Number 100 On The Hart Trail In Headingley MB

Our 100th Find

We have been waiting for saturday to come so we could go and claim our 100th cache.  We were prepared with caches along a part of the Grand Trunk Trail, which is part of the Hart Trail in Headingley .  Headingley is just west of Winnipeg.  The weather was not very nice, it was 12 degrees C but a cold wind was blowing very strongly.  But we were going anyway!  We were getting that milestone today.  We got to our first cache site and poked around for longer then we should have and came up empty, and so onto the next.  We walked down the trail at a brisk pace to get some heat going within our bodies.  We got to the next location and had the cache in hand quite quickly....Yeahhhhhhh!

So we are happy cachers! We have been talking about this milestone for awhile now and regardless of wind and cold, nothing but excitement was noticed right then.  So here we are with our badge of achievement.

On to the next cache, which was a short walk down the trail.  We really like this kind of caching where we can walk from one to the other!  This one was in hand real quick, we signed the log and did our ritual picture taking and then back on the trail to the next one.  So we are trying to get our next waypoint up on the GPS to see how far down the trail it is, and the GPS is doing nothing, can't turn it off or anything!  So we changed batteries and nothing worked!  That was the end of our great day of geocaching!  It sure seems like the GPS is broken.   So we will need to get a new one, and better caching next time!

Have fun caching
GeoPartnerS
Caching since 2011

Geocaching This Week April 3 & 5

Tuesday Daytime and Evening Geocaching

This week I have geocached on my own during the daytime and Gerry and I have cached after work a couple of evenings.  The first day that I went out I got one cache and was going after another one in an area that I had not seen before.  As it happens I did not find the cache but I sure did find and interesting park.  Air Force Heritage Museum and Air Park  I walked around the outside part of this park, that I did not know was here.  Below are some of the pictures that I took, I will come back to the park and spend more time reading the plaques and walking around.

There are more planes that I did not get pictures of!  This is such a wonderful thing about Geocaching, I would never have turned down this street if I were not looking for something in particular.  I had been to the St. James Civic Center to a craft show when we were selling jewelry, but did not know that this place existed.

This monument was placed to honor the Support Personnel here is a close up of the writeup. 

There were plaques along the sidewalks with names and towns of people who have served.  Here is some info explaining the "Garden Of Memories"

We went out on Tuesday evening, to Assiniboine Park to work at a puzzle cache, we found the cache alrite but could not crack the code to get inside the treasure.  Neither of us are familiar with the keylock that the treasure is in!  So we decided we would have to try to learn a thing or two about locks and then try again.  So we moved on to our next, which was the final to "Junior Clue" game.  We found it without any problem.  We have been playing this game for a couple months are we are a little sorry to put it to rest!  But we must!  We then went into the park and we tryed for one by the Conservatory that I have tryed for a few times, no luck this time again!  We did see a lot of deer in the bush and we saw a bunny! 

Our next one was close to this train!  We found it in short order!

We saw this beautiful sunset on our way out of the park.

Thursday Evening Caching In Assiniboine Park

We were going back to the puzzle cache thinking that we were wiser then the last time, NOT! Either we have the code wrong or we just don't know how to operate the lock?  So we played with it trying a bunch of different things and decided to go back to the drawing board.  We did see a lot of deer though and that made the second trek through the bush worth the while.  This one was not afraid at all, she just stood there and watched us and listened very closely!  She was so curious and so pretty! We left the bush and had a few within the park targeted.  When we were walking back to the car I said to Ger that we should go and look for the one by the Conservatory again for a minute or two, so we did.  I did not expect to find it!  But Gerry did! Holy Moly! a smilie on this one...it was a micro to be sure, it's as small as the eraser end on a pencil!  No wonder it was so hard to find, not what you expect hanging from a tree.  Good One!

Here is Gerry with another of his finds!  He found one other that we don't have a picture of and I found one with a missing pic as well....The next one will be NUMBER 100.......A MILE STONE FOR US! Now it's time to head home to left over stirfry! Until next time,

Have fun caching
GeoPartnerS
Caching since 2011

April Fools Day Caching

Sunday Caching In Assiniboine Forest

Sunday morning came and it was looking to be a cool day! Every weather report said it was going to be a very nice day!  We headed out to pick up a few caches around my house that are in locations that are usually too busy.  We went to a point near Polo Park Mall, but were not able to retrieve it because of one muggle who came and parked beside us and just stayed right there!   So we moved on to our next target where we had to out wait a couple people who were checking out the opening time of the store!  But they were a breeze compared to the loonie at the last location.  Gerry made the find in no time flat!  His geosenses were honed today!

His geoeyes and senses were peeled all day!  It turned out to be Boy=3.........Girl=0!  Man that is not good stuff!  We went on to our next cache which was really close, by then we were starting to get some rain showers and it was getting rather cold!  We walked to GZ and again Gerry found it!

Here is Gerry with his second find, oh man! What the heck my senses are just not working today!  This is another one near to my house that I have been wanting to get since we started caching!  Good Job Ger!

We decided to have some breakky and see if the rain would clear and then we could head to Assiniboine Forest.  By the time we finished eating the weather did clear up and so we headed out to get a puzzle cache.  Cindy solved this puzzle for us, so we thought our work would be easy, Hahaha.  We had some of the thickest bushwacking that we have done until now!  We were getting tired, the GPS was leading us astray...this way, that way and back and forth.  Finally we were standing by a makeshift fort and I am just standing, because I do not want to do more walking then I have to, and

Ger discoverd it!  Yeah for "the man"  and it sucks to be me!  The puzzle was to sipher some number symbols written in the Mayan Code. There were 3 ammo boxes of goodness here! Wow, stash of cash!



