Smoky Lake - GeoAdventure

Smoky Lake a mere stop on the highway for the Sturgi when traversing this great province. We honestly haven't spent much time here, but have always known it as the pumpkin capital of Alberta.

This time we were in NO rush to get anywhere and just completed a awesome run of geocaches in rural Alberta - our favorite spot to geocache. Momma loaded a new cache in the BB, but I thought we were headed for ice cream, I mean come on priorities man!!! So after a huff and a puff (not literally) we sped off to the local corner store for IC. Ha, momma comes out with screamers - DADDIES fav and we haven`t had then in a while...MMmmmmmMmmmmMmmmm

We pull over to the spot where they have all the info on pumpkins a guy needs to know and have a nice sit down in the shade.....for 3 seconds and were off. I head to the display booth with maps and info (my kinda thing) the kids are climbing on some big ass pumpkins and mommy, well mommy is watching in the middle. 

Liam strikes up a convo with a grandma and grandpa, chewed their ears off about Transformers (which I know they had no idea what this 1 tooth MIA kid was talking about), Jr and the Bean stumbled around the pumpkins. 

I found the maps very informative as we had just followed the real "Victoria Trail" - Alberta oldest road and then blasted thru the Iron Horse Trail. The Iron Horse is just the beginning for geocaching this trail, follow this link to the Iron Horse Power Trail. A 1410 cache trail with a new geocache every 181m, the rules. Now I`m not sure where I sit on doing this type of "powercaching" one right next to the other, but it is a kool trail, we can learn lots, and it`s a huge trail. Well see!

Iron Horse Geocache Power Trail

After scarfing down our screamers we stomped over to the Smoky Lake train station. Although retired still a big part of history for the area and the kids got to climb on the caboose. A great visit, and we`ll be back for more caches and SCREAMERS!!!!

It was a stripey day!

More pics here.