GC8EEG8 Boxing Day, Eh!
Type: Traditional | Size: Micro | Difficulty: | Terrain:
By: Bob and Doug McKenzie @ | Hide Date: 10/03/2019 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N38° 47.077 W104° 54.137 | Last updated: 06/19/2022 | Fav points: 0
                               

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Take Off, Eh, You Hoser!!

One of the best holidays in the world is NOT American!! Really, it is not, despite what Americans think.  It is actually from our American friends across the pond (who Americans tossed aside in an effort for freedom because of taxes), BUT for this geocache, it is from north of the 49th Parallel and those crazy Canadians via the old British Empire because we are celebrating the Canadian heritage of one of our awesome local cachers.  Boxing Day (Dec 26)!  No, you are not permitted to start a fight in the living room square circle on this day, but if you are playing hockey on this day, then boxing is ok if you get a stick up the schnaz! 

Canadians have been great allies of the Americans over the years and have exported some of the greatest things to America (besides military personnel to NORAD in watching for Santa and other joint northern hemisphere efforts).  Some of the things they have imported are: Buffy Sainte-Marie, Wayne Gretzky, hockey, Don Cherry's hockey analysis, curling, Rush, some rather famous brewskis, SCTV, and John Candy (RIP) for a few.

To find this gecoache, you will need to put on your thinking tuke, wrap in a scarf, imbibe in your favorite thinking beverage, and make way along the old track bed where you will need to watch for rocks being kicked on your head from whatever it is above you (Alpaca or a Llama, but not sure yet among the coniferous trees).  Once you find the geocache, make sure you do a rendition of the Canadian National Anthem while signing to show true patriot love.

Pay attention to specific environmental attributes shown and not shown as noted in the logs. (Scuba gear and boat not required, but swimming may be in an epic flood at this elevation)

This cache could be more difficult in certain seasons. (If we had a Canadian style blizzard from the prairies)

Watch for Big Foot in the area. He has been seen, maybe kicking rocks.

Please recover the cache the same way or better than you found it so the next cacher can enjoy the find too.

Watch for wildlife and respect their domain.

Caching can be dangerous. There are inherent risks involved which you take upon yourself when you are caching.

Please be careful and remember rule #13(J)(01)(e) - HAVE FUN!

Additional Waypoints

018EEG8 - Parking
N 38° 47.449 W 104° 54.254

01/04/2020 By Mikejama
Cool hide tftc:)

11/18/2019 By gampa&gamma
We were on Seven Bridges Trail hiding a couple of new caches, so we decided to hike over to look for this cache. Fun hide! Thanks for the cache.

11/09/2019 By Hikermama3
Found it, out on this beautiful November day before the snow comes again on Monday, ?love the coal, tftc??

10/19/2019 By Bokmeow
second cache of the day... thanks for placing it!!! tftc. all is well with the cache.

10/14/2019 By CVA64
Having long been a neighbor to the Canadians for many years, even more so when you could drink north of the border while being under 21, I never understood Boxing Day until I met some a long time ago when I got into watching major junior hockey and then it became clear as an Alberta winter day after the snow had flown.

As much chiding is had with Canadians, they are really are some of the coolest people (normal winter temp aside) to know and have some of the greatest traditions along with food, e.g. Tim Horton's and Hy's Steakhouse. Having had the opp to travel the country in some limited respects, it does have some marvelous places to visit, e.g. Frank's Slide, Stanley Park, Jasper, Banff, Calgary, Edmonton, Abbotsford, etc.

So, in honor of the Great White North and all it is, toast to them during Hockey Night in Canada and enjoy a beverage of your choice! Now, that is five min for fighting, two min for instigating, and a game misconduct! Game on!!