If you’re a Calgary geocacher, you may have heard about the Parks 100 Celebration. Or you may have heard it mentioned in a cache title. Or you may have seen a banner up near the zoo. Or you may have stumbled across a cache with the 100 Parks label on it. You may have wondered what it is all about.
If you’re not a geocacher, there’s still time to catch the wave.
The Calgary Parks 100 Celebration is the 100th anniversary of Calgary Parks. To celebrate, the city is giving away an Oregon 300 GPS Unit and other prizes to encourage Calgarians to get out there and discover a park.
But wait, there’s more.
The best part is that the Calgary Public Library has hopped on board with this initiative and is loaning Garmin eTrex Legend H GPS units to those who would like to test drive the sport without investing in a GPS. For a seven-day loan, you are able to experience the thrill of discovering one of the many Parks 100 caches. Here’s the kicker: they are already pre-programmed and ready to go.
Even for a techno-phobe, the GPS is simple to use and comes with a handy quick-step reference guide. There is no recharging of batteries or downloading of caches, it comes ready to go as soon as you turn it on.
The only downside is that a new geocacher may decide to look for a hard terrain or high difficulty cache on their first try and get disappointed. The instructions are included for both the Garmin and tips on finding a Calgary Parks 100 cache.
Right, one last downside: a $2 per day late fee if you don’t return your borrowed GPS unit!
Cache-To-Go: Sherwood Park Hill – Calgary Parks 100, GC276G5. A regular lock ’n’ lock camo-taped container in a cool rock riverbed. No waders required.
Happy Caching!
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