Hello Forest Our Old Friend

Another Day In The Forest

Saturday turned into a beautiful sunny day, when we started out there was a very light breeze blowing and the temperature was -9.  Facing into the wind was a little chilly, but we knew that we would soon be in the protective cover of the forest and the breeze would no longer bother us.  But first we had to grab our first cache! 



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 This geocache found by "moi" was at this little building which is a water station.  Most of the homes south of Wilkes are not hooked up to the city water and so they need to get their cisterns filled. This is one of the filling stations where the pumper trucks fill up with water to deliver to those homes.

On the edge of the forest, behind the Tuxedo Golf Course, Gerry dug this one up very quickly.  We signed the log and left our ladybug magnet and sig card and continued on, deeper into the forest!



Fallen dead trees in the forest




Some Oak trees along the bike trail
leading into the forest

  

We thought that we would never reach
some of these caches!

Gerry spotted this cache as well! He did have his super geocaching eyes wide open today.  This cache was in two parts, the log was in the cache with the gnome so we signed it! Then we figured out where the treasure was!  This was a neat cache made us think and read! I like to just skim the text, in some cases that is not a good idea!

Gnorman's Diamond Mine found
by Gerry, we liked this one.





The diamond mine workers!



We like what we found!

This is the outer container, very neat and a lot of work to make. It was quite far from where the GPS was telling us that GZ was, but I noticed it and was going to investigate, I thought that the stump looked out of place.  Gerry mentioned later that there is no birch in the forest!  But it was just the bottom part of the stump that didn't look right to me!  Just as I got there Diane noticed a giant spider hanging from a tree above my head, so we knew that the cache was very near by!  This cache is another in the "Remember Series"  This one is Remember #30.  The information on the service man is at the end of this post.



Another cache! Neat tradeables in this one, a little porcelain doll!
amoung other nice items.




Our first room in the game cache.
We will have to get the others another day!



This was the last one of the day for us.  This cache is part of a game, called "Clue Jr" The mystery is "The Case of the missing Chocolate Cake"  There are 5 rooms, each room has a set of clues and suspects.  When you find a cache you need to cross off the clues, when you have visted all five caches, the remaining clues will help you find the grand final.  A very neat concept for a different type of cache.

  The excerpt below is taken off the website advertising the university.  The University borders on the Golf Course and Assiniboine Forest.

Canadian Mennonite University



Canadian Mennonite University is a Christian University in the Anabaptist tradition, offering challenging programs and recognized degrees in undergraduate and graduate studies. CMU is a member of the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada.

CMU values strong academics, excellent teaching, and rigorous thinking. We do this within a framework shaped by Christian faith and with the conviction that faith makes a difference in how people understand the world, how they live, and how they relate to others.


Three tired cachers back at the car

This is the information in the cache, the date of death is different then the documented date on the net.

Richard plunkett Baker

Pilot SPAD

AF706 Lt. 19 Squadron

11 Canadian Mounted Rifles

Born October 18, 1888

Cheated death march 24, 1919

Died April 1954.

This information is off the internet

Lt. Richard Plunkett Baker

30 3-24-1917 He cheated death on this day.

11:55am
At Givenchy in France

Died in April of 1956. He was 66 years old.
 Spad S7

№ A6706
 Halberstadt DII
 19th Squadron

Royal Flying Corps.

The common factor in the 2 caches in this series that we have found is a German pilot Manfred von Richthofen or better known as the Red Baron.  We will have to find more in this series to find our answers.

Have fun caching

GeoPartnerS

Caching since 2011