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8<div class="relative flex flex-col grow"><main id=main-content class=grow><header><h1 class="mt-5 text-4xl font-extrabold text-neutral-900 dark:text-neutral">Posts</h1><div class="mt-1 mb-2 text-base text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400 print:hidden"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"></div></div></header><section class="mt-0 prose flex max-w-full flex-col dark:prose-invert lg:flex-row"><div class="min-w-0 min-h-0 max-w-prose"></div></section><div class="relative w-screen max-w-[1600px] px-[30px] start-[calc(max(-50vw,-800px)+50%)]"><h2 class="mt-12 mb-3 text-2xl font-bold text-neutral-700 first:mt-8 dark:text-neutral-300">2026</h2><section class="w-full grid gap-4 sm:grid-cols-2 md:grid-cols-3 xl:grid-cols-4 2xl:grid-cols-5"><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card"><img src=/posts/whw-waymarkders/featured-20260407_025745-Day_2_hu_698c860e073f3deb.jpg alt="West Highland Way - A Sample of the Waymarkers Along the Way" loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/whw-waymarkders/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>West Highland Way - A Sample of the Waymarkers Along the Way</h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2026-04-13T00:00:00+00:00>April 13 2026</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>980 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">5 mins</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/west-highland-way/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">West Highland Way 9</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/scotland/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Scotland</span></span></a></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-invert py-1">The West Highland Way is a very well-marked trail, and I tried to capture photos of some of the waymarkers that caught my eye as I went.</div></div><div class="px-6 pt-4 pb-2"></div></article><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card"><img src=/posts/whw-day7/featured-20260412_101036-Closer_to_Tigh-na-sleubhaich__hu_4bcee4a543725aee.jpg alt="West Highland Way - Day 7 - Kinlochleven to Fort William" loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/whw-day7/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>West Highland Way - Day 7 - Kinlochleven to Fort William</h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2026-04-12T00:00:00+00:00>April 12 2026</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>3006 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">15 mins</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/hiking/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Hiking 10</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/geocaching/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Geocaching 11</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/west-highland-way/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">West Highland Way 12</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/scotland/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Scotland</span></span></a></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-invert py-1">The last leg of the West Highland Way turned out to be both miserable and thoroughly fulfilling at different times during the day.</div></div><div class="px-6 pt-4 pb-2"></div></article><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card"><img src=/posts/whw-day6/featured-20260411_100821_hu_1c4bd164d33f9459.jpg alt="West Highland Way - Day 6 - Kingshouse Hotel to Kinlochleven" loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/whw-day6/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>West Highland Way - Day 6 - Kingshouse Hotel to Kinlochleven</h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2026-04-11T00:00:00+00:00>
12April 11 2026</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>2349 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">12 mins</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/hiking/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Hiking 13</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/geocaching/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Geocaching 14</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/scotland/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Scotland 15</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/west-highland-way/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">West Highland Way</span></span></a></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-invert py-1">After a needed day’s rest today’s hike offered grand views, a slog up the Devil’s staircase to the highest point on the West Highland Way, and a long descent into Kinlochleven.</div></div><div class="px-6 pt-4 pb-2"></div></article><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card"><img src=/posts/whw-day5/featured-20260410_124152_hu_4db4f3a113687a8f.jpg alt="West Highland Way - Day 5 - Tyndrum to Kingshouse Hotel" loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/whw-day5/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>West Highland Way - Day 5 - Tyndrum to Kingshouse Hotel</h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2026-04-10T00:00:00+00:00>April 10 2026</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>1614 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">8 mins</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/hiking/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Hiking 16</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/west-highland-way/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">West Highland Way 17</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/scotland/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Scotland</span></span></a></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-invert py-1">A head & chest cold had thoroughly sapped my energy, so I took a rest day and traveled to Kingshouse Hotel by bus.</div></div><div class="px-6 pt-4 pb-2"></div></article><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card"><img src=/posts/whw-day4/featured-20260409_150148-IMG_7317_hu_8d27946d72a31554.jpg alt="West Highland Way - Day 4 - Ardlui to Tyndrum" loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/whw-day4/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>West Highland Way - Day 4 - Ardlui to Tyndrum</h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2026-04-09T00:00:00+00:00>April 9 2026</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>2173 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">11 mins</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/hiking/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Hiking 18</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/scotland/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Scotland 19</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/west-highland-way/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">West Highland Way</span></span></a></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-invert py-1">This was the first day when both the rain and wind and my head and chest cold became factors.</div></div><div class="px-6 pt-4 pb-2"></div></article><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card"><img src=/posts/whw-day3/featured-20260408_125832-IMG_7070_hu_3920a9a9f95623ec.jpg alt="West Highland Way - Day 3 - Rowardennan to Ardlui" loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/whw-day3/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>West Highland Way - Day 3 - Rowardennan to Ardlui</h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2026-04-08T00:00:00+00:00>April 8 2026</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>2373 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">12 mins</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/hiking/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Hiking 20</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/scotland/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Scotland 21</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/west-highland-way/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">West Highland Way</span></span></a></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-invert py-1">The hike today is usually billed as the most strenuous of the entire West Highland Way. It started tamely enough but eventually turned into more of a careful crab crawl than a hike.</div></div><div class="px-6 pt-4 pb-2"></div></article><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card"><img src=/posts/whw-day2/featured-20260407_115742-Loch_Lomand_from_Conic_Hill_hu_5c49eb1be5d74069.jpg alt="West Highland Way - Day 2 - Drymen to Rowardennan" loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/whw-day2/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>West Highland Way - Day 2 - Drymen to Rowardennan</h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2026-04-07T00:00:00+00:00>April 7 2026</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>1880 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">9 mins</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/hiking/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Hiking 22</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/geocaching/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Geocaching 23</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/scotland/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Scotland 24</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/west-highland-way/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">West Highland Way</span></span></a></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-invert py-1">The main obstacle of today’
24s leg was the ascent and descent of Conic Hill.</div></div><div class="px-6 pt-4 pb-2"></div></article><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card"><img src=/posts/whw-day1/featured-20260406_083933-The_West_Highland_Way_starting_point_hu_dba942fccc75da88.jpg alt="West Highland Way - Day 1 - Milngavie to Drymen" loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/whw-day1/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>West Highland Way - Day 1 - Milngavie to Drymen</h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2026-04-06T00:00:00+00:00>April 6 2026</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>2398 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">12 mins</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/hiking/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Hiking 25</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/geocaching/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Geocaching 26</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/scotland/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Scotland 27</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/west-highland-way/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">West Highland Way</span></span></a></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-invert py-1">Starting out into the unknown on the relatively tame first leg of the West Highland Way.</div></div><div class="px-6 pt-4 pb-2"></div></article><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card"><img src=/posts/edinburgh-day3/featured-20260405_091537-St_Giles_Cathedral_on_a_Easter_Sund_hu_f67fc2f4d6905d1d.jpg alt="Exploring Edinburgh - Day 3 - The Royal Mile, Greyfriars Kirkyard & Newhaven Harbour" loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/edinburgh-day3/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>Exploring Edinburgh - Day 3 - The Royal Mile, Greyfriars Kirkyard & Newhaven Harbour 28 29 </h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2026-04-05T00:00:00+00:00>April 5 2026</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>2032 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">10 mins</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/scotland/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Scotland</span></span></a></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-invert py-1">Today set out to see the most “touristy” spots in Edinburgh and later in the afternoon took a spontaneous tram ride to Newhaven Harbour.</div></div><div class="px-6 pt-4 pb-2"></div></article><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card"><img src=/posts/edinburgh-day2/featured-20260404_103858-A_view_over_the_city_from_Calton_Hi_hu_284daaf325dfa7af.jpg alt="Exploring Edinburgh - Day 2 - Calton Hill & Holyrood Park" loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/edinburgh-day2/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>Exploring Edinburgh - Day 2 - Calton Hill & Holyrood Park 30 31 </h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2026-04-04T00:00:00+00:00>April 4 2026</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>863 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">5 mins</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/scotland/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Scotland</span></span></a></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-invert py-1">Anything and everything was new to me in Edinburgh, so I let geocaches determine the general route while exploring parts of the city today.</div></div><div class="px-6 pt-4 pb-2"></div></article><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card"><img src=/posts/edinburgh-day1/featured-20260403_112501-Edinburgh_Castle_hu_ded4bd6be05b5bd8.jpg alt="Exploring Edinburgh - Day 1 - Travel and First Day Arrival" loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/edinburgh-day1/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>Exploring Edinburgh - Day 1 - Travel and First Day Arrival</h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2026-04-03T00:00:00+00:00>April 3 2026</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>1834 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">9 mins</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/scotland/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Scotland</span></span></a></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-invert py-1">Despite a grueling “day” of travel from Western Canada to Edinburgh, Scotland, I managed mini-tour of a picturesque area before crashing into bed with serious jetlag.</div></div><div class="px-6 pt-4 pb-2"></div></article></section></div><div class="relative w-screen max-w-[1600px] px-[30px] start-[calc(max(-50vw,-800px
