Current at 11/6/2011 (Online waypoint URL) You have already found this cache! Master Index    Nearest Caches Oscar Who? by 1purplemonkeydishwasher1 (2/2.5) N49° 55.940  W97° 02.406 (WGS84) UTM  14U   E 640653  N 5532949 Use waypoint: GC2DV68 Size: Micro    Hidden on 8/21/2010 In Manitoba, Canada Difficulty:     Terrain:               **NOT AT POSTED COORDINATES** Cache is located close and may require rubber boots. Just figure out the coordinates from the pictures below. . . Cookie monster - 0 Kermit - 1 Animal - 2 Chef - 3 Fozzy - 4 Yip Yip - 5 Beaker - 6 Sam - 7 Gonzo - 8 Elmo - 9 Cache is an Oscar the Grouch container hidden at a winter friendly height.

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2/21/2011 by Kabuthunk
Man, the Yip-Yips were the greatest characters ever on there. I always loved imitating them as a kid, and I'm sure my parents hated me for it . Beaker only vaguely rings a bell, and Sam... can't say he was familiar even in the slightest. However, at that point it was irrelevant, since by the process of elimination, he could only have been one possible character. Course, I double-checked Google to make sure I was on the mark. Since I found the cache container, I seem to have managed fine enough.

This one actually threw me off for a bit. I solved the puzzle at home earlier in the morning, and quickly swapped the original cache's coordinates to the new ones, and then just turned off the GPS to save battery and prepare the rest of my equipment (a nice afternoon of snowshoeing in Kil-Cona park). So after having found two other geocaches in the park, I looked at the GPS and saw that nothing else not yet found (and not removed due to seeming unfindability in Winter, based on last find date and previous cacher DNF's) happened to be nearby.

Strange, I thought to myself. I'm pretty certain that I entered all the coordinates correctly into the GPS. Maybe I mis-entered a number somewhere... easy enough to make that mistake. Scrolling around, I soon found the cache, but it was... a lot further away than I had anticipated.

Huh. Well crap... I went and solved the puzzle... I don't want to be left hanging here with some solved coordinates that I'll just lose and then forget about with the next GPS update. So since after the last two geocaches I was about ready to head back to the car, I figured I'd drive around to get a bit closer by way of not-walking, and see if I was completely off, or what the deal was. Since I use cachemate on an old palm pilot for my paperless caching, I didn't have access to the puzzle pictures, and thus couldn't re-solve it unless I went home. So, after getting to the car, de-snowshoe-equipmenting (a larger process than some may realize, since I tend to be fairly thoroughly decked out for this activity), I headed off towards the coordinates. I ended up making a wrong turn here and there, but eventually found myself able to park a scant 40 meters away from the coordinates.

Things looked pretty solid around here, so I just left everything in the car and hoofed it over. However, the coordinates were pointing at something definitely viable as a cache hiding spot, instead of a seemingly arbitrary location if it were to have been a typo. As I circled around, I instantly saw the cache container . And I must say... that is a really interesting container. I'd have been a bit worried about its waterproofness (yes, it's a word now), but given the hiding spot, I'd have to say that there's very little worry of that. The contents of the cache container and the state of the logbook would seem to confirm this theory, as both were dry as a bone.

One signing later, I force-fed Oscar a chainmail ball, and closed up the container. Back to its hiding spot it went, and back to the car went myself. A cute little puzzle you have here, and a cuter little cache container to go with it. Rather glad I went through the effort (although for someone who grew up with Sesame Street, very little effort was needed ) of solving the puzzle for this one. Don’t know if I’d consider this a 2/2.5 difficulty/terrain cache, but that could be because of my knowledge of Sesame Street combined with the icy snow allowing me to easily walk over any possible terrain (since I have no clue what it would be like in non-winter around there).

Took: Nothing
Left: Logbook entry and chainmail ball