Current at 11/6/2011 (Online waypoint URL) You have already found this cache! Master Index    Nearest Caches For the birds by The Redneck (1.5/1.5) (Archived) N49° 40.366  W98° 00.083 (WGS84) UTM  14U   E 572052  N 5502727 Use waypoint: GCX2FG Size: Regular    Hidden on 7/9/2006 In Manitoba, Canada Difficulty:     Terrain:                   Welcome to this small town of Elm Creek. The School has asked that any geocachers who intend to seek the cache only park their car by the shed east of the school on the back lane. The original contents of the cache are Log book and pencil, smiley ball, hackey sack, Boeing coin, monster truck, Snowbirds pins, Alberta pins, Hard Rock Cafe pins,small leather purse, and a pair of earplugs (new and in package!) This cache is cleverly hidden but easily found. This is our first cache so go easy on us. Permission has been given from the school. It is hidden on the edge of my yard. Stealth will be required as Elm Creek is such a small town anyone around (including my neighbors) will know your not from town! The cache is a blue lidded Maxwell House Coffee tin. Just make sure the lid is on securely when you put it back... HAVE FUN! P.S. If you see us out in the yard stop in and say HI!

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3/28/2009 by Kabuthunk
Today involved a trip out to Carman... and such trips typically end up involving geocaching at one point or another. This trip was no different . Shortly after arriving at my sister's place, my brother-in-law and two nieces (who now log under the username name 'Blagden'... this being their very first cache officially under that name ) headed out for a bit of geocaching.

But what's this... not a single active geocache that we haven't already found in Carman? What madness is this?!? Mildly disappointed at the remote possibility of not being able to cache today, I zoomed out my GPS a little bit further. And what have we here? A whole conglomeration of geocaches piled up in one little area? Intriguing. Asking my brother-in-law what's kicking around that area, he informs me that the town of Elm Creek is about a 10 minute drive North of Carman. Well heck... it sounds like caching is back on the menu! Hopping into the Kab-mobile, we headed off in exactly that direction, bundled up for the somewhat chilly wind of the day.

A short drive later, I'm now left with the decision as to which cache to go after. Glancing at the GPS which I kinda forgot about for the trip, I realized we had just passed a cache (Sunday Kruz 9), and were nearing a street that appeared to have two somewhat along it. Figured we'd tackle the passed cache on the way back, we swung down the road and headed for this cache. At first, I was mildly worried about parking in the school's parking lot... despite it being Saturday... by my brother-in-law said not only is he a teacher (not in this town though), but he also knew most of the teachers that WERE in this school. So, having somewhat partial immunity towards parking at the school, we hopped out and headed for the cache.

Of course, I was the only one of us stupid enough to not have gotten some winter boots . At least most of the walk was pretty snow-free, or at least an inch deep, tops. Right as we neared the coordinates however, I let my nieces take the lead and search for the cache while I hung back where my feet would stay dry. A scant few minutes later, and the Blagden group was returning to dry-land with the cache in hand . As they picked through the items looking for things to trade, I signed the logbook and tossed in a chainmail ball. After several trades were made (didn't see what for what... but Blagden should be posting their log sometime or another), we closed the container back up and once again hid it.

On the way back to the car however, there were several remarks about the cache hiding spot. We all agreed that it was REALLY well made. I mean, the logbook indicated it had been around since 2006, if I'm not mistaken, and all of the materials and colours are holding up EXTREMELY well, considering the weathering that would take place. Really nice job on that... props to you .

But in either case... I haven't had a chance to cache for a few weeks now... so it was great to be able to get out again and find some more. As an added bonus, after today I hit find number 486. WOOH! Just like the computer .

Yes, I'm well aware that that probably sounded very nerdy .

Took: Nothing
Left: Logbook entry and chainmail ball

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