The forest along the trail



Some of the big old oak trees are so interesting.  We are going to our next destination, which is another multi cache.  It is in a wet swampy area, a lenghty foot bridge crosses the wet area.  We search in this area for  quite a long time and still come up empty, so we decide that we should leave, we start to walk towards our next cache.  We get to Grant Av. and we still have 1 km to go!  So now it is go to it, or go to the car, which is about 1 km from us.  I say "I am just about done" so we decide to head to the car......thank goodness!!   We were a couple of tired caches by this point!!   We did a lot of walking today for not many caches!Two tired cachers just wanting to go home to get a cold drink of water and sit down and put their feet up!

As tired as we were, we had a good day and we shall sleep good tonight!

Have fun caching
GeoPartnerS
Caching since 2011

Warm Weather Geocaching In Assiniboine Forest

Happy St. Patricks Day

Clue Junior Game Cache



Saturday morning dawned to +8 C, and by midday was +19! It was such a beautiful spring day, the sky was blue the sun was shining and the birds were singing, a perfect day to out enjoying the outdoors.  We were going to try to finish the geocaches in Assiniboine Forest today, we did not finish! But I am okay with that I have enjoyed caching in the forest very much and will be sad to put it to rest. We had a little bit of a chuckle on our first find, the co ordinates were telling us that the cache should be across a fence that we could see no way around.  A woman was coming out of a zoo building and Gerry was going to ask her if it was possible to come around in the fence, I was just standing back and looking around and I spotted something! I say to him "never mind" I found it!  This one was part of the "Clue Junior Game" Now off across the highway and on to find "Beer In A Tree" this title had me puzzled since I saw it!  Well it turned out to be a beer bottle shaped tin, a Moosehead! Neat, another find by the girl half of GeoPartnerS!  Yeahhhh 2 for the girl 0 for the boy.





The next caches description said, finding the cache won't be hard but retrieving it will be! The boys geoeyes saw this one pronto and  getting it down was no problem, but now what? How to put it back in place, unless you are good at climbing trees!  

the find




Putting it back



It's thata way

We forgot to take a picture of Gers next find! This is the cache that we put Veronica the Bear Travel Bug into.  As you can see it's getting a bit warm out! There was no breeze at all in the forest and at times we were working pretty hard slugging through tall dry grass and fallen trees

We also had some water to wade through and ditches to cross! Thank goodness for rubber boots!  There is not as much water as there could be because of limited snowfall this year.  There were very few patches of snow left anywhere, what a change from the last time we cached in the forest! 



Stage 1 of a multi

This is stage 1 of a multi cache, this is our first multi.  The multi stage caches are more work because, this one had 3 stages but you get to only log it as 1 find.  Not good for numbers if that is what you are after on a particular day.  We didn't mind it! This was named  Snow Fantasy.

In the neat little containers are the co ordinates to the next stage.  The stage 1 container was a figurine with a pill bottle attached to it, to hold the information.  Stage 2 was a mask which held the information to stage 3, the final and the mother load!

Snow Fantasy

The dragon slayer



Look at all the jewels!

We were needing a bit of a rest at this point so what could be better then to play a little?

Playing dress up



number 3



Okay enough playing around! It's time to carry on! We are heading to pick up the last 3 caches in the Clue Jr. Game, this one is number 3!

On our next trip into the forest we will solve the mystery of the missing chocolate cake!

number 4



number 5

We managed to get 10 geocaches today but logged 8! Today we are 2 tired Cachers!  We did a lot of walking!  Here is the deer that I have been waiting to take a picture of, today we saw several of them!  It is so nice to see some wildlife.

An abandoned shelter.  We have seen a few of these in the forest in the last few months.  Two tired and thirsty cachers with sore feet and sore legs heading back to the car!  We had a very good and successful day!  I have to say again it was so nice to spend this beautiful spring day in the outdoors.

Have fun caching
GeoPartnerS
Caching since 2011

Cardiff Alberta

All Girl Team In Cardiff



Happy Birthday!

Number 1 find on the way to caching in Cardiff on

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Monday, we had tryed for this one on our first day caching but muggles kept us from attempting it.  Today was muggle free and quiet so it was a rather quick find for a cache that was not supposed to be winter friendly. 
This next one was in the bush, we had a little bit of bushwacking, we looked for this one for quite awhile, but had no idea what we were looking for as we only had co ordinates, no size no clues! We were about to leave and go onto the next place but K&Ccache spotted it, good geoeyes! perserverance does pay off.

The next one is by the golf course, we are walking downhill towards the cache and I spot it before I even get close to it.  It is an emergency box which is very well sealed and kept everything nice and dry.  We discovered a travel bug named Veronica The Bear.  I decide to take the travel bug with me to Winnipeg.  Veronica has an interesting story which can be found here.  I will move her on in the next few weeks, till I place her she will travel with me.  Veronica is the first travel bug that I have taken, I have discovered quite a few.

This is a picture of Veronica The Travelling Bear. Her tracking code is DXVVN3.

To get to this cache we had to drive down a very soft and muddy road, K&Ccache mobile was very dirty when we go out of there!

This was another walk up and grab, we did have a bit of a walk to get to it and out of it.

Our last one, another walk through snow that was hard slugging through.  This was through another little park next to a farm yard.  This was a walk up and spot for Chicksteroo.  The walk back to the geomobile was a long one for me, I was played out!  This was the last one of the day.  This picture is of the park across the road from where we found the cache, looks like a fun park for kids to play in.

Saying goodbye to caching for today!  Thank you Morinville and area for the geocaches, and for taking me to, and  showing me areas, and taking me outdoors to enjoy your town!  I will be back for more adventures in the future.

Have fun caching
GeoPartnerS
Caching since 2011