31)+50%)]"><h2 class="mt-12 mb-3 text-2xl font-bold text-neutral-700 first:mt-8 dark:text-neutral-300">2025</h2><section class="w-full grid gap-4 sm:grid-cols-2 md:grid-cols-3 xl:grid-cols-4 2xl:grid-cols-5"><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card"><img src=/posts/wandewing-awound-wetaskiwin/featured-20251104_103813-A_processed_pic_of_the_trail_in_late_fall_hu_fb98ed7961cda31a.jpg alt="Wandewing Awound Wetaskiwin" loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/wandewing-awound-wetaskiwin/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>Wandewing Awound Wetaskiwin</h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2025-11-05T00:00:00+00:00>November 5 2025</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>734 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">4 mins</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/hiking/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Hiking 32</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/geocaching/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Geocaching 33</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/wetaskiwin/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Wetaskiwin</span></span></a></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-invert py-1">A late fall exploration and geocaching outing in a Peace Hills Park near Wetaskiwin, AB</div></div><div class="px-6 pt-4 pb-2"></div></article><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card"><img src=/posts/return-to-battle-lake/featured-20251022_135119-A_bench_and_a_welcome_chance_to_sit_and_rest_hu_1cfbd5ba98be8c60.jpg alt="Return to Battle Lake" loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/return-to-battle-lake/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>Return to Battle Lake</h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2025-10-22T00:00:00+00:00>October 22 2025</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>899 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">5 mins</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/hiking/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Hiking 34</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/geocaching/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Geocaching</span></span></a></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-invert py-1">I returned to the trails near the south end of Battle Lake today to avenge a 10-year old geocache DNF - “Did Not Find”.</div></div><div class="px-6 pt-4 pb-2"></div></article><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card"><img src=/posts/a-dumbbell-hike/featured-20250921_104623-A_painterly_view_of_a_rest_hut_at_an_important_intersection_hu_1d980bbfc1b292ac.jpg alt='A "Dumbbell" Hike from Islet Lake Staging Area to Central Staging Area' loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/a-dumbbell-hike/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>A "Dumbbell" Hike from Islet Lake Staging Area to Central Staging Area</h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2025-09-21T00:00:00+00:00>September 21 2025</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>326 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">2 mins</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/hiking/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Hiking 35</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/blackfoot/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Blackfoot</span></span></a></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-invert py-1">A planned 15.5 km hike took me from Islet Lake Staging Area to Central Staging Area and out to what felt like “way out there”
35 places.</div></div><div class="px-6 pt-4 pb-2"></div></article><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card"><img src=/posts/baldy-pass-to-lusk-pass/featured-IMG_5896_hu_12a8c56a26e7485e.jpg alt="Hiking Baldy Pass Trail to Lusk Pass Trail" loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/baldy-pass-to-lusk-pass/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>Hiking Baldy Pass Trail to Lusk Pass Trail</h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2025-09-02T00:00:00+00:00>September 2 2025</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>629 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">3 mins</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/hiking/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Hiking 36</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/geocaching/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Geocaching 37</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/kananaskis/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Kananaskis</span></span></a></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-invert py-1">It was last day of my 4-day Kananaskis visit and I saved this mostly flat ramble along Baldy Pass Trail following a string of geocache hides over to Lusk Pass Trail</div></div><div class="px-6 pt-4 pb-2"></div></article><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card"><img src=/posts/climb-hortons-hill/featured-20250901_111936-A_signature_view_of_the_day_hu_2b280b97b91282a5.jpg alt="Climb to the Summit of Horton's Hill" loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/climb-hortons-hill/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>Climb to the Summit of Horton's Hill</h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2025-09-01T00:00:00+00:00>September 1 2025</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>1077 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">6 mins</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/hiking/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Hiking 38</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/geocaching/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Geocaching 39</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/kananaskis/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Kananaskis</span></span></a></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-invert py-1">The geocaches hidden on the way up to the summit of Horton’s Hill in Kananaskis have been on my bucket list for years. Today was the day I made the climb of this steep hill.</div></div><div class="px-6 pt-4 pb-2"></div></article><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card"><img src=/posts/finding-pathfinder/featured-20250831_134359-Guard_house_from_WWII_prison_camp_on_this_site_hu_9951c5f4b67cec0e.jpg alt='The Path to Finding "Pathfinder"' loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/finding-pathfinder/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>The Path to Finding "Pathfinder"</h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2025-08-31T00:00:00+00:00>August 31 2025</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>521 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">3 mins</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/hiking/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Hiking 40</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/geocaching/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Geocaching 41</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/kananaskis/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Kananaskis</span></span></a></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-invert py-1">I did a short hike to find a long-solved geocache puzzle called “Pathinder”</div></div><div class="px-6 pt-4 pb-2"></div></article><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card"><img src=/posts/mt-burke-summit-climb/featured-20250830_170706-The_Geocaching_Event_Attendees_at_the_Lookout_hu_100f6807c2692a98.jpg alt="The Climb to the Summit of Mt Burke" loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/mt-burke-summit-climb/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>The Climb to the Summit of Mt Burke</h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2025-08-30T00:00:00+00:00>August 30 2025</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>688 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">4 mins</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/geocaching/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Geocaching 42</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/hiking/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Hiking 43</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/kananaskis/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Kananaskis</span></span></a></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-invert py-1">It was both a physical and psychological stretch for me to successfully climb to the 2536m summit of Mt Burke today. It took a LONG time, but the climb was completed.</div></div><div class="px-6 pt-4 pb-2"></div></article><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card"><img src=/posts/blackfoot-loop-hike-to-push-shelter/featured-20250822_093818-Getting_on_the_Siksika_Trail_hu_fc92dd55a34d5d62.jpg alt="Blackfoot Loop Hike to Push Shelter" loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/blackfoot-loop-hike-to-push-shelter/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>Blackfoot Loop Hike to Push Shelter</h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2025-08-22T00:00:00+00:00>August 22 2025</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>279 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">2 mins</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/hiking/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Hiking 44</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/blackfoot/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Blackfoot 45</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/geocaching/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Geocaching</span></span></a></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-invert py-1">I accessed the Blackfoot trails from the Waskehegan Connector Trail, did some geocache maintenance, continued to Push Shelter and returned on Ed’s Way, a trail I’d hiked before.</div></div><div class="px-6 pt-4 pb-2"></div></article><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card"><img src=/posts/blackfoot-figure-eight-loop-hike/featured-20250817_102141-No_humans_here,_but_obviously_a_few_spiders_hu_3fe9e89dc04f02f6.jpg alt="Blackfoot Figure Eight Loop Hike to Meadow Shelter" loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/blackfoot-figure-eight-loop-hike/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>Blackfoot Figure Eight Loop Hike to Meadow Shelter</h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2025-08-17T00:00:00+00:00>August 17 2025</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>350 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">2 mins</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/hiking/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Hiking 46</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/blackfoot/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Blackfoot</span></span></a></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-invert py-1">I did a 15 km figure eight loop hike to Meadow Shelter in the Cooking Lake Blackfoot Recreational Area today.</div></div><div class="px-6 pt-4 pb-2"></div></article><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card"><img src=/posts/islet-lake-lollipop-route/featured-IMG_5460_hu_1f75095bac24fe55.jpg alt="Islet Lake Lollipop Route to Push Lake and Lost Lake Shelters" loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/islet-lake-lollipop-route/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>Islet Lake Lollipop Route to Push Lake and Lost Lake Shelters</h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2025-08-11T00:00:00+00:00>August 11 2025</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>473 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">3 mins</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/hiking/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Hiking 47</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/blackfoot/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Blackfoot</span></span></a></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-invert py-1">I hiked from the Islet Lake Staging Area to Push Lake Shelter, then to Lost Lake Shelter and continued on in a wide loop back to the staging area.</div></div><div class="px-6 pt-4 pb-2"></div></article><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card"><img src=/posts/joseph-lake-loop-may-2025/featured-20250518_134123-The_cutline_is_clear_and_wide_hu_d6dbf
472a04cfbeb12.jpg alt="Joseph Lake Loop Hike" loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/joseph-lake-loop-may-2025/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>Joseph Lake Loop Hike</h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2025-05-18T00:00:00+00:00>May 18 2025</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>390 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">2 mins</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/hiking/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Hiking 48</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/ministik/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Ministik</span></span></a></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-invert py-1">It’s been a long time since I’ve walked the trails near Joseph Lake. It was fun rediscoving the place all over again.</div></div><div class="px-6 pt-4 pb-2"></div></article><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card"><img src=/posts/mitchell-loop-hike/featured-20250513_132738-Mitchell_Cabin_hu_77515872ff592ddf.jpg alt="Mitchell Loop Hike" loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/mitchell-loop-hike/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>Mitchell Loop Hike</h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2025-05-13T00:00:00+00:00>May 13 2025</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>961 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">5 mins</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/hiking/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Hiking 49</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/geocaching/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Geocaching 50</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/ministik/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Ministik</span></span></a></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-invert py-1">I after a long absence, I “rediscovered” a grand loop hike in the southeast section of the Ministik Bird Sanctuary. It’s a route I call the “Mitchell Loop”, named after a cabin tucked in the woods along the way.</div></div><div class="px-6 pt-4 pb-2"></div></article></section></div><div class="relative w-screen max-w-[1600px] px-[30px] start-[calc(max(-50vw,-800px)+50%)]"><h2 class="mt-12 mb-3 text-2xl font-bold text-neutral-700 first:mt-8 dark:text-neutral-300">2024</h2><section class="w-full grid gap-4 sm:grid-cols-2 md:grid-cols-3 xl:grid-cols-4 2xl:grid-cols-5"><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card"><img src=/posts/grassy-fields-return/featured-20240918_133937-Hay_bales_both_near_and_far_hu_9cbdd90bc9a70e24.jpg alt="Ministik Hike to My 'Grassy Fields' Cache and Return" loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/grassy-fields-return/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>Ministik Hike to My 'Grassy Fields' Cache and Return</h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2024-09-19T00:00:00+00:00>September 19 2024</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>1196 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">6 mins</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/ministik/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Ministik 51</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/hiking/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Hiking 52</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/geocaching/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Geocaching</span></span></a></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-invert py-1">The hike today was a thoroughly pleasant outing to find a couple new caches and perform maintenance on a few of my own.</div></div><div class="px-6 pt-4 pb-2"></div></article><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card"><img src=/posts/deadfall-alley-to-uofa-road/featured-20240906_132437-The_Dead_Fall_Alley_Sign_hu_40d60319c5eceaec.webp alt="Ministik Loop Hike From Deadfall Alley to the UofA Road" loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/deadfall-alley-to-uofa-road/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>Ministik Loop Hike From Deadfall Alley to the UofA Road</h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2024-09-06T00:00:00+00:00>September 6 2024</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>931 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">5 mins</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/ministik/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Ministik 53</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/hiking/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Hiking 54</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/geocaching/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Geocaching</span></span></a></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-invert py-1">I lived through what turned out to be a very challenging hike through overgrown trails today.</div></div><div class="px-6 pt-4 pb-2"></div></article><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card"><img src=/posts/hike-to-meadow-shelter/featured-IMG_3715_hu_bb8ffb7c510db22b.webp alt="Blackfoot Loop Hike to Meadow Shelter" loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/hike-to-meadow-shelter/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>Blackfoot Loop Hike to Meadow Shelter</h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2024-08-26T00:00:00+00:00>August 26 2024</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>547 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">3 mins</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/geocaching/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Geocaching 55</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/blackfoot/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Blackfoot 56</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/hiking/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Hiking</span></span></a></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-invert py-1">Using geocache maintenance as an excuse, I hiked a 10 km loop along the always excellent trails in the southwest section of the Cooking Lake-Blackfoot Prov. Recreation Area today.</div></div><div class="px-6 pt-4 pb-2"></div></article><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card"><img src=/posts/meandering-around-millet/featured-IMG_3505_hu_27fdd83bcb54ef1d.webp alt="Meandering Aroun
