Current at 11/6/2011 (Online waypoint URL) You have already found this cache! Master Index    Nearest Caches LKST-10 Ring (Corral) by TurdleEggs (2/2.5) (Archived) N50° 01.590  W96° 52.510 (WGS84) UTM  14U   E 652191  N 5543740 Use waypoint: GC1GNGM Size: Small    Hidden on 9/28/2008 In Manitoba, Canada Difficulty:     Terrain:                   Winter Friendly The Lime Kiln is a very nice and relatively unused trail in Birds Hill Park. It can be a tricky path to follow with its more than forty crossings. It's a 7.5 km round trip starting at the Birds Hill Park Ranch parking lot. The trail is wide and flat with a surface of packed dirt in the front and grass covered in the back. The elevation ranges from 265 metres at the trail head to 240 m at the Lime Kiln. This mostly forested path has some nice features along the way including sand pits, earthen mounds and of course the Lime Kiln. There is a warm up shack half way around the trail with a vault toilet. The trail is designated for hiking and horses in summer and cross country skiing in winter. No hiking or dogs are permitted on the groomed cross-country trails in the winter. There are washrooms, a pay phone, restaurant and stables at the trailhead. Located near a sand ring in the forest surrounded by a rail fence. I thought this was called a corral so the logbook, FTF and label all say Corral. It seems every trail in this part of the park converges here! The container is a winter friendly, dark green, 750 ml Lock and Lock hidden just a few paces off the trail in some light bush. Take the Grand Prix Hunter Ring path. Trail maps: Birds Hill Provincial Park Save the following ZIP file containing a GPX track of the trail to load on your GPS: Lime Kiln Trail GPX file

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9/13/2009 by Kabuthunk
Man, it wasn't that easy for me to find any caches at the park today. I think fate was trying it's damnedest to make it as difficult as possible . The day started out quite nice though. I parked at the "lake", swam for a bit, then biked over to these caches to air-dry (but all the biking was also followed by MORE swimming, so it's all good ). Thus, after the aformentioned swimming, I worked my way towards the coordinates.

I started out the day attempting to get the LKST-1a Cookout cache (of which on my GPS I didn't have the full name, which is probably why I was confused several minutes later), but when I got to about 80 meters from the coordinates, I started hearing... sounds. Voices, children, what sounded like the crackling of a fire. What the hell?!? Being completely unfamiliar with all of the various things in the park, I was rather surprised to hear anything, since as far as I knew, pretty much anything North of the main roads was all trails, and otherwise just straight wilderness. However, once I got to around 30 meters away, I spotted what appeared to be a vehicle (which brought to my mind the question "how in the hell did it even get IN this deep"), and I could definitely confirm the voices of a family of at least 4 people in the midst. Given my GPS was telling me to pretty much go DIRECTLY towards them, I opted instead to abandon that attempt. Onwards!

Checking the GPS, there was either one further East (which ended up being either just past or near a large building and area with many horses... I must have just managed to pick a day when some stupid event was happening... so I had to abandon that one on the way back), or this one to the North. Feeling somewhat defeated before even attempting at the Cookout cache, Northward I biked! Although, it could have been a lot more pleasant. Given the abundance of horses that seemed to be around today, the trail ground was chopped up and bumpy as hell from the horse hooves . Smelling horse-crap and rough biking conditions. Great . However, once I got past the rougher part, which I assume got that way due to wetter ground or something, it was smooth sailing again. A few twists and turns, and... what's this? I found myself at a large, empty area (the assumed Corral... that part of the name was cut off on my GPS, so at this point I still had no clue that any of this was horse-related, aside from the hoof-marks in the ground, but those are all over the park, and I've always attributed it to people with horses living nearby). Since someone was working in this area, I avoided them and hunted for the cache. It didn't take long before I was successful . At least this trip through the forest was a lot better than other forest adventures through the park . But holy hell, were the mosquitoes insane! I had to take the logbook, and attempt to sign it while walking around in the more open part of the trail... which didn't actually help at all . Those bloodthirsty buggers FOLLOW you! At a good clip! I only lost the swarm that was around me when I got back onto my bike!

But... I was indeed successful, and aside from the roughness of the trail, it was fairly pleasant. I wasn't actually aware that all of the intersections in here were all part of one, longer, looping trail though. I'm going to have to take a day to do the full circuit sometime. Although, it definitely explains the "Finish" pseudo-sign that I noticed when I was heading back towards the "lake" . Unfortunately, I forgot to drop a TB in that I was planning to, but that found its way into another cache in the park anyway .

So thanks for the ride, and I'll have to check out this Lime Kiln that all your cache descriptions speak of sometime.

Took: Nothing
Left: Logbook entry and chainmail ball

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