We just returned from a short fall vacation in Colorado and Utah. Between flights and driving half our days were primarily travel days, but we enjoyed four days in the National Parks, immersing ourselves in the geology and scenery. The weather was fantastic, with daytime highs around 20 C and clear blue skies. October …
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Stash n’ Dash and Leap Frog
One day last week Mrs. GeoK had the bright idea that we should go through every room in the house to round up items for a garage sale, for recycling or for the dump. As a result, we haven't had much time for geocaching lately. Even so, we managed to find GCA0D6 Stash n' Dash and GC4411 …
2000 finds, new personal best day of caching
When we got back from K-country Friday afternoon, Mrs. GeoK got right to work solving puzzles; there were more than 40 puzzle caches published for the Calgary Cache and Release Summer 2008 geocaching event and we didn't expect we'd get any geocaching in on Friday night but we wanted to maximize the number of possible …
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Geohiking in West Bragg
With mixed weather and home maintenance projects keeping us in Calgary most of the week, we were glad for blue skies on Thursday the 28th. With the GeoKids waiting to board their school bus, Mr. and Mrs. GeoK headed west to Bragg Creek, determined, at last, to put their new waders to the test. We …
Off to Olds for our 100th Brass Cap
August 23 we headed north to the Olds / Sundre area. Our primary objective was to join the parents' work bee to prepare Camp Sweet for the arrival of the Calgary Science School student campers but the almost 2 dozen geocaches stashed in Olds beckoned as well. Turning north off the 1A onto route 766 …