Current at 11/6/2011 (Online waypoint URL) You have already found this cache! Master Index    Nearest Caches Half way by tonysearch21 (2/2) (Archived) N50° 01.968  W96° 54.002 (WGS84) UTM  14U   E 650390  N 5544390 Use waypoint: GC1Z5N6 Size: Regular    Hidden on 9/26/2009 In Manitoba, Canada Difficulty:     Terrain:               By the chickadee trail,its a easy longer walk on a flat park trail,PLEASE rehide well. By the chickadee trail,its a easy but longer walk down a flat park trail.Please rehide well. ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// CONGRATS TO BLAZER45 FOR FTF ''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''

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5/16/2010 by Kabuthunk
Wow. Despite the gorgeous weather we've been having this May, this cache hasn't been found for almost a month! Well, I went and shot that streak down, so now it's gotta start over again . When I saw the name of the cache, I was a bit perplexed as to what it was halfway between. I hadn't looked at any of the cache descriptions prior to heading out to Bird's Hill Park today, but after having read it now, I imagine it's halfway down the "chickadee trail". Y'know, I've really got to get a map or something of what the symbols on the signs actually stand for, because half the time they seem vague at best. I imagine it's using shapes to avoid any language issues... but still, they could use something better than basically clipart images from Microsoft Word.

But I digress. After having just tackled the Oak Letterbox a bit to the south, this cache seemed like an appropriate one to go after next. My goal of this visit to the park was to check out the Lime Kiln that so many caches seemed to be based on (the icon for that trail is sketchy at best, too). Since this was basically exactly halfway between the two (which also gave the name some added meaning for my visit ), it was just natural to go for a find on it in the same visit.

As with my last cache, there was surprisingly not a single other person that I came across down the entire trail. Not that I'm complaining... just seemed a bit odd. So thankfully, I had no worries about being spotted while attempting to locate the cache. Once I arrived at the cache site in general though, it turns out that wouldn't have been an issue regardless. Well, except for my bike that was lying on the ground nearby... but I had no worries of someone walking off with it. Not that I need worry about THAT so much either... but you get the point. Up the trail I went, and my first hunch as to where the cache would be turned out to be incorrect! However, it took me all of maybe 20 seconds to locate the cache once I had established that it likely wasn't in my first location guess. It looks like some of the natural camouflage had blown off of it in the past almost-month since it was last found, so it was fairly visible. A quick few steps over, and the cache was in hand. I poked around at the contents a little bit, but not seeing anything I wanted to trade for, I left my chainmail ball signature item and signed up the logbook.

I attempted to give it a bit more camouflage before I left. When I walked away from it today, it was nigh-invisible to the naked eye. Unless there's some animal activity or a powerful gust of wind, it should stay like that for the time being. Hopefully, anyway.

So back over to my bike I go, on the way to the next cache. Thanks for putting a cache in this nicely hidden-away little area. It's got a nice open area so you can get a good breeze, as well as some sun to break up the almost-constant shade in the trails... and this nice hidden away area if you want to make sure you're not spotted by random bystanders .

Took: Nothing
Left: Logbook entry and chainmail ball

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Its on the ground near the base of a birch tree covered with natural cammo,if your at the right tree no muggles should see you because of the large pine tree and dirt wall your hiding behind with the cache.