Simply Red Adventures Online by Dean Martin

Simply Red Adventures Online

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Welcome
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This is my web pages, full off pics, video's and adventures.
I am an outdoors enthusiast with a love for nature. Going out and just enjoying the beauty life has to offer, there is so much around us, but most don't stop and enjoy. I do. This world we call home has all the things man needs to be happy, so escape the hectic pace and relax and enjoy.

About Me
I like offroading, hunting, fishing, photography and for the last 5 years, Geocaching. These activities have taken me to many amazing places, many right here in Ontario where I've been living for the last 20 years. I have been documenting some of these journeys which will be shared here. Like going to Ishapatina Ridge, Ontario's highest elevation. Maple Mountain, Lion's Head Lookout and many old fire towers in Ontario. See my 2000 + pictures and over 300 videos.
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Check out My "Where I've Been" pics on Flickr

Check My Links to all the fun.

Check out my blog Simply Red's Online Blog

More Stories to come like Shannon Falls and Squamish, Chipmunk Caves, Lion's Head, and The Eternal Flame. (Work's in Progress)

Adventure Stories

Check out Marion Lake - A quest For A FTF A beautiful waterfalls and a First To Find Cache.

Check out my My Road To Ishpatina story.

Check out my Memories Of Maple Mountain story.

Check out my Ode To Obabika story.

Check out my Fraser Hill Fishing Cache story.

Check out my The Air Is Thin Up Here story.

Check out Cheltonham Badlands page. This incredible landscape is just 40kms from Toronto

Check out my Awesome Locations page. Videos to Old Fire Tower locations views to the Grand Canyon view.

Videos

Check out my many caching videos on Youtube Simply Red 4x4's Channel
Views from some of the best caches I've done, also lots of offroading and wildlife videos

(New) Check out my newest Adventure Video Simply Red Adventures - A Reason To Cache It's why I love caching, the great locations caching takes me to

Check out my Memories From Maple Mountain Video for a truly ultimate cache. It's 16 parts, so follow them in order.

Check out my Ode To Obabika - Quest for A FTF Video for another truly ultimate FTF cache. It's 6 parts, so follow them in order.

Check out my Quest For A FTF - Courtney's Cache We quaded in the rain for this FTF.

Check out my Helpful Hints - GPS Mounting A little video I put together to show how I use the ram mounts to mount my GPS in vehicle, quad, boat, canoe, kayak and bicycle.

Extra's

Here's a Pic of the Nelson Loop we do, makes for a great 4x4 or quad ride and can get many of my caches.

Check out my Wheeled Portager Home made way to get your canoe/kayak to the water.

Outside Links

Check out this blog ABSOLUTELY NARCISSISM! Ever wonder what it would be like if the entire world revolved around you? Wonder no more, it's time to be proactive about your narcissism!...well, MINE actually!

Check out this site Ontario Fire Towers

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Simply Red Simply Red was the name I gave my Nissan 4X4 back in 1988. It's taken me to many places and what started me into the outdoors. Check out some old video's when Simply Red was still looking good. You can see loads more on my Youtube channel as well as many other videos. From wildlife to GeoCache locations, to boating, kayaking quading and much more.

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1. Entrance To Lake Nippissing, 2. Green Reflections, 3. Across The Lake, 4. Still Too Deep, 5. Snowed Bench, 6. The Corral, 7. Old Barn, 8. Dec 6 Sunrise, 9. Cold Air, 10. Snowy Creek, 11. Reflections (HDR)

Some of my most amazing caches are one's not found very often, cacher's don't know what they are missing. Check out my bookmarks "My Favorites" for caches that would truly satisfy your caching needs.

