Stuck in a Rut (Geko Guesser 3)

14/01/2012 By Kabutroid
Awright. This was quite a fun cache to go after, since it involved not only finding it on the way to spending the weekend at a friend's cabin, but also taking one of said friends out for their first geocache! She's had an account created for quite some time now, but hasn't logged anything yet. Thus, congrats Exousia for finding your first geocache BigSmile .

So the general theory was that we would take off to her parents' cabin at Barrier Bay, chillax for the weekend, and book it home. Me, being me, of course loaded up my GPS with all the caches along the route (although I made a minor mistake in the path, so only half of the route we had roadside caches for), and of course anywhere around the destination. Turns out there's very few caches way out in the middle of nowhere. Inside of Whiteshell Provincial Park, I wasn't surprised to find very few available, but just outside the park there was one section that had a metric ton of them all relatively close together. I'll have to mental note those for another trip, but at least we planned to tackle a cache or so on this trip.

This... to this cache. By the time I thought to turn on my GPS on the way out (probably for the best, since it was blizzarding, very windy, and dark on the way home, so there's no way we would have stopped for that half of the trip), there were few caches left showing between our current position and the point where we would leave my cache-along-a-route path. Being as it was Exousia's first time, I wanted to ideally select one that would be a fairly good representation of the enjoyment. Nice area, not a micro so as to give an idea of things inside them, etc. Being in the country, this generally isn't a problem, so this cache being the next one we would pass, I directed her where to turn. Since there was a fairly recent layer of snow on the ground, getting down the road towards ground zero was a bit iffy. When we were passed the school (I think that was a school), I couldn't tell where the road ended and the ditch (if there were any) began. Thankfully everything went well on that front.

So parking about 230 meters from the cache, Exousia and I headed out from the car, leaving our respective significant others to remain in the car (what are the odds... we're both outdoor type people, and we both married indoor-type city people. We kept joking with them we should switch ToungeOut ). It was a fairly nice walk, with the snow not being too deep to step through. Exousia for the most part followed in my footsteps (literally) since I had bigger boots.

By the time we reached ground zero, I was just about to start explaining that it could be anywhere relatively close to here, since it's accuracy depends on both the cache owner's accuracy when placing, added to the accuracy of our GPS. Before I could get through any of that however, Exousia had already spotted the container, and we were both headed straight for it. I was also a bit worried that it might be buried in snow, but thankfully it wasn't deep enough for that. Cracking open the cache, I showed her the general contents, at which point she came to a conclusion of sorts as to what type of signature item she wanted to be known for. I'm sure over time that will be more thoroughly finalized, but for the time being, I signed the logbook for both of us, and dropped in my own signature chainmail ball item. Exousia was particularly excited about going after geocaches with her son, so we may not have just one, but potentially several new cachers in the making Smile .

On a related note, the cache page mentions that a TB of some sort is in here. It could be that I just didn't spot it, but offhand I didn't see anything with a travelbug tag in there. And looking at the TB's page, it looks like that hasn't been logged since 2008, so I'm pretty sure it's long gone.

Otherwise, a really fun mini caching trip with a new cacher. A fun start to a fun weekend BigSmile .

Took: Nothing
Left: Logbook entry and chainmail ball