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Unknown Cache The Falcon Nest by navigator435 (1/1.5) (Archived)
N49° 49.350  W97° 11.321 (WGS84)
UTM  14U   E 630285  N 5520469
Use waypoint: GC13XZ3
Size: Small Small    Hidden on 6/25/2007
In Manitoba, Canada
Difficulty:  1 out of 5   Terrain:  1.5 out of 5
Dogs allowed  Recommended for kids  Takes less than an hour  Available at all times  Not Available during winter  Bicycles  Stealth required  Stroller accessible 
   


Cache is in a residential area, easily accessible by car or bicycle.

The published coordinates are close but not exact.

This cache is our first one! It is in a public park but it is generally deserted except for the odd kids playing in the play structure. With a little discretion you should not attract too much attention.

Left a Scratch & Win for FTF.

N 49 49.PPX
W 097 11.ABC

PP is the normal Par at Hamiota Golf Club.
X is the Azores time zone difference from UTC.

A in binary is 10.
B is the monetary value of 4 of Ontario's official bird.
C is the 4th prime number.

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Current at 11/6/2011

Found it 7/23/2007 by Kabuthunk
AHA! Houston, we have a cache... and about time ToungeOut. The problem in prior searches was twofold. On one hand, I had a minor factual error on my part, and on the other hand... I just took one of the puzzle questions a bit too literally. ToungeOut. Although, I'm more surprised by the fact that I got the golf course one right BigSmile.

The truly annoying part however? In my previous searches, I had actually been correctly looking for this style of cache, but due to the aformentioned issues, I was SO insanely close to finding it... but didn't quite search that far out from my original coords ToungeOut.

But... that aside, I'm lucky to have even made it home from having found the geocache. I decided to bike to the cache after work today, as it was only about 2 km's more to get to the cache (which would be followed by 2.5km's back home again). Approximately 1km into my journey to the cache... I discovered that I had forgotten my waterbottle full of nice cold, clean, fresh water at work. Debating for a moment whether to go back or not... I figured that if I turned around for my water (which may or may not be locked in a closed office at that point... I was one of the last people to leave), I'd end up saying 'screw it' and just going home afterwards. ESPECIALLY if the office was locked.

Hence... I plunged on through what felt like a wall of solid heat. 33 degrees celcius, 44 with the humidity, and I'm biking several miles without water for a geocache. Yep... I must still be addicted to geocaching to put myself through THAT hell for a dinifra (but a SUCCESSFUL dinifra BigSmile).

So... after several hot, sweaty miles, I ended up at the cache site again. This time however... I had previous help from a guardian angel (who may or may not rhyme with "VVrown94 ToungeOut) in regards to my first problems. This time, I was led right to the location, and found it in a matter of seconds. Giving it a quick signing and chainmail balling, I quickly and quietly snuck it back into place and began the long trek home. To say the least... there was much water drank upon arriving at said home ToungeOut.

But... thanks for the cache, despite my various issues in obtaining it ToungeOut.

Took: Nothing
Left: Logbook entry, chainmail ball, and about a liter of sweat ToungeOut.

Also, "ah hell" to forgetting to drop the Geocoin I recently picked up in the cache Frown.

Didn't find it 7/14/2007 by Kabuthunk
Took a second swing at this cache, with the light quickly fading from the sky. Man, I must be missing something pretty far off, or just completely missing the cache container... because I came away empty-handed again. And it's not like it's gone either... looks like someone else found the cache TODAY ToungeOut. I'll likely do some fact-checking and see what I've got wrong. Some number has gotta be off, since I searched everything within about 30 to 40 meters from the coordinates that I had.

And given this is currently the closest cache to where I live, I'll be putting a fair amount of effort into tackling this fella. It may have fooled me twice... but it won't fool me a third time if I have anything to say about it ToungeOut.

I shall return... again. Hopefully with a more successful dinifra the next time ToungeOut.

Didn't find it 7/8/2007 by Kabuthunk
It was a pretty harsh day for caching for me today. I was only running a 50% find rate for the day, with 3 found and 3 not found. The more annoying part of that is that two of those not-found three were puzzle caches that I thought I had solved correctly. This was unfortunately one of those puzzle caches.

So I THOUGHT I had the coords correct, and wandered over to the thought-to-be cache site. Me and my friend both poked around at everything and anything that might contain a small-sized cache, but turned up nothing. Figuring that I had the "normal par at Hamiota" incorrect, we tried increasing and decreasing that number, and basically walked the line it created, checking everything that fell near that line for a container. Unfortunately, it looks like either that part was correct and something else was off... or we just couldn't find it in general ToungeOut. The rest of the puzzle questions didn't seem that difficult, but for all I know, I may be screwing up something that should be simple.

I'll likely do a little bit more research, and see if I can find any mistakes in my figuring, and return for another round in the near future Smile.


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