56d Millet" loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/meandering-around-millet/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>Meandering Around Millet</h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2024-08-19T00:00:00+00:00>August 19 2024</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>453 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">3 mins</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/geocaching/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Geocaching 57</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/cartrip/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">CarTrip</span></span></a></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-invert py-1">I meandered down some rural Alberta roads on the way to Millet, AB today.</div></div><div class="px-6 pt-4 pb-2"></div></article><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card"><img src=/posts/natures-magic-tricks/featured-IMG_3483_hu_73877f82a32954a9.webp alt="Nature Does Some Clever Magic Tricks" loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/natures-magic-tricks/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>Nature Does Some Clever Magic Tricks</h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2024-08-17T00:00:00+00:00>August 17 2024</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>287 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">2 mins</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/geocaching/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Geocaching 58</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/hiking/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Hiking 59</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/chickakoo/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Chickakoo</span></span></a></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-invert py-1">It was some of nature’s magic tricks I noticed along the way that impressed me the most during a hike along the trails of the Chickakoo Lake Recreation area today.</div></div><div class="px-6 pt-4 pb-2"></div></article><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card"><img src=/posts/lamont-county-car-caching/featured-IMG_3451_hu_144df6880a62791e.webp alt="Car Caching Along the Backroads of Lamont County" loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/lamont-county-car-caching/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>Car Caching Along the Backroads of Lamont County</h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2024-08-07T00:00:00+00:00>August 7 2024</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>502 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">3 mins</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/geocaching/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Geocaching 60</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/lamont-county/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Lamont County</span></span></a></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-invert py-1">Car-caching with a buddy in north Lamont County</div></div><div class="px-6 pt-4 pb-2"></div></article><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card"><img src=/posts/short-hike-along-mtn-bike-trails-east-of-goldstick-park/featured-IMG_3436_hu_2f597ad54b280cb0.webp alt="A Short Hike Along Mtn Bike Trails East of Goldstick Park" loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/short-hike-along-mtn-bike-trails-east-of-goldstick-park/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>A Short Hike Along Mtn Bike Trails East of Goldstick Park</h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2024-07-31T00:00:00+00:00>July 31 2024</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>533 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">3 mins</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/geocaching/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Geocaching 61</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/hiking/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Hiking 62</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/edmonton/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Edmonton</span></span></a></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-invert py-1">I returned to these trails with the goal of finding a cache I’d been unable to find in Dec. 2023. Compared to that visit, this summer outing today provided a far different experience - and I loved it.</div></div><div class="px-6 pt-4 pb-2"></div></article><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card"><img src=/posts/finding-a-fairly-remote-cache-south-of-mandy-lake/featured-IMG_3297_hu_88213cf09e73e92b.webp alt="Finding a Fairly Remote Cache South of Mandy Lake" loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/finding-a-fairly-remote-cache-south-of-mandy-lake/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>Finding a Fairly Remote Cache South of Mandy Lake</h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2024-06-01T00:00:00+00:00>June 1 2024</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>47 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">1 min</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/ministik/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Ministik 63</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/hiking/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Hiking 64</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/geocaching/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Geocaching</span></span></a></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-invert py-1">To get to a remote cache today, I walked down familiar trails but then covered ground that I’d only once been near before 10 years ago - and that was in the winter months.</div></div><div class="px-6 pt-4 pb-2"></div></article><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card"><img src=/posts/five-meadows-hike/featured-IMG_3226_hu_253c74840ed5569a.webp alt="Ministik Five Meadows to Waskahegan Loop Hike" loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/five-meadows-hike/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>Ministik Five Meadows to Waskahegan Loop Hike</h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2024-05-29T00:00:00+00:00>May 29 2024</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>
6495 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">1 min</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/ministik/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Ministik 65</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/hiking/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Hiking 66</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/geocaching/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Geocaching</span></span></a></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-invert py-1">I undertook a grand loop hike in the Ministik today, what I call the Five Meadows Hike. It was a gloriously beautiful day to do it too.</div></div><div class="px-6 pt-4 pb-2"></div></article><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card"><img src=/posts/ministik-north-of-510-and-south-to-deadfall-alley-may26-2024/featured-IMG_3153_hu_e63cfbe81d5d4e0e.webp alt="Ministik Geocaching Hike North of 510 and South to Deadfall Alley" loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/ministik-north-of-510-and-south-to-deadfall-alley-may26-2024/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>Ministik Geocaching Hike North of 510 and South to Deadfall Alley</h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2024-05-26T00:00:00+00:00>May 26 2024</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>34 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">1 min</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/ministik/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Ministik 67</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/geocaching/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Geocaching 68</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/hiking/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Hiking</span></span></a></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-invert py-1">Three of us did a two part hike today, first north of Township Rd 510 and then south to Deadfall Alley</div></div><div class="px-6 pt-4 pb-2"></div></article><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card"><img src=/posts/ministik-hike-to-explore-trails-northeast-of-mandy-lake-may-24-2024/featured-IMG_3130_hu_4a29cd5a179d094.webp alt="Ministik Hike to Explore Trails Northeast of Mandy Lake" loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/ministik-hike-to-explore-trails-northeast-of-mandy-lake-may-24-2024/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>
68Ministik Hike to Explore Trails Northeast of Mandy Lake</h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2024-05-24T00:00:00+00:00>May 24 2024</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>2 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">1 min</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/ministik/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Ministik 69</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/hiking/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Hiking</span></span></a></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-invert py-1">In the past I’d walked on stub trails northeast of Mandy Lake and today I wanted to see if they really were actual trails - spoiler alert - there were.</div></div><div class="px-6 pt-4 pb-2"></div></article><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card"><img src=/posts/walking-a-mostly-forgotten-trail-off-spilstead-road-18-2024/featured-IMG_3069_hu_daf17c3bac537162.webp alt="Walking a Mostly Forgotten Trail Off Spilstead Road" loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/walking-a-mostly-forgotten-trail-off-spilstead-road-18-2024/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>Walking a Mostly Forgotten Trail Off Spilstead Road</h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2024-05-18T00:00:00+00:00>May 18 2024</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>61 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">1 min</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/ministik/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Ministik 70</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/hiking/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Hiking</span></span></a></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-invert py-1">There are some out of the way trails in the Ministik that start but eventually just peter out into nothing. This is one of them.</div></div><div class="px-6 pt-4 pb-2"></div></article><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card"><img src=/posts/ministik-hike-near-joseph-lake-may-14-2024/featured-IMG_3018_hu_6851f86e17735d43.webp alt="Ministik Hike Near Joseph Lake" loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/ministik-hike-near-joseph-lake-may-14-2024/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>Ministik Hike Near Joseph Lake</h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2024-05-14T00:00:00+00:00>May 14 2024</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>43 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">1 min</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/ministik/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Ministik 71</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/hiking/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Hiking</span></span></a></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-invert py-1">I made the trek down the trails of a corner of the Ministik I seldom visit today.</div></div><div class="px-6 pt-4 pb-2"></div></article><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card"><img src=/posts/chickakoo-lake-caching-hike-april-13-2024/featured-IMG_2890_hu_41dcf314939a7d44.webp alt="Chickakoo Hike With Geocaching Buddies" loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/chickakoo-lake-caching-hike-april-13-2024/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>Chickakoo Hike With Geocaching Buddies</h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2024-04-13T00:00:00+00:00>April 13 2024</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>6 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">1 min</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/chickakoo/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Chickakoo 72</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/hiking/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Hiking 73</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/geocaching/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Geocaching</span></span></a></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-invert py-1">After parking at the Chickakoo Equestrian lot, we proceeded to scour the eastern side of Chickakoo for caches</div></div><div class="px-6 pt-4 pb-2"></div></article><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card"><img src=/posts/ministik-hike-along-deadfall-alley-april-08-2024/featured-IMG_2882_hu_d3701df80d65a4c9.webp alt="Ministik Hike Along Deadfall Alley" loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/ministik-hike-along-deadfall-alley-april-08-2024/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>Ministik Hike Along Deadfall Alley</h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2024-04-08T00:00:00+00:00>April 8 2024</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>24 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">1 min</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/ministik/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Ministik 74</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/hiking/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Hiking 75</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/geocaching/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Geocaching</span></span></a></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-invert py-1">Four of us hiked south from the UofA Access Road gate all the way down Deadfall Alley today.