GC34DDP
Point of a Union
Type: Traditional
| Size: Regular
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By: MHz
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| Hide Date: 23/09/2011
| Status: Available
Country: Canada
| State: Manitoba
Coordinates: N49° 31.304 W97° 13.764 | Last updated: 10/06/2026 | Fav points: 0
Cache is an ammo can that will hopefully be winter friendly. Closest parking is north of the cache at the access road to the little church off the north bound lanes of the highway.
This place represents many types of unions. I'm sure many unions have been via the "I do" in the church near here at some time in the distant past. I've certainly seen many photography session near here after a similar union that took place somewhere else as well. GFM claims a young Drew Barrymore had a union with a movie camera here. The highway departs then becomes a union here again. I've seen the grass become a temporary union with a mower blade here many times too.
There is also a point to this place. Historic reasons well beyond geocaching made this a spot important enough to make the Hwy go around it! But more importantly there is a point to this cache! My 33rd cache find was here back on August 4, 2004. The cache was called "Little Church on the Prairie" by Bob3rd1. Recently that cache was archived. How could I leave this great spot without a cache. So I jumped and placed one as this place deserved a cache.
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11/05/2013 By Kabutroid
Y'know, for YEARS now I've been meaning to stop at this church, if not for the geocaching, than to at least see if there's a plaque or any kind of information as to the story behind it. Today marked the day in which I both visited the church, AND found all of the caches in the immediate vicinity, this being the first of them. Gotta say though, I wasn't expecting there to be 3 of them so close to eachother... but as this cache description says, this was clearly important enough for the highway to be built AROUND it.
Although it's always perplexed me as to why they didn't just... y'know... have the highway curve slightly to one side or the other around it. I'm not entirely sure what the reasoning was to literally split the road and have it go around. BUT... I'm not exactly a road planner, so I'm sure there was some reason. Or it was requested or something, who knows.
In either case, the cache! I actually almost missed this one. I was driving along and saw the church in the distance, and so started paying closer attention to my GPS, knowing that there was caches afoot. I saw one approaching sooner than expected, and quickly pulled my car onto the side of the road. The highway was completely empty, so this wasn't a problem, however I still managed to pull about 150 meters past the coordinates  . I figured there wasn't any point in backing up since I'm not THAT lazy, and just hopped out of the car and hoofed it over to ground zero. My wife stayed in the car as usual.
A quick walk later, and I found myself near the coordinates. I immediately went towards where I figured the cache had to be, but found nothing of the sort. Looking around a little bit closer, and letting my GPS settle down for a moment, I realized I was a little bit off yet, and followed what appeared to be a geotrail of sorts, which inevitably led me to the cache container... which I have absolutely no clue how I missed earlier . Course, from the angle I first approached from, it would have been entirely invisible. In retrospect, I guess that was probably the exact reason it was placed where it was .
With the cache container found, I was left with the question of how to easily access the contents of it. Once you've seen the cache, you'll know what I'm talking about. I soon managed to retrieve the contents, and hunkered down to sort through it. Not spotting any travelbugs or other swag I might want to trade for, I dropped in a chainmail ball and signed up the logbook. Mental note though, this would be a good place to drop a travelbug if I had one needing to be moved. It's easily accessible from either direction of travel, so it'd be a convenient drop-off point to get something moving.
But that said, I closed up the cache container and headed back to the car. Mission accomplished  . Thanks for putting a cache out here, it was a beautiful day out, the roads were fairly quiet, so I was able to take my time and not have to worry about a slew of people going by or some such. One of the many reasons why caching out in the country always seems more enjoyable to me than in the city.
Took: Nothing
Left: Logbook entry and chainmail ball
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