Blog.TO promotes geocaching in Bayfield, Ontario

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The top 5 weekend getaways three hours from Toronto

Posted by Amanda Storey / JUNE 8, 2015

Go geocaching in Bayfield 
Charm and historic status aren't the only things going for this small town off the coast of Lake Huron. It's also known for its geocaching -- which, for those who don't know, is a complex but fun sort of modern-day treasure hunt. This is one of Ontario's hotbeds for the activity, which requires a GPS system to track down a hidden cache left by other players.

Wise words of Brian Snat regarding power trails

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Posted Today, 05:45 AM

Dame Deco, on 19 May 2015 - 08:01 PM, said:

Groundspeak needs to stop publishing power trails. They are giving caching a bad name.

As I've been saying since the first power trails started appearing, no good would come out of taking a low impact, low visibility activity and turning it into a high impact, high visibility one. And that's precisely what these PTs and most of the "geo art" have done.

I was pretty much a voice in the wilderness in the beginning. Glad to see that more and more people are starting see this nonsense for what it is, a threat to the long term viability of our game. We're already seeing the fallout from power caching in NJ with a new, draconian state parks policy and a total ban on some state lands. 

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Perth and Huron Counties Cemetery Caching Adventure

This Spring 2015 my area of choice for cemetery caches was the Perth and Huron area in Ontario. 


Overall it was disappointing. Last years cemetery vacation caching was much better.

The region is mostly populated with OCC, HCC and BRANCHES cemetery caches. Most were missing or not maintained despite logs about issues with the caches. 

There were many micros where larger caches would fit.

Many leaky caches with mostly wet moldy logsheets inside.

Checking those finds today (one month later), none of the problem caches have yet to be addressed by the cache owners.

For well maintained swag size cemetery caches drive to the Waterloo, Oxford, Elgin, Middlesex counties region. 

Dundeejim (Bone-Yard Series) and BC & MsKitty (SQ - Spirit Quest and CCF series) are still the hands-down champions of cemetery cache hides in southwestern Ontario. See last year's post.