Current at 11/6/2011 (Online waypoint URL) You have already found this cache! Master Index    Nearest Caches CRM-008 - Find your self Onanole by cachingridingmountain (1/1) N50° 38.681  W99° 56.984 (WGS84) UTM  14U   E 432851  N 5610744 Use waypoint: GCWZPM Size: Regular    Hidden on 7/5/2006 In Manitoba, Canada Difficulty:     Terrain:                   One of the knolls in the Onanole area is where you will find this cache. Quick cache and dash. Make sure to check out other caches in the Onanole Area. This cache location was discovered and used during a Caching Riding Mountain workshop last year. This is a great representation of a Knob and Kettle topography of the area. Knob and Kettle topography This land was carved and created by glacial deposition that dates to the last glaciation period and the retreat of the ice masses 10,000 years ago. As blocks of ice became separated from the glacier, they melted in place and created depressions of water. Aspen trees cover the glacial till on the knolls and the ground under the forest developed into relatively infertile gray luvisolic soil. White spruce occurs alongside the Aspen and the land opens occasionally into black spruce bogs and prairie. Open prairie areas occur infrequently throughout this relatively moist district. The periodic occurrence of fire prevents spruce and aspen from encroaching on these grasslands. Beavers are also active in this area, the wetlands are important moose habitat and elk play a role in grazing the prairie. During the fur trade era, this area was known to contain many marshes, ponds and furbearers. The Knob and Kettle Land District extends from Minnedosa, MB to Edmonton, AB. Areas south, southwest, and northwest of the Park represent this Land District. This District covers the largest area within the Region, stretching from the Spruce Woods in the Southeast to Roblin and the portions of the Duck Mountains in the Northwest. This Land District is represented in several protected areas, including Spruce Woods, Asessippi, and Duck Mountain Provincial Parks. Much of the natural biodiversity outside these Parks has been reduced as agriculture converted the natural prairies to farmland. The major conservation challenges in this Land District are habitat loss (drainage and conversion of land for agricultural purposes) and restoration of fire in the natural prairies in this Land District Hope you enjoy it. We stongly suggest to come to this location on a clear evening and enjoy the beautiful sunset on top of one of the many knolls in the area.

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7/19/2008 by Kabuthunk
Find number 2 on today's list o' caches to find. After much wandering around Wasagaming (is that the name of the town, the park, or what? I'm not actually sure what that name specifically references, so I'll count it as the 'town' for now), my wife and I headed off for some geocaching. Well, the geocaching was more on my part. Given she wasn't into it that much, she generally stayed around the car and watched things while I ran off into the bushes to locate caches.

Nonetheless, after plunging out of the car and trudging off into the bushes, I found myself somewhat perplexed. Try as I might, I was unable to locate the cache. But... a 1-1, regular-sized cache? Not find? Oh come on... I can't allow THAT. There's only ONE other possible cache type that would be easier, and that would only be a larger container. However, given the trees were playing a little bit of havoc with my accuracy, I started to spiral outwards hunting for where a regular-size cache could possibly be hiding. For the record... I don't think any of the branches on the ground could even remotely fit a large-sized cache... but I still checked anyway. Who knows, it could have been an inch-thick, but three feet tall and two feet wide, buried that way.

Hmm... mental note... that'd make an interesting cache. Not buried though, since getting the items out of there would be hell .

Not long after this train of thought, the sight of the cache hit me like punch out of the dark. Almost literally too... when I turned around at one point, I found myself literally about two inches from the cache container. Just about whacked against it. So naturally, the 1-1 difficulty seemed to make more sense at this point. Once you see it... you realize that you would have to be just about blind to miss it. And even then that's debatable, since if I should have kept moving, I would have walked smack into it anyway .

Poking around the container, I discovered that a number of travelbugs were kicking around inside. What's perplexing is that not a single one is showing as being actually logged into this cache! I didn't know this at the time, otherwise I would have grabbed the TB numbers to get 'em all correctly logged into this cache... but at the bare minimum, I rescued two of them... which as of logging this find, will be correctly logged into this cache, and moments later logged out, as they came with me.

There is however I believe one more TB inside this cache... possibly two... can't remember offhand. Just a mental note for the next cacher who finds this, you may wanna snag those TB's to move 'em along correctly.

But, all that aside, t'was a fun cache to do, and I got several TB's to move along in the deal . Also a micro-machine... I haven't seen one of those in years !

Took: Aggie Bug TB, Fly Like an Eagle TB, and micro machine car
Left: Logbook entry, X-Men pog slammer, and chainmail ball