Current at 11/6/2011 (Online waypoint URL) You have already found this cache! Master Index    Nearest Caches SPRING FEVER!!! by 1queenand4jokers (1.5/2) (Archived) N49° 48.265  W97° 07.667 (WGS84) UTM  14U   E 634716  N 5518567 Use waypoint: GCN6FR Size: Small    Hidden on 3/21/2005 In Manitoba, Canada Difficulty:     Terrain:               Listed as Normand Park in the book “Winnipeg Walks” 1st edition by the Prairie Pathfinders. (2ND EDITION AVAILABLE AT MCNALLY ROBINSON).Park on Redview Drive as recommended at N 49.48.036 W 097.07.045 OR N49 48.232 W97 07.381 Brambleforde Crescent. Cache contains small stuff to help you enjoy spring break and summer: playing cards, pickerel rig, yoyo, hackey sack, golf tees, a FTF cert., (maybe a McDonald's cert too) and our "X marks the spot" geocoin, logbook. Keep the theme going! TAKE YOUR CAMERA'S. The area is City of Winnipeg green zone! A project of the Henteleff Park Foundation, it will eventually be a 29-acre park of walking trails, picnic sites and interpretive areas. This is a great Spring Fever Cache. First it features a great walk with a real path, 2nd it has a great view of the river melting up, 3rd it is the site of a former greenhouse acreage known as the Henteleff Nursery 4th families can enjoy the playground on the way (if you park where we did). This cache is dedicated to the memory of Queen’s Dad who passed gently from this life to the next on Easter Sunday morning in 1994. Childhood homemade whistles Charming front porch chairs Choosing whips for wiener roasts Chattering squirrels above Chancing limbs to climb Checking sticks to carve Challenging to cache in Cheering when it’s found! Hope you catch the FEVER like we have! From our parking spot it was a comfortable ½ mile walk – no bushwackin’ but a little snow stompin’. Hopefully you’ll have to use puddle-jumpin’ boots by the time this cache is listed! Cache was originally well hidden. Look carefully. Watch for muggles and duck down if necessary.

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10/12/2006 by Kabuthunk
Well, this area wasn't so much 'green' right now, as it was a brown with white coating over everything . Windy, snowy, and kinda damp when walking. Ahh, the joys of the first few snowfalls of the year.

So in typical Kabuthunk fashion, I parked on a nearby street, and didn't even really look for a path. I figured there MAY have been one, but looking would require more time, and possibly take twice as long. Hence... the shortest path is always a straight line! Off through the field of snow and alfalfa or whatever that was I go! No nice packed path for me, no... I trudged through about 3 inches of loose snow layered overtop of whatever type of field that was. Winter boots? Pshaw, that's for the weak! Then again, I don't even own winter boots... or even anything vaguely resembling a 'high top' type of shoe. Nope, it's aaaall low-top shoes for me. Well... very shortly, low-top damp shoes . Seeing as every step basically shoveled more snow into my shoes, I decided to more run than anything else. Running = longer strides = less steps = less snow soaking my already wet socks. So shortly, I was at the cache location. Actually took me about 5 minutes to find this fella, since my GPS decided to try to point me to the tree beside where the cache was. In my initial 'expanding of area', I searched the trees going in the wrong direction from the cache. Shortly thereafter, I had the cache in my hands.

Decided to drop the 'Udder Madder Cow' TB in this cache. Looking at it's history, it's trying to go East to Newfoundland, and it's last few logs have been dragging it further and further West for some reason. Hence, put this fella here, since it's the most Easterly cache I'll be hitting for a little while.

Took: Army Man unofficial TB thing
Left: Logbook entry, chainmail ball, Udder Madder Cow TB

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Small tobacco container.