Current at 11/6/2011 (Online waypoint URL)
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Traditional Cache Snake Bit by Lizardo + The-Stuntman (1/1)
N50° 30.523  W97° 29.691 (WGS84)
UTM  14U   E 606725  N 5596277
Use waypoint: GCY867
Size: Small Small    Hidden on 9/9/2006
In Manitoba, Canada
Difficulty:  1 out of 5   Terrain:  1 out of 5
Recommended for kids  Takes less than an hour  Available at all times  Available during winter  Wheelchair accessible  Parking available  Stroller accessible  Needs maintenance 
   


This was a spur of the moment cache inspired by a typical canadian small town icon.
Please no climbing.

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Current at 11/6/2011

Found it 9/6/2010 by Kabuthunk
Ahh... at long last, I've finally had a chance to tackle this cache. I actually had a pseudo-opportunity on Sept. 20th last year... at that time, I was headed up to Red Rose to visit my Grandma's old place, and passed through Inwood. However, due to time constraints or some other reason, I left the cache, intending to go after it the next time I was by.

Which brings us to nearly a year later... today. For very similar reasons as last year, I was heading up to Red Rose once again for a quick day trip. Coincidentally this time I was planning on placing a cache at my Grandma's old, old house (unfortunately, things came up and I wasn't able to place it). In either case, having left earlier this year than I had last year, I had ample time to stop to check out the statue. Gotta say, I was completely unaware that they had names. Although I'm a bit curious which one is Sam and which one is Sara. I could have sworn that one of the genders (female, I think) is significantly larger than the male garder snake, but I could be mistaken. That, or they're both young, and thus about the same size ToungeOut. But that aside, after taking in the view of the statue in general, I began my hunt.

Thankfully, the area was all but deserted. When we first drove up, there was a van full of a family that had just finished checking out the statue. They coincidentally left just as we pulled up, so the area was dead empty from that point on. Heck, I don't even recall seeing any vehicles go by on that street in general. Course, I was behind the statue for a fair amount of the time, so who knows. My wife took a few pictures, but otherwise opted to stay generally close to the car. She's not particularly fond of snakes to begin with, was less fond of them when I took her to the Narcisse Snake Pits last year, and quite likely she was worried there would be some crawling out of the cracks in here or something ToungeOut. Didn't see a single live snake here, though.

Once I determined that ground zero was indeed at said statue, I began the hunt. Gotta say... there's a loooootta places that something could be hiding. It's listed as a 'small' size though, so I figured it couldn't be crammed into ridiculously tiny places at least. And given the sign by the car saying not to ride the snakes, I made the safe assumption that no climbing was required. Indeed I was correct in this assumption. Several minutes after working my way from one side of the statue, around the back, and off towards the other side, I eventually laid my eyes upon the cache container BigSmile. Opening it up, I signed up the logbook and replaced the cache as found. Perhaps ever so slightly better hidden, but for all intents and purposes the same. Mission accomplished BigSmile. I was a tad worried that I might not be able to find the cache. I'm the type that doesn't like to leave DNF's unresolved (although a benchmark DNF in the USA will quite likely remain that way), and it would be quite a while I'm sure before I happened to come out this way again. It seems to be once or twice a year, anyway.

With the mission accomplished, I took an extra few minutes to actually look at the detail of the statue. At the start, I was more geared up to look for the cache as opposed to actually look at the statue. Really nicely detailed, I gotta say. Although, I DO still kinda wish I was able to ride them and get a pic of me on top ToungeOut.

Took: Nothing
Left: Logbook entry and chainmail ball


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