Current at 11/6/2011 (Online waypoint URL) You have already found this cache! Master Index    Nearest Caches The Heart of Canada by Oldnag (2/1.5) (Archived) N49° 39.821  W96° 46.745 (WGS84) UTM  14U   E 660268  N 5503607 Use waypoint: GC17WRM Size: Micro    Hidden on 12/9/2007 In Manitoba, Canada Difficulty:     Terrain:             The town of Landmark is located on the Longitudinal center of Canada. While I would love to say that this is the reason it is named Landmark that would be a blatant lie. The real reason the town was named Landmark was that the name was chosen at random in 1920 from a list of names in the Farmers Advocate...I know...the truth is rather anticlimactic. However, if you come and find this cache you will be able to tell your descendants for generations to come that you saw the center of Canada with your own eyes and that there is a Landmark located on it. This cache is located on private property. The property owners are aware that the cache is there and have consented to perform minor maintenance on the cache when needed. Please use discretion when looking for this cache. Happy caching everyone!

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5/10/2008 by Kabuthunk
Decided to swing around thisaway after checking up on my own cache about 8km's due West. It was only about 6:00pm... still plenty of daylight left. Micros tend not to be my specialty to say the least... but I had some time, and I felt lucky.

Besides, could I ever let a cache this close to my parent's place (about 9 km's due South-West... which is considered close way out here in the country) go unfound? I think not!

So yes... I drove up to the cache and prepared to hunt. But what's this? That... kinda looks like it's on private property. The question in my mind thus becomes "did they get permission, or did they place it there in hopes of them not noticing?" I know that most cachers are good about that... but I HAVE seen one or two in which the latter option was taken, and I've been extra-careful since. So I whip out the palm-pilot with cache-mate, and check the description.

Yep... permission. SWEET! Cram that back into my geocaching bag, and out of the car I go.

Not wanting to blantantly walk down their driveway (since the ditch had a decent level of water in it), I walked the other way a bit until I could find a lump in the ditch big enough to step on and get across without getting a shoer. These are work shoes, the last thing I need to do is fill it with ditch-water .

On to the cache! But a micro in a pine tree (or spruce... I can never tell which. Going off of the vague thought of maybe possibly knowing the difference, I'd say 'pine')? Can it be found? I'd sure as hell try! The first thing I spotted was a weird rope that seemed to be holding some other branch upwards for some reason. It was tied to one thick branch near the tree, looped around the tree a bit, and then snagged onto a thin branch. I poked around this mystery for a bit, thinking the cache was somehow associated. No such luck. Circling around a bit, I searched under and around everything nearby.

After about 15 minutes (the last 5 of which I hoped the owners of the property would see me, and come out to maybe give me a bit of a hand... but no such luck with that either ), I spotted the cache! Excellent hide. I'm quite surprised I was able to spot. But speaking of which... I'm VERY glad that I found the cache at this time of year. I get the feeling the difficulty will go up quite significantly during summer when the trees start filling out. Everything was still needle-less (so wait... would that imply that these are tamarac trees? Hmmm... perhaps), thus making things a lot more open, and lot more visible. I'm fairly certain that in a month or so, it's gonna be a looooot more interesting to find this cache .

So yay for being lucky! WOOH! Aaaand then my luck run out. It appears that one of the trees has decided to make it its mission to bleed some of its stupid sap onto the cache container. Bah... I swear, with coniferous trees, even if you have something within a 10-foot radius of a tree, it WILL get sap on it somehow . I think that at night, the branches come to life and start flinging sap everywhere .

But anyway... a few sticky fingers later, I had the cache container open and the logbook out. Although... some of that sap may have found its way onto the logbook... sorry 'bout that. I tried my best to keep it clean. Regardless, I signed it up and closed it back again. After replacing the cache, I wandered back to my ditch-lump, and back to the car. Another cache successfully found. And at the longitudinal center of Canada, too . I guess technically, there's that sign on the #1 highway that counts as a landmark to this location as well... but this one's a lot more fun .

Took: Some tree sap, but not by choice
Left: Logbook entry and micromail ball

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