Current at 11/6/2011 (Online waypoint URL) You have already found this cache! Master Index    Nearest Caches Oh, Deer! by MBeans (1.5/3) N49° 49.005  W97° 04.573 (WGS84) UTM  14U   E 638391  N 5520032 Use waypoint: GC19EYA Size: Regular    Hidden on 2/17/2008 In Manitoba, Canada Difficulty:     Terrain:         This is a fairly easy find, but getting to it in the summer may be challenge for some. Located along the scenic Seine River where there is lots of wild life. When hiding the cache there were lots of meandering deer tacks and deer beds in the snow. The cache contains a log book, tradeable items, and an MBeans first to find certificate.

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6/8/2008 by Kabuthunk
The journey to this cache continues from 'Cache Me If You Can' to the North a bit. After a grueling bike ride (and a fair portion of that being 'bike carrying') to 'Cache Me If You Can', I continued my trek along the Seine river. It was only several hundred meters... how bad could it be?

Surprisingly, it wasn't actually as bad as I expected. For around this cache, about 5-10 minutes into the journey from the last cache I decided to stick my nose out from the forest and see what was around me. What's this? I'm just outside a house-building construction-type zone. It being Sunday, there wasn't a soul to be seen. Taking a much-needed detour from biking down an animal dirt trail though the forest, I spent the next several minutes biking across a field.

"Strange," I thought. "A field that's unused in the middle of Winnipeg?" Then again, I was near the edge of the city, and was just starting to get into nowheresville. Well... the portion of nowheresville that's North of the Perimeter Highway, anyway . I soon enough found my way to the end of the field and down another path. THIS path appears to have been made by a vehicle of some sort. Definitely a lot wider than the previous trails I've travelled today!

I quickly found my way to the cache and located the container. Mission accomplished ! But it gets better! Inside the cache I found a really old-school book of "How to win at Nintendo"! I'm an old-school gamer, so I just HAD to trade for this! Luckly, I had a brand-new wallet (no, no money inside ) to trade for just such occasions! I'm not sure when the book was written, but it's got Mario 2 and not 3... so probably around 1989. Ah, the old-school memories .

After replacing the cache, I got ready to head out. I was going to check out a pseudo-dock looking thing to see if I could get across the river and save time when I noticed that a group of guys were chatting it up at the edge of the river at said dock-like structure. I didn't see anyone coming in, and I can't imagine them having been able to walk there down the path I took in the time I was there... so I'm thinking they swam across? That, or there's a bridge, and I took the hard way both to and from the cache .

Not wanting to disturb them (hey, I have no clue what they're doing, or what they would do to someone interrupting them), I crouched down and biked down the path I came from at top-speed. Yep, small and fast describes me to a 'T'.

Wait... that doesn't sound right .

In either case, I headed back towards the field. Not particularly wanting to head back down another several kilometers of miniscule dirt trail again, I decided to head South through several more fields and see if I could hit civilization. Turns out these fields are far wetter than I realized. Water was splashing up against my back from the bike, and on a few particularly deep or rutted sections, I had to get off and slog my way through. It was warm and sludgy... ugh. If I've gotta walk through the water, I'd prefer it generally cold .

And that's not the end of it! I eventually ended up on a gravel/dirt road travelling beside some train tracks. After about 10 seconds, I sank through the surface and jammed every gear, brake, and crevace around the tires with mud. By blind luck, I found a discarded spoon on the ground nearby. Using that, I scraped away as much mud as I could. After walking a few hundred meters, I was able to bike without jamming the bike with mud again. This dirt road eventually spat me out at the Perimeter.

At that point, it was smooth sailing. With dirt flying from my tires, I made my way back down St. Anne's to the apartment. Today was DEFINITELY an adventure I won't forget anytime soon .

Took: 'How to win at Nintendo' book
Left: Logbook entry, wallet, and chainmail ball