My Cache Stats as of 27/01/2011 (Generated by CacheStats 3.0. Get your own stats at www.logicweave.com)

Cache Finds

Total Found: 842 (# found/attended logs) Find Rate: 0.526 per day (3.7 per week, 192 per year)

Caches: 842 (# unique caches visited) Avg. difficulty / terrain: 1.75 / 1.90

# Archived: 149 (17%) FTFs: 48

Avg. in 1 day: 3.8 Oldest Cache: Northern Lights (GC6E9 placed 15/04/2001), Oldest Active: Nelson Lake (placed 09/06/2001)

Most in 1 day: 17 (02/08/2007) Most in 1 month: 113 (7/2010)

Days Cached

Total days cached: 224 (every 7.1 days or 14.0%) Most consecutive days with a find: 9 (24/07/2010 - 01/08/2010)

Most in 1 month: 18 (7/2010) Most consecutive days without a find: 189 (04/11/2007 - 10/05/2008)

History

Year Total Found Rate Days Cached / Frequency

2006 76 0.667 25 / every 4.6 days

2007 271 0.742 66 / every 5.5 days

2008 82 0.225 32 / every 11.4 days

2009 88 0.241 31 / every 11.8 days

2010 325 0.890 70 / every 5.2 days

2011 0 0.000 0 / NA

Milestones

Number Date Cache # Days between

#1 09/09/2006 RinoPatch

#50 04/11/2006 NOGHU # 114 "Ducks Unlimited" 56

#100 12/03/2007 Fern Grotto Cache 128

#150 11/04/2007 new view 30

#200 23/05/2007 Le tr�sor d'Annick 42

#250 25/07/2007 lakeview 63

#300 29/08/2007 St. John 35

#350 01/06/2008 Watch that first step... 277

#400 14/08/2008 Eye of the Dead Horse 74

#450 07/07/2009 Table Rock Earthcache 327

#500 06/09/2009 In The Rocks 61

#550 09/05/2010 Second Ave Stash 245

#600 08/07/2010 Pins 60

#650 25/07/2010 Another park in Sudbury... 17

#700 01/08/2010 The Chief's Nook 7

#750 15/08/2010 Mt. Wawasa - No, I'm not Bluffing! 14

#800 10/10/2010 Le Bel Cache a-go-go 56

Size Breakdown

Size # Found Percentage

Regular 362 43.0

Small 219 26.0

Micro 193 22.9

Not chosen 35 4.2

Other 15 1.8

Virtual 15 1.8

Large 3 0.4

Type Breakdown

Type # Found Percentage

Traditional Cache 770 91.4

Earthcache 21 2.5

Multi-cache 20 2.4

Virtual Cache 15 1.8

Mystery 13 1.5

Event Cache 2 0.2

Letterbox Hybrid 1 0.1

Difficulty Breakdown

Difficulty # Found Percentage

1 216 25.7

1.5 272 32.3

2 212 25.2

2.5 57 6.8

3 53 6.3

3.5 16 1.9

4 9 1.1

4.5 5 0.6

5 2 0.2

Terrain Breakdown

Terrain # Found Percentage

1 205 24.3

1.5 282 33.5

2 139 16.5

2.5 74 8.8

3 67 8.0

3.5 27 3.2

4 26 3.1

4.5 4 0.5

5 18 2.1

Difficulty / Terrain Combinations

Terrain

Difficulty 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4 4.5 5 total
1 119 60 19 3 7 1 3 1 3 216
1.5 47 148 32 21 13 4 4 3 272
2 25 36 71 23 27 16 10 4 212
2.5 8 13 6 18 5 2 3 2 57
3 3 14 9 7 10 3 3 2 2 53
3.5 1 7 2 1 2 1 1 1 16
4 1 3 1 1 2 1 9
4.5 1 1 2 1 5
5 2 2
total 205 282 139 74 67 27 26 4 18 842

61 out of 81 combinations found

Finds by Day of Year (all years combined)

