Current at 11/6/2011 (Online waypoint URL) You have already found this cache! Master Index    Nearest Caches Count Floyd's Haunted Cache by crackerjackie (1.5/2.5) N49° 50.725  W97° 05.448 (WGS84) UTM  14U   E 637261  N 5523192 Use waypoint: GC202TR Size: Small    Hidden on 10/19/2009 In Manitoba, Canada Difficulty:     Terrain:                       Guess what kids? We have a very special treat for you tonight. There is a scarrry cache located off of a spooky monkey trail by the Seine River. Cache is a camo'ed lock n lock containing items scarier than watching Whispers of the Werewolf on Monster Chiller Horror Theatre. Ooooooooh Verrrry Scarrrry! Please help yourself to Count Floyd's scary favorites and only leave things that will scare cachers out of their pants. AWOOOOO OW OW OW AWOOOOO Congratulations to Google Eyes on being FTF!

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1/1/2010 by Kabuthunk
Ahh.... now THAT'S a way to start off a new year. Having a 4km snowshoeing trek with a geocache in the middle . Despite the fact that the forecast was for somewhere around -30 out today, I still wanted to go geocaching. At the bare minimum, to grab one of the 'harder to get' days for OBG Bingo, which I'm sure I'll have completed somewhere in the next 15 years . But primarily, to start the year with two of my favourite hobbies, as a pseudo-resolution to do them more often. Geocaching, and snowshoeing.

So starting out from my apartment up on Morrow street to the North (right close to Fermor), I headed over to the Seine river and clamped on my snowshoes. Having walked on the river a week or so ago, I wasn't particularly concerned with the ice thickness. And the fact that I crossed several homemade ice-rinks on the river along the way further cemented this.

Although strangely enough, right at the bend by... Berrydale Avenue, if I'm not mistaken... there was an unfrozen section of running water right around one of the corners. Albeit this spot was maybe a foot or so wide and a few feet long, it was still a tad unsettling. Doing a 'stab test' with a large branch every now and then after that however solved any anxiety.

That aside however, I started out at Morrow, and basically walked along the path of the Seine river the entire way. I took a few shortcuts here and there to cut off some of the meanders of the river. I think I trudged over a section of the Niakwa Country Club to slice off a few hundred meters (although took the long way on the way back), and a bit of one other random turn. After the long, relaxing walk however, I glanced at my GPS periodically and noticed that I was less than 100 meters from the cache. Off the river and into the bushes I go! Thankfully, most of the branches and trees were spaced apart enough that it wasn't too much of a hassle to get into there with snowshoes on. Once I reached approximately ground zero, I found... nothing. Well... I found some yellowed paper that was wedged between two branches, but after investigating, it was not for the record, a very unusual cache container . Rechecking the GPS quickly informed me that it had not yet 'settled down' so to speak, and now figured me about 10 meters away. Quickly correcting this, it took me only a minute to find the cache container . I was a bit worried about this one as well, since I had remembered the cache page indicating it as specifically NOT winter-friendly. I figured that the snow was probably still soft and powdery enough that I might stand a chance though. Provided I could narrow down the location.

So yes... starting the year with a DNF is probably bad luck in some form or another, so I was thankfully able to avoid that . Poking around the cache contents, I scooped up a TB before it was unavailable for the winter, and dropped in a chainmail ball. Replacing the cache as found, I began to slowly work my way out of the trees and back to the river (nearly tripping and falling at one point, when some branch got caught in one of the holes towards the back of my snowshoe ). Unfortunately, having left my hiking stick somewhere in the bushes, I had to find another one. When I couldn't find anything immediately nearby, I ended up using a relatively thick bulrush for a bit, just to at least have something hiking-stick-like in my hand. When that broke (as it was obviously going to), I just said 'screw it' and went without .

But thanks for giving me a cache within snowshoeing distance from home to go after on the first day of the year .

Took: Ashtons Anchor travelbug
Left: Logbook entry and chainmail ball

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