Vancouver Island...

 

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Gowland Tod Provincial Park

 

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Gowland Tod Provincial Park

 

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The road from Gold River to Tahsis - January 2007

 

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Strathcona Provincial Park - January 2007

 

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TODAY!!! March 17, 2007 Sidney BC

 

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TODAY!!! March 17, 2007

 

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In Sidney BC, near the ferry to Anacortes

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I thought I would add in some pictures of Newfoundland in the winter. Snowshoeing on the shores of Deer Lake in Western NL. Our Pathfinder unit went on a hike, stopped for a "mug-up", and kept on going. That night, they prepared their tent for sleeping by banking the sides and snuggling warm in layers. This all took place on March 10, 2007. It was about -5 C when they went to bed.

 

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Guiderchachi

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Gowlland Tod Provincial Park. If you ever come to visit Gowlland Tod (spelling corrected to add the extra 'l'), make sure and bring your gps as well as your camera! There are some awesome hikes and caches in this park and it's very accessible! We can also send you links to some puzzles you should solve to make sure you don't miss any caches along the way :o . The photos on the Parks site are BC Parks stock photos... but nice maps eh? :D
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Speaking of abandoned wrecks........ 100_0574.jpg

Found this on on the side of a road on the way to a couple caches ( GC6A31 & GC7778) ended up turning around the road was pure ice and with the hills didn't know if my little Hyundai Accent would be able to make it back out I was spinning my tires trying to get up some hills ( I have Studded Winter tires)

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Here is one from Squamish BC where the winter has just not seemed to want to end. One of those winters where it cycles between snow, and rain. Once the snow has been melted away by the rain it snows again, yuck.

 

This is from the cache Brohm-O-Seltzer, which is a great hike, with a fantastic view.

 

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