Current at 11/6/2011 (Online waypoint URL) You have already found this cache! Master Index    Nearest Caches ICU - 39 70KMH by EyeOfSauron (1.5/1.5) (Archived) N49° 51.162  W97° 06.710 (WGS84) UTM  14U   E 635728  N 5523963 Use waypoint: GC1G50F Size: Other    Hidden on 9/9/2008 In Manitoba, Canada Difficulty:     Terrain:             Nano. Placed at one of many many hated street corners in Winnipeg. Please place back where you found it... No writing stick, bring your own. Pencil works best.

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9/21/2008 by Kabuthunk
Third ICU cache to date for me, and the fifth and final one of the day. Not only that, but since this was placed, it was the closest cache to my home... about 700 meters away or so. I could easily have walked or biked to it... but on my way home from a beautiful afternoon of caching, it's just easier to swing by with the car.

Not too quickly though... last thing I need is for the dreaded corner to do it's dirty work on me .

It was somewhere around 7:00pm when I rolled up to this cache. I actually had a bit of fun trying to find nearby parking. However, a bit of looping around near that restaurant there (can't remember the name... Fatboys or something like that... the burger place, anyway), I found parking on that street right behind the restaurant. Hopping out, I headed for the cache location. It didn't take me long to spot the Minas Morgul tower. Or would this be Orthanc? Actually, given the number of ICU caches, it looks like Sauron's been working overtime lately .

Anyhoo... I've come to discover something about these ICU caches. It seems that no matter how I make my way to the coordinates, from where I find parking, the cache container itself seems to ALWAYS be on the opposite side of the intersection . Whether having to go diagonally and cross both streets, or just one... I still have yet to find an ICU cache where I happened to actually be parked on the same side of the road as it .

So predictably, I was on the wrong side of the road, and had to cross. However, it looks like this particular ICU cache has some very convenient seating and excuse-for-being-there. Yay for bus stops! There was a few bystanders waiting at the bus stop on the bench further away from the cache (not the one inside the bus shelter, the one outside of it). I don't think they were paying much attention to me, but the fact that a bus station was here made it very easy to get the cache inconspicuously. A glance at the watch, followed by crouching down to rest my legs, and the cache was in hand .

At which point, the seat in the bus shelter made this the most comfortable cache to log today . Kicking back on the seat in there, I opened the cache and signed the logscroll. During this time, the bus had come by and picked up the two bystanders on the outside bench. Excellent... that'll even avoid the slight chance of them being curious as to why I'd be going and hunching down in the same place as before . Hence, pulling the same 'kicking back, waiting for the bus' routine, I replaced the cache container as found, and waited to cross the street. One more find, and one happy Kabuthunk. Seriously... I don't know why, but I absolutely love this cache series .

Although, thinking about them as a whole, I'm a bit worried about their longevity. I don't know if the various snow piling up and being plowed away over winter will kill some of these. Hope not, anyway. Also, I'm thinking that if they DO need to be replaced at any time, perhaps colouring them the same as their natural habitat would probably help as well. I've been taking to trying to spot the cache container from a distance while making my way towards it.

So far, it also seems that with them always being on the other side of the intersection for me, they're also always on the opposite side and impossible to see from the direction I come from . These little fellas are determined to not give me TOO easy a time, anyway .

Took: Nothing
Left: Logbook entry and nanomail ball (gonna have to make more of these things soon, I think... wasn't expecting to have to go through so many of them in such a short period of time )

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