Current at 11/6/2011 (Online waypoint URL) You have already found this cache! Master Index    Nearest Caches Thursday is for Ancestors by famkoe (1.5/1) N49° 32.723  W96° 49.788 (WGS84) UTM  14U   E 656988  N 5490349 Use waypoint: GC1W65T Size: Regular    Hidden on 7/21/2009 In Manitoba, Canada Difficulty:     Terrain:           Another taste of history which is fairly accessible. The town of Randolph was originally known as Chortitz, based on a location in Russia / Ukraine from which many of the original settlers of this area came. The Chortitz church across the road from this cache was built in 1897 and still has services held in German on Sunday mornings. This church was the "mother church" for many other Chortitzer and Bergthaler churches which spread throughout south-west Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Mexico and elsewhere. Although many members of our extended family are buried in this cemetery, the most famous is Aeltester (Bishop) Gerhard Wiebe who was one of the leaders which brought the Mennonite migration to Manitoba in the 1870s. He was buried here at N 49° 32.723' W 096° 49.823'. Contents: FTF certificate Logbook Small trading items Congratulations to HRPlett on the FTF!!

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12/6/2009 by Kabuthunk
Wow. This was arguably one of the awesomest cache containers I've come across yet. Or more accurately, the cache's camouflage . So today I happened to be out in Landmark visiting the family. My two nieces were present, whom particularly love geocaching. At this point, if they should happen to either visit or be visited by this uncle, geocaching is pretty much assumed .

So, expectations running high, I indeed hauled them out to take them geocaching on what may well have been one of the last pseudo-warm days of the year (since on Monday, it spontaneously dropped to the -20ish level). My first thought was to tackle the various geocaches along the 52 highway, but the time of day somewhat cut that down to just one. Being as it was almost 3:00pm when we left for geocaching, at this time of the year that translates to only a few hours of light. That wouldn't affect me per-se, but the nieces aren't as well used to staying out as long as I normally would. As well, we had dinner and a birthday party waiting for us when we returned . This cache happened to be the closest cache to home, so it was first on the list.

We first wandered almost past my cache, and quickly made our way down the highways towards the cache. At which point, I once again reminisced...

Ahh, I miss the country, where seeing like... 3 cars at the same time is considered "busy", and seeing more than maybe 2 cars a day down the gravel roads is considered bizarre and unexpected . I miss the quiet.

But... that aside, we soon ended up at the cemetery that involved the cache. It appears that a car recently drove down the pseudo-entrance into the cemetery, so I followed suite and followed the tracks so that we were off the road. Once there, the three of us hopped out and headed for the coordinates. The nieces were specifically careful not to step on any graves (bad luck, I guess? I tend to avoid it too... but they were being like... ridiculously careful), and we finally ended up at ground zero.

I was however a tad worried that the neighbour happened to be outside at the time though. But they were in the process of putting up their Christmas lights (or so it looked like, anyway... ladder, eaves, etc), and didn't so much as glance in our direction (that I noticed). Thus, we set off looking. It ended up being quite easy though. As I was telling the nieces that it's somewhere in the area, I started brushing snow off things, and well... about 0.5 seconds later, the cache was in hand .

Once again... awesome camouflage . One of the best ideas I've seen yet. I figured this method would be more prevalent, but I imagine not many others would put this much effort into it .

In either case, after poking around the cache contents (the nieces were interested in a wooden signature item from another cacher, so I figured the trade with my signature item would fit well), I dropped in the MEDUSA geocoin. Another cache accomplished, and after an unfortunately long dry period (26 days apparenly), this was an awesome cache to get me back on track .

Took: Wooden signature item coin for nieces
Left: Logbook entry, MEDUSA geocoin, and chainmail ball