Current at 11/6/2011 (Online waypoint URL) You have already found this cache! Master Index    Nearest Caches PB #1 by Pa_Bottle (1.5/1.5) N49° 49.724  W97° 06.297 (WGS84) UTM  14U   E 636290  N 5521311 Use waypoint: GC26Y0Q Size: Micro    Hidden on 4/16/2010 In Manitoba, Canada Difficulty:     Terrain:         Cammoed 35MM film canister The series takes you on a tour of St. Vital malls and shopping areas. Enjoy The cache contains a log sheet and a FTF cert. you will need to bring your own pencil. Stealth is a must.

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5/24/2010 by Kabuthunk
WOOH! And by blind luck, my first cache find of t he PB series ended up being the very first of the series to begin with . Strangely enough, I actually had absolutely zero clue what the cache name meant until about a half-hour before typing this when it suddenly 'clicked' into place .

Today I had spent most of the day (through the drizzle/rain and all) helping my in-laws shovel sand. Some general yardwork to give them a hand, didn't have any plans for this weekend, so s'all good. However, shoveling sand isn't exactly the easiest thing on earth, and I'm surprised I had the energy to both bike to AND from my place to theirs (about 6 or so kilometers one way), AND find some extra energy to geocache. Gonna sleep good tonight, I imagine . This cache ended up being number 3 for me of the day (although another PB cache... 4 if I'm not mistaken... coincidentally was the fourth cache of the day). I actually hadn't quite expected to find it, and didn't even realize that it was there until I was like... 50 meters from it.

So I'm biking home, and as I start to get close to St. Vital mall, I look at the GPS to see what's around me. Turns out my marker was quite close to a geocache nearby! Strange, I thought... not many places to hide something nearby. Well, except that nearby 'Kaboom' cache, but that's most likely missing at the moment. In either case, I pointed my GPS at it, and followed the line. One crossing of an intersection later, and I found myself nearing the cache. As I got closer, I figured it pretty much had to be in one specific spot. I haven't found many caches of this hide type before, but given I've at least found them in the past, I had a pretty safe idea as to what to look for.

However, therein lay the other problem. Bystanders. Tons of 'em. What the hell... it's Victoria day! Why are things open? Bah, days off no longer mean days off these days . Then again, if people weren't shopping or working on these days that I thankfully DO get off, then they'd be in the parks and soforth making it harder to get THOSE caches .

Patience is a virtue of mine however. Relaxing there for a while, gulping some water from my water bottle, I waited for the area to clear as best it could. Eventually, the several people specifically keeping their eyes on me for some reason finished packing things into their vehicles and drove off. Nobody coming into the area, nobody leaving a store... it's go time! By absolute blind luck, I happened to have parked my bike in the EXACT right location for this one! Without knowing exactly what to look for, or which 'side' to look on, it was a mere 2 seconds before I had the cache firmly in my grasp . And I didn't make the slightest sound retrieving it either (when you go after this cache, you'll know what I mean)! Tossing a micromail ball into the cache container, I signed up the logbook. Thankfully I have a pressurized pen as my geocaching pen, so I was able to easily use the pole as a flat surface to write on. Once I wrapped everything back up into the cache container, I waited another 20 or so seconds for the coast to be clear again, and slipped it back into place as quickly and quietly as the retrieval. Arguably, one of the smoothest high-bystander cache-find executions I've pulled off to date .

Took: Nothing (not that this cache can really contain much swag )
Left: Logbook entry and micromail ball