Current at 11/6/2011 (Online waypoint URL) You have already found this cache! Master Index    Nearest Caches Above the Plane? 2 by Thegreyone (1.5/1.5) N49° 52.423  W97° 13.338 (WGS84) UTM  14U   E 627733  N 5526106 Use waypoint: GC1HRFY Size: Small    Hidden on 11/1/2008 In Manitoba, Canada Difficulty:     Terrain:                     The cache is in Bourkevale Park. In the summer you can watch the folks Lawn Bowl and in the winter you can watch the kids play Hockey. The park has a very active Off Leash Dog Park so there are usually Muggles around. The bike path that runs through the park goes all the way to the Forks. Enjoy! CACHE CONTENTS: Log book Pencil Pencil sharpener Super ball Toy truck Spong Bob Key chain Change purse Doll pin

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1/18/2009 by Kabuthunk
Whup, just about had the wrong cache in my mind when I was logging this one. Ended up accidentally putting the log for the nearby 'Bruce Park' instead of y'know... this one . That said... time to edit the log and type up a correct one.

I'm actually a little surprised at myself for having gone after this one today. I already had quite the hike behind me since I started today's geocaching venture, and this one wasn't particularly close to my car. Well, ok... it was only 400 someodd meters from the car, but given I'd pretty much circled Assinaboine Park... with lots of zig-zagging in the middle... I'm surprised my energy didn't give out earlier.

However, with a healthy dose of coffee in me this morning still doing it's job, my legs continued to want to find geocaches! I even had to pass up the temptation of going home, since my car was pretty much smack inbetween the cache I had just found (Physical Train-ing) and this one.

Besides, this time of year made it PERFECT to go after caches on this side of the river! I can park at Assinaboine Park, find caches there, and then casually stroll across the river to tackle some of the ones on THIS side . So with that mentality, across the river I did stroll. I also finally got to see the quality of the ice for the 'skating rink' (of which it's still awesome that we have the Guiness record for longest rink). It looks like it was in severe need of a zamboniing (zambonying? However you want to spell that). I'd also read that the quality of the ice for skating was kinda sketchy, and... yeah... no question about it. They seriously should have run a zamboni machine over it a dozen times or so more before opening it to get a smooth surface. Although, apparently it was so heavily used this warm weekend that they didn't get a chance to as much as usual.

But I digress. Onwards to the cache! As I was crossing the river and zeroing in on the coordinates, I at first debated whether or not this cache was on private property, and had been placed by the owner. Seeing the multitude of paths through the snow however had me doubt this. When I later was looking at Cachemate on my palm pilot, it confirmed this was a park of some sort. In either case, I quickly found my way to the coordinates, and immediately began poking around at the most obvious potential hiding spot. I was a little worried however, since it appeared to be empty. Taking off my glove so I could feel around better (which ended up being both unnecessary and painful, since I got some bark jammed under my fingernail doing this), I still turned up nothing.

A bit worried that the cache was missing, I did a quick skim of any other potential spots nearby, but came up empty. At this point, I broke out Cachemate and checked the previous logs, hint, etc. The hint ended up being non-applicable, and the previous logs hadn't helped me much (I only had logs up until the 16th). I decided on a whim to poke around at a few other places I thought a cache could potentially find... and BINGO! The cache quickly showed me it's hiding spot, and I was able to extract it and open it up. Thankfully, noone was nearby, as the only people passing were going along the dog-walking path at the edge of the river... still a bit of a distance from myself. One chainmail ball and signing later, and I closed the cache up (well, actually I closed it, forgot the chainmail ball, then corrected that mistake) and replaced it as found. Hidden exactly as found... nigh-invisible to the casual passer-by .

Thanks for the interesting cache location. Glad I didn't have to do this one in spring!

Took: Nothing
Left: Logbook entry and chainmail ball

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