One of the great things about geocaching mega events is the excitement it generates, and and the spinoffs that it inspires with those planning to attend. We on the organizing committee were completely unaware of some great pathtag designs being created by our attendees, and were impressed to see these. So for those that enjoy seeing and trading pathtags, we thought we’d show the ones we know about so far.
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We were excited to learn today that PodCacher has chosen to feature our prevous post’s audio interview with Team BOSS regarding their find of Canada’s previously oldest unfound geocache on this weeks “MidWeek Micro” Show 474.1: PMM – FTF 12 years later! And we thank them for mentioning the upcoming MEGA event in Saskatchewan in July as well!
Be sure to listen to the show, and check out all the other Geocaching goodness they bring to the worldwide geocaching community each and every week!
Team BOSS (bennykidd, olemaz, sasktravelbugs, scratch1) Finders of Canada’s Oldest Unfound (Virtual) Geocache
Back in January 2014, Living Skies 2014 featured an interview with the owner of Canada’s oldest unfound geocache listing “SK Extreme 01”, a Virtual Cache in northern Saskatchewan.
At 9:55 AM on Thursday, June 19, 2014, this long-standing pillar of geocaching in Saskatchewan had at last been found! It wasn’t for another few hours before the news was phoned into the owner, due to the remoteness of the location.
Living Skies 2014 committee member Nezgar took some time today to interview “Team BOSS” which consisted of bennykidd, olemaz, sasktravelbugs, and scratch1 about their adventure, and what it took to achieve this monumental accomplishment. All of them will be present at the Living Skies 2014 MEGA, so you can meet them in person! Be sure to check out sasktravelbugs’ adventure geocaching session as well.
Nezgar Flying his parafoil @ Windscape 2014
This weekend is the Windscape Kite Festival. Kite enthusiasts from all over Canada, the U.S., and even the Netherlands have convened in Swift Current to celebrate the event’s tenth year.
Kites made by the ‘celebrity flyers’ as large as 45 metres long are being flown and are amazing to watch. There are even demonstrations taking place, like a group who flies quad string kites together in formations, set to music! We’ve never seen anything like it. It is truly mind blowing.
The 5:28 pre-SCAR FunCanal taunt. Photo Credit: Dragonfly E&N
With SCAR 2014 just around the corner, we thought we’d feature one of the highlights from SCAR in 2012. Hidden by Houlagans in 2012, this series of 134 caches was one of the most notable when the caches for 2012’s Saskatoon Cache & Release event were published, and was a major contributor to that years record of 513 new geocaches.
SCAR 2014 Begins June 20th, 2014
Saskatoon’s seventh annual Cache and Release will commence this Friday, when many hundreds of new geocaches will published, expected to be in the many hundreds. Caches will be anywhere up to 130KM from the centre of Saskatoon. For those attending the Living Skies 2014 MEGA, this means more caches for you to find when in the area as well!
The caches will be published on Thursday, but those participating should hold their horses and plan their strategies before the official start time of Friday at 5:30PM, and then its pure caching mayhem for 24 hours!
Nisbet Forest
Photo credit: Alex Paul
Come and check out the miles upon miles of trails that snake through the Nisbet Provincial Forest!
These wonderful trails can be found 18 km north of Duck Lake and are home to 2 Living Skies satellite events.
Take note that these trails may only be accessed on foot!
The cache allotment for the Prairie Storms Adventure Trail. (¼) The other ¾ will be hidden in the Rosthern area.
I’m sure many of you are interested to know what we’re up to. Things are getting crazy with just over 30 days to go until the big day! We’ve received a big order of caches, and we’re beginning to get them placed. We are also proud to announce the name of our Southern Saskatchewan series: the “Prairie Storms Adventure Trail“! We plan to have this series published within the next two weeks.
Enjoy the hidden secrets of Southern Saskatchewan by getting off the beaten trail to sites seldom visited, scenic views, historic sites and buildings. The name also pays tribute to the Alberta’s “Prairie Winds Adventure Trail” which was created for the Best of the Bad (WestCan 1) MEGA event in 2011.
It may be an unlucky day coming up by some standards, but it could be your lucky day if you haven’t registered yet and selected a t-shirt to go along with it for your visit to Living Skies 2014.
T-Shirt order cutoff will be 11:59PM CST on Friday, June 13th, and then we will be putting our order. Register Now!
Just over a month to go until Living Skies 2014!
This week’s Scenic Saskatchewan Sunday comes to us courtesy of Jordie Braun of Swift Current. He took these two time-lapse video’s which show some of our provinces very dynamic skies. You can more of his work on twitter, facebook, and flickr.
Time-lapse of clouds, rain showers, and rainbows taken with a GoPro near Swift Current, SK on May 15, 2014 |
Saskatchewan Storm Timelapse: a view of a storm over Kindersley taken from Swift Current, SK on June 25, 2012. |
