Current at 11/6/2011 (Online waypoint URL) You have already found this cache! Master Index    Nearest Caches Oak Letterbox by Peter and Gloria (1/2) N50° 01.137  W96° 54.663 (WGS84) UTM  14U   E 649644  N 5542828 Use waypoint: GC22T8K Size: Regular    Hidden on 1/8/2010 In Manitoba, Canada Difficulty:     Terrain:                     An easy letterbox geocache. The idea of a letterbox cache is to collect stamp impressions from the various caches. Once you've found this letterbox, record your discovery in the log using your personal rubber stamp (if you have one) and stamp the letterbox's stamp in your personal journal to keep as a souvenir of this cache. PLEASE DO NOT REMOVE THE STAMP! The cache only contains a log book, pencil and self-inking stamp. Be prepared during the cold weather as the stamp ink may be frozen. You can get around this by bringing an ink pad with you. We didn't put an FTF certificate in the cache but there are a few coins for the FTF but no loonies or toonies.

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5/16/2010 by Kabuthunk
First cache of the day out of seven. I had planned to go biking at Bird's Hill Park today, and I was not disappointed . It was a beautiful day out. I slept in a little bit in the morning, but otherwise got a relatively early start (at least for me, on a weekend) out to the park. I ended up arriving at about 1:00pm, and after dragging my bike out of the car, immediately set my sights on this cache. I've been wanting to tackle this one for a while now. There's so ridiculously few letterbox caches kicking around that I usually attempt to find them when they come up. Unfortunately time constraints had stopped me from going after it the last time I was in the park... but today, I had hours upon hours to spend here. T'was looking to be a good day.

And the weather couldn't have been better for it either. Sunny, sitting at +23 celcius, and a nice breeze to keep you cool. All in all, today was just ASKING for some outdoor activities... and what better than biking to geocaches . I had parked a little bit further up on North Drive, and quickly found my way down the road until I stumbled across the trail leading up to the cache. At first I thought I hadn't gone far enough, so I had to double-back a little bit to follow the trail. Surprisingly, I didn't see a single other person down the trail. I figured a path this wide and seemingly well used, on such a nice day, would have someone passing by from one direction or the other every 5 minutes. Nnnope... complete solitude... just the way I likes it.

After a few minutes of following the trail, I eventually found myself about 30 meters away from the cache. Not seeing any particular path, I decided to park my bike a bit down an animal trail about 20 meters south of the cache and hike the rest of the way through the bushes. Nnnnope... at first I had thought I was following some kind of animal path, but it quickly vanished, leaving me to try to weave my way through the branches with my geocaching kit and camelbak strapped to my back. I managed to not get any of my gear caught on the branches, and eventually spotted the cache. From the angle that I approached from, it was easily visible, so no hunting other than the trip from the bike was needed . Although, I must admit that if one were to try to find this in letterbox-style, I can't even fathom how one would do it. There didn't seem to be all that much in the immediate vicinity indicating where to stop or turn. Perhaps the clearing on the other side of the trees... but other than that, I imagine this would be quite a difficult letterbox.

Yay for the global positioning system .

I walked up and poked around the cache. Not finding anything that tickled my fancy enough to trade items, I left my chainmail ball and signed the logbook. Mission accomplished. Now... to find the bike again . Instead of attempting to backtrack through the bushes, I found the animal-trail-of-sorts that led from the main trail to the cache, and took that instead. A quick walk back down the path, and I was back on my bike heading to the next cache.

Thanks for taking me down this trail. Convenient not only for the fact that it contains a cache, but was right on my way towards another cache I had specifically planned to tackle today .

Took: Nothing
Left: Logbook entry and chainmail ball