Current at 11/6/2011 (Online waypoint URL) You have already found this cache! Master Index    Nearest Caches Remember #67 by Z'tirnats & Z'ad (2.5/1.5) N49° 51.087  W97° 15.070 (WGS84) UTM  14U   E 625716  N 5523581 Use waypoint: GC157JT Size: Other    Hidden on 8/17/2007 In Manitoba, Canada Difficulty:     Terrain:                   This cache is the seventh in a series of “Remember” caches, dedicated to a few of the thousands of Canadian Servicemen who have given their all to defend our way of life. Remember #67 is situated in a forested area and camoed to its environment. Saddle up your Sopwith Pup and scramble! Within the outer cache is information on one serviceman. You may want to record this information because the “Remember” series has one factor that ties them all together and it will help you find the last of the series which will be a puzzle cache. Information from each of the caches will be required to find this last one or, if you figure out the factor that ties them together, you will be able to “fast forward” to the last cache. Your flight CANNOT be logged until the Pilot's log book is signed. It is safely ensconsed in a brass interrupter gear along with the FTF certificate. Bring your own writing stick. (Blame grnbrg for the evil log). NO SIGNED LOG = NO FIND

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1/16/2011 by Kabuthunk
THERE we go! I've changed my previous log to a 'note' instead, since at the time, I did not get a 'find' on the cache as specified in the cache description. And if there's one thing about me, I don't cheap-out when it comes to logging requirements. It worked out fairly well, I suppose... this cache by blind chance just happened to have been the last cache that I found back on Jan. 3rd. AND, I didn't go about finding any other caches between then and now. So the order in which I've logged things will not be affected.

However, there was a minor problem. In order to log THIS cache correctly, I would need to re-find it (not a problem), and access and write my name in the logbook (a bit more of a problem) sometime prior to the event cache taking place today. My ORIGINAL plan was to head out of the house somewhere around 10:30 to 11:00am this morning, giving me time to head back the forest, re-snowshoe to this cache, and I'd in theory have ample time in which to poke around at that mystery metal thing and figure out how in the hell to open it. This plan was... modified. I slept in and was busy with other stuff, and ended up only LEAVING the apartment at about noon... right about the time the geocache event was starting.

Thankfully, the event was a 4-hour thing, and this didn't seem like the type of event in which being immediately on-time was strictly necessary. But still, I wanted to miss as little of it as possible. Hopping into the car, I quickly worked my way back to the parking lot where I parked last time. Eventually I found myself at the entrance to the forest, and for a moment contemplated driving further down the road in hopes of finding a faster route to the cache. I knew that there was a large park-type thing on the other side of the fence, and that last time I was here there was an opening in the fence right nearby... but I didn't want to bank on that, only to either not be able to find either the park/field, find parking near it, or find that the fence gate was closed. Thus, I parked in the parking lot, and quickly hoofed it over to the cache yet again. I wasn't planning on staying long, so I left most of my stuff in the car (such as my camelbak and ski poles).

Man, that hike is further than I remember it! But I still found my way there after about 10 minutes, and quickly accessed the cache. No sooner had I arrived than I was parked in the snowbank, working the metal in my quickly-getting-cold fingers. Naturally, my glasses kept fogging up, just to keep things interesting. Thankfully, it was too cold out for any snow to soak into my ski-type pants. I was only minorly interrupted once by a dog-walker who came up the path and then turned down some other path near where I was, so I was fairly alone to fight with the log container. It took a good, solid 10 minutes to figure out how to open it. I figured out quite quickly what would have been required to open it... but the rest was pretty much blind luck more than anything else. And this is apparently supposed to be some actual piece of a machine? I imagine it's probably because I have nothing to do with whatever industry uses this, but I can't even fathom how this could possibly be of any use inside of a machine. It seemed more like a metal puzzle you'd buy at any kind of games/puzzle shop. Once I got it open however, I gave it a quick signing, and quickly slipped it together again, giving things a good spin to make sure it stayed that way for the next finder .

And so finally, it took an extra few weeks, but I've now PROPERLY logged the cache. Very intriguing puzzle to get to the logbook... although it might have been nice for a note to be written on the top of that thing indicating the log is inside, so I wouldn't have thought it was some random tradeable .

Took: Nothing
Left: Logbook entry... chainmail ball was left on the 3rd

1/3/2011 by Kabuthunk
I have to admit, at first I wasn't actually expecting to find this cache today. After my last two cache finds today, I was figuring to wrap it up for the day and head back to the car. Although, this cache actually ended up serving TWO convenient purposes for me today. One being obviously to get a cache find... and the other being that in going after it, it showed me this nice, straight path BESIDE the forest, on the other side of the fence from all the houses. Given I was getting a bit tired of snowshoeing through all the trees and bushes, I was very glad to finally have some nice deep snow in a straight line for me to go through. Just putting distance behind me, without having to worry about stepping on branches, or weaving through trees, etc.

But anyway, I actually hadn't even thought of going after this cache when I saw it on my GPS at first. I saw that it had an unspecified size, so I was somewhat hesitant to go after it in winter, since I figured there would be fairly good odds that it would be buried in snow or otherwise inaccessible due to the season.

But then I saw it was a 'Remember' series of cache by Z'tirnats & Z'ad. And those are ALWAYS awesome caches. I didn't at the time know it was winter-friendly, but I've loved the other caches of the series so much, I figured to give it a shot. Once I had worked my way out of the forest and onto this little side-trail beside the fence, I pretty much immediately knew the general vicinity the cache would be in. Unlike other 'Remember' caches though, I actually found this one within several seconds of having walked (snowshoed) over! Thankfully, I didn't have any pedestrians to wait for in order to go after it. It was getting later in the day, so the coast was clear in all directions... with the exception of someone snow-blowing on the far side of the field.

Thus, I quickly found the container, and set about opening it up. However, after I opened the container, I was quite surprised to find a distinct lack of logbook inside! Going back to make sure, I checked the cache hiding spot in general, but there was no logbook also contained in that hiding spot. Nope... it was just the container. If I recall correctly, there was a few trinkets inside, but I didn't really look all that deep after seeing no logbook.

Digging around in my pockets, I found an old receipt. I tore off a section of that, dated and signed it, and tossed a chainmail ball into the cache container. Unfortunately, I didn't have my full geocaching kit with me today, so I wasn't able to replace it with an entirely new replacement logbook. But at the bare minimum, that paper will do until a new logbook can be inserted. I can only guess that the cache was found by a non-cacher at one point or another, who decided to for whatever reason remove the contents of the cache. For all I know it could have still been sitting on the ground or something, but with a ton of snow, that wasn't exactly verifiable .

In either case, thanks for yet another of the Remember series of caches. And it was definitely nice to get this one last cache, before I was able to likely surprise a few homeowners if they happened to look outside just as some guy was snowshoeing past on the other side of their fence .

Took: Nothing
Left: Logbook entry on scrap of paper and chainmail ball

EDIT: Reading the cache description now, I get the feeling the log was INSIDE that... unusual thing that I thought was a random tradeable. Well shoot... ok, I'll be back sometime to verify this and sign that, assuming it's openable. It'll likely be next weekend, if I can. Send me an email if you want me to change this to a 'note' until such time.

This entry was edited by Kabuthunk on Sunday, 16 January 2011 at 18:56:05.

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Interrupter gear offset the firing mechanism from the rotation of the propeller.