assiniboine Forest Along the harte trail

On The Trails And Off The Trails

We were looking forward to our Saturday caching trip all week! When we set out Saturday morning about 11 A.M. the temp was -10C and no winds, not sure if the temps came up during the day at all because when I got home at 4 P.M. it was still -10.  But was comfortable for walking the trails and through the bush. Our goal for the day was to do the caches along the Assiniboine Forest section of  The Harte Trail.  This part of the trail runs parallel to Wilkes Ave, the CPR Line also parallels the trail. 



 

This picture is the start of the trail, a groomer went ahead of us making it easy to walk, on the trails at least!   There are 5 caches placed along the trail by a MBGA member  to celebrate International Trails Day on June 5.  June 5th marks the official  opening of the Harte Trail extension, 6.5 km of trail running from Shaftsbury Blvd to the Perimeter Hwy. 


                                                      

First of the Harte Trail Series

These geocaches were all pretty close to the trail and not too difficult to find.  We were amazed at how nice the trail was and how much we were enjoying it.  Thanks to geocaching for bringing us here to discover it.

This is Gerry's find on the Trail Series, yeah! We are always so happy when we make a find.

This is Diane's find and this is what excitement looks like!  That about finished that series and so we still had some time to get a few more.                          

There was a Letterbox in the area and I wanted to get that one.  Letterboxes are not common in Winnipeg and I was anxious to see it.  Getting to this one proved to be a whole lot more work, we had to do some bushwacking from this point forward!  But it was so worth it in the end.  In the letterbox were some tradables and also 4 animal stamps and a stamp pad so we stamped our journal and left our signature in the log book provided.  We will have to work at making a signature stamp for GeoPartnerS to be able to leave our stamp as well.  The next 3 caches that we went to involved going though the bush.  Getting slapped in the face with branches, climbing over fallen trees, crawling under fallen trees, this way, that way, stumbling and falling!  Was a little hard work but did provide some good laughs!



Heading off the beaten path



 We found a few different and unique caches here, you look at an object and think it doesn't fit but my brain does not say look! Until I am told to look and voila, there it is!  Another cache hidden high in a tree with fantastic camo covering.  We do not as a rule look up, but as cachers we have to start to watch and really pay attention to our environment as a cache can be hidden in the least likely places.                                             

This cache was higher then you would expect a cache to be and it blended in so well with the trees.  Could have been hard to reach but there happened to be all kinds of broken trees with built in hooks to use as a tool.  Very nice hide!  At about 2 P.M. we decided to call it a day, so we got back onto the trail and put the coordinates to our first cache of the day which was near the car into the trusty Garmin etrex and it told us we had a little over a 1 km hike back to the car! ACK!  So the hike out was not so enjoyable to the tired and worn out GeoPartnerS, whose behinds were dragging.  But the day was so worth it, we did have fun and enjoyed the day a lot. We managed to log 9 caches to add to our collection, which is now at 36 finds.  Yeah Us!  We also wrote down the tracking number of a travel bug and learned that we can log it on geocaching.com as a "discovered" travel bug.

This is a photo of the letterbox stamps we made into our journal.

Until Next Time

Have Fun Caching

GeoPartnerS

Caching since 2011