</div></div><div class="px-6 pt-4 pb-2"></div></article><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card"><img src=/posts/ministik-lake-watery-ice-walk-2024-march-16/featured-IMG_2834_hu_83e2cc85fa50a8d7.webp alt="Ministik Lake Watery Ice Geocaching Hike" loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/ministik-lake-watery-ice-walk-2024-march-16/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>Ministik Lake Watery Ice Geocaching Hike</h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2024-03-16T00:00:00+00:00>March 16 2024</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>341 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">2 mins</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/ministik/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Ministik 76</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/hiking/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Hiking 77</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/geocaching/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Geocaching</span></span></a></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-invert py-1">It’s March and the ice between islands on Ministik Lake can still be walked on. Or can it? Yikes! There’s standing water on a lot of it!</div></div><div class="px-6 pt-4 pb-2"></div></article><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card"><img src=/posts/ministik-hike-to-hide-a-geocache-march-08-2024/featured-Img_2726_2024-Mar-08_hu_542cac0b98be2c99.webp alt="Ministik Hike to Hide a Geocache" loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/ministik-hike-to-hide-a-geocache-march-08-2024/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>Ministik Hike to Hide a Geocache</h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2024-03-08T00:00:00+00:00>March 8 2024</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>20 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">1 min</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/ministik/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Ministik 78</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/hiking/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Hiking 79</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/geocaching/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Geocaching</span></span></a></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-invert py-1">I hiked down the Mandy Lake road, past the old cabin and shelter to hide a geocache today.</div></div><div class="px-6 pt-4 pb-2"></div></article><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card"><img src=/posts/ministik-hike-across-ice-2024-feb-16/featured-IMG_2570_hu_f7c81fefdf5e79ac.webp alt="Ministik Hike to Two Cache Hides Near Ministik Lake" loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/ministik-hike-across-ice-2024-feb-16/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>Ministik Hike to Two Cache Hides Near Ministik Lake</h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2024-02-16T00:00:00+00:00>February 16 2024</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>404 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">2 mins</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/ministik/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Ministik 80</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/geocaching/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">
80Geocaching 81</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/hiking/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Hiking</span></span></a></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-invert py-1">I’d waited to make the trek for a while. But the weather promised to be great today and and as it turned out it certainly was.</div></div><div class="px-6 pt-4 pb-2"></div></article></section></div><div class="relative w-screen max-w-[1600px] px-[30px] start-[calc(max(-50vw,-800px)+50%)]"><h2 class="mt-12 mb-3 text-2xl font-bold text-neutral-700 first:mt-8 dark:text-neutral-300">2023</h2><section class="w-full grid gap-4 sm:grid-cols-2 md:grid-cols-3 xl:grid-cols-4 2xl:grid-cols-5"><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card"><img src=/posts/shiningbank-lake-group-caching-2023-12-27/featured-IMG_1857_hu_a18a64b00d02e3d7.webp alt="Shiningbank Lake Group Ice Walk to Geocaches" loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/shiningbank-lake-group-caching-2023-12-27/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>Shiningbank Lake Group Ice Walk to Geocaches</h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2023-12-27T00:00:00+00:00>December 27 2023</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>126 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">1 min</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/peers/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Peers 82</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/geocaching/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Geocaching</span></span></a></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-invert py-1">Eight of us met at Shiningbank Lake to do a grand loop around the shoreline where geocaches were hidden. First we needed to walk straight across the middle of the lake though. Pucker up and walk!</div></div><div class="px-6 pt-4 pb-2"></div></article><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card"><img src=/posts/science-park-to-bike-trails-to-rundle-park-loop-2023-dec-06/featured-IMG_1790_hu_3f12d3430daeb3bc.webp alt="Edmonton Science Park to Rundle Park Via Gnarly Mountain Bike Trails" loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/science-park-to-bike-trails-to-rundle-park-loop-2023-dec-06/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>Edmonton Science Park to Rundle Park Via Gnarly Mountain Bike Trails</h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2023-12-06T00:00:00+00:00>December 6 2023</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>
82126 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">1 min</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/geocaching/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Geocaching 83</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/edmonton/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Edmonton 84</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/walking/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Walking</span></span></a></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-invert py-1">I really didn’t know what I was getting myself into when I started the loop hike from Science Park, but I not only survived the hilly mountain bike trails I ended up walking on, but I enjoyed the experience.</div></div><div class="px-6 pt-4 pb-2"></div></article><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card"><img src=/posts/ministik-misasin-trail-hike-2023-nov-29/featured-IMG_1731_hu_62b31f423017b6e.webp alt="Ministik Misasin Trail Geocaching Hike" loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/ministik-misasin-trail-hike-2023-nov-29/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>Ministik Misasin Trail Geocaching Hike</h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2023-11-29T00:00:00+00:00>November 29 2023</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>6 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">1 min</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/ministik/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Ministik 85</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/hiking/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Hiking 86</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/geocaching/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Geocaching</span></span></a></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-invert py-1">This was fun and challenging outing. I was anticipating a LOT more bush whacking than I ended up experiencing.</div></div><div class="px-6 pt-4 pb-2"></div></article><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card"><img src=/posts/calgary-caching-for-specific-caches-october-10-2023/featured-Img_1565_2023-Oct-10_hu_483137f6cc50c3ff.webp alt="Geocaching in Calgary for Specific Caches" loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/calgary-caching-for-specific-caches-october-10-2023/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>Geocaching in Calgary for Specific Caches</h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2023-10-10T00:00:00+00:00>October 10 2023</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>2 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">1 min</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/calgary/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Calgary 87</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/geocaching/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Geocaching 88</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/cartrip/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">CarTrip</span></span></a></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-invert py-1">I made a long-awaited trip to Calgary to target finding specific caches across the city.</div></div><div class="px-6 pt-4 pb-2"></div></article><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card"><img src=/posts/ministik-hike-to-replace-cache-container-september-25-2023/featured-Img_1476_2023-Sep-25_hu_c2d02e7dfc8d54fb.webp alt="Ministik Hike to Replace Cache Container" loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/ministik-hike-to-replace-cache-container-september-25-2023/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>Ministik Hike to Replace Cache Container</h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2023-09-25T00:00:00+00:00>September 25 2023</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>47 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">1 min</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/ministik/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Ministik 89</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/hiking/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Hiking</span></span></a></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-invert py-1">
89One of my cache containers was the victim of a bored coyote so I hiked in to replace it with a new one today.</div></div><div class="px-6 pt-4 pb-2"></div></article><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card"><img src=/posts/ministik-hike-to-spruce-point-cache-2023-sept-15-2023/featured-Img_1375_2023-Sep-15_hu_f516d5884788cccc.webp alt="Ministik Hike to Spruce Point Geocache" loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/ministik-hike-to-spruce-point-cache-2023-sept-15-2023/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>Ministik Hike to Spruce Point Geocache</h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2023-09-15T00:00:00+00:00>September 15 2023</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>29 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">1 min</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/geocaching/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Geocaching 90</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/ministik/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Ministik 91</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/hiking/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Hiking</span></span></a></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-invert py-1">I walked the familiar route from the UofA Access Road gate to the unfamiliar boggy shoreline of a large pond in the Ministik.</div></div><div class="px-6 pt-4 pb-2"></div></article><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card"><img src=/posts/car-caching-trip-to-dogpound-september-12-2023/featured-Img_1288_2023-Sep-12_hu_5dfd6596f9b39488.webp alt="Car Caching Trip to the Dogpound Area" loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/car-caching-trip-to-dogpound-september-12-2023/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>Car Caching Trip to the Dogpound Area</h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2023-09-12T00:00:00+00:00>September 12 2023</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>27 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">1 min</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/cartrip/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">CarTrip 92</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/geocaching/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Geocaching</span></span></a></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-invert py-1">Dwaine and I had worked on some challenging puzzles and after we solved them a trip to the Dogpound area of Alberta was in order.</div></div><div class="px-6 pt-4 pb-2"></div></article><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card"><img src=/posts/geocaching-along-the-north-saskatchewan-river/featured-Img_1135_2023-Aug-11_hu_b80a97a663899f88.webp alt="Geocaching Along the North Saskatchewan River Near Devon" loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/geocaching-along-the-north-saskatchewan-river/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>Geocaching Along the North Saskatchewan River Near Devon</h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2023-08-11T00:00:00+00:00>August 11 2023</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>34 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">1 min</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/devon/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Devon 93</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/hiking/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Hiking 94</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/geocaching/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Geocaching</span></span></a></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-invert py-1">Two geocaching buddies and I traversed some seldom-walked trails along the North Sask River</div></div><div class="px-6 pt-4 pb-2"></div></article><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card"><img src=/posts/glory-hills-hike-2023-june-26/featured-Img_0928_2023-Jun-26_hu_25b21c1ff818f49a.webp alt="Glory Hills Geocaching Hike" loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/glory-hills-hike-2023-june-26/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>Glory Hills Geocaching Hike</h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2023-06-26T00:00:00+00:00>June 26 2023</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>60 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">1 min</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/stonyplain/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">StonyPlain 95</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/geocaching/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Geocaching 96</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/hiking/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Hiking</span></span></a></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-invert py-1">It was my first time hiking around the trails at in Glory Hills Natural Area. There were a few caches here, but in the end it was the trails that I remember.</div></div><div class="px-6 pt-4 pb-2"></div></article><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card">
