Current at 11/6/2011 (Online waypoint URL) You have already found this cache! Master Index    Nearest Caches Welcome to St. Vital by JBrandt36 (1.5/1.5) N49° 52.005  W97° 06.667 (WGS84) UTM  14U   E 635740  N 5525526 Use waypoint: GC1QR70 Size: Micro    Hidden on 4/30/2009 In Manitoba, Canada Difficulty:     Terrain:                       This should be a quick park and go, but please be careful as there is a parking ban between 3:30 - 5:30 pm. The best thing would be to park on a side street and walk back to the cache as it is located on a very busy street. Enjoy the view of the Mighty Red River and take some time to read up on the history of Old St. Vital You are looking for a magnetic key holder which only holds the log sheet and FTF Certificate. BYOP The cache has been hidden so that you will be away from the public eye as you search.

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5/3/2009 by Kabuthunk
I'm really surprised I pulled the bronze medal on this cache. Usually, with a new cache being placed relatively close to either a major route or a residential zone, it's found like... 10 times in the first two days .

Although, y'know what's kinda funny? Back in the first year I was geocaching, I kept telling others "there's a geocache hidden there", while pointing to the approximate coordinates of this cache. I was wrong at the time obviously, but for about a month I could have sworn that I had seen a geocache icon there when viewing through google maps (until of course I eventually checked online and found nothing ). I probably had it mistaken with some other cache nearby... but still, at the time I kept pointing out to people that a cache was here. At least now, I'm not a liar, albeit years after the fact .

So... with a cache finally at the location I kept pointing to years ago, I figured it'd be best to actually go about FINDING it now, just to be sure it IS indeed in the area I kept pointing at.

It was .

No parking worries for me today, since I was coming here on bike. However, I didn't particularly want to leave my bike alone while messing around here and there, so I decided to haul it to the bottom of the stairs and sit there while I looked around. Thankfully the water's gone down enough that the cement platform at the base of the steps is just above the water. And man, did it require a healthy amount of looking. There's a loooootta spots that a cache could hide in the vicinity. So... many... crevasses! Eventually, I noticed a footprint or two that could have vaguely, potentially have been from a geocacher. Searching around the vicinity, I struck paydirt . Until the city gets around to cleaning up the thick layers of dust built up over winter from the surfaces of everything, that might make things a bit easier for future cachers.

The cache in hand, I headed back and sat on the stairs beside my bike. I made one vain attempt to place a geocoin into container, but it wasn't about to happen. With those plastic sleeves, they just can't fit into smaller containers. What's with those sleeves anyway? I can see if you're keeping a copy and not setting it in the wild, but if you release it, the sleeve is just a nuisance. It's not like it can rust anytime in the next decade...

But I digress. The geocoin wouldn't fit with the sleeve, so it remained with me. One micromail ball later, I replaced the logbook and put the cache back from whence it came.

Thanks again for finally not making me a liar . I've actually been wondering WHY there wasn't a geocache ever placed here. Although, I vaguely remember that there was a CITO event that partially took place here (I think it was here... or I'm completely mistaken. I'll avoid pointing to the area and saying it was a CITO spot, in case I start the cycle of unknowingly lying again ).

Once the water goes down and it dries up, I get the feeling that lower area there could make for some nice biking trails. I'll have to check that out this summer .

Took: Nothing
Left: Logbook entry and micromail ball

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