Day of Month
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 total
Jan 2 2
Feb 6 4 3 3 2 x x 18
Mar 3 3 2 6 9 12 4 1 1 41
Apr 3 3 4 3 1 1 1 8 2 5 2 1 1 5 1 13 x 54
May 5 3 3 2 3 1 16 16 1 2 9 4 1 2 6 74
Jun 3 10 1 1 3 2 1 1 1 9 5 2 1 1 1 4 x 46
Jul 3 8 4 13 18 9 10 7 1 11 2 4 1 9 1 6 12 1 10 3 8 10 16 167
Aug 25 17 7 3 9 1 1 10 2 6 15 14 10 8 3 1 7 3 9 2 5 16 15 189
Sep 7 2 9 1 17 2 2 10 12 2 2 1 2 16 7 1 1 2 1 4 2 x 103
Oct 1 5 1 4 2 9 8 1 13 5 19 4 1 2 7 5 1 88
Nov 3 1 1 10 1 16 3 2 3 4 2 5 2 x 53
Dec 3 4 7
total 39 41 22 20 23 47 19 35 30 43 25 20 24 15 32 21 38 29 29 48 23 6 16 20 31 6 19 19 35 46 21 842

Found caches in 161 days of the year

Favorite and other Notable Caches

Category Cache Log Comment

All-time favorite Frazer Bay Fishing Cache View Not many finders, but this cache is what geocaching is all about.

Recent favorite Welcome Back Carter View These dunes are awesome and the beach is also, massive beach all to ourselves.

Most memorable Bald Rock View Travelled from home on quads, 56kms, to the cache. beautiful snowy winter day.

Most difficult find Fielding Park View Took about 3 tries to get this one.

Most difficult terrain High Above "High Falls" View This is real bushwacking, but the reward far outways the difficulty

Most scenic The Air is Thin Up Here View This is one of the highest spots I've been to, and the view is awesome

Best hike Maple Mountain Picnic View

Neatest place Chipmunk Caves View This place was so neat, went inside the caves, big enough to stand when inside.

Ultimate Cache Lions Head Lookout View This is the ultimate cache, if I could do only one in my time, this is the one.

A must see tt - Bruce's Caves Cache View Huge caves, mother nature at her finest.

Even more scenic than the most scenic Lions Head Lookout View Many beautiful views of the Georgian Bay, all along the trail

First Favorite ValleyView Cache View This is the one that got us hooked, what caching is all about, a great spot with a great view that no one knows about.

Natural wonders Cheltenham Badlands Earthcache View This is nature at it's best, beautiful natural wonder

Natural Wonders 2 Eternal Flame Falls Earthcache View An amazing Natural wonder. A cache I wanted to do the first time I stumbled upon pictures of it.

Most Remote Rangers Collector Patch View

Farthest Distance Stawamus Chief Earthcache View was 3999 km's when sitting at A&W in Squamish to drive home.

Man Made Marvels Pipeline to Ponder View So close to home and no one knows about it.

