Current at 11/6/2011 (Online waypoint URL) You have already found this cache! Master Index    Nearest Caches Fair Trade by Xplorer and Ramblin' Rose (1.5/1.5) N49� 49.312  W97� 08.784 (WGS84) UTM  14U   E 633328  N 5520473 Use waypoint: GC17JWR Size: Regular    Hidden on 11/22/2007 In Manitoba, Canada Difficulty:     Terrain:                   Lovely area just off the walking path, close to "10,000 Villages". New cammoed cache with lswag. One zip-lock contains items from the nearby 'Fair Trade' store. You might want to go and browse for something for that person on your Christmas or birthday list that has 'everything' and help someone else overseas! Watch for muggles as always and re-hide well!

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12/9/2007 by Kabuthunk
I actually barely found this cache on Dec. 9th. It was about 10 minutes after midnight when I laid my hands on the cache container. Now, some might call me crazy for going geocaching on a night like tonight (my fiancee being the first to do so, followed shorly by any friends to whom I mentioned I was going geocaching sometime tonight ), but I've been lacking in caching for the past long while here.

And so... with a severe need to cache... I head out after everything for the day is said and done (which ended up being at about 11:50 pm or so) to find a geocache. Not two days ago I noticed that a geocache had been planted RIGHT close to where I used to live.

Figures... I've just finished moving a few kilometers away from where I used to be, and a geocache springs up damn near beside where I used to be. Well... the area I'm at now is pretty sparse if I'm not mistaken, so hopefully some will slither in around here sometime .

In either case... I digress. Actually, I don't think I even got to THIS cache yet. Nonetheless... so I left my friend's place at about 11:50 or so. I had my GPS with me all day in hopes of going caching when there was a bit of light out, but that wasn't happening apparently. Hence... midnight caching in the middle of winter it is! I parked as close as I could to the cache (pretty sure it was employee parking, but somehow I didn't think that would be an issue ), and headed over. There was a bus parked out at the bus stop there. Doubt the driver even noticed me, and if he did, he probably thought I was insane to park in the middle of nowhere with everything closed, and then go wander off down the sidewalk for a little bit. But y'know... the first 20 seconds or so after getting out of the car aren't bad at all. Aaaand then it starts to sink in. And when you think the cold has sunk in as far as it possibly could, it sinks in more. I gotta say... the picture I've attached to this post definitely ain't lying.

Luckly, it only took me about a minute of searching to find the cache container. I was still at the tail-end of still feeling not-completely-frozen, so I was still in good condition to look around for a nice spot to peruse it. Walking to a small area not visible by traffic, I discovered that I would be forced to remove my gloves in order to open the cache container and sign it. THIS would be about the time that the cold REALLY started kicking in. My shaking hands attempted to grab my pen, but I decided that it might be too cold for it to work... so to save time I just switched to grabbing my pencil. Inside the logbook, you'll notice that my writing is very jagged, and I didn't really write much. This would be because I could barely feel the pencil any more, and my hands were shaking like mad. Thank goodness the car was still warm when I got back to it .

But was it worth it? Oh HELLS YEAH! I've been out of geocaching for WAY too long, and was severely aching to cache again. This outting, despite being minus a million degrees outside, cheered me up immensely, and got me to want to cache more often. The current season makes it quite difficult to cache often, but I'll definitely be trying.

Although, on another note... I accidentally put "TN L: Chainmail ball" in the logbook, as I had momentarily forgotten that I took the Mrs. Dicky Duck TB that was inside the cache. Hence:

Took: Mrs. Dicky Duck TB
Left: Logbook entry and chainmail ball

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