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Where the Sturgeons Fall
Type: Traditional
| Size: Small
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By: S1L1K0N
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| Hide Date: 02/08/2011
| Status: Archived
Country: Canada
| State: Manitoba
Coordinates: N50° 09.379 W95° 39.287 | Last updated: 10/06/2026 | Fav points: 0
Sturgeon Falls, where Namao lake empties into Nutimik. Trail is clearly marked, with moderate inclination changes. Return time 1.5 to 2 hrs.
After crossing the Whiteshell river on the new bridge we knew we wanted to come back and place a Geocache near Sturgeon Falls. The view is great, the swimming/wading is fabulous and the hike is just part of the adventure. Bring a picnic and make a day of it! Follow the Whiteshell River Bridge trail from the Nutimik campground, and once over the bridge take the trail to the left. Follow the trail until it comes to a fork, where the left trail takes you to the lower rapids, the right takes you to the upper. Either trail will get you to the cache, although when the water level is high taking the right trail will be easier. Cache is a medium sized clear/transparent 'Lock n Lock' container with small trade items (kid friendly), logbook and FTF certificate. We left some writing sticks behind, but it's always a good idea to have one just in case. Good luck! Congratulations to janalicious for being the First to Find!
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05/08/2012 By Kabutroid
This cache... was rather unexpected to have found today. Bit of backstory, all of my close friends are avid non-cachers (and in fact, avid not-outdoor-people), with the exception of one. This one person invited my wife and I out to their parents’ cabin this weekend. Since the one possible geocacher has a 3-year old and couldn’t go caching, it turns out that her mom has heard of caching and has been quite interested in the concept of it, and to boot is totally all about the outdoors. It was like a match made in heaven... except that I’m married, and she’s my friend’s mom  . So with the others staying in the cabin, my friend’s mom, Kathy, wanted to check out this geocaching thing. We hoofed it from the cabin to a cache nearby, which got her hooked and hooked but good.
Minutes after we returned, Kathy was already prepping to hop into a car and go after some further caches. One cache after that, and we were pondering what to go after next. I mentioned that there was a cache vaguely nearby that had a name indicating a bridge of some sort, and she figured she knew which bridge they were talking about. Thus, she directed me to drive to the start of the trail leading up to the falls, since the relatively new bridge there would most likely be it.
Well, turns out the bridge-related cache was entirely different altogether, but we figured that since we were already parked... what the hell, let’s hoof it over to the falls anyway and check out the rapids. And so began our journey. It wasn’t until after about halfway down the trail that I looked at the GPS and realized that there was a geocaching seemingly at the end of it anyway! So hey, added bonus! And it was a beautiful day out for a walk... warm, sunny, bit of a breeze to keep you cool... everything about it was win, win, win.
This of course ignores the fact that when we started out initially in the car, we estimated we’d be back in about an hour. That hour had expired about two hours ago . AND they were expecting more company at the cabin that evening... of which thankfully none showed up until after we had gotten back and showered after this trek.
But I’m getting ahead of myself. After a relaxing walk, we found ourselves nearing the rapids and I began to focus a little bit closer on the GPS. The path forked, and I had us go to the right, where we found a rocky outcropping, and an absolutely phenomenal view of the rapids and surrounding area. Kathy told me various tales of the history of these falls/rapids (and why it used to be called a falls instead of the rapids it currently is) and other things about the area, and we got to watch a boat zip through against the current. However, the cache was soon on our minds, and we attempted to find a way to get to ground zero. With the GPS bouncing around all day, it didn’t fail us in continuing to bounce us around some more. After a bit of circling around and looking in entirely wrong areas, the coordinates finally zeroed in on the ACTUAL ground zero, and I was able to make the find! Kathy and I took a quick look over the contents, and quickly signed t he logbook. The process was sped up a bit by the fact that it seems an ant colony has made their home nearby, and weren’t being particularly inviting towards us being there . So after an ant bite or two on my hands (Kathy having stepped back to avoid this eventuality), I had signed the logbook for the two of us and dropped a signature chainmail ball into the cache container. I managed to re-hide the container a bit better than when I found it, and we headed back to the rapids to watch them for a little while.
Thanks for the cache in the very interesting area. Awesome, awesome view, and a nice walk to see it.
Took: Nothing
Left: Logbook entry and chainmail ball
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