Current at 11/6/2011 (Online waypoint URL) You have already found this cache! Master Index    Nearest Caches YLHD#3 HAPPY ROCK HIDEOUT by TheJokers3 (2/1) N50° 13.207  W98° 57.167 (WGS84) UTM  14U   E 503368  N 5563106 Use waypoint: GCMCAG Size: Small    Hidden on 12/23/2004 In Manitoba, Canada Difficulty:     Terrain:                 Happy Rock is renovated and good to go. *** Friendly Reminder *** Happy Rock is done renovations. Three Jokers always love this place and we wave everytime we go by. It makes us smile and hope you do too! And any local cachers - come on add some caches so this well-traveled route is a bit more interesting. The Yellowhead Highway is named for a fur trader and guide Pierre Bostonais whose nickname in French was Tete Jaune (yellow head). He was a golden haired Iroquois Metis who worked for both the Northwest Company and the Hudson Bay Company at varying times. The highway travels through 5 national parks, 90 provincial parks and 3 national historic sites! It eastern point begins at Mile 0 "The Forks" in Winnipeg, MB, through Yorkton, SK, continues through Edmonton, AB and splits at Tete Jaune Cache. B.C. (a town) where it continues to Prince Rupert to the North and ends on the Queen Charlotte Islands and then to the South – Hope, B.C.. Our series of caches will take you from a small town outside of Winnipeg through to Yorkton, SK. This series of caches are dedicated to our Dad (SK) who passed away August 2005, enjoyed caching with us, and travelled the Yellowhead Highway often - both to Manitoba to visit us and up to Prince George, B.C. where he logged in the 1950's.

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8/11/2007 by Kabuthunk
After the parade in town, we sat around the house for a while since it was annoyingly windy for much of the afternoon. It's like the weather was calm for all the floats... got less than pleasant to chase everyone home for a while, then calmed down for the evening (making for a nice bonfire with some toasted marshmallows and smores .

However... somewhere in the middle of the two... it calmed down for a bit enough to go for a bit of a walk. I think we all know where Kabuthunk decided to walk. To nowhere other than the Happy Rock. Random note... this town REALLY needs to get a new costume for the Happy Rock in the parade. The current one must have been made 30 years ago, and pretty well looks it. Upgrade man, upgrade!

But yes... after a quick 5-minute walk, I found myself at the rear-end of the Happy Rock. There was an empty parked car nearby... which rather perplexed me since I didn't see anyone else around... but I continued onwards. After several minutes of poking and prodding around the coordinates, I found the cache! Although I gotta say... the term 'micro' definitely understates it's size. Definitely a 'small' in my opinion .

So I sat down on the sidewalk and signed me some logbook. During that time, another car drove up, and someone walked out of the car towards the front of the rock. They didn't appear to pay me any attention, since I was just sitting there, writing something, and happened to have my back towards them (they wouldn't have even been able to see the container on the ground). I expected them to circle around or walk back to their car after checking out the rock... but they never did. Peculiar, I thought... but I figured they were just taking pictures of the rock for a few minutes or something.

After replacing the cache, I wandered around to the front, curious as to where the person went... and what's this? A souvenier stand inside the base of Happy Rock?!? I can honestly say that I didn't expect that in the slightest, and it definitely explained why there was noone in the first car, and where the second person disappeared to. I concluded this since there was two people contained inside said souvenier stand. Yay! My math does good skills .

But... nice hide, and glad that I got a reason to check out the happy rock up-close .

Took: Nothing
Left: Logbook entry and chainmail ball

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