Current at 11/6/2011 (Online waypoint URL) You have already found this cache! Master Index    Nearest Caches Cache Grove. HALT! TCDNMB by grnbrg (1/1) N49° 39.602  W96° 03.347 (WGS84) UTM  14U   E 712473  N 5504995 Use waypoint: GCXC1Z Size: Regular    Hidden on 8/9/2006 In Manitoba, Canada Difficulty:     Terrain:                           Welcome to Manitoba's only rest stop on the Trans Canada Highway! Cache is accessable from both Eastbound and Westbound traffic. Once known as "Pine Grove Halt", this is a wonderful place stop for a stretch on the way out to the lake. Summer frequently finds a chip and burger truck here to take care of your lunch needs. The cache can be reached via a short hike from either parking lot of the rest area. It's probably best to park in the marked lot and walk to the cache. While you can park within a few feet of the cache, there is no easy way to turn around and you'll end up back on the Trans-Canada Highway headed back the way you came, which is probably not what you intend. Cache is a medium sized painted ammo can, and is great place to leave travel bugs. Note that the cache container contains two smaller bug containers. These containers are labeled with the direction that the bugs wish to travel. While this is optional, it will give you an idea of which direction the bugs want to go. The cache should be reasonably winter friendly, but is located on the ground. A certain amount of digging in the snow may be required, despite the shelter provided by the clump of trees it is sitting beneath.

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9/9/2007 by Kabuthunk
Final cache of the day for me and my fiancee, to end an awesome weekend of camping. Was out camping with the family at Big Whiteshell, where a group of us tackled several caches yesterday. I apparently haven't had my caching fill yet, so I went after several more caches today (five to be exact). Although, I have to admit that I was a little nervous to go after this cache.

As we were driving into the rest stop, there appeared to be several leather-clad bikers stopped there as well. And then we saw several more. And then several more. Somewhere around 15 or so total, anyway. However, I couldn't be TOO worried, since they all just bought ice-cream at the ice-cream truck that was there. Seeing a pile of bikers with ice-cream cones, drumsticks, and popsicles... you just seem to lose some of that apprehension .

However, since a somewhat large area seemed to be fenced off with that plasticy orange temporary fencing stuff, my paths were either go through a thin trail in the bushes to get around the fencing, walk through the pile of bikers, or walk extra far around all of the vehicles in the parking lot. Well... didn't take too long for me to head towards yonder trail. Since we had just spent the weekend camping, which included about two kilometers of mostly bushwhacking for a geocache, I didn't have too many qualms about brushing up against a few branches . However... I learned later on that it actually would have been faster to take the "longer" route of going along the parking lot. Turns out I kinda spiraled my way towards the cache. Whoops .

But that aside, I quickly found the geocache itself (when grnbrg set it to a 1/1 difficulty/terrain... he wasn't kidding), and poked around inside. I might have just missed seeing 'em or something, but I only spotted one travelbug inside of there, and no geocoins. Didn't take down the number for the remaining TB, since it was in the 'Eastbound' box, and I was going directly West instead.

But... thanks for giving me something to cache after at the rest stop, and being the final cache to a truly awesome weekend .

Took: Nothing
Left: Logbook entry and chainmail ball

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