Myra Canyon Trestles
On June 3rd I headed up to Myra canyon to hide another geocache. I have 12 of them hidden now, 3 of them are part of a series I’m setting up along the Kettle Valley Railway. If you don’t know what the heck a geocache is check some of my previous blog entries, or better yet, check out geocaching.com.
Anyway, I took Cocoa along and she really enjoyed the walk, but I think it was too hot for her. She was panting a lot, and really liked the cool shade inside the tunnel. I took quite a few pictures along the way, and wanted to post a few of them here. It’s really looking nice up there since the fire. Most of the trestles have been rebuilt and there’s work being done on the remaining ones. I could only walk as far as the first tunnel on the Myra side because of construction, but that was far enough for me.
Here are some of the pictures I took. Click them for a full size view.
Standing dead trees from the fire of 2003.
It’s interesting to see the new growth amongst the burnt trees. Here are some of the many maples I saw.
One of the trestles.
A deep cut in the rocks. One of my geocaches is hidden on the hill on the left side.
Apparently someone decided the rocks needed some securing. Those bolts were never there when I walked through many years ago.
Here’s Cocoa making her way across one of the trestles. As you can see she’s having a great time. She didn’t even seem too upset when someone’s rottweiler tried to eat her alive. She put up quite a fight until the guy pulled his dog away. She’s one tough mutt. I’m really going to miss her.
The same trestle again. Minus Cocoa.
Another trestle.
A couple of trestles on the other side of the canyon. I couldn’t get there, but you can see some construction happening near the one on the right.
Some trees that were made red by fire retardant.
This spider has an awesome view from one of the trestles.
This is the view from the geocache I hid that day.
Tags: Cocoa, geocache, Geocaching, hiking, Kelly Valley Railway, Kelowna, KVR, Myra Canyon, trestles
Setting up geocaches
I haven’t posted for a fews days because I’ve been busy with Christmas stuff and I’ve been setting up geocaches with Roger. If you haven’t heard of geocaching check out geocaching.com. I guess you could say it’s my new hobby. Roger introduced me to geocaching quite a while ago, and now I’m hooked. We decided to set up our own caches here in Kelowna for people to find. So far we’ve set up four of them between the two of us. There are more to come. Actually, since I’ve been busy with Christmas stuff, and geocaching, and then work, I’m pretty worn out. I’m hoping to get some much needed sleep today. I’m so glad tonight’s my last night working this week. I’m exhausted right now. Plus I want to get out into the bush and do some more geocaching. 
Tags: Christmas, Geocaching, work