96<img src=/posts/caching-and-recon-on-misasin-trail-ministik-june-7-2023/featured-Img_0862_2023-Jun-07_hu_4e7740b1e64b256a.webp alt="Geocaching and Exploring on the Ministik Misasin Trail" loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/caching-and-recon-on-misasin-trail-ministik-june-7-2023/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>Geocaching and Exploring on the Ministik Misasin Trail</h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2023-06-07T00:00:00+00:00>June 7 2023</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>84 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">1 min</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/ministik/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Ministik 97</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/geocaching/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Geocaching 98</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/hiking/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Hiking</span></span></a></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-invert py-1">I’d been on this trail a couple of times before but it’s been a long time since the last visit. It’s named Misasin by fellow geocachings, so I’m going with it. It was fun exploring new sections of it today.</div></div><div class="px-6 pt-4 pb-2"></div></article><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card"><img src=/posts/sturgeon-river-stroll-series-2023-may-31/featured-Img_0822_2023-May-31_hu_1ba81b2e1c7d1f38.webp alt='Geocaching the "Sturgeon River Stroll" Series of Caches' loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/sturgeon-river-stroll-series-2023-may-31/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>Geocaching the "Sturgeon River Stroll" Series of Caches</h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2023-05-31T00:00:00+00:00>May 31 2023</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>50 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">1 min</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/hiking/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Hiking 99</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/gibbons/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Gibbons 100</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/geocaching/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Geocaching</span></span></a></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-invert py-1">This is a geocaching outing where I was SO glad to be with other cachers. The first hide was diabolically hard to find and it was Dwaine who spotted it. They weren’t all like that but some were oh so nicely crafty indeed.</div></div><div class="px-6 pt-4 pb-2"></div></article><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card"><img src=/posts/chickakoo-caching-hike-may-26-2023/featured-Img_0762_2023-May-26_hu_d4d584e3b719eb2.webp alt="Chickakoo Caching Hike" loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/chickakoo-caching-hike-may-26-2023/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>Chickakoo Caching Hike</h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2023-05-26T00:00:00+00:00>May 26 2023</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>57 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">1 min</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/hiking/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Hiking 101</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/chickakoo/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Chickakoo 102</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/geocaching/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Geocaching</span></span></a></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-invert py-1">I’ve always just loved hiking in the Chickakoo Lake Recreation Area. There’s is a great mix of tree species that line both the well-travelled main trails and the less-travelled “goat tracks”. This was a solo geocaching hike and I found all but one of the caches I looked for today.</div></div><div class="px-6 pt-4 pb-2"></div></article><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card"><img src=/posts/ministik-caching-hike-to-mandy-lake-2023-may-14/featured-Img_0634_2023-May-14_hu_8f29f0cc34e63f08.webp alt="Ministik Hike to Mandy Lake for Two Geocaches" loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/ministik-caching-hike-to-mandy-lake-2023-may-14/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>Ministik Hike to Mandy Lake for Two Geocaches</h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2023-05-14T00:00:00+00:00>May 14 2023</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>46 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">1 min</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/ministik/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Ministik 103</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/geocaching/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Geocaching 104</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/hiking/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Hiking</span></span></a></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-invert py-1">I traveled down the winding road to Mandy Lake today to find two caches. I was with the cache owner when he hid them, so I’m returning to find them fair and square.</div></div><div class="px-6 pt-4 pb-2"></div></article><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card"><img src=/posts/ministik-hike-to-dorward-lake-for-two-challenges-2023-may-10/featured-Img_0552_2023-May-10_hu_aa1145574dcb1c3.webp alt="Ministik Hike to Dorward Lake for Two Challenge Caches" loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/ministik-hike-to-dorward-lake-for-two-challenges-2023-may-10/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>Ministik Hike to Dorward Lake for Two Challenge Caches</h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2023-05-10T00:00:00+00:00>May 10 2023</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>68 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">1 min</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/ministik/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Ministik 105</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/geocaching/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Geocaching 106</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/hiking/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Hiking</span></span></a></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-invert py-1">I had multiple goals today: to find a challenge cache near Dorward Lake and to capture as many time lapses as I could in the Dorward Lake area.</div></div><div class="px-6 pt-4 pb-2"></div></article><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card"><img src=/posts/terwillegar-to-ft-edm-walk-2023-04-19/featured-Img_0313_2023-Apr-19_hu_ea70904107745dfb.webp alt="Terwillegar Dog Park to Fort Edmonton Walk" loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/terwillegar-to-ft-edm-walk-2023-04-19/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>
106Terwillegar Dog Park to Fort Edmonton Walk</h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2023-04-19T00:00:00+00:00>April 19 2023</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>34 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">1 min</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/edmonton/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Edmonton 107</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/walking/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Walking</span></span></a></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-invert py-1">The walk from the Terwillegar Dog Park to Fort Edmonton takes you over the N Sask River through mountain bike trails and then over the river yet again.</div></div><div class="px-6 pt-4 pb-2"></div></article><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card"><img src=/posts/blackfoot-hike-to-switch-caches-apr-15-2023/featured-Img_0261_2023-Apr-15_hu_e0d95d9067048c5d.jpg alt="Blackfoot Hike to Maintain Two Geocaches" loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/blackfoot-hike-to-switch-caches-apr-15-2023/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>Blackfoot Hike to Maintain Two Geocaches</h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2023-04-15T00:00:00+00:00>April 15 2023</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>133 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">1 min</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/hiking/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Hiking 108</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/geocaching/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Geocaching 109</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/blackfoot/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Blackfoot</span></span></a></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-invert py-1">The main purpose of today’s hike was to swap ammo can geocaching containers for lock ’n lock containers. These caches were hidden quite a distance from parking in the Blackfoot / Cooking Lake Recreational Area.</div></div><div class="px-6 pt-4 pb-2"></div></article><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card"><img src=/posts/hike-to-the-twins-cache-ministik-2023-04-09/featured-Img_0197_2023-Apr-09_hu_1fd1aaacb13b05ef.webp alt="Ministik Hike to the Twins Cache" loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/hike-to-the-twins-cache-ministik-2023-04-09/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>Ministik Hike to the Twins Cache</h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2023-04-09T00:00:00+00:00>April 9 2023</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>17 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">1 min</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/ministik/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Ministik 110</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/hiking/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Hiking 111</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/geocaching/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Geocaching</span></span></a></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-invert py-1">I made walk over early spring, still somewhat snowy ground to a remote cache today</div></div><div class="px-6 pt-4 pb-2"></div></article><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card"><img src=/posts/ministik-hike-from-stove-lake-trailhead-to-new-caches-2023-04-02/featured-Img_0128_2023-Apr-02_hu_ded0bffd93e63f97.jpg alt="Ministik Hike From Stove Lake Trailhead to New Caches" loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/ministik-hike-from-stove-lake-trailhead-to-new-caches-2023-04-02/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>Ministik Hike From Stove Lake Trailhead to New Caches</h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2023-04-02T00:00:00+00:00>April 2 2023</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>6 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">1 min</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/ministik/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Ministik 112</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/hiking/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Hiking 113</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/geocaching/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Geocaching</span></span></a></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-invert py-1">Four of us crunched through the snow, on trail and off to find geocaches in the area accessible from the Stove Lake trailhead in the Ministik Bird Sanctuary.</div></div><div class="px-6 pt-4 pb-2"></div></article><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card"><img src=/posts/mactaggart-geocaching-hike-2023-march-26/featured-Img_0072_2023-Mar-26_hu_d567c033efea2c5b.jpg alt="Mactaggart Geocaching Hike" loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/mactaggart-geocaching-hike-2023-march-26/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>Mactaggart Geocaching Hike</h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2023-03-26T00:00:00+00:00>March 26 2023</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>2 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">1 min</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/geocaching/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Geocaching 114</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/mactaggart/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Mactaggart 115</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/hiking/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Hiking</span></span></a></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-invert py-1">The four of us traversed a good portion of the MacTaggart Sanctuary today looking for geocaches</div></div><div class="px-6 pt-4 pb-2"></div></article><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card"><img src=/posts/hike-to-north-sask-river-hides-and-mactaggert-sanctuary-march-19-2023/featured-On%20Our%20Way%20Back%20To%20Parking_2023-Mar-19_hu_3ab04d7142d1124b.jpg alt="Hike to North Sask River Geocache Hides and MacTaggart Sanctuary" loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/hike-to-north-sask-river-hides-and-mactaggert-sanctuary-march-19-2023/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>Hike to North Sask River Geocache Hides and MacTaggart Sanctuary</h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2023-03-19T00:00:00+00:00>March 19 2023</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>33 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">1 min</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/hiking/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Hiking 116</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/geocaching/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Geocaching 117</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/edmonton/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Edmonton 118</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/mactaggart/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Mactaggart</span></span></a></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-invert py-1">The five of us tackled some steep slopes to get to some geocache hides along the North Sask River and after that hiked through the MacTaggart Sanctuary to find more geocaches</div></div><div class="px-6 pt-4 pb-2"></div></article><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card"><img src=/posts/whitemud-ravine-carw2023-2023-march-04/featured-Img_9939_2023-Mar-04_hu_409aefc55e1037ef.webp alt="Whitemud Ravine Geocaching Hike" loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/whitemud-ravine-carw2023-2023-march-04/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>Whitemud Ravine Geocaching Hike</h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2023-03-04T00:00:00+00:00>March 4 2023</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>23 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">1 min</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/edmonton/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Edmonton 119</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/geocaching/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Geocaching 120</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/hiking/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Hiking</span></span></a></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-invert py-1">I traversed the snowy inclined trails of the Whitemud Ravine today with a couple of geocaching buddies.</