FTFs

Number Date Cache Log

1 09/09/2006 RinoPatch View

2 25/10/2006 Wolf Lake Bridge Crossing View

3 25/10/2006 Chiniguchi, Guchi, Gu... View

4 28/10/2006 Junction Creek (formally Camel Toe) View

5 06/11/2006 Honey Cache View

6 23/02/2007 Stumped View

7 29/03/2007 Fire Route M View

8 10/04/2007 Black Mix View

9 10/04/2007 Finder's Keepers View

10 10/04/2007 peek a boo View

11 11/04/2007 new view View

12 18/04/2007 Gammy's Pick View

13 02/06/2007 Kipling View

14 02/06/2007 Sapphire bug stop View

15 17/06/2007 Have a seat . 2 View

16 17/06/2007 Key chain Cache View

17 06/07/2007 Shorty View

18 06/07/2007 Haunted Workers View

19 25/07/2007 Centennial Park easy cache View

20 25/07/2007 Ink Lake Hideyhole View

21 25/07/2007 lakeview View

22 01/08/2007 river view View

23 03/09/2007 Trout Creek View

24 05/10/2007 Behind Dominion Park View

25 09/09/2008 When the Levee breaks View

26 05/11/2008 REED LAKE CACHE View

27 24/04/2009 Nelson Lake (South/West End) View

28 21/07/2009 Seagull Island a.k.a. Caroline Rocks View

29 12/08/2009 By Kayak cache two of four View

30 12/08/2009 By Kayak cache three of four View

31 12/08/2009 By Kayak cache four of four View

32 22/09/2009 It's Here Somewhere View

33 08/11/2009 Lover's Cliff View

34 25/04/2010 Wolf Mountain View

35 28/04/2010 Quiet Pines View

36 29/04/2010 Emma Bus Stop View

37 09/05/2010 Second Ave Stash View

38 10/05/2010 wolsley rapids View

39 29/05/2010 Stewart's Triumph View

40 03/06/2010 Old Baldy View

41 04/06/2010 Rangers Collector Patch View

42 29/06/2010 Where the White Pines Are View

43 29/07/2010 Courtney's Cache View

44 10/08/2010 The Beaver's view View

45 13/08/2010 Are we there yet? View

46 01/09/2010 Out View

47 01/09/2010 Fishing In Canada View

48 18/09/2010 A Good Grip Goes a Long Way View

Locations

US States (3): MI (7), NV (7), NY (6)

Canadian Provinces (3): Ontario (782), British Columbia (39), Quebec (1)

Countries (2): Canada (822), United States (20)

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Cache Finds
Total Found:	842 (# found/attended logs)	Find Rate:	0.526 per day (3.7 per week, 192 per year)
Caches:	842 (# unique caches visited)	Avg. difficulty / terrain:	1.75 / 1.90
# Archived:	149 (17%)	FTFs:	48
Avg. in 1 day:	3.8	Oldest Cache:	Northern Lights (GC6E9 placed 15/04/2001), Oldest Active: Nelson Lake (placed 09/06/2001)
Most in 1 day:	17 (02/08/2007)	Most in 1 month:	113 (7/2010)

Days Cached
Total days cached:	224 (every 7.1 days or 14.0%)	Most consecutive days with a find:	9 (24/07/2010 - 01/08/2010)
Most in 1 month:	18 (7/2010)	Most consecutive days without a find:	189 (04/11/2007 - 10/05/2008)

History
Year	Total Found	Rate	Days Cached / Frequency
2006	76	0.667	25 / every 4.6 days
2007	271	0.742	66 / every 5.5 days
2008	82	0.225	32 / every 11.4 days
2009	88	0.241	31 / every 11.8 days
2010	325	0.890	70 / every 5.2 days
2011	0	0.000	0 / NA

Milestones
Number	Date	Cache	# Days between
#1	09/09/2006	RinoPatch
#50	04/11/2006	NOGHU # 114 "Ducks Unlimited"	56
#100	12/03/2007	Fern Grotto Cache	128
#150	11/04/2007	new view	30
#200	23/05/2007	Le tr�sor d'Annick	42
#250	25/07/2007	lakeview	63
#300	29/08/2007	St. John	35
#350	01/06/2008	Watch that first step...	277
#400	14/08/2008	Eye of the Dead Horse	74
#450	07/07/2009	Table Rock Earthcache	327
#500	06/09/2009	In The Rocks	61
#550	09/05/2010	Second Ave Stash	245
#600	08/07/2010	Pins	60
#650	25/07/2010	Another park in Sudbury...	17
#700	01/08/2010	The Chief's Nook	7
#750	15/08/2010	Mt. Wawasa - No, I'm not Bluffing!	14
#800	10/10/2010	Le Bel Cache a-go-go	56

