Current at 11/6/2011 (Online waypoint URL) You have already found this cache! Master Index    Nearest Caches Be, Vermin, A Mom, Dam, Age by Chewys (2.5/2.5) N49° 55.997  W97° 01.532 (WGS84) UTM  14U   E 641695  N 5533082 Use waypoint: GC1VQ4H Size: Other    Hidden on 7/10/2009 In Manitoba, Canada Difficulty:     Terrain:                   CACHE IS NOT AT POSTED COORDINATES. No FTF certificate inside but you can still claim bragging rights. Bring a writing stick! I apologize for the sloppy image/writing but I could not find my calligraphy pen (and I tried to make it larger than I normally write)! Please WATCH YOUR STEP in this area! The nearby Beaver has chewed down many trees in this area. In the tall grass it can be difficult to see the remaining tree stumps. If approaching from the north please TREAD SAFELY! Caching at night here could be even worse! The coordinates posted take you to a VERY nearby Beaver Lodge. This critter has done quite a job chewing down all the small trees in the area. I almost lost my old “Geogolf - The Birdie” cache to this critter, but alas it was taken by some Gold Hunters instead. Using the image below to obtain the coordinates. Please replace cache as found. Thanks, hope you enjoy! There is no Geochecker for this as once you have the solution the coordinates are unmistakable.

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8/2/2010 by Kabuthunk
Bit of a peculiar case with this cache... I almost didn't get a chance to go after it this long weekend, and at the same time ended up biking within 10 meters of it during a different outing . To make a long backstory short, the first time I had been to this park ever was this Saturday, a scant few days ago. Since that first visit, I've now been to this park every day since, up until and including today, snagging the geocaches within. All in all, I've got to say it's a really fun park to cruise around in with your bike. And despite the fact that I've been here 3 consecutive days, I've still only adventured over the very South portion of park. I'll definitely have to come back to bike around the North half as well.

But I'm getting ahead of myself. Back on Saturday night, I thought that there was only one puzzle cache in Kilcona park, and thus I solved it and intended to go find it on Sunday. Well, when I returned home Sunday afternoon and began logging my finds, I discovered that there was ANOTHER question-mark symbol on the geocaching google map. Mildly irritated with myself for not having solved all the puzzle caches before going in again (and even moreso once I solved this one and discovered that I had biked right beside the final coordinates on Sunday), I quickly set about solving the puzzle. At first it confused me, since I thought I had it figured out pretty much immediately after looking at it. But when I did what was needed to solve it, it just... didn't seem to make sense. After playing around with it for a few minutes, I returned to the cache page to check out the description and previous logs and whatnot. Nothing there helped at all, so I returned to the puzzle where I suddenly had a breakthrough. Everything clicked into placed, and after one minor correction, I was certain that I had the coordinates at hand . Popping them into the GPS, I had planned at the bare minimum a quick trip out to Kilcona park again today to clear this one up.

So with the solution in hand and today lacking rain, I headed out to the park! Quickly finding parking (and nearly locking the keys in the car, but avoided that problem by absolute blind chance of the keys somehow getting caught on my geocaching bag), I headed out towards the coordinates. And man, the sun was certainly not playing nicely today. The forecast (as much as you can trust it, but if you look within a 2 hour window of the current time, it's usually at least somewhat close) indicates that it feels like +35 out... and I certainly don't disagree with this . Feeling the sweat drip off of me, I must have drained half of my camelbak of water by the time I reached ground zero. When I arrived, I had to wait a little bit for a couple and their dog to leave the trail on the hill, since they were directly in line with looking at me. Their dog came down to the water and started barking, assumingly having seen me, until the owners called it back. The coast now clear, I began the hunt!

It took a good several minutes for me to locate the cache, and I really only located it due to... umm... uneven placement, shall we say. Really awesome camouflage though . Although, it looks like some ants have decided to take refuge inside the camouflage as well... I kinda had to watch it when getting at the cache container. After signing the logbook and dropping in a micromail ball, I attempted to replace the cache as evenly as possible, but the best it was going to get was exactly how I found it. All in all though, a really nice hide, and I REALLY like sitting in that area between the three spruce trees. Nice and cool in the shade, and a pretty relaxing view to just lie back and let time go by.

Thanks for putting a cache out here... I never would have found that spruce-tree-patch otherwise, and I've definitely got to come back to relax in there again sometime .

Took: Nothing
Left: Logbook entry and micromail ball

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Not sure where it is...go check out the posted coordinates and then come back to the solved coordinates.