Current at 11/6/2011 (Online waypoint URL) You have already found this cache! Master Index    Nearest Caches 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    Hidden on 6/25/2007 In Manitoba, Canada Difficulty:     Terrain:                       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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7/23/2007 by Kabuthunk
AHA! Houston, we have a cache... and about time . 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. . Although, I'm more surprised by the fact that I got the golf course one right .

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 .

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 ).

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 ) 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 .

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

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

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

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 . 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 .

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

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 . 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 .