Good morning everyone. Even though the border remains closed between Canada and the United States, we can still cross and visit the oldest and most favorite cache in Quebec. The cache with the most favorite points is a Virtual placed in January, 2004. 'Tree within the Old City 17 Yrs Old' GCHKWJ. Currently disabled due to construction, this cache has 4,154 found logs and 711 favorite points. The oldest active geocache in La Belle Province is 'La cache du 13 Juilliard 1947' GC1143. Hidden in July, 2001, it has been found 176 times with 67 favorite points.
The very first geocache placed was 'Intraterrestrials Entry' GCBB. Placed in November, 2000, this was the second geocache placed in Canada. It was found twice before being archived in 2001 as ground zero is now a prohibited area for falcon nesting protection. There was suggestions on having this cache moved and unarchived in 2013, but nothing came of that.
It was another less than busy week for geocaching. At least it felt that way until I started writing what I did over the past seven days. Let's see how busy, or not busy it was.
Saturday, June12. It's another one of those days where I don't have to go geocaching as this day and five others during this particular week have at least eleven or more finds. I chose to go out anyway with the focus on multi-stage caches. I have my route planned and three multis selected. First multi is 'Cross Country Caching' GC855QF. This is supposed to be a 2 stage multi. I believe the first stage takes you to a TOTT that is needed for stage 2. I didn't see stage one (didn't really look either) and spotted stage 2. I have something in my car that will work. I got the container, signed and replaced. Off to the next multi.
'Ned lost his pants... now what? Take 2' GC8EXQ0. A three stage multi. First stage was easy peasy. I ran into troubles with stage 2. Used PAF, but they didn't remember much about this particular cache. I contacted the CO. After waiting for a bit, I decided to move on to the other multi on my list. 'The Return of Glen Meadow' GC170B3. I believe this was a two stage multi at one point, but the first stage is missing, so it's become a one stage multi. What's the difference between a one stage multi and a traditional? As long as I find it, I don't really care. A happy face is a happy face. I did find this one. Since I was in the area, I decided to walk over to a traditional. 'Greenway GC3NQVA. A quick find then back to my car.
I'm heading for home when I heard back from the CO of the second multi. I return to the scene and found stage two. It's ity bity and as I try to unroll the paper, I fumbled it as a gust of wind kicked up. So long tiny piece of paper. I searched and surprisingly I found the tiny piece of paper. I thought I had found it but it was stuck. The CO gave me the go ahead to log it, even though something didn't look right. Turns out it wasn't the cache after all. 3 multis and 1 traditional found.
Sunday, June 13. As I was sitting down to put the finishing touches to last week's blog, notifications came in for new geocaches. A couple were maybe an hour South of the city. I'm not interested. Another new one was less than one kilometer from my apartment. I have a chance for FTF. I quickly got dressed and casually drove over to GZ for the quick find. I claimed the FTF eleven minutes after the notification. I signed, replaced and casually left. Little did I know that immediately after I left, two other geocachers showed up with thoughts of an FTF dancing in their heads. I'm not the only one up early on a Sunday morning. 1 traditional found.
Monday, June 14. Nothing. Didn't feel like geocaching and there was no need for me to go.
Tuesday, June 15. This was one of the two days that I did need finds to bring the accumulative total to eleven. I headed over to Bunn's Creek after work. Two caches in opposite direction from my parking spot at the park. Quick finds for both. 2 traditionals found.
Wednesday, June 16. I need four finds today. I'm looking all over the geocaching map for four caches that are relatively close together. This is also the day before payday. I'm short on cash and short on gas. My car is basically running on fumes but I do decide on four that are close enough and not far from home. Let's toss in a bad vehicle accident in the general area where I'll be geocaching. The road is blocked off, diverting traffic through the area and making a mess. It's also rush hour. There are more than four new caches in the area, so I did some changing of plans on the fly. I did make short work of all four that I found. 4 traditionals found.
Thursday, June 17 and Thursday June 18. Nothing. I didn't need to go geocaching on either of these days. In fact, I don't need to go for the rest of the month, but I will. Overall for the week, 8 traditionals and 3 multi-stage caches found.
I have been catching more podcasts of late. Caching in the Northwest is one of the one's I've been listening to. I don't look at the date the show aired, just the topic. One episode talked about geocachers meeting their love while geocaching or at geocaching events. This show actually aired last year before the pandemic. It reminded me of a blog I did over two years ago about geocaching and dating. Should geocachers date other geocachers or muggles? I was recently told that I should find someone who has the same zest for geocaching as I have. That came from a muggle that I was talking to. Hopefully, we'll get past this pandemic and events will happen again. I'm looking forward to attending larger events, hopefully a mega or two down the road. Maybe my next partner will be at one of those events. Who knows? You can catch that episode here > Meeting your love
Time is running out for the June photo contest. I'll be announcing the winner in my July 4th blog. The June theme was simply find a geocache. You can send your pictures to thegeocachingguild@gmail.com or direct message me on Twitter at @thegeocachingg1.
That's all for this week. Until next time, be happy, stay safe, wash your hands and wear a mask, hug your furry critters, and most importantly, just have fun. Peace out.
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