Current at 11/6/2011 (Online waypoint URL) You have already found this cache! Master Index    Nearest Caches Take Me For Granted by Janus (4/1.5) N49° 51.922  W97° 08.866 (WGS84) UTM  14U   E 633111  N 5525307 Use waypoint: GC167MP Size: Other    Hidden on 9/26/2007 In Manitoba, Canada Difficulty:     Terrain:                   Well Cammoed cache in a small wooded area. This cache should stick around for a while. Please Bring your own sharp pencil and write small.

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7/31/2008 by Kabuthunk
AHA! It's not 100% where I was expecting to find it, but find it nonetheless I did .

Today I was specifically going after some caches in order to make an event tonight find #400... however a DNF in the morning had done a decent job of crushing my spirits, and I had all but abandoned the idea. Y'see, the idea was that I would find one or two before work, so that there would be less for after, and I wouldn't be late for the gathering.

But yes... a DNF in the morning had made me think that I simply wouldn't have the time to find 5 after work. Hence... I decided to take another shot at this cache. I had several contemplations as to where the cache could be, so I figured I'd probably have to kill a half-hour trying to find it, and then I'd just... y'know... kill another half-hour working my way to the gathering.

So I go park in the same spot as before, and head across the road again. I walk up to the area and check out my GPS... wondering if it was perhaps just having a bad day for accuracy last time I was here. Nope... it seemed to take me right back to the spot I was last time. I poked around a few spots here and there, trying a few things, but ended up empty-handed again. A few seconds of walking around, when suddenly... I spotted it!

Poking it and seeing that it indeed moved confirmed what I had thought... I had found the cache ! And so soon this time! I was expecting it to take at least 20 minutes or so. Opening up the 'cache', I find that the "logbook" or log sheet, or whatever you want to consider that was in manglyassified condition. Unfortunately, I wasn't 100% sure what part was actually supposed to contain the logbook. Also, I generally don't like replacing logbooks in ANY cache, since that deprives the logbook of being in the hands of the cache owner. So on the pages that were available, I found a spot to sign my name and date and put everything back how I had found it.

The paper's a little bit damp by the way... it REALLY should be looked at and perhaps replaced with something. I'd probably suggest some Rite In The Rain paper, since then there's not much worry about dampness or anything.

After I had replaced the cache, I found myself in a bit of a situation. Here I am with like... 53 or so minutes to the gathering, and four caches to find in order to make the event #400. Do I dare attempt it, or will a string of DNF's just make me depressed with being unable to make my goal?

Screw it, I knew what I had to do. Quickly darting off towards the car, I asked myself where a number of close-together geocaches might be. And that was that... I was on my way to see if I could make my goal.

In the end... not only did I make the goal... I arrived at the event about 8 minutes early .


Hence... thanks for the cache, in that it renewed my desire to power-cache up to 400 for the event .

Took: Nothing
Left: Very quickly, but after a logbook entry and micromail ball

7/30/2008 by Kabuthunk
I've been keeping a mental note out for this cache for the past... well... forever, since it was published last year. Which I guess makes it a tad less than forever... but in terms of new geocaches and finding them, one could construe that as feeling like forever .

Anyway, I parked in damn-near the identical place I did when going after grnbrg's old 'Don't take this one for granted' cache (or whatever it was called) and headed over after work today. I was crossing my fingers that I'd finally be able to wipe this off of my Dani-Radius (which has grown to be quite a fair amount by this point), but alas, it looks like it shall remain for a little bit longer.

In either case, as I got closer to the cache, I discovered something that literally blew my mind.

Something was vastly, unfathomably different. So much so, that even still... several hours later... my mind is still bending and twisting, attempting to accept that what I saw was the honest-to-god truth, and not a crazy hallucination, caused by a massive tumor in my skull, crushing my brain.

The area was beautiful!

Literally... I don't know what broke (or rather un-broke), but someone, somewhere decided that this craphole of an area needed to be less of a filthy tetanus-shot-waiting-to-be-required. The ground was absolutely spotless, the grass was trimmed... short enough that I'd swear it must have been done yesterday, and even every single tree, bush, and shrub has been painstakingly trimmed, manacured, and otherwise beautified! In short... it was well... gorgeous. There's only two possible options as to why it's like this... either someone paid to have it done on their own time/money, or some kid got injured on the dozens of broken, filthy everythings, the parent complained, and the city cleaned it up. The only way the city does anything is if it injures someone... and it usually requires a hell of a massive injury.

But that said... I stood around for a few minutes in awe at the park. Literally... if I had children, not only would I have no qualms with going to the area for a walk, I'd actively take the effort to specifically go there!

But yeah... didn't find the cache. Spent a good half-hour looking, and the cache description and 5 previous logs (the max cachemate holds for a cache) were useless to me. After having read most of the logs from home though, it appears that about 28 minutes of that half-hour were completely wasted and searching in the wrong manner. The remaining two minutes may have located where the cache could have gone missing from (quite unlikely at best... safe to assume it just wasn't there), and about 5 seconds was dedicated to glancing at where I as of now think the cache is hidden... a spot I quickly discarded when there today thinking it not possible.

However, since the cache ws placed, I had vaguely remembered hearing something about it. Not just something, but something. Unfortunately, my memory turned up nothing .

But don't worry... I WILL be returning to this cache, after having now seen how spotless the area is.

No, seriously... they must have even gathered the grass clippings and taken every cut/broken twig from the area. It's like an obsessive-compulsive disorder party took place here or something!

I shall return!