GCRQV3 Waverley West Micro
Type: Traditional | Size: Micro | Difficulty: | Terrain:
By: burchil @ | Hide Date: 26/12/2005 | Status: Archived
Country: Canada | State: Manitoba
Coordinates: N49° 48.211 W97° 12.106 | Last updated: 10/06/2026 | Fav points: 0

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Hidden about 2m above the ground in a yellow 35mm film container in an aspen grove. It should be easy to spot once you get near the point.

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This cache is hidden on the north side of what will be a new Winnipeg subdivision (Waverley West). You can find out more about this subdivision on the City of Winnipeg WWW site http://www.winnipeg.ca/interhom/WaverleyWest/. Just to the north of this area there may be an addition to the TransCanada trail along an old CP rail line. The trail is on the north side of a large drainage ditch so it will not be much help getting to the cache.

Getting to the cache may be a little work as the closest drive/parking currently is roughly 1km away in any direction. Finding the micro should be easy once you have made it to the point. I have placed a plastic 'lock-n-lock' container below the micro for exchange items. The exchange container will not be winter friendly.

In the winter use snowshoes/skies, in the summer you can walk. There may be trails in the summer but I would not suggest driving unless you are in a tractor - and then you might have some explaining to do. Some of the fields are still under cultivation - go around the edge.

There are several routes that you can take to the point.

• East: There is a golf course along the power transmission lines (Towers Golf and driving range). This is a 9 hole public course. The cache is not on the course.
• West: Park on the side of Brady Road and walk in along the transmission lines.
• North: You might treat this route as a multi. There is apparently a hole in the fence through a vacant lot located at N49 48.248 W97 12.567. The distance to the cache is only .55 km. In the summer if you go this route you will have to cross a large drainage ditch. Alternatively park near the Dairy Queen near the corner of Scurfield and Kenaston, or across from the S. Wpg Technical College and walk in around the end of the ditch. In both cases take note of parking restrictions!

The mico cache contains only a log book and a mini-FTF certificate. The exchange container started with several hotwheels, reflective tape, bicycle pedal reflectors, and magnifying glass.

Since the cache is in a little grove of aspen I thought I would give you some additional information about this common and interesting tree known in my circles as Populus tremuloides. It is the widest ranging tree species in N. America (Alaska to Newfoundland/Labrador, south to Baja in Mexico and from sea level to 10,000 feet in the rockies). Aspens are clonal and large portions of an aspen stand or forest may actually be the same tree. Because they are clonal some scientists believe that some clones represent the largest living trees on the planet and possibly the oldest (since the individual is not actually dead until all of the interconnected clones are dead). Clones as big as 50,000 stems covering 200 acres have been found. One clone in Minnesota was aged at 8,000 years. You can often determine a single clone in the spring or fall as all of the stems leaf out, or turn colour at the same time. On a side note the winner for largest organism actually goes to a mushroom called Armillaria ostoyae living under Malheur National Forest in eastern Oregon. The largest tree (with a single stem) goes to the Giant Sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum).

30/09/2006 By Kabutroid
Oh, I've been wanting to do this guy for a looooong time now. It's always been "just a little too far away" to be able to snag while driving to work. However, I thought I'd outsmart this earlier this week, and leave early.
Note: At this point, I'd like to mention that if I had read the information on this page instead of just downloading all nearby waypoints, it probably would have saved some aggrevation .
In either case... drove around for half an hour in the residential neighbourhood, looking for ANY way to get through the line of houses to the cache behind. On that attempt, I failed horribly. Hence the not marking a DNF, since DNFing suggests the attempt to find the cache. I attempted to find a way to get closer than half a kilometer away .
Came back out today after finishing the other tasks I had for the day, determined to get this one. Drove around for about 20 minutes or so before hallelujah I came across a hole in the fence, at the back of an empty lot, assumingly created by kids. Now y'see, if I'd read this page earlier, I would have known that days ago . Nonetheless, I parked, and started off. Looks like there was a trail already blazed. Luckly enough, the large ditch was dry, and the field was already harvested. A bit of a hike later, passing by some kind of pseudo-fort the aformentioned kids must have made, and I found the cache! Actually, I saw the bottom first, was wondering "What the hell... that's kinda really big for a 'Micro'". Ended up almost putting a note into the bottom part saying that the logbook was lost, but when I stood up, the Micro was right in front of my face. A quick correction, and the cache had a chainmail ball.

On the way back, I figured I'd mess with the kids who were making a fort. Somewhat across from the hole in the fence, I discovered that the yellowing cut-grass was very strong and bendable... almost like a twine. Hence, I made a blair-witch symbol out of sticks and grass, and trussed it up to a tree with more cutgrass. MAN I wish I had a camera for that one. Looks authenticly natural enough to have come from the movie. Who knows, maybe it'll freak the kids out or something . Odds are they'll either smash it, or time will just wear away at the grass and it'll fall apart.

Took: Nothing
Left: Logbook entry and chainmail ball (see profile).