Before you embark on your seach
for this cache, read over the history and then read over the
instructions to find the symbols needed to find the
location.
Here is a brief history of the
trek you are about to take over the former site of the lower
Mt.Lolo Military/Radar base.
CFS Kamloops was constructed in
1957 to augment the Pinetree Line and provide more thorough
aircraft control and warning to the air defense systems. It became
operational the following year when radar and communications gear
were installed, but it was only used on a limited
basis.
The resident unit, 825th
Aircraft Control & Warning Squadron, United States Air Force,
arrived and the station was declared limited operational on 3
December 1958 with early warning status reports being forwarded to
5 Air Division in Vancouver. They were declared fully operational
on 2 March 1959 and reported to the 25th Air Division at McChord
AFB in Tacoma Washington.
The station was handed over to
the RCAF on 1 April 1962 and the new occupants of the station were
designated 56 Aircraft Control & Warning Squadron, RCAF Station
Kamloops. 56 AC&W took over the duties of providing radar
coverage for their assigned area. They were also SAGE-capable on 1
May 1963. As a result of unification the RCAF Station was
re-designated CFS Kamloops, and the Air Defense Command unit
changed their name to 56 Radar Squadron. Then it became Canadian
Forces Station Kamloops on 10 August 1967. In August 1984, Kamloops
was brought on-line with Canada West ROCC.
The men and women of 56 Radar
Squadron carried on at Kamloops until new government direction
brought about the creation of the North Warning System. CFS
Kamloops was officially closed on 1 April 1988.
The radar installation
(operations site) was located on top of Mt Lolo, while the base
camp (domestic site) was located about 10 km down the access road.
The buildings were still in existence in 1997 but have since been
removed.
The city of Kamloops
established a memorial to the radar station. The last search
antenna to be used at CFS Kamloops, an FPS-20, was moved to
Riverside Park, while the radar dome is used for crop storage at a
local ginseng farm.
Currently, Telus has a
communication installation on the site. And a forest fire lookout
was located here before the radar station was
built.
This multi covers the former Mt. Lolo domestic site. In order to
find Stage 1 . . . you need to know your Code. The picture labeled
Stage 1 code will get you to your first stage.
You see the code now you need
the symbols . . . your hint for that is this synonym: "Confused
(lebab) Marble (enots) Dirty
(gip) Dwelling (nep)." Figure out
the synonym and you will find the symbols on the
internet.
You will need this code for
most of the stages, so make sure you bring it with you. You will
need to know N and W plus the numbers.
All containers will be some
form of micro or small container, no Nano's. "Yahooooo" everyone
says.
For Final Stage, here are the
instructions to decipher what you see in front of you. The 10
letters equal 0 through 9 reading from left to right. For example,
in a normal alphabet, A=0, B=1 up to the 9th letter. What you
arrive at will be obvious. So you read it from left to right with
the first letter equalling 0.
N50 I (2nd A) . M M (1st
A)
W120 C M . K (1st R) M
In the hints section "S" means
Stage.
Have fun, be safe and enjoy the
area. For extra interest this is where Cadence with Charlie and
Martin Sheen was filmed.