Current at 11/6/2011 (Online waypoint URL) You have already found this cache! Master Index    Nearest Caches Vive les pistes cyclables! by pinch3 (1.5/1.5) N49� 50.944  W97� 07.121 (WGS84) UTM  14U   E 635246  N 5523547 Use waypoint: GC30A5A Size: Small    Hidden on 7/17/2011 In Manitoba, Canada Difficulty:     Terrain:           J'ai pr�par� cette cache pour c�l�brer la nouvelle piste cyclable qui longe la promenade Dunkirk. En y arr�tant pour placer la cache j'ai d�couvert une petite zone de retour � l'�tat sauvage. Deux points pour la ville de Winnipeg! I planned this cache to celebrate the new Dunkirk bike trail. When I stopped to find a spot for the cache, I discovered a little naturalisation zone. Merci � kildonan61 qui m'a donn� le contenant apr�s avoir archiv� une de ses caches. Je suis heureuse de le donner une nouvelle vie. Thanks to kildonan61 who gave me the container of one of his archived caches. I'm happy to give it a new life! F�licitations � JBrandt36, qui a �t� premier � trouver, et � Wagonmaker et FoxFireSyxx, qui ont �t� deuxi�me et troisi�me.

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11/5/2011 by Kabuthunk
WOOH! Nice to have been able to get a find today. The last several caches I attempted today both pulled DNF’s, so I was feeling a little bit disheartened. However, I figured I’d attempt to tackle at LEAST one more, to see if I couldn’t get at least one find to end the day. I dunno... ending the day on a DNF always makes one feel a little bit sad when going home.

In either case, I had spent the first part of the afternoon shopping around with my wife, and generally browsing around Polo Park mall. After poking around there and picking up a few books at Chapters, I decided to get some geocaching in. My wife was fine with me stopping a number of times to go hunting for them, and she (being the avid non-geocacher that she is ) opted to stay in the car and read while I was off doing my thing. And so, several DNF’s later, I decided to try my luck at some of the caches closer to home.

This particular cache I’ve come so ridiculously close to countless times that I just HAD to go after it. At first I was just looking for what caches were vaguely close to the road on the way home, but not finding anything particularly convenient, I decided to take a bit of a trip out of the way to go after this one. I’ve either driven past it a dozen times since I noticed it posted, or otherwise was biking through the area but didn’t have the foresight to bring my caching kit (and thus GPS) with me. Today would be different. So as per usual, with my wife sitting in the car waiting for me, I parked on the street nearby and booked it for the coordinates. All this time I had thought that the cache was hidden closer to the intersection itself, so I was mildly surprised with the coordinates were pulling me to the left of the road I was walking down. I was also a bit surprised when I noticed at least a half-dozen other parking spots that were closer, but hey... added exercise. Especially so for me, since for the past week and a half I’ve been wearing 5-pound ankle weights all day to get extra exercise in and bump my stamina for snowshoeing season.

So hoof it I did, and soon found my way to ground zero. When I first arrived, there was nobody to be seen in either direction, except the cars passing by. Figuring they’d be paying little attention to someone on the walking path, I still took a bit of caution and waited for a gap in traffic to make my way to the actual ground zero. Conveniently, from where I found myself, I was quite well hidden from traffic, so no worries there. When I first stepped into the area, I spotted something that drew my attention, and figured it would be a likely cache hiding spot. I was not disappointed, and moments later had the cache in hand.

Figured I’d be more conspicuous crouched down where I was, I decided instead to go back to the walking path, and just sit along the edge of it purposefully, thus just looking like someone taking a break and doing whatever it is I was doing, not really drawing undue attention to myself or trying to look like I was hiding anything. Not that any of this mattered, since nobody walked by while I was sitting there. Someone passed by before I sat down however, at which point I used the ‘looking up something on my GPS’ evasion technique .

Parking myself on the cool walking path, I quickly signed the logbook. Since my wife had just mentioned in the car earlier that today was the whole Guy Fawkes thing, I dated my log in the book as “Guy Fawkes day, 2011” . I had to wait for a biker and a dog-walker to pass by before I could replace the cache container, but a few seconds after they passed, I quickly made my way back to the hiding spot and replaced it as found. The mission accomplished, I headed back to the car with a 5-pound skip in my step .

Thanks for getting a cache by the path. I’m somewhat surprised the new bike paths haven’t had a more prolific geocache appearance.

Took: Nothing
Left: Logbook entry and chainmail ball

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