Favorite and other Notable Caches
Category	Cache	Log	Comment
All-time favorite	Frazer Bay Fishing Cache	View	Not many finders, but this cache is what geocaching is all about.
Recent favorite	Welcome Back Carter	View	These dunes are awesome and the beach is also, massive beach all to ourselves.
Most memorable	Bald Rock	View	Travelled from home on quads, 56kms, to the cache. beautiful snowy winter day.
Most difficult find	Fielding Park	View	Took about 3 tries to get this one.
Most difficult terrain	High Above "High Falls"	View	This is real bushwacking, but the reward far outways the difficulty
Most scenic	The Air is Thin Up Here	View	This is one of the highest spots I've been to, and the view is awesome
Best hike	Maple Mountain Picnic	View
Neatest place	Chipmunk Caves	View	This place was so neat, went inside the caves, big enough to stand when inside.
Ultimate Cache	Lions Head Lookout	View	This is the ultimate cache, if I could do only one in my time, this is the one.
A must see	tt - Bruce's Caves Cache	View	Huge caves, mother nature at her finest.
Even more scenic than the most scenic	Lions Head Lookout	View	Many beautiful views of the Georgian Bay, all along the trail
First Favorite	ValleyView Cache	View	This is the one that got us hooked, what caching is all about, a great spot with a great view that no one knows about.
Natural wonders	Cheltenham Badlands Earthcache	View	This is nature at it's best, beautiful natural wonder
Natural Wonders 2	Eternal Flame Falls Earthcache	View	An amazing Natural wonder. A cache I wanted to do the first time I stumbled upon pictures of it.
Most Remote	Rangers Collector Patch	View
Farthest Distance	Stawamus Chief Earthcache	View	was 3999 km's when sitting at A&W in Squamish to drive home.
Man Made Marvels	Pipeline to Ponder	View	So close to home and no one knows about it.

FTFs
Number	Date	Cache	Log
1	09/09/2006	RinoPatch	View
2	25/10/2006	Wolf Lake Bridge Crossing	View
3	25/10/2006	Chiniguchi, Guchi, Gu...	View
4	28/10/2006	Junction Creek (formally Camel Toe)	View
5	06/11/2006	Honey Cache	View
6	23/02/2007	Stumped	View
7	29/03/2007	Fire Route M	View
8	10/04/2007	Black Mix	View
9	10/04/2007	Finder's Keepers	View
10	10/04/2007	peek a boo	View
11	11/04/2007	new view	View
12	18/04/2007	Gammy's Pick	View
13	02/06/2007	Kipling	View
14	02/06/2007	Sapphire bug stop	View
15	17/06/2007	Have a seat . 2	View
16	17/06/2007	Key chain Cache	View
17	06/07/2007	Shorty	View
18	06/07/2007	Haunted Workers	View
19	25/07/2007	Centennial Park easy cache	View
20	25/07/2007	Ink Lake Hideyhole	View
21	25/07/2007	lakeview	View
22	01/08/2007	river view	View
23	03/09/2007	Trout Creek	View
24	05/10/2007	Behind Dominion Park	View
25	09/09/2008	When the Levee breaks	View
26	05/11/2008	REED LAKE CACHE	View
27	24/04/2009	Nelson Lake (South/West End)	View
28	21/07/2009	Seagull Island a.k.a. Caroline Rocks	View
29	12/08/2009	By Kayak cache two of four	View
30	12/08/2009	By Kayak cache three of four	View
31	12/08/2009	By Kayak cache four of four	View
32	22/09/2009	It's Here Somewhere	View
33	08/11/2009	Lover's Cliff	View
34	25/04/2010	Wolf Mountain	View
35	28/04/2010	Quiet Pines	View
36	29/04/2010	Emma Bus Stop	View
37	09/05/2010	Second Ave Stash	View
38	10/05/2010	wolsley rapids	View
39	29/05/2010	Stewart's Triumph	View
40	03/06/2010	Old Baldy	View
41	04/06/2010	Rangers Collector Patch	View
42	29/06/2010	Where the White Pines Are	View
43	29/07/2010	Courtney's Cache	View
44	10/08/2010	The Beaver's view	View
45	13/08/2010	Are we there yet?	View
46	01/09/2010	Out	View
47	01/09/2010	Fishing In Canada	View
48	18/09/2010	A Good Grip Goes a Long Way	View

Locations
US States (3):	MI (7), NV (7), NY (6)
Canadian Provinces (3):	Ontario (782), British Columbia (39), Quebec (1)
Countries (2):	Canada (822), United States (20)