It's only been a few days since our series along the TransCanada was published, but this morning Cache Effect approved and published another series of geocaches hidden during our July 13 hike in the Arethusa Cirque area. We ended up going with a three micro caches and a regular-sized final for the multi-cache. The …
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Hiking Kananaskis Country – Arethusa Adventure
Last Sunday we headed out to Highwood Pass in Kananaskis Country; this is our all-time favourite area for hiking and we wanted to place more caches in the area of Arethusa Cirque to encourage geocachers to come out to this "trail". While you don't get any of the really big views you would enjoy from …
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Hiking Kananaskis Country – West Ridge approach to Mount Baldy
With the GeoKids in camp every day this week, Mr. & Mrs. GeoK wanted to get in at least one hike. Drop-off and pick-up times constrained our options; with 3 unfound geocaches waiting for us we settled on the west ridge approach to Mount Baldy. This is NOT one of our favourite hikes. It's …
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Hiking Kanananaskis Country – Jumpingpound Mountain
We enjoyed (mostly) blue skies and moderate temperatures while hiking to the summit of Jumpingpound Mountain on Saturday. Access is off the Powderface Trail (a gravel road) which connects highways 66 (west of Bragg Creek) and 68 (gravel, through Sibbald Flats). We elected to travel via the TransCanada into Sibbald Flats, which meant we were on …
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Hiking Kananaskis Country – Moose Loop and Telephone Trails
Monday June 23 was another beautiful day so we took advantage by heading back to West Bragg Creek (last visit was in April when there was still lots of snow on the ground). This is the little used entrance to K-country, accessed via township road 232 heading west from Bragg Creek. You can hike from …
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