Current at 11/6/2011 (Online waypoint URL) You have already found this cache! Master Index    Nearest Caches At the Blitzing Post by grnbrg (2/1) N49° 51.917  W97° 08.135 (WGS84) UTM  14U   E 633986  N 5525319 Use waypoint: GCVVRV Size: Large    Hidden on 5/8/2006 In Manitoba, Canada Difficulty:     Terrain:                       A large urban cache, intended as a trading post. The cache will be easy to find, but may be difficult to open. The key to the puzzle is just a couple short phone calls away... BTW: It's not that obvious. Leave your phone in your pocket. Note: The cache is on private property, with the knowledge and permission of the owner. There is no need to enter the yard. The 'second stage' is a bare key, on public property. This cache was created to add to the number of QUALITY caches hidden in Manitoba. It is an official BLITZ cache for the May Madness event. Hope you enjoy the hunt! This cache is set up as a trading post. Feel free to sign the log and not take anything if you wish, but if you want to trade at this cache, please follow these two rules: Minimum value of any item left at this cache should be $5.00. No Dollar Store bling or Happy Meal toys, please. Only take an item that is of equal or lesser value than the item(s) you are leaving. I will update the cache description on a regular basis to reflect it's contents.

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9/27/2006 by Kabuthunk
And another DNF bites the dust! Got a bit of a hint from grnbrg on this one, but the hint was basically the next place I was planning on hunting anyway. Essentially, I just wanted to know if I should poke around the residential lot or not.
In either case... time time victory was claimed, the GPS gave me better directions (y'know, like having me go... say... towards the hidden location instead of away from them ). Unfortunately, didn't find anything worth trading in this cache. Lotsa books there, but not of the variety I'd read. So... in gets tossed a chainmail ball, and might I add that that's quite possibly one of the nicest logbooks I've seen yet. Then again, it's in a relatively safe cache, so you're probably not too worried about that one .
Took: Nothing
Left: Logbook entry and chainmail ball (see profile).

9/19/2006 by Kabuthunk
And attempt #2 on the spur of the moment today. Had better accuracy, so it was easy to find the box in question. Not too hard to figure out how to put that type of coordinate into the GPS, but didn't help me in the least anyway. Went to where it was pointing me (quite close regardless), but couldn't find a thing. Then again, I had no clue what I was even looking for... a film canister, box of some sort, just a key dangling from somewhere. Not that it mattered, I couldn't find a thing anyway.
So, at one point or another before today, the cache owner had told me that we could chat if we met up. In hopes of getting an extra hint as to the key location, I went and knocked on the door. However, in my infinite wisdom, I was knocking on the door of the house BESIDE his, not... y'know... his actual house. So random person opens the door who has no clue I was talking about . After checking the house-number I needed, I corrected that mistake... but noone was home :{
Looks like this one will have to wait for round three. Hopefully the key won't elude me this time. Come to think of it, the buildings I was immediately beside might have messed with my GPS accuracy. Fear not, I'll give it another go.

9/14/2006 by Kabuthunk
Took my fiancee and best friend out for geocaching today to basically introduce them to geocaching. Unfortunately, I didn't know this was a puzzle cache of any sort, nor that it was "on", or according to this page, having read it after getting home, on the edge of private property. So we spent several minutes poking around the edge of a burned-out trailer thing, covered with broken apart cement and bags of garbage. So much for showing them what "looks like it'll be a really big container", since I noted that it was a "large", but not that it was a puzzle :{
In either case... if I come back, it'll be alone. Not sure if I'll be able to make EITHER of 'em go geocaching again.

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I like my coordinates in decimal degrees. Make sure you know how to enter dd.ddddd into your GPSr.