GCTZED The Far Park
Type: Mystery | Size: Small | Difficulty: | Terrain:
By: Wagonmaker @ | Hide Date: 19/03/2006 | Status: Archived
Country: Canada | State: Manitoba
Coordinates: N49° 57.250 W97° 10.722 | Last updated: 10/06/2026 | Fav points: 0
         

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Grandmother lives at the posted coordinates. THE POSTED COORDINATES WILL LEAD YOU TO PRIVATE PROPERTY. TO COMPLETE THIS CACHE, YOU DO NOT HAVE TO GO TO THE POSTED COORDINATES. If you feel you must go to the coordinates, please be careful not to trespass. Stay on the street.

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It was the summer holidays of 1990 and Little Wagonmaker was staying with his grandmother while his parents were away. Little Wagonmaker loved his Grandmother’s house because of all the little parks and playgrounds in their neighbourhood. There were two parks in particular that were favourite destinations for Little Wagonmaker to walk to with Grandmother. They were like hidden treasures cached away from unsuspecting passers-by just waiting to be unearthed by avid explorers. One of them, which they called The Close Park, was really just around the corner. Grandmother liked it because of the relatively short walk: indeed, speaking latitudinally, it was only 00.053 minutes away. Little Wagonmaker enjoyed it too, especially as they had recently built a new playground at The Close Park. However, if one REALLY wanted to have fun, The Far Park was the way to go, what with all the different things to do there. Sure, it was further to walk, latitudinally 00.222 minutes away, but Little Wagonmaker could always run if he wanted. Grandmother... well, that was another story. Both knew, of course, that longitudinally, it made little difference: the two parks were 00.122 and 00.141 minutes away. Every time they went to the parks, Little Wagonmaker loved to bring a variety of toys to play with whilst he was there. He stuffed his pockets, and carried some, and sometimes asked Grandmother to carry some. However, he was forever leaving toys behind, which always frustrated him. Upon returning, he could never find what he was looking for, even though he knew EXACTLY where they ought to have been left. Please help Little Wagonmaker find his missing trinkets. I'm sure YOU know exactly where he left them.

16/03/2007 By Kabutroid
And less than a week later, Kabuthunk gets lucky!

...No, not in THAT sense... in the Geocaching sense .

Anyhoo... after swinging by the Maples Mystery Cache, I decided to do a quick drive-by to see if there were any kids around. Now, I didn't have much time to begin with (maybe 10 minutes searching at best), but I figured that if the park was empty, I'd give it a shot. Worst case scenario, I keep driving . Well... I supposed it'd be that or another DNF, but that's not really a big deal, since it's already on my DNF list.

In either case... by, I drove. None, children did I see. Hunt for, the cache I must. And hunt I did. In my first few attempts, I'm sure I looked quite foolish. Closer to the coords, I was crouched over looking under stuff while turning it (you'll know what I mean when you get there), after which I wandered over the the next most viable places. Wagonmaker gave me a quick hint as to one place that it's not, so I had the remainder to search.

SUCCESS! Took me two additional spots after that first turning one, but I came out with a cache container .

Took: Nothing
Left: Logbook entry and chainmail ball

12/03/2007 By Kabutroid
Attempted to tackle this one immediately after taking on The Close Park. Unfortunately, I only had 15 minutes to go after this before I had to leave. This was partially due to an initial dead-end where I picked the wrong "one of four" coordinate options, and ended up in the dead center of a school's field (although, I'm still debating whether it's there somewhere, due to the hint).

Two other coordinate choices I had already crossed off though. While driving by, I saw that they were completely inaccessable. A second coordinate choice to actually get out and look in brought me to another park (which I can only assume is The Far Park). However, there was several kids playing around in there, and I didn't feel comfortable looking around there while they were in there.

Also, I accidentally stepped off the beaten path from kids and whatnot, and sunk about 2 feet into the snow for a bit .

But yeah... didn't feel comfortable around the kids, so I figured I'd leave this for another day. I wasn't wearing my trenchcoat (more of a spring/fall thing), so I didn't think I looked THAT creepy... but a guy wandering around a park with random kids in there wasn't sitting well with me.

I'll come back another time for this one. I may end up emailing the cache-owner just to confirm I'm at the right park, and perhaps to get a hint as to the cache location more specifically... just so I don't have to stay too long if kids might be coming at any given time. Yeah... don't have any geokids or geopets to take through there to look more natural either :{

I shall tackle this one in due time. I kept my word with the Close Park... I shall keep my word with this one. Maybe not the next day though... but we'll see .