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January 29 News: People/ Ice Walk/ Stuff

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We went to the great GSAK session by Team BikeFast last weekend in Quispamsis. A big turnout and a really good session. We did a bit of caching before and after the event. We intended on spending the night in a local hotel, but we received an invitation from KfdCanada and his wife Grace to spend the night at their place. We had a wonderful time and a great supper. Ken even let me watch the Senators lose. It turns out they are also Big Bang Theory fans, just like us. (I sometimes watch 3 or more episodes per night. I guess it is my other obsession). Thanks to Ken and Grace for the hospitality. It was nice seeing him at the Moncton Brekkie this morning with a bunch of other out of towners.

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Ice Walk

I will add a new update to the Ice Walk page. Everything looks great for crossing to Shediac Island. The snow and rain has made a nice crust for traction crossing. There is not enough snow for snowshoes on the island. It may snow everyday this week but only traces. Weather looks good this week with very cold nights..

WayMoreJean sent me a satelite map of the island and the caches. Belladan and his daughter added some lines to the map to show a suggested plan of attack and then made a large copy of the map. He then printed a bunch of copies to hand out to cachers arriving for the event.

We are hoping to get to Cocagne island this week to check on the caches and ice conditions. We will post that info when available. As a last resort, if we cant go ahead of the event, we may hand out caches to the cachers to replaces any that are missing. LOL

We are suggesting that people show up at our place before crossing to the islands, even if they will be crossing from Edgewater. This will allow cachers to team up (for safety and for fun) and maybe even carpool there.

If anyone doesn’t feel up to crossing to the islands, but wants to cache, check the map of the area to see the large number of new caches placed during the last few weeks. If not interessted in caching, why not drop in during the day for coffee.

Belladan will again be making a big pot of Fricot and Ma will be preparing some Chili. We will also have some sweets.

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More news

Ma and I are still picking up one cache a day in our new streak and checking the calendar to fill it up by the end of February. We are still walking 6 kms everyday on Beaubassin Rd picking up one of Belladan’s Looney Tune caches each day, and dropping off TB’s in those caches for the cachers for the Ice Walk event.

Tomorrow we meet up with Jim for lunch at the Casino. Jim will be bringing Geocoins and a few TB’s with him to Florida and on his cruise. That includes the new bugs from Belladan and from our grandkids Jake & Ben

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Introduction to Geocaching Session

There will be an introduction to geocaching session in Dieppe next Sunday. Tiger Tracker is shown as the responsible person, however he is unavailable and Pikpik has volunteered to take his place. If you would like to show up and offer some help, I am sure it will be appreciated

http://coord.info/GC3AR80

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The Cookers

We often hear comments about writing logs on a series of caches. The Cookers went after our new caches in the SM series. The logs were not long, but together they told a story so here it is.

Log Date: 1/29/2012
I saw this series come out yesterday and thought NOOOOOO, we’ve already done the Shediac to Malakoff trail and it was brutal, we don’t want to do it again. Most of it is driving so the CO says. Yes, I seem to remember, we had decided to walk all the way though. We figured this place would be crawling with cachers today but it was not to be. We are FTF on all of them but as all cachers say, we don’t really care about FTF. TFTC

Log Date: 1/29/2012
Good timing for these caches, got studded snow tires put on the little Golf just last Friday. The road is icy but but no huge pot holes to contend with. Picked up TB, dropped off two. TFTC

Log Date: 1/29/2012
These are like P & G’s, well for the most part. We’ll do a couple of hikes before the afternoon is over. TFTC Dropped off 2 TB’s.

Log Date: 1/29/2012
Lot’s of people, bikes, trikes, dogs and cars. There must be a few cachers. Nope, none so far. Very puzzling. TFTC

Log Date: 1/29/2012
OMG, where are all the cachers? Beautiful day for caching, sunny not too cold if a bit windy. TFTC

Log Date: 1/29/2012
OK, so some other cachers started from the other end. We will be meeting up with them in the middle somewhere, right? After all, these are Ma & Pa caches. Maybe there’s no logic to this after all. LOL TFTC

Log Date: 1/29/2012
We see people in the distance, coming the other way. AHA, cachers, I knew it. TFTC

Log Date: 1/29/2012
Nope, not cachers. A few hikers and an ATV. Oh, I forgot to mention, a few of the micros had no log sheet. We didn’t have any either but I did find a couple of pieces of paper with my grocery list on them in my pocket so used that. TFTC

Log Date: 1/29/2012
Still parking and grabbing and still FTF so far. Is there a caching party somewhere that we didn’t know about. LOL TFTC

Log Date: 1/29/2012
Well, what to say about this one? Still no other cachers, still nice out. Still FTF which we don’t care about because we already have so many. [:D] TFTC

Log Date: 1/29/2012
Looked quickly at the map before heading out. I knew a couple of caches were off trail but didn’t realize we had arrived to one of them so quickly. We did this one and didn’t do the River Cache until we were on our way back. TFTC

