The first few caches we placed have been out there for a few years. The last log entries indicated some trouble. The rubbermaid containers were showing wear and tear. They are also not all that waterproof. We decided to make a trip with the primary purpose of maintaining the older caches.

The first target was Chanda’s Treasure. It had been placed March 29, 2003 and held up amazingly well. The old rubbermaid box was replaced with an ammo can. The degree of difficulty also makes this an ideal cache for passong travellers. This justified the addition of the “TCDNON” designation for a Trans Canada Highway cache.

Chanda’s Treasure - TCDNON (official page)
Visited Chanda’s Treasure. The rubbermaid containers used for our caches held up for a few years but seem to be rapidly deteriorating now. Time to visit our caches for some maintenance. The Chanda’s Treasure rubbermaid box was in great shape. We still placed the contents in a new camoflage beige ammo can. Also edited the listing to show it as a TCDN Ontario cache.

On the way back towards Dryden we picked up Oxdrift Deer Crossing. Certainly easy parking off the Trans Canada to safely search for this one.

Oxdrift Deer Crossing (official page)
Nice cache. Easy find on a beautiful spring day. Traded signal for a dinosaur.

Durning lunch break at Johnston Park in Dryden I was able to sneak away and attempt to find the Giant Boulder Cache. I had attempted it last year. But with a two year old on my shoulders and heavy overgrowth I aborted the search. The lack of vegetation this early in the year made for a quick and easy find.

GIANT Boulder Cache - TCDNON (official page)
Went for a quick find while the family had a lunch break at Johnston Park. Didn’t have the printout for the cache, just the waypoint loaded in the GPS. An easy find this early in the year. I can see this to be much more of a challenge later in the year.

The remainder of the day was all cache maintenance. I retrieved Dinorwic Hill (official page). What a nasty placement! The brush in the area got certainly worse since the cache had been placed. The worst part were raspberry canes. Even with most of them knocked down over the winter I received plenty of scratches working my way to the cache. The cache contents were transferred to a new ammo can and placed elsewhere. The new location proved to provide a much nicer view and be much more readily accessed. Dinorwic Hill, The Sequel (official page) was born.

Not far away to the West we had placed Milne Rd. (official page). Log entries indicated a moisture problem, not surprising considering it was yet another plastic box. The gravel road was wet and soft but easily navigated. The old cache was retrieved and the contents migrated to a new container. Jennifer had the legit concern that some unfortunate cacher seeking Milne Road might easily hurt themselves in the boulder field. The cache was relocated to a different location. I am not convinced that the change in coordinates justified a new cahe listing but that’s what I did. So now we have Milne Rd. #2 (official page).

Despite it being late in the afternoon we stopped at Misfit Lake (official page). This cache had an interesting history. It started out as a micro in a Milk2Go, morphed into a full size Tupper type cache, and was relocated due to a pet sanctuary. The original plan was to replace the cache with an ammo can hiden in the bush, perhaps with lake view. It just didn’t seem teh right thing to do. Instead we placed Misfit Micro (official page). The new cache much more resembled the original spirit of the archived Misfit Lake cache.