Current at 11/6/2011 (Online waypoint URL) You have already found this cache! Master Index    Nearest Caches Lots-O-Tree-Huggin by gnirips (1.5/1.5) N49° 49.669  W97° 07.987 (WGS84) UTM  14U   E 634267  N 5521159 Use waypoint: GC2TW8P Size: Micro    Hidden on 4/24/2011 In Manitoba, Canada Difficulty:     Terrain:                   A 35 mm cannister camo'd to its environment and located in a neighborhood park that has several entrances. Cache contains a log and stamp. No room for tradables. Please bring your own writing utensil if not using a stamp and please leave the stamp in the cache.

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8/16/2011 by Kabuthunk
I must admit, this is the smallest letterbox hybrid cache I’ve seen so far. Prior to finding it, I was a bit curious how a stamp would even manage to fit into a micro sized container... although I hadn’t ruled out having the head of a stamp attached to the bottom of a container or something like that. Hmm… mental note actually, that’s not a bad idea.

In either case, I figured I’d finally tackle this cache, it being the last of (until the two temporarily disabled caches a bit to the West are activated again) the ‘close to St. Vital park’ caches left to be found. Since I had just finished finding the ‘South Wood Typha’ cache to the Southwest, I figured I’d book it on over to this area and see if I could clear this one out too. Thus began… the quest to try to find out how to get into this park, which for some reason always seems to be difficult for me.

I started out by following the GPS’s ‘follow road’ directions, which led me through Traynor Bay, but alas, I couldn’t spot any kind of walking path that would lead past the houses to the green rectangle of my GPS on the other side. Abandoning that side, I swung around and worked my way over to the North side of the park At which point, I saw and remembered the foresty field thing here… the presence of which still confuses me, and I wonder if it actually has a purpose. I figured if there was ANY way to get to the park, it’d probably be through there. So I parked my car on Kilmamock Bay (the name of which I wish I had known on conjunction with the name of the park… that probably would have tipped me off to the shorter path I returned to the car through), and hiked out back to River Road and into that field. A quick hike to the end of the field showed me that indeed there was an entrance to the mystery park!

And since at this point, I thought that this was perhaps the ONLY entrance to the park, I was a bit confused as to the presence of play structures and whatnot. I kinda figured this was a LOT of park to be accessible to basically only the houses that have their backs to it, and to whoever finds the secret entrance at the back corner of the field. In either case, I trudged onwards and found my way to ground zero, which seemed to keep bouncing around on my GPS a bit. It soon settled down, and I was able to begin my search in earnest.

But man... where in the world could a cache be around here? There’s got to be like... a thousand spots it could hide. I decided to follow my gut instinct after a few half-hearted attempts that ended up being far from ground zero since my GPS shifted my distance while searching, and whatdya know... once I had stepped into the right area, what I thought would seem most likely... was indeed it! Yay for thinking like a geocacher! The cache found (I imagined it was originally meant to hide a bit differently as mentioned in logs below, so I can imagine how good it looked when first placed), I took the opportunity to draw attention away from myself (not that anyone was around... the place was dead empty) by sitting down to remove a sliver from my foot. While on the ground, I also signed the logbook and dropped in a micromail ball. I also drew a smaller rendition of what my stamp looks like… I’ve REALLY got to put that into my caching kit sometime soon.

The formalities taken care of, I returned the cache from whence it came, and extricated myself from the area. I don’t know if it’s perhaps easier to reach from one side rather than the other, but I ended up taking the route that… is not the most comfortable to get yourself into .

Naturally, as I looked for a way out, I found a path leading right up to the road where I parked my car. I was still around a corner, but yeah… that could have saved some time if I had just continued driving half a block .

Thanks for the cache, and the learning of yet another park I didn’t know about . Gotta love this city for having a ton of those.

Took: Nothing
Left: Logbook entry and micromail ball