There are 13 locations in the Surrey/Langley area, each corresponding to a spot in the Hundred Acre Wood. The spots have clues to a larger, final cache. This final cache originally included travel bugs of 4 main Winnie the Pooh characters and some neat swag. Pretty sure most of that is gone now, but it’ll still be a fun adventure!

Decided to start with one close-ish to home.

GC1FP82 – Floody Place
Regular cache – Easy Spot – Easy Terrain

The park this cache was in is REALLY pretty. I’d driven by it a few times, and I’ve walked some of the paths. Nice time of year to go there, very lush.

We were getting close so I let minime take the GPS and lead us to the cache, she did a really great job!!

So the particular location was a tad… overgrown? This one was easier to find though. Had a teeny bit more of an idea what we were doing. And it was a regular sized cache instead of something really really teeny.

Took a bit of convincing to get minime into the grass but she came!

She finally did though, we almost got spotted by some Muggles! Pretty sure we got out of sight fast enough. Hunted around a bit, certain we were in the right spot when we spotted it!

Was a pretty neat cache! Stuff from a few different provinces and a nice sized log book. We logged our find on the GPS and then minime put her name into the log after mine.

Traded a bit of swag, she was pretty happy with that, then we packed it all up and snuck out. Almost got busted by one more group of Muggles and then made it to the path.

Hehe, silly Muggles!

Went on over to Geocaching and brought up the nearest caches. Was pleasantly surprised at how many. I quickly picked our target and loaded the co-ords into Geobeagle, got fitted out in rain gear, cuz hey it’s Langley and that’s life, and off we went.

GC1CTFW – Bird Condos
Micro cache – Easy Spot – Easy Terrain

Geobeagle was easy enough for minime to understand and she served as our navigator.

She sure was a trooper, walking up the big hill because the arrow told her too!

Finally we got to the right area, now we just had to figure out where it was!

This part was more difficult than I thought. I wasn’t sure exactly what to expect and although we knew we were in the right area it did take us a while to find it. Rain may have played a part in that as I was far less willing to get on my knees and look under benches, although the clue pointed that direction.

We circled the site for a bit, wondering where on earth it could be. Then, I spotted something odd… the geocache!

It was definitely smaller than I’d thought. We opened it up and retrieved the log book, which in this case was two very small pieces of paper! After noting the date and putting my name I let minime write her own name in the log.

After sending the “Log Find ” from my phone we put the papers back into the cache and replaced it. When I got home I added the find to our geocaching.com profile (You’ve got to be a member to see it, but signing up is free!) and added a note on that cache that the next person may want to bring more paper!

So that was our first trek, pretty close to home and a small cache. But it was a success and that’s the important bit! Both of us had fun and are already looking forward to the next one, and plotting how to get more people involved!