Current at 11/6/2011 (Online waypoint URL) You have already found this cache! Master Index    Nearest Caches 40 Degrees South by 1Queenand4Jokers (1/1.5) N50° 00.000  W95° 31.325 (WGS84) UTM  15U   E 319260  N 5541679 Use waypoint: GCXWKJ Size: Small    Hidden on 8/21/2006 In Manitoba, Canada Difficulty:     Terrain:         Medium lock n' lock container courtesy of BINGO by Lizardo! Cache co-ords reflect above distance from the North Pole. Fairly straightforward cache hidden in a multi-stemmed tree just off the highway. Contains some small items, logbook and a Travel Bug.

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9/8/2007 by Kabuthunk
This cache was the beginning of the most fun caching experience to date. This weekend started out with having a family camping trip out at Big Whiteshell, with a fair number of us being avid geocachers (although it seems everyone but me has hit a dry spell lately. I've been bugging 'em to cache more often, and hopefully this set of geocaches will get 'em going again ). It was myself, BlackCat Firecracker, WestStevo, GirlWithNoName, PurpleMonkeyDishwasher, my brother Greg, my fiancee Laura, and my niece Cailyn. It was a pretty decent pack to go for a geocache outing. My brother isn't a geocacher at the moment, but has been looking into picking up a GPS, so who knows, he may make an account sometime soon.

Off we travelled from the campsite, heading down a road that since childhood has been nicknamed "snake road"... or at least that's what I remember, anyway . Pulling up near the cache, we all bailed out of the car and headed towards the cache. Thankfully, since it's September... AFTER the long-weekend... it was really quiet on the road. I think maybe two or three cars went by the entire time we were treking over to the cache.

To say the least... eight people with four GPS's... it doesn't exactly take a year and a half to find a cache with this many eyes and equipment in the vicinity. I however spotted it first . Kinda sauntering away from the cache, I informed the group that I had found it, and waited to see how long it would take them to find it. Unfortunately, it appears that they noticed the direction I was walking from, and WestStevo promply walked towards that direction, followed by the rest of the pack (who were searching a bit off to the side). Several seconds later, and the cache was in hand. Everyone took a quick gander at the cache contents, and my niece wanted some stuff from the cache. At first, she just wanted to kinda take stuff, until I reminded her that we needed to trade for things. She didn't have any swag, so I ponied up the loot, so to speak . Long story short, I talked her into only taking one foreign coin, in exchange for a 'Spiderman' pog slammer (big, shiny metal coin with Spiderman on one side).

Anyhoo... I signed up the log for everyone there, and lobbed a chainmail ball into the mix. The cache container was quite visible when we first got there (kinda lying diagonally over a log... I'm guessing that some animal probably kicked it over while tromping through), so we hit it better.

Thanks for the cache though (which I thought to be extremely interesting in that the North coordinates were "50° 00.000"... which also kinda confused me in that the name says '40'), and the first cache to an excellent day of caching as a whole .

Took: Foreign coin for my niece
Left: Logbook entry, Spiderman pog slammer, and chainmail ball