Log Date: 1/29/2012
We usually like to do the last cache first and work our way out. Did this on these two. Nice hike, a bit slippery but feels good to walk for a bit. TFTC

Log Date: 1/29/2012
No trouble finding any of these. Good coordinates and we left lots of caching prints for the next cachers, which we still haven’t seen any of. TFTC

Log Date: 1/29/2012
Last of the series, still no other cachers to be found. Almost to the river and we spot ATV’ers down at the bottom. Do we keep going? Nah, we don’t know who they are. So we wait. They finish their beer and get on their bikes, we hide. Mr. Cooker finds the cache and just as we go to leave we hear more ATV’s, a whole bunch of them. We stay in the woods and leave without them ever seeing us. Fun stuff. TFTC.

15 thoughts on “January 29 News: People/ Ice Walk/ Stuff”

  • Snake9 and I met the cookers as they were on their way back out the road. Nice people. I liked their description of their ninja skills in the last log.

    • Here is the log by EBE51 for those who may want to know the rest of the story. As for the two caches with no log sheets, well I think it was MA’s fault

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      Log Date: 1/29/2012
      Well I am back to finish this series. I did SM#9 to SM#29 nine days ago. Today Snake9 and I did SM#0.5 to SM#8.5, plus the new 10.5, 11.5 and river cache. A few old ones from 4 years ago and a few new from 2 days ago. Oh, and we also did the Alleluia Bridge Micro. I got all the caches on the other side of the old railroad track last summer and just needed this one to finish it.
      Like the cookers wrote in their logs, we were suprisied there wasn’t any other cachers around. It was a really nice afternoon. Snake9 and I did meet the cookers when they were on their way out. Chatted for a few minutes. This was the first time I had met them. We also talked to a man out walking to get some exercise. He had double hip replacement surgery a while back. And we met some people on ATV’s near the SM River Cache. They were not cachers but one of them knew what geocaching was and even asked if we found the cache.
      These were quick finds for this series, so there isn’t much to write for each one. Each was pretty much the same as the last. I would look for the cache and Snake9 would look for a stick to whack stuff with. 21 cache finds and 21 sticks needlessly died. Actually, I think he found two and signed two himself. But it was a nice afternoon to be outside. And we also got to read the cookers grocery list in two caches. I guess “”someone”” forgot to put a log sheet in the containers. I was a little confused when I first tried to figure out who the heck these cachers were. I didn’t have my backpack with me so I didn’t have any spare log sheets with me. I also didn’t note which two caches these were, but they were two of the new ones.
      Thanks Ma & Pa for the series. I had fun doing the whole thing.
      The rest of my logs will be short.
      TFTC.

  • I’ve been made to promise to bring a cheesecake to the ice walk this weekend too, Pa. Looking forward to it greatly! What time do people tend to head out to Edgewater for the crossing? We’ll be leaving Fredericton that morning, so just want to plan that part – as we’d rather cache with others, certainly!

    • I suggested people come here first but of course, people can go directly to Edgewater, It seems there will be a big crowd this year, so you should be able to meet people over there. We usually give a 9 am start time, but it will be a long day and many people start earlier. So if you show up here or at Edgewater around 9 you should meet up with other cachers.

      Thanks for the cheesecake offer. Much appreciated.

      PAul

      PS We added the map to the cache page showing the plan of attack from Edgewater.

      • We’ll likely still head to your place first, at least to drop off the cheesecake! How long a drive is it to Edgewater from there?

  • Herr Minnz and I will certainly be attending. If anyone would like to carpool from Riverview/Moncton, just drop us a line so that we can arrange something.

    Ma/Pa, I’ll bring some dinner rolls with me, to help mop up the chili and fricot! Cheers.

  • Incepit and I just got back from Cocagne Island, no problem with the ice. We did DNF a cache that has been missing for a while now from Crlyl. I added a needs maintenance log but probably should have put a needs archived log. We had a container with us but I hate throw downs so I didn’t leave one, just in case we missed it but I don’t think we did. The owner doesn’t appear to be doing much or any maintenance so a throw down will just prolonging the inevitable.

    • I contacted Crlyl and adopted his cache. We will go and replace it before the Ice Walk. We also intend on checking and fixing all the other caches on that island. This is what we did on shediac island last week

  • We will bring some brownies and some Wheaton wine…named after the Wheaton’s from Sackville who were friends of ours in university. And in case you wondered – there is nothing in the brownies and the drink is a non-alcoholic punch.

  • Won’t be able to make it to the Ice Walk this year, hope you guys will have a lot of fun and that the weather will be cooperating. Caching has been pretty slow so far in 2012, only two smilies so far. There have been a few new caches in the Bathurst area but I haven’t been that way lately. Hopefully thing will pick up shortly :).

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