Current at 11/6/2011 (Online waypoint URL) You have already found this cache! Master Index    Nearest Caches A Wee Bit of Higher Education by 1queenand4jokers (3/1.5) (Archived) N49° 48.456  W97° 08.321 (WGS84) UTM  14U   E 633923  N 5518901 Use waypoint: GCR1R5 Size: Other    Hidden on 10/20/2005 In Manitoba, Canada Difficulty:     Terrain:                     University of Manitoba, parking horrible, discretion needed. Our 40th Cache! 1st stage Micro MAGNETIC container. 2nd stage finale - logsheets in a black camoed film canister (non-magnetic) micro with a sm. pencil originally hidden above future snow levels - please replace similarly. Compass Direction given at stage 2 is not precise! Grabbed this info. from GNBRG's nearby cache Parking on campus can be very difficult between 8:30 and 4:30 on weekdays. Meter parking is available at: * 49.810642,-97.129998 * 49.808025,-97.129805 * 49.807901,-97.134869 * 49.811155,-97.135845 Most lots are free after 4:30. *** Friendly Reminder *** "We wouldn't suggest this cache for novice cachers. When you find it - tell us in your log what you think the rating should be." Email us if you run into desperate trouble but remember the Difficulty**. Not as hard as Gnarly's."

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3/25/2007 by Kabuthunk
Yes! YES! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!!!! At long last, an arch-nemesis has fallen!

And by arch-nemesis, I of course mean 'previous DNF' . In fact, it's my OLDEST unresolved DNF to date (well, except one that I tried to find shortly after it was archived and I didn't know about the archiving. I don't count those though ). And THIS time... campus security didn't even come within eyeshot while I was hunting around for this fella .

However, for added "not-looking-suspicious-like-I-apparently-do", I wore light-coloured clothing, wore a regular, plain, beige winter jacket instead of the trenchcoat, and also went with my friend "Cringin", who is still a student at the U of M. This way, if anyone DOES stop us, at least I'm with a student so there's at least a little bit more legitimate reason for us being there. Not that it ever came up, but at least we had the excuse available.

In either case... we wandered around until we found a method with which to reach stage 1. After a scant 2 minutes, it was located and we worked our way towards stage 2. Nice warning on stage 1 there. Oh yeah, we were totally thinking about it until we read the warning . But yeah... actually found stage 2 relatively quickly. Took about 5 minutes or so for me to locate it... and another 2 or 3 to find a way to extract it. The cache container was fairly full, so I put a micromail ball into there though. BUT... yes... signed me some logbook, and my most feared cache (well... fear of being hauled off-campus by security, or whatever it is that they do) has fallen!

Took: Nothing
Left: Logbook entry and micromail ball

10/22/2006 by Kabuthunk
Well, gave a second attempt at this one today. No dice on stage one still. Didn't get to spend all that much time though. Not being sure whether it's outside or inside, I tried the former first. Of course, someone is doing work inside one of the rooms RIGHT where the coordinates are trying to point me towards. Couldn't get close enough to do a thorough search. Pretty certain that this person saw me as I was walking away though, mainly due to an... occurance... later on.

So anyhoo... I wandered inside, where I miraculously still had a signal enough to see how close I could get. Again, I couldn't get very close, but that's mainly due to the limitations of the hallways I could go down. And someone decided to sit in the hallway RIGHT where I figured stage one would be close to, IF it's even inside... which I'm still doubtful of, due to attributes of this cache.

But that's besides the point. A few minutes later, campus security (three guards worth) came up to me and said I fit a description for a call they got of someone acting suspiciously. Safe assumption it was probably that person who saw me outside walking around. Not even crouching or looking or anything, but just walking. Bah. I swear, trenchcoats are getting a bad name nowadays. Psychos have got to stop wearing them... making it worse for people like me who actually like them. In either case... they called in my name to... wherever... seeing if there was anything on my name. Surprise, surprise, not a thing. You won't even find so much as a speeding ticket on my name, so good luck.

But yeah... that kinda killed the geocaching for the day. Odds are I won't even reattempt this one unless I get around to asking for a little more information as to the location of stage 1. Last thing I need is some nervous freak to put a restraining order on me because I walked within 40 feet of a window they were at. Bah.

10/7/2006 by Kabuthunk
A kinda half-hearted attempt at this one. Was on my way out of the U of M caching and decided to give this a vague attempt. Someone however was studying or doing something right at one of the windows like... right there... so I decided to leave it for the day. I'll be having to come back to the U of M to tackle several other caches, so I don't mind this one making it a more full day here .