Current at 11/6/2011 (Online waypoint URL) You have already found this cache! Master Index    Nearest Caches Beware Of Dogs by inch4276 (4/2) N49° 56.133  W97° 01.973 (WGS84) UTM  14U   E 641161  N 5533320 Use waypoint: GC28H26 Size: Regular    Hidden on 5/14/2010 In Manitoba, Canada Difficulty:     Terrain:                       Great day to take the dogs for a walk and do a little caching as well. Avg-Lrg container. This is a dog themed cache so please try to keep it as that. There is a GeoCoin, FTF certf, a luggage tag, 2 dog treats and some other tradable items. Happy hunting!! Once you find my GZ, then walk north to the first little hill(about 10-15 feet). Should be around there.

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7/31/2010 by Kabuthunk
Hurrah! After a somewhat painful DNF at the nearby 'Don't Tread On Me' cache, it felt pretty awesome to be able to pull at least SOME kind of find out of today. And what made it all the more delicious a victory was that this cache also put up a bit of a fight to be found. At least this one succumbed to my searching .

My wife and I were planning on spending a few hours in this park today. Given that up until today I had never actually BEEN to this park, despite having driven by it hundreds of times (I always figured it was just some random, undeveloped field soon to have houses on it). Thus, we planned for several hours of hiking and geocaching before having to split for other obligations that needed to be done this afternoon. After a solid 45 minutes spent on that last DNF, I decided to bail on it for now and head over to this one. It's a regular-size cache... which at least meant that I probably have a lot better chance of finding it than a micro, so that's always a good start. After a quick hike up the hill, my wife debated whether or not to come with me into the long grass. Given she can't stand bugs, she opted to hang back at that park bench and read until my return.

Probably for the best. Although I didn't notice many bugs (maybe a few anthills though), there was indeed a lot of grassy shrubs brushing against my legs, which would have probably freaked her out . Also, the next geocache that I quickly swung over to after this one involved walking through some swampy type terrain, she probably wouldn't have been too thrilled about that either.

Thus, setting off alone, I trudged headlong into the long grass (somehow that phrase makes me think I should have been running into a Ratata or Pidgey ). Since I had recently bought several lightweight carbon hiking sticks (Komperdell... seems a good brand so far), that helped me somewhat walking over the grasses, and eventually poking around in hopes of finding the cache container. After many a large, exaggerated step to not drag my ankles through the shrubs, I find myself at ground zero. At which point I realized... man, there's a LOT of places that a geocache could hide around here. And so began my series of poking around any bushes or hills in hopes of hearing a hollow 'thud' sound. Alas, nothing. I began circling around, since the GPS couldn't seem to make up its mind where ground zero should be. After circling around a few times, I pulled out the palm pilot to see what the description and soforth could tell me. Gotta say... that hint was significantly useful in my hunting. It turns out about 10 minutes worth of searching had been in completely wrong locations.

Correcting my hunting area, I trudged over towards where the hint was leading me. About 10 seconds later, I didn't so much hear the hollow 'thump' under my hiking stick, but under my feet! Looks like myself and bergmannfamily had similar luck with finding this fella. And I must admit, it's very well camouflaged to the surroundings. Not only it's artificial camouflage, but even the natural camouflage was so abundant in the area, that it didn't even need to be 'dead' camouflage... the live stuff easily concealed it! So no looking for 'dead spots' with this one . As well, the sheer abundance of long grass made the geotrails obscure to an extent, not really giving you any hint as to where the cache could be.

All in all, I had a lot of fun with this one. I definitely prefer the types of caches that are off the beaten trail, and somewhat take your mind off the fact that you're even in a city. I couldn't hear a single car or other person from that position... and man, was that glorious .

Took: Nothing
Left: Logbook entry and chainmail ball

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