Kidney Lake Forestry School South of Swan Hills Alberta

[wcp]

Help please. I require the GPS location of the forestry school located at kidney lake alberta. Any help would be much appreciated.

[+3jaze]

I'm not from that area but the following cachers seem to be active nearby and by nearby I mean 60 to 80km. Who knows, you might get lucky.

 

VictorEcho - south of Swan hills

Belfrypotters - south of Swan hills

bearff - Slave Lake

[+Juicepig]

Maybe an address would help? Forestry services also tend to have guys with GPS's - maybe calling them to find out would help as well.

 

You should go try geocaching

[+PDOP's]

3jaze has a good idea as does jp although you'd have more luck with a legal description as this is a bush camp. Don't be fooled by the 1:50000 topo map sheet named Kidney Lake is for another lake much further north. I downloaded the four sheets around Swan Hills (link) but a quick scan turned up nothing. It may be further out from the town or the lake is un-named on the map.

 

If you do find it please post the coordinates. I spent several weeks there decades ago as a student of the NAIT Forest Technology program.

[+Klondike Mike]

I passed your question onto a fellow cacher/ gov. guy. Hopefully he will have the location for you on Monday.

[+HB-vanislelady]

If you pinpoint it in Google Eath the co-ordinates will show up....

[+Belfrypotters]

We do have caches south of Swan Hills, but I've never heard of Kidney Lake. It doesn't show up on a search of the Toporama NTS maps either. I don't have Google Earth, and that might be better. I called NAIT and the receptionist knew it was closer to Whitecourt than to Swan Hills, and somewhere between those two towns, but that's all I got out of her. If Mr. Belfrypotters ever answers the phone at home I'll ask him, because he's also a graduate of Forest Tech at NAIT, although at the time he attended they did all their field work at Hinton. But if PDOPs can't find it, and he's actually been there, then I'm not sure Mr. Belfrypotters will be much help. If I find anything out I'll post, but your best bet might be to call one of the instructors at NAIT.

[+PDOP's]

We do have caches south of Swan Hills, but I've never heard of Kidney Lake. It doesn't show up on a search of the Toporama NTS maps either. I don't have Google Earth, and that might be better.

I tried all the usual avenues of searching including Google but had no luck. There are a lot of Kidney Lakes in the world.

PDOPs can't find it, and he's actually been there, then I'm not sure Mr. Belfrypotters will be much help.

That was decades ago and I was studying in the back of the bus That's my story and I'm sticking to it If I dug deep enough in my old stuff I probably have field notes with the legal description from the survey labs but I think I'll let others do the heavy lifting.

[wcp]

Thank-you all. Did some snooping around and came up with N54 29.800 W115 19.548 Yeah the forestry school is still there and on the shore of the lake. It is very small so no surprise its not named on the maps.

[+3jaze]

Congratulations.

............. and now all you've gotta do is put a cache there

[+PDOP's]

............. and now all you've gotta do is put a cache there

That's one I'd be sure to do.

 

The lake is at the top of map sheet 083J06 available here

 

The coordinates plot out a little off at the north end of the lake while the camp looks to be at 54° 29.140' 115° 18.597'.

 

 

Edited October 2, 2007 by PDOP's