Pioneers of Morris -Hwy 75

11/05/2013 By Kabutroid
Awesome, it's finally getting warm enough such that the weather outside doesn't stop me from wanting to get out of the car and go after caches here and there! I was actually hoping my first find of the day to be a different cache that I could have sworn was a ways south from here, right near the wind turbines. However, no caches showed up on my GPS when I was driving past there, so this cache seemed like a good candidate to take its spot. It involves a point of interest I've never been to, it's nice and quiet (compared to say... in the middle of a town/city), and it was nice out. Can't go wrong!

I was out of the city for a while today, attending my niece's performance at the PW Enns Centennial Concert Hall in Winkler today. My wife and I decided to go with a change of pace for once, and booked it down highway 75 for this trip, instead of the usual #3 to Carman first. I'm really glad I did, since there appears to be a ton more geocaches along this stretch that I haven't found yet, and I've already found just about everything close to the road between Winnipeg and Carman. It's not often I get to take THIS route though, since normally we stop in Carman first to visit my sister. Today however, not a problem, since we were meeting them at the concert hall. WOOH! Change of scenery!

After the performance, we headed back the way we came, this time keeping a close eye on the GPS to see what geocaches caught my attention. Or more likely, which geocaches I saw show up on the GPS's map early enough, and had time to stop and go after ToungeOut . After passing by the aforementioned wind turbines, I spotted this cache coming up, and pulled over. Laura as usual opted to stay in the car while I went and did my thing.

I started out completely ignoring the coordinates, and checked out the memorial first. I always like reading these little tidbits of information strewn about here and there. At least this one is on a major stretch of highway... I've come across a few that are seemingly in the middle of nowhere, and probably only get a tiny handful of visitors a year. Not that I know how many people actually stop at this one, but at the bare minimum, hooray for geocachers placing caches near them, and bringing more visitors.

After perusing the area, I started to focus on the GPS and see if I could find the geocache. My first assumption as to where the cache would be was... incorrect to say the least. I was SO sure I knew where the cache had to be hidden as a whole that I spent 5 minutes hunting around fruitlessly, wondering where in the world it could be hidden. At that point, I decided to actually PAY ATTENTION to the GPS, which I'm sure for the entire time was telling me I was about 5+ meters away from it ToungeOut . Soon after I started actually GOING to the coordinates, I located the cache container, and parked myself on a nearby... stump? I'm not entirely sure what's with those very short wood posts in the ground there. In either case, makeshift chair.

I quickly combed through the cache contents, but not spotting any swag that caught my eye or travelbugs, I signed up the logbook and dropped a chainmail ball into the container. Back you go from whence you came! With that find under my belt, I hopped back into the car and we headed off towards the next several caches I was to find today.

Thanks for putting a cache out here! I've always loved geocaches that are placed with the purpose of bringing you somewhere specific to show you something, instead of just randomly placed for the sake of geocache. Not that I have any problems with those... that's what makes up the bulk of my geocaching after all... but it's always more interesting if there's some history or something to learn while at a geocache. And for that, I thank you.

Took: Nothing
Left: Logbook entry and chainmail ball