Current at 11/6/2011 (Online waypoint URL) You have already found this cache! Master Index    Nearest Caches Bruce Park Cache by Tee Vee (2/1.5) (Archived) N49° 52.762  W97° 13.505 (WGS84) UTM  14U   E 627518  N 5526729 Use waypoint: GCM06P Size: Small    Hidden on 11/5/2004 In Manitoba, Canada Difficulty:     Terrain:                       Welcome to Bruce Park Multi Cache. You will cross Portage Avenue, so please exercise safe street crossing practices. You are required to locate three sites in order to obtain the co-ordinates for the final destination of this cache. Enjoy the cache and the park. You will need to project waypoints for this cache and you will NOT need to approach water at any time. Note that the park is closed from midnight until sunrise. The co-ordinates listed are for the first location. The cache should take less than one hour to complete, unless you stop and have your picnic before completing the cache. Enjoy and make an outing of this cache as the park boasts a playground, picnic tables and wading pool for summer holiday fun. Before snow arrived for the winter of 2006 - 2007 I changed the container and improved the cache container's resting place. The container and it's location should be more durable now.

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4/24/2007 by Kabuthunk
I have to say, this cache took me a fair amount of time, and has also taught me a valuable lesson... the lack of which is what caused it to take a fair amount of time .

Lesson learned: With a multi, at least skim over the cache description before blindly going after it, not knowing anything about it.

Yeah... things such as "how many stages", or the fact that I shouldn't need to approach water... things like that... those are useful things to know .

Since I was biking, crossing Portage was a touch interesting, but nothing too terribly hard. After quickly finding stage one, I took off for stage 2. At first, I looked for a potential final cache (seeing as I had zero clue how many stages there were at the time ), but relatively soon located the second stage. THAT stage in itself however caused me some grief. As I was attempting to replace the stage, it shall we say... slipped from it's resting position, and I had to fight with it for a good 5 minutes straight before I could retrieve it properly and finally slide it back into place properly. Note: Directions from stage 1 to stage 2... BANG ON! Stage 3 threw me off a bit, but it kept jumping my position a little when trying to project the next waypoint, so I'm pretty certain that just made things more difficult for me.

Which brings me to stage 3. Yeah... this would be the part where knowing you're not supposed to be by the water would have been nice . I ended up locking my bike to a thin tree along the grassy edge there, and climbing down to right on the muddy river bank. Note: River bank = very slippery, and I started to slide my way towards the water a few times. Good thing there's lots of branches and sticks to grab onto to keep my balance, otherwise I may have been going for a swim . After about 10 minutes of fruitlessly searching for the final here, I decided to crack open my palm pilot (ahh, Cachemate... I should have turned to you earlier) and read the description. Yeah, that helped significantly, by the way . It took me a little bit, but I spotted stage 3 (no clue how I missed that before... I coulda sworn I circled around there before climbing down...). And so... I was off to the final stage. Was a little nervous here though, since the livingroom window of a house had a clear view of me... but I never spotted anyone watching me from there, so that was good at least. A quick sign before anyone decided to spot me, and off I went. Also decided to drop that 'Support our troops' geocoin in here as well.

Took: Nothing
Left: Logbook entry, Support our troops geocoin, and chainmail ball

Hints (Back)
If not able to project bearings, leave GPS set for last site, use back bearing and watch GPS distance increase to required distance.