Logs for 3jaze
06-Sep-13
What a pleasant surprise. I am a retired Junior High School (equivalent to your Middle School) teacher from Calgary, Alberta. I had the privilege of working with those ‘young minds’ for 35 years and am still sane (I think) or should I say all those students had the privilege of me being their instructor for the brief 3 years in Junior High? Thanks for the cache.
29-Aug-13
Cache has been around 2 years earlier than when I started geocaching up in Calgary. I never dreamt that geocaching would pervade my life the way it has. It’s been fun. Not a cloud in the sky, thermometer on the van says 38°C (100.4°F) and it’s still early afternoon. Forecasters are prediction 102°F.
Soo……. I sat down in the shade of the ol’ cottonwood tree, poured myself a nice iced tea and relished signing the log while seated on the nice park bench.
I usually don’t bother with travel bugs in caches but I only spotted two travel bugs in the cache. One was Big Bird (I think) and the other seemed to be rolled up green ruler.
Never thought I’d have a goal of finding the oldest active cache in the world let alone finding it 1655.3 kilometers from home. Thanks for the hunt and the cache.
Soo……. I sat down in the shade of the ol’ cottonwood tree, poured myself a nice iced tea and relished signing the log while seated on the nice park bench.
I usually don’t bother with travel bugs in caches but I only spotted two travel bugs in the cache. One was Big Bird (I think) and the other seemed to be rolled up green ruler.
Never thought I’d have a goal of finding the oldest active cache in the world let alone finding it 1655.3 kilometers from home. Thanks for the hunt and the cache.
05-Oct-05
Steve Brown, although it's not exaclty what I was looking for, this one is novel enough that I'll let it stand.
10-Jul-05
Showcasing the Rockies with Gabe, a guest from Hungary, got us to this wonderful vista. A great summer’s day to go for a short hike before hitting some of the other great locations. Thanks for the views and the cache.
10-Aug-03
Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
The city was named after William Lethbridge (1824-1901), the first president of North West Coal and Navigation Company. Prior to 1885 it was called Coal Banks; in Blackfoot, achsaysim, “steep banks†or si-ko-ko-to-ki, “place of the black rocksâ€. Later it was called Coalhurst by the postal authorities even after residents started calling it Lethbridge (there already was a Lethbridge in Ontario). The name was officially changed to the present one on October 1885.
Unrelated to the name of the town, this might peak your interest. The Canadian Pacific Railway completed the High Level Bridge on the west side of the city. It is supposedly the highest and longest bridge of its kind in the world and cost $1.3 million to build in 1909. It spans the mile wide Old Man River valley, and is 320 feet high.
Thanks for the cache.
The city was named after William Lethbridge (1824-1901), the first president of North West Coal and Navigation Company. Prior to 1885 it was called Coal Banks; in Blackfoot, achsaysim, “steep banks†or si-ko-ko-to-ki, “place of the black rocksâ€. Later it was called Coalhurst by the postal authorities even after residents started calling it Lethbridge (there already was a Lethbridge in Ontario). The name was officially changed to the present one on October 1885.
Unrelated to the name of the town, this might peak your interest. The Canadian Pacific Railway completed the High Level Bridge on the west side of the city. It is supposedly the highest and longest bridge of its kind in the world and cost $1.3 million to build in 1909. It spans the mile wide Old Man River valley, and is 320 feet high.
Thanks for the cache.
09-Dec-02
Crawling Valley Reservoir, near Bassano, Alberta, was filled in 1985 and is part of a network irrigation canals that provide water to the Eastern Irrigation District of south central Alberta. Its volume at full supply is 130,000,000 cubic meters (34,340,000,000 gals) with an average depth of 5.2 meters. It covers an area of 25 square kilometers, is 17.6 km long and 4 km wide and provides 150 km of shoreline. The reservoir provides valuable habitat for the area’s waterfowl. Pike, burbot, trout (not recently) and a walleye stocking program provide anglers with some entertainment. I've spent many, many hours on this body of water both summer and winter catching and releasing the denizens of the deep
Thanks for the cache.
Thanks for the cache.
20-Jul-02
N 51° 34.385 W 112° 53.089
Bleriot Ferry
Alberta, Canada
N 51° 34.385
W 112° 53.089
The Bleriot Ferry is one of the few remaining ferries located in Alberta, Canada. It is located on Highway 839 northeast of Drumheller and crosses the Red Deer River. There is no fee levied for the crossing. What a pleasant, if short, break in our busy lives of go, go, go.
Service is limited to daylight hours and schedules should be checked for operating hours.
For further details you can log on to the following:
www.virtuallydrumheller.com/tour/bleriot.htm
Thanks for the chance to participate in this cache.
[last edit: 7/21/2002 10:18:16 PM PST]
N 51° 00.015 W 114° 05.845
Glenmore Dam, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
51° 00.015 N
114° 05.845 W
The dam was built to supply water for the City of Calgary and to control flooding of the Elbow River. Construction started in 1930 and was officially opened on January 6, 1933. Much like the Hoover Dam, it was built during the Great Depression and provided work for many people. Between 1933 and 1972 it provided almost all of Calgary’s water.
The dam itself is 320 meters long with a base width of 21 meters of poured concrete, one of the heaviest of its kind when built. The reservoir extends 5 km. and contains 21.5 billion liters of water to a maximum depth of 18 meters. It flooded 900 acres of land.