120div></div><div class="px-6 pt-4 pb-2"></div></article></section></div><div class="relative w-screen max-w-[1600px] px-[30px] start-[calc(max(-50vw,-800px)+50%)]"><h2 class="mt-12 mb-3 text-2xl font-bold text-neutral-700 first:mt-8 dark:text-neutral-300">2022</h2><section class="w-full grid gap-4 sm:grid-cols-2 md:grid-cols-3 xl:grid-cols-4 2xl:grid-cols-5"><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card"><img src=/posts/hike-to-mandy-lake-october-30-2022/featured-Img_9588_2022-Oct-30_hu_ea197c768f0f6136.webp alt="Geocaching Hike to Mandy Lake" loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/hike-to-mandy-lake-october-30-2022/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>Geocaching Hike to Mandy Lake</h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2022-10-30T00:00:00+00:00>October 30 2022</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>15 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">1 min</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/ministik/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Ministik 121</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/hiking/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Hiking 122</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/geocaching/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Geocaching</span></span></a></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-invert py-1">I followed the road to Mandy Lake to find one cache and do some maintenance on one of my own</div></div><div class="px-6 pt-4 pb-2"></div></article><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card"><img src=/posts/hike-in-northern-section/featured-Img_9512_2022-Oct-06_hu_a22ce4affa928fc4.webp alt="Hike in the Northern Section of the Ministik" loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/hike-in-northern-section/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>Hike in the Northern Section of the Ministik</h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2022-10-06T00:00:00+00:00>October 6 2022</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>14 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">1 min</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/ministik/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Ministik 123</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/hiking/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Hiking 124</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/geocaching/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Geocaching</span></span></a></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-invert py-1">I hiked on a kind of disjointed trail today with a buddy where I have a string of caches hidden.</div></div><div class="px-6 pt-4 pb-2"></div></article><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card"><img src=/posts/running-of-the-bulls-westmost-loop/featured-Img_9455_2022-Sep-26_hu_12aa109c6298279f.webp alt="Running of the Bulls" loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/running-of-the-bulls-westmost-loop/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>Running of the Bulls</h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2022-09-26T00:00:00+00:00>September 26 2022</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>517 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">3 mins</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/geocaching/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Geocaching 125</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/hiking/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Hiking</span></span></a></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-invert py-1">See what a fairly remote section of the Hornbeck Recreation Area northwest of Edson, Alberta looks like a the end of September as two geocachers do a loop trek on overgrown trails.</div></div><div class="px-6 pt-4 pb-2"></div></article><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card"><img src=/posts/blackfoot-islet-lake-kayak-paddle-aug-17-2022/featured-Img_9278_2022-Aug-17_hu_c1fdc11c7f175f3.webp alt="Islet Lake Kayak Paddle" loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/blackfoot-islet-lake-kayak-paddle-aug-17-2022/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>Islet Lake Kayak Paddle</h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2022-08-17T00:00:00+00:00>August 17 2022</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>19 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">1 min</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/kayak/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Kayak 126</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/blackfoot/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Blackfoot</span></span></a></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-invert py-1">Still very new to kayaking, I had great paddle around Islet Lake today.</div></div><div class="px-6 pt-4 pb-2"></div></article><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card"><img src=/posts/maiden-voyage-of-the-delta-12/featured-Img_9195_2022-Aug-08_hu_37f85f5503c9fb24.webp alt="Maiden Voyage of the Delta 12.10" loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/maiden-voyage-of-the-delta-12/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>Maiden Voyage of the Delta 12.10</h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2022-08-08T00:00:00+00:00>August 8 2022</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>25 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">1 min</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/kayak/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Kayak 127</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/blackfoot/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Blackfoot</span></span></a></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-invert py-1">This was the first time I was out on my new Delta 12.10 kayak. Woah, Nelly! Here we go!</div></div><div class="px-6 pt-4 pb-2"></div></article><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card"><img src=/posts/kayaking-on-islet-lake/featured-IMG_8941-header_hu_56883afe2266662e.jpeg alt="Kayaking on Islet Lake" loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/kayaking-on-islet-lake/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>Kayaking on Islet Lake</h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2022-06-23T00:00:00+00:00>June 23 2022</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>517 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">3 mins</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-invert py-1">My first forays in my inflatable kayak were tentative, but memorable all the same.</div></div><div class="px-6 pt-4 pb-2"></div></article><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card"><img src=/posts/ministik-hike-to-replenish-dragon-s3-cards-june-9-2022/featured-Img_8826_2022-Jun-09_hu_2632a56088c2c210.webp alt="Ministik Hike Past the Northeast Passage and Return" loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/ministik-hike-to-replenish-dragon-s3-cards-june-9-2022/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>Ministik Hike Past the Northeast Passage and Return</h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2022-06-09T00:00:00+00:00>June 9 2022</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>131 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">1 min</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/ministik/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Ministik 128</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/hiking/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Hiking 129</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/geocaching/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Geocaching</span></span></a></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-invert py-1">Hiking to one of my geocache hides to do some maintenance was my excuse to experience a beautiful day in a remote, beautiful place.</div></div><div class="px-6 pt-4 pb-2"></div></article><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card"><img src=/posts/bluejay-charron-community-cemetery/featured-DSCF8633-1-Bluejay-Ch
129arron_hu_4e251e9cd0413af.webp alt="Bluejay - Charron Community Cemetery" loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/bluejay-charron-community-cemetery/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>Bluejay - Charron Community Cemetery</h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2022-06-03T00:00:00+00:00>June 3 2022</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>219 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">2 mins</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/cemeteries/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Cemeteries 130</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/photography/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Photography</span></span></a></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-invert py-1">A visit to the well-maintained Bluejay - Charron Community Cemetery northeast of Atmore, Alberta.</div></div><div class="px-6 pt-4 pb-2"></div></article><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card"><img src=/posts/ministik-caching-hike-for-new-hides-june-02-2022/featured-Img_8775_2022-Jun-02_hu_a67e8ddd0758c00d.webp alt="Ministik Geocaching Hike to New Hides" loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/ministik-caching-hike-for-new-hides-june-02-2022/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>Ministik Geocaching Hike to New Hides</h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2022-06-02T00:00:00+00:00>June 2 2022</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>82 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">1 min</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/ministik/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Ministik 131</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/geocaching/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Geocaching 132</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/hiking/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Hiking</span></span></a></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-invert py-1">I hiked in what was for me a new area in the Ministik today and that’s always fun.</div></div><div class="px-6 pt-4 pb-2"></div></article><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card"><img src=/posts/st-anthony-of-padua-church-and-cemetery/featured-DSCF7681-SouthABTrip-Day02-Jul-30-2019-StAnthonys_hu_a97eef9b0d429f6a.webp alt="St. Anthony of Padua Church and Cemetery" loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/st-anthony-of-padua-church-and-cemetery/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>St. Anthony of Padua Church and Cemetery</h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2022-05-27T00:00:00+00:00>May 27 2022</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>208 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">1 min</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/cemeteries/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Cemeteries 133</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/churches/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Churches 134</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/photography/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Photography</span></span></a></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-invert py-1">St. Anthony of Padua Church and Cemetery are located southwest of Medicine Hat, Alberta. The church has fallen into disrepair and seems to stand as a symbol of a past reality now fading.</div></div><div class="px-6 pt-4 pb-2"></div></article><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card"><img src=/posts/aetna-cemetery/featured-Aetna-Cemetery-DSC01805-SouthABTrip-Day02-Jul-30-2019_hu_56a00b389afb2a3.webp alt="Aetna Cemetery" loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/aetna-cemetery/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>Aetna Cemetery</h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2022-05-13T00:00:00+00:00>May 13 2022</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>136 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">1 min</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/cemeteries/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Cemeteries 135</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/photography/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Photography</span></span></a></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-invert py-1">A visit to Aetna, a hamlet in Cardston County, Alberta.</div></div><div class="px-6 pt-4 pb-2"></div></article><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card"><img src=/posts/prospy-cemetery/featured-Prospy-Cemetery-DSC01697-SouthABTrip-Day02-Jul-30-2019_hu_a1afa0c25b81bd67.webp alt="Prospy Cemetery" loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/prospy-cemetery/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>Prospy Cemetery</h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2022-05-08T00:00:00+00:00>May 8 2022</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>214 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">2 mins</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/cemeteries/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Cemeteries 136</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/photography/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Photography</span></span></a></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-invert py-1">Prospy Cemetery was generally unkept with graves markers lightly scattered across the small enclosure. Despite that, one grave marker in particular caught my eye.</div></div><div class="px-6 pt-4 pb-2"></div></article><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card"><img src=/posts/searching-for-spring-along-the-road-to-mandy-lake/featured-Mandy-Lake-Hike-DSCF1339-3-fence-posts-in-pond_hu_ea4371e6e51c1a5e.webp alt="Searching for Spring Along the Road to Mandy Lake" loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/searching-for-spring-along-the-road-to-mandy-lake/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>Searching for Spring Along the Road to Mandy Lake</h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2022-04-29T00:00:00+00:00>April 29 2022</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>527 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">3 mins</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/ministik/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Ministik 137</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/photography/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Photography</span></span></a></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-invert py-1">An early spring hike in the Ministik Bird Sanctuary southeast of Edmonton. Will I find some spring to help thaw my winter-frozen brain?</div></div><div class="px-6 pt-4 pb-2"></div></article><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card"><img src=/posts/ministik-mandy-lake-loop-hike-april-23-2022/featured-Img_8447_2022-Apr-23_hu_3612fe8a39c0156c.webp alt="Ministik Mandy Lake Loop Hike" loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/ministik-mandy-lake-loop-hike-april-23-2022/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>Ministik Mandy Lake Loop Hike</h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2022-04-23T00:00:00+00:00>April 23 2022</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>32 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">1 min</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/ministik/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Ministik 138</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/hiking/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Hiking</span></span></a></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-invert py-1">I did a loop hike over what has become very familiar ground today. But even on familar paths, the experience of them is always changing.</div></div><div class="px-6 pt-4 pb-2"></div></article><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card"><img src=/posts/seven-persons-cemetery/featured-Seven-Persons-DSC01659-SouthABTrip-Day02-Jul-30-2019-e1649210295849_hu_179ba5c156e23648.webp alt="Seven Persons Cemetery" loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/seven-persons-cemetery/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>Seven Persons Cemetery</h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2022-04-22T00:00:00+00:00>April 22 2022</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>328 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">2 mins</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/cemeteries/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Cemeteries 139</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/photography/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Photography</span></span></a></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-inve
