Living Skies 2014 Geocaching MEGA Event

6 Months Until Living Skies 2014!

Posted on January 19, 2014 by Nezgar

We are all getting very excited as July 19th gets closer! Living Skies 2014 – WestCan 4 is officially only 6 months away!

Planning is revving up, and the EPOC is in the midst of organizing geocache hides, satellite events, and activities for the Mega.

We need your help! In order to obtain Mega status before the event date, we need attendees to log their ‘Will Attend’s on the geocaching.com event listing. Remind your friends and family to do so as well!

Also, please help spread the word by sharing our Facebook posts and Twitter tweets!

We are still welcoming volunteer registrations. Please fill out the volunteer registration form. Thank you for your help to make this event the best it can be!

We hope you are as excited as we are about this event, and we hope to see you all in Rosthern in just 6 months!

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Saskatchewan Feature – Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park

Posted on January 18, 2014 by Nezgar

Lodgepole Pines
Photo credit: Ryan Goolevitch

Looming high above the prairie in Southwest Saskatchewan are the Cypress Hills. These hills rise to the highest elevation between the Rocky mountains and Labrador. It is Canada’s first and only interprovincial park, straddling the southern Alberta-Saskatchewan boundary, with a geocaching program too!

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Local Highlight – Seager Wheeler Farm

Posted on January 17, 2014 by Nezgar

Seager Wheeler Farm
Photo from http://www.seagerwheelerfarm.org

While in Rosthern, check out the nearby Seager Wheeler Farm – designated by the Government of Canada as a place of national historic significance.

This farm is being restored to its 1919 state, and is the site where Wheeler the “Wheat King of Rosthern” bred award winning varieties of wheat and developed plants such as the Saskatchewan crabapple.

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Local Highlight: Riverlands Heritage Region Driving Tour

Posted on January 15, 2014 by Nezgar

Aspens
Photo credit: Ryan Goolevitch

Be wowed by Saskatchewan’s largest tree (nearly 5 meters in circumference), the beautiful aspen parkland, and the North Saskatchewan river valley. Check out Doukhobor villages and caves, the Fort Carlton trail, cemeteries, schools, beautiful murals, and an armillary.

As you drive this fantastic tour through history and natural wonders, what else will you find?

Geocaches. We plan to have lots more of them along this route!

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Scenic Saskatchewan Sunday – Rosthern

Posted on January 12, 2014 by Nezgar

Rosthern Elevator
Photo credit: Ryan Goolevitch

A Pretty scene in Rosthern, the host town of the Living Skies 2014 Mega Event.

As of January 2014, there aren’t many geocaches in the area, but that’s about to change…big time!

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Featured Geocache – Sask-cache-one

Posted on January 9, 2014 by Nezgar

Farm near Sask-Cache-One Photo credit: Mountain_Wander (from log on geocaching.com)

Farm near Sask-cache-one
Photo credit: Mountain_Wanderer (from log on geocaching.com)

Today we are featuring Saskatchewan’s very first geocache, GC14F – Sask-cache-one.

This cache was placed on January 7th, 2001, by Donovan Onishenko. It has held up very well, as it is a classic ammo can.

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Podcacher Feature

Posted on January 6, 2014 by Nezgar

Our recent interview with KenJamin about Canada’s Oldest Unfound Geoache has been featured on today’s episode of Podcacher! Check out Episode 452.0!

Congratulations on the feature KenJamin, and many thanks to Sonny and Sandy for spreading the word. We can’t wait for this cache to be finally found! Now who will be the FTF?

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Local Highlight – Hepburn Museum of Wheat

Posted on January 6, 2014 by Nezgar

Hepburn Elevator
Photo credit: rgdags (from their find log)

One of the well-known icons of the Canadian Prairies is the old style grain elevator, or “Prairie Sentinel”. These are sadly rapidly disappearing from Saskatchewan’s landscape. A satellite event is being planned at the Hepburn Museum of Wheat, which is a working Pool elevator that was built in 1928.

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Scenic Saskatchewan Sunday – Condie Nature Refuge

Posted on January 5, 2014 by Nezgar

Condie Nature Refuge
Photo credit: Ryan Goolevitch

This is the first in our weekly series featuring scenic areas of Saskatchewan to help you get an idea of what to expect on your visit.

We will also feature a few nearby geocaches in order to help you if you are making road trip plans.

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Local Highlight – Batoche National Historic Site of Canada

Posted on January 4, 2014 by Nezgar

Red River cart at Batoche National Historic Site – Photo Credit: Tourism Saskatchewan/Eric Lindberg

A Satellite event is being planned to take place at Batoche, a National Historic Site of Canada. In cooperation with us, Parks Canada will be allowing new physical geocaches on-site in conjunction with the Mega event. This opportunity to experience part of Canada’s history is just 20 minutes north-east of Rosthern.

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