Current at 11/6/2011 (Online waypoint URL) You have already found this cache! Master Index    Nearest Caches Cool Dog by Clan Lonewolf (1.5/3) N49° 34.462  W96° 41.256 (WGS84) UTM  14U   E 667174  N 5493877 Use waypoint: GC27X2P Size: Small    Hidden on 5/2/2010 In Manitoba, Canada Difficulty:     Terrain:                   With so few letterbox / hybrids in Manitoba we figured that it was time for another. Cache will be an almost drive up and stamp. Watch the nearby slope so that you or any little ones don't go for a slide. Stamp and ink pad are in the container, please stamp your stamp in our logbook and use our stamp to stamp yours. Please return stamp and ink pad to the container when done. At time of placing cache contains: Stamp Ink pad motorcycle ball praying mantis logbook pencil FTF certificate CONGRATULATIONS to Famkoe on the FTF !!

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9/5/2011 by Kabuthunk
I agree with the cache placer, in that there needs to be more letterbox hybrid caches kicking around. I’m not much for letterboxing (although I do have a homemade stamp... which I unfortunately forgot to bring with me ... gotta put that in my caching kit itself after I do some minor work on it for a few chips that came off of it), but I’m definitely for getting more people to visit geocaches.

Today, I happened to visit this cache with my wife and mom, who are non-geocachers. Ok, so to be more accurate, they stayed in the car while I went after it... but being non-cachers (despite my best efforts to convert otherwise), they were at least putting up with my stopping here and there to go after a geocache or two. My wife and I spent the day with my mom, went for dinner in Steinbach, and then I was able to go after several caches on the way home... mostly because I was the one driving .

So on the way home from Steinbach, I had planned going after this since I tend to enjoy seeing what kinda stamps they have, not that I have a letterboxing book of my own. In retrospect, I should get one and re-visit any of the letterbox hybrids I’ve found. Checking now, I’ve only found four prior to this one, all of which are in Manitoba and all of which are still active.

But I digress. Going after this cache, I hop out of the car and head toward the coordinates. At first I found myself on the wrong side of the river, and since I had partially climbed down the slope (but thankfully noticed the very steep, sudden drop way over here nowhere close to the coordinates), I for a moment debated whether to try to hop across somewhere. I quickly came to my senses and went over the bridge. At this point, I wasn’t quite smart enough to check the GPS before going down again, and ended up on the wrong side of the bridge this time. No problem, this side of the bank is a lot larger and has a gentle slope (comparatively). Looks like it’s time to get dirty. I always prefer these types of caches to ones where you’re basically guaranteed to never get a spec of dirt on you .

So climbing underneath, I proceeded to systematically check every hiding spot as I crawled around working my way across. At least there seemed to be a bit more room as I got closer to the middle area under the bridge. Soon after, I found myself looking at what could only be the cache container. I had the right idea in my head, but managed to screw up the location multiple times over throughout this hunt before I finally struck upon the right place.

Ahh... the cache finally in hand, I opened it to reveal... what might possibly be the most creative looking logbook I’ve ever encountered (with the exception of events). I’d have thought that such a logbook... ziplock bag or not... would become musty or moldy or something over time, but as it turns out, everything was perfectly fine. Given the location, I don’t know if that makes it more or less susceptible to moisture . Well, obviously less since it’s clearly dry as a bone. Signing my name in the logbook, I dropped in a signature chainmail ball and replaced everything as found.

As I started to walk away from the bridge, I noticed that due to the low water levels, there were rocks which would have made crossing the water very easy closer to the other bridge. For a moment I debated whether to hop across there, either for fun, or to startle my wife and mom in that I appeared on the other side of the river suddenly. However, that would imply that either of them had turned around in the car watching me... highly unlikely. Nah... just head back to the car after some fun caching.

Thanks for adding a letterbox hybrid to the few in existence. I may come back to stamp the logbook as well (but only log it on a letterbox site that time).

Took: Nothing
Left: Logbook entry and chainmail ball

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