139rt py-1">Seven Persons is a hamlet in Cypress County, Alberta about 20 km southwest of Medicine Hat. There are various stories about how the hamlet got it’s name.</div></div><div class="px-6 pt-4 pb-2"></div></article><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card"><img src=/posts/hillcrest-cemetery/featured-Hillcrest-Mine-Cemetery-DSC01920-SouthABTrip-Day03-1-Jul-31-2019-1_hu_89a8e5008517d963.webp alt="Hillcrest Cemetery" loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/hillcrest-cemetery/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>Hillcrest Cemetery</h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2022-04-15T00:00:00+00:00>April 15 2022</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>277 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">2 mins</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/cemeteries/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Cemeteries 140</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/photography/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Photography</span></span></a></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-invert py-1">Hillcrest Cemetery is memorable partly because of the location and partly because of the mine disaster of 1914 that took so many lives.</div></div><div class="px-6 pt-4 pb-2"></div></article><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card"><img src=/posts/the-red-chair/featured-008-Red-Chair-Lookout-Ministik-Hike-Past-Tower-Big-Loop-Nov-18-2016-005_hu_6a58b8a11202c210.webp alt="The Red Chair" loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/the-red-chair/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>The Red Chair</h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2022-04-08T00:00:00+00:00>April 8 2022</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>850 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">4 mins</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/ministik/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Ministik 141</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/musings/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Musings 142</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/photography/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Photography</span></span></a></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-invert py-1">For almost a decade a single red folding chair has been stationed at a lookout over Williams Lake in the Ministik Bird Santuary. The landscape is
142in constant flux around it, but the red chair remains.</div></div><div class="px-6 pt-4 pb-2"></div></article><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card"><img src=/posts/ministik-hike-to-south-end-of-oliver-lake-april-04-2022/featured-Dsc00377_2022-Apr-04_hu_b7c94b1b6983df7b.webp alt="Ministik Geocaching Hike to the South End of Oliver Lake" loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/ministik-hike-to-south-end-of-oliver-lake-april-04-2022/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>Ministik Geocaching Hike to the South End of Oliver Lake</h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2022-04-04T00:00:00+00:00>April 4 2022</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>32 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">1 min</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/ministik/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Ministik 143</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/geocaching/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Geocaching 144</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/hiking/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Hiking</span></span></a></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-invert py-1">I walked along the crusty snow first on familiar trails, then off trail on new ground to get to the south end of Oliver Lake today.</div></div><div class="px-6 pt-4 pb-2"></div></article><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card"><img src=/posts/ministik-hike-on-snowy-road-to-mandy-lake-and-north-march-29-2022/featured-Img_8311_2022-Mar-29_hu_7adc1264d955af21.webp alt="Ministik Mandy Lake Hike Over Snowy Trails" loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/ministik-hike-on-snowy-road-to-mandy-lake-and-north-march-29-2022/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>Ministik Mandy Lake Hike Over Snowy Trails</h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2022-03-29T00:00:00+00:00>March 29 2022</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>34 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">1 min</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/ministik/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Ministik 145</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/geocaching/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Geocaching 146</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/hiking/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Hiking</span></span></a></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-invert py-1">I had to do some maintenance on a cache near Mandy Lake in the Ministik Bird Sanctuary and had great outing walking along the still snowy trails to get to it.</div></div><div class="px-6 pt-4 pb-2"></div></article><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card"><img src=/posts/ministik-mandy-lake-to-fire-tower-via-trails-and-ice-march-18-2022/featured-Img_8205_2022-Mar-18_hu_7250dcead13596b4.webp alt="Ministik Mandy Lake to Waskahegan Fire Tower Geocaching Hike Via Trails and Lake Ice" loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/ministik-mandy-lake-to-fire-tower-via-trails-and-ice-march-18-2022/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>Ministik Mandy Lake to Waskahegan Fire Tower Geocaching Hike Via Trails and Lake Ice</h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2022-03-18T00:00:00+00:00>March 18 2022</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>190 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">1 min</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/hiking/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Hiking 147</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/geocaching/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Geocaching 148</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/ministik/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Ministik</span></span></a></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-invert py-1">This was a memorable day of geocaching for a few remote caches int he Ministik Bird Sanctuary.</div></div><div class="px-6 pt-4 pb-2"></div></article><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card"><img src=/posts/hike-to-ministik-fireplace-and-return-via-red-chair-lookout-march-09-2022/featured-Img_8125_2022-Mar-09_hu_135de3f0981c0527.webp alt="Hike to the Ministik Fireplace and Return via Red Chair Lookout" loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/hike-to-ministik-fireplace-and-return-via-red-chair-lookout-march-09-2022/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>Hike to the Ministik Fireplace and Return via Red Chair Lookout</h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2022-03-09T00:00:00+00:00>March 9 2022</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>41 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">1 min</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/ministik/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Ministik 149</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/hiking/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Hiking</span></span></a></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-invert py-1">I made the snowy walk to scout out a geocache hide, realized I wasn’t going to be able to get to it, so continued on to visit the Ministik fireplace and Red Chair Lookout.</div></div><div class="px-6 pt-4 pb-2"></div></article><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card"><img src=/posts/ministik-hike-to-dorward-lake-for-two-caches-march-06-2022/featured-Img_7976_2022-Mar-06_hu_dee026c5f60eb82.webp alt="Ministik Hike to Dorward Lake for Two Remote Geocaches" loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/ministik-hike-to-dorward-lake-for-two-caches-march-06-2022/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>Ministik Hike to Dorward Lake for Two Remote Geocaches</h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2022-03-06T00:00:00+00:00>March 6 2022</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>25 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">1 min</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/ministik/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Ministik 150</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/hiking/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Hiking 151</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/geocaching/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Geocaching</span></span></a></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-invert py-1">I had a glorious trudge through (not over) the trails to Dorward Lake today to find two caches.</div></div><div class="px-6 pt-4 pb-2"></div></article><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card"><img src=/posts/driving-on-lac-ste-anne-ice-to-farming-island/featured-Img_7928_2022-Feb-28_hu_ed2041b6f24af8bb.webp alt="Driving on Lac Ste Anne Ice to Find Farming Island Geocaches" loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/driving-on-lac-ste-anne-ice-to-farming-island/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>Driving on Lac Ste Anne Ice to Find Farming Island Geocaches</h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2022-02-28T00:00:00+00:00>February 28 2022</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>175 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">1 min</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/geocaching/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Geocaching 152</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/cartrip/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">CarTrip 153</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/lacsteanne/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">LacSteAnne</span></span></a></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-invert py-1">Hugh and I were planning on walking over the ice to the caches on Farming Island on Lac St Anne. But we saw ice fishers on the ice, so we drove instead.</div></div><div class="px-6 pt-4 pb-2"></div></article><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card"><img src=/posts/ministik-oliver-lake-caching-hike-feb-15-2022/featured-Img_7869_2022-Feb-15_hu_31ee98dea023afef.webp alt="Ice Walking to Island Geocaches on Oliver Lake" loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/ministik-oliver-lake-caching-hike-feb-15-2022/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>Ice Walking to Island Geocaches on Oliver Lake</h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2022-02-15T00:00:00+00:00>February 15 2022</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>35 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">1 min</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/ministik/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Ministik 154</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/hiking/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Hiking 155</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/geocaching/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs fo
155nt-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Geocaching</span></span></a></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-invert py-1">I met my buddy Hugh and we spent hours walking over crusty lake ice to find geocachings hidden on islands on Oliver Lake in the Ministik Bird Sanctuary</div></div><div class="px-6 pt-4 pb-2"></div></article><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card"><img src=/posts/ministik-mandy-lake-to-dorward-lake-over-lake-ice-feb-11-2022/featured-Img_7842_2022-Feb-11_hu_b225351a20ac70b9.webp alt="Ministik Hike from Mandy Lake to Dorward Lake Over Lake Ice" loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/ministik-mandy-lake-to-dorward-lake-over-lake-ice-feb-11-2022/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>Ministik Hike from Mandy Lake to Dorward Lake Over Lake Ice</h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2022-02-11T00:00:00+00:00>February 11 2022</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>28 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">1 min</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/ministik/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Ministik 156</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/geocaching/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Geocaching 157</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/hiking/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Hiking</span></span></a></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-invert py-1">I had an excellent walk over hardened trail snow and lake ice to get to remote cache in the Ministik Bird Sanctuary</div></div><div class="px-6 pt-4 pb-2"></div></article></section></div><div class="relative w-screen max-w-[1600px] px-[30px] start-[calc(max(-50vw,-800px)+50%)]"><h2 class="mt-12 mb-3 text-2xl font-bold text-neutral-700 first:mt-8 dark:text-neutral-300">2021</h2><section class="w-full grid gap-4 sm:grid-cols-2 md:grid-cols-3 xl:grid-cols-4 2xl:grid-cols-5"><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card"><img src=/posts/a-satisfying-hike-over-lake-ice-to-the-domino-puzzle-cache/featured-island-close-up-scaled_hu_f32fc7e89d0cfaea.webp alt="A Satisfying Hike Over Lake Ice to the Domino âPuzzleâ Cache" loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/a-satisfying-hike-over-lake-ice-to-the-domino-puzzle-cache/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>A Satisfying Hike Over Lake Ice to the Domino âPuzzleâ Cache</h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2021-03-12T00:00:00+00:00>March 12 2021</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>1269 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">6 mins</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/geocaching/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Geocaching 158</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/hiking/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Hiking</span></span></a></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-invert py-1">A geocaching buddy Hugh and I trudge across lake ice early in March, 2021 to get to an island on which a âpuzzleâ geocache was hidden.</div></div><div class="px-6 pt-4 pb-2"></div></article><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card"><img src=/posts/the-endless-loop-of-decision/featured-andyandred_hu_1be6eb4c1494adbf.png alt="The Endless Loop of Decision" loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/the-endless-loop-of-decision/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>The Endless Loop of Decision</h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2021-02-25T00:00:00+00:00>February 25 2021</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>1383 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">7 mins</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/musings/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Musings</span></span></a></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-invert py-1">
158Two very different stories share one identical, fundamentally important message.</div></div><div class="px-6 pt-4 pb-2"></div></article><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card"><img src=/posts/my-beautiful-teacup-from-bizen/featured-Bizen-potter-at-kiln-background_hu_fdfa1bb8bda243da.webp alt="My Beautiful Teacup from Bizen" loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/my-beautiful-teacup-from-bizen/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>My Beautiful Teacup from Bizen</h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2021-02-15T00:00:00+00:00>February 15 2021</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>643 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">4 mins</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/japan/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Japan</span></span></a></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-invert py-1">I had the rare opportunity to visit with two potters who made Bizen pottery in Okayama Prefecture in Japan. The purposely rough, charred style of pottery conjures an aesthetic called wabi-sabi.</div></div><div class="px-6 pt-4 pb-2"></div></article><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card"><img src=/posts/my-ugly-mug-from-tobe/featured-img_0477_hu_ccd1172376598a09.webp alt="My Ugly Mug from Tobe" loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/my-ugly-mug-from-tobe/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>My Ugly Mug from Tobe</h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2021-02-10T00:00:00+00:00>February 10 2021</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>867 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">5 mins</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/japan/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Japan</span></span></a></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-invert py-1">I still have my “ugly mug” from Tobe, Ehime Prefecture, Japan. I think of it as an important momento of my time living in Japan but I still think it’s ugly.</div></div><div class="px-6 pt-4 pb-2"></div></article><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card"><img src=/posts/zettelkasten-the-promise-of-a-truly-effective-method-of-learning/featured-500ca4851d67ec9547bb4d888692fefc_hu_dc6fb5107ff6d482.png alt="Zettelkasten: the Promise of A Truly Effective Method of Learning" loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/zettelkasten-the-promise-of-a-truly-effective-method-of-learning/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>Zettelkasten: the Promise of A Truly Effective Method of Learning</h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2021-02-01T00:00:00+00:00>February 1 2021</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>1776 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">9 mins</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/note-taking/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Note Taking</span></span></a></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-invert py-1">A brief introduction to the Zettelkasten method of note making as de
158scribed in How to Take Smart Notes by Sönke Ahrens.</div></div><div class="px-6 pt-4 pb-2"></div></article></section></div><div class="relative w-screen max-w-[1600px] px-[30px] start-[calc(max(-50vw,-800px)+50%)]"><h2 class="mt-12 mb-3 text-2xl font-bold text-neutral-700 first:mt-8 dark:text-neutral-300">2020</h2><section class="w-full grid gap-4 sm:grid-cols-2 md:grid-cols-3 xl:grid-cols-4 2xl:grid-cols-5"><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card"><img src=/posts/storymapjs-part-3-sharing-a-storymap/featured-StoryMapJS3_hu_3096df673c34a10.png alt="StoryMapJS - Part 3 - Sharing a StoryMap" loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/storymapjs-part-3-sharing-a-storymap/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>StoryMapJS - Part 3 - Sharing a StoryMap</h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2020-08-24T00:00:00+00:00>August 24 2020</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>1214 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">6 mins</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/cool-apps/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Cool Apps 159</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/mapping/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Mapping 160</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/storytelling/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Storytelling 161</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/tutorials/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Tutorials</span></span></a></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-invert py-1">In Part 3, the final part of the series, we cover how to share your StoryMap with others.</div></div><div class="px-6 pt-4 pb-2"></div></article><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card"><img src=/posts/storymapjs-part-2-building-a-storymap/featured-StoryMapJS2_hu_e546120ad5c54964.png alt="StoryMapJS - Part 2 Building a StoryMap" loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/storymapjs-part-2-building-a-storymap/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>StoryMapJS - Part 2 Building a StoryMap</h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2020-08-17T00:00:00+00:00>August 17 2020</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>1498 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">8 mins</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/cool-apps/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Cool Apps 162</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/mapping/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Mapping 163</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/storytelling/>
163<span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Storytelling 164</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/tutorials/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Tutorials</span></span></a></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-invert py-1">In Part 2 of a three-part series we cover how to build StoryMap slides.</div></div><div class="px-6 pt-4 pb-2"></div></article><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card"><img src=/posts/storymapjs-tutorial-part-1/featured-StoryMapJS1_hu_a59ae6a49b87f485.png alt="StoryMapJS Tutorial - Part 1 - Introduction" loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/storymapjs-tutorial-part-1/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>StoryMapJS Tutorial - Part 1 - Introduction</h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2020-08-10T00:00:00+00:00>August 10 2020</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>837 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">4 mins</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/cool-apps/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Cool Apps 165</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/mapping/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Mapping 166</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/storytelling/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Storytelling 167</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/tutorials/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Tutorials</span></span></a></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-invert py-1">This is Part 1 of a three-part series on how to use StoryMapJS. Here I’ll introduce you to the software and review examples of what it can do.</div></div><div class="px-6 pt-4 pb-2"></div></article><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card"><img src=/posts/winter-fire-tower-walk/featured-Screengrab-of-Winter-Walk-StoryMap-75opacity_hu_4b395c1e95146bd.png alt="Winter Walk to the Waskahegan Fire Tower" loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/winter-fire-tower-walk/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>Winter Walk to the Waskahegan Fire Tower</h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2020-01-08T00:00:00+00:00>January 8 2020</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>222 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">2 mins</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/cool-apps/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Cool Apps 168</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/geocaching/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Geocaching 169</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/hiking/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Hiking 170</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/ministik/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Ministik</span></span></a></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-invert py-1">A hike to a fairly remote fire tower in the Ministik Bird Sanctuary southeast of Edmonton is brought to life with StoryMapJS, software that combines maps with images and text.</div></div><div class="px-6 pt-4 pb-2"></div></article></section></div><div class="relative w-screen max-w-[1600px] px-[30px] start-[calc(max(-50vw,-800px
170)+50%)]"><h2 class="mt-12 mb-3 text-2xl font-bold text-neutral-700 first:mt-8 dark:text-neutral-300">2019</h2><section class="w-full grid gap-4 sm:grid-cols-2 md:grid-cols-3 xl:grid-cols-4 2xl:grid-cols-5"><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card"><img src=/posts/timelinejs-in-action/featured-TimelineJSExample_hu_3e307fa700db361.png alt="An Example of TimelineJS in Action" loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/timelinejs-in-action/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>An Example of TimelineJS in Action</h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2019-12-01T00:00:00+00:00>December 1 2019</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>385 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">2 mins</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/cool-apps/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Cool Apps 171</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/storytelling/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Storytelling</span></span></a></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-invert py-1">Using a restrospective of REM’s discography, this post walks through the capabilities of TimelineJS a piece of timeline software hosted by Northwestern University’s Knight Lab.</div></div><div class="px-6 pt-4 pb-2"></div></article><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card"><img src=/posts/monitor-cemetery/featured-Monitor_Cemetery_001-1_hu_5b8dac98a77124bd.jpg alt="Monitor Cemetery" loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/monitor-cemetery/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>Monitor Cemetery</h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2019-11-20T00:00:00+00:00>November 20 2019</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>29 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">1 min</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/cemeteries/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Cemeteries 172</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/photography/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Photography</span></span></a></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-invert py-1">Located on the side of a long, sloping hill, I visited Monitor Cemetery when the surrounding crops were in full bloom, justaposing new life with other part of the cycle: inevitable death.</div></div><div class="px-6 pt-4 pb-2"></div></article><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card">
172<img src=/posts/our-lady-of-perpetual-help/featured-Our-Lady-of-Perpetual-Help_002-610x804-1_hu_b5d993bb7a13fc92.jpg alt="Our Lady of Perpetual Help Roman Catholic Church and Cemetery" loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/our-lady-of-perpetual-help/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>Our Lady of Perpetual Help Roman Catholic Church and Cemetery</h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2019-11-05T00:00:00+00:00>November 5 2019</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>134 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">1 min</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/cemeteries/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Cemeteries 173</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/churches/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Churches</span></span></a></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-invert py-1">Our Lady of Perpetual Help Roman Catholic Church and Cemetery lies 32 kms northeast of the town of Athabasca, Alberta and serves the Spruce Valley district.</div></div><div class="px-6 pt-4 pb-2"></div></article><article class="relative min-h-full min-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-2 border-neutral-200 shadow-2xl dark:border-neutral-700 hover:border-neutral-700 dark:hover:border-neutral-200 transition-colors duration-200"><div class="flex-none relative overflow-hidden thumbnail_card"><img src=/posts/quad-trek-to-grizzly-ridge-tower/featured-IMG_4066-610x510-1_hu_174652aaf79928a6.jpg alt="Quad Trek to Grizzly Ridge Tower" loading=eager decoding=async fetchpriority=high class="not-prose absolute inset-0 w-full h-full object-cover nozoom"></div><div class="px-6 py-4"><header><a href=/posts/quad-trek-to-grizzly-ridge-tower/ class="not-prose before:absolute before:inset-0 decoration-primary-500 dark:text-neutral text-xl font-bold text-neutral-800 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2"><h2>Quad Trek to Grizzly Ridge Tower</h2></a></header><div class="text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400"><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><time datetime=2019-10-18T00:00:00+00:00>October 18 2019</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span>1793 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">·</span><span title="Reading time">9 mins</span></div><div class="flex flex-row flex-wrap items-center"><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/geocaching/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Geocaching 174</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/hiking/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Hiking 175</span></span></a><a class="relative mt-[0.5rem] me-2" href=/categories/slave-lake/><span class="flex cursor-pointer"><span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400">Slave Lake</span></span></a></div></div><div class="prose dark:prose-invert py-1">I’d been “map-dreaming” for literally years about making the trek to Grizzly Ridge Tower. 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