Saturday in the Assiniboine Forest

Another Sunny Day Of Enjoying The Forest

One more day of caching in the forest and the PartnerS were looking forward to it!  The sunshine was beautiful, with a light wind blowing.  The temperature at 11:00 A.M. was -8 with a windchill of -16c, was a little chilly out in the open, but in the forest it was comfortable.  We started our day hiking on the trails, the sun was shining and the sky was blue.  This picture was hiking across a clearing to start our adventure.

The GPS was cooperating today and so we didn't have too many problems finding any the caches that we were after.  We found our first one rather easily.  It was a nice cache hanging in a tree, it was very winter friendly, but not so well hidden in the winter time!  In the summer time it would be a more difficult find with the leaves on the trees to hide it a little.  But easy on the first one of the day is always a good thing!



First one of the day



We continued along the trail, taking in the scenery and enjoying the fantastic day!  For January 28 can you beat these temps and the very minimal amount of snow cover that we have on the ground?  If we had our normal snowfall we sure would not be bushwhacking in Assiniboine Forest right now.  We are so lucky to be able to be finding these caches at this time of the year, in the summer time this area would be infested with bugs and wet terrain.

Here is a some furniture that we discovered just "hanging around"

makes us wonder, who hauled this into the forest to hang in a tree?  So we shake our heads and carry on. 




MaaaWaaaaaahhhh!

 To this next little micro, that Gerry's eagle eye spied!  As you can see he is more then happy to add it to his list of "finds".  In this cache there was a picture of two people who wanted to travel around, so we took them with us down the trail to drop into another cache.
 

Down this trail and up that trail with some bushwhacking in between the 3 brave GeoPartnerS trudged on to the next one!  This one was kind of hard to see, it was above eye level and looking up into the sun made it hard to see.  We thought this was a real good "in plain site" hide.  But Diane's Sharpe eyes spotted it!  Miss Di can claim this find and she was more then happy to put into her "Yeehaw I found it" folder!

Who wouldn't love going for a walk down this wonderful trail?  We are off to the next one, it will be the 4th of the day.  We met up with a fair amount of dogs and their masters today out getting their exercise and fresh air.  The dogs really enjoy being out there running free.  Except 2 older dogs, who were not enjoying their long walk too much.  They were walking rather slow and resting a lot.  We can attest to the fact that as we age it gets harder!  So around the corner, up a hill and there we are approaching our next target.

In the woodpile!  We found this one quite easy, cute little container that looked like a flying saucer.  It was called Tinder Circle, how appropriate.  The container did not close too well as some of the tabs were broke off the round lock and lock container.  We did manage to close it better then we found it.  We left the picture that we picked up in a previous cache in this cache.  We figured this to be a good temporary home for the couple.

We came across this prime piece of real estate on our way to our next big find.  We liked the high ceiling in the spacious A frame and so we sat in it awhile and tryed it out for comfort, to see if it was to our liking, but we decided that it was a little too drafty and so we made a unanimous decision to forgo making an offer on the niffty little property. 

Our next two finds were ammo boxes which are so nice as there is alot of room for tradeables and for the log book.  The ammo cans also close up real well and keep everything inside dry and safe. 

The second ammo box called "Periodically Insane" was our first little milestone...our #50th  find...yeahhh.

This next one was a very good hide, we named it as a favorite.  The spot that it was hidden in was so very well camouflaged into its environment.  Diane spotted it, good eye for sure!  This cache is number 7  in a series of caches called "The Remember" series.  This series of caches is dedicated to a few of the thousands of Canadian Servicemen who gave everything to defend our way of life.  We need to gather the information in all of the caches and put information together and that will enable us to find the last cache in this series.

The information given in this cache was about this Lt. in the RAF:

-John Percy McCone

-Pilot....

-SE5A.....The plane was designed by British company R.A.F. (Royal Aircraft Factory).S.E. - Scout experimental (single seat fighters).

-C1054....registration number

-Lt 41 Squadron RAF

Born March 11 1891

Died March 24 1918
He was 27 years old.

Shot down by air ace Manfred von Richthofen in his Fokker DR.I. 

We put the container back into its hiding spot and noticed 2 cachers approching us so we stayed and met them and chatted a bit.  The cachers were Rookies7691 a dad and his son, also new to this game.

Up and onward to our next and last geocache of the day.  This was another find by Sis Di!

I love the excitement!

Then it's time to head back to the car, we have about a 1 km hike, again 3 tired geocachers head back with backsides kind of dragging! 

We decided to pick up a piece of wood to house one of the caches that we plan to construct when we decide to start to hide some of our own. This was the weather when we left and when we left the forest.

11:00 Mainly Sunny -8 73 -12 NW 24 101.4 24 -16
14:00 Sunny -9 66 -14 NNW 35 101.5 24 -19

Until our next adventures.

Have fun caching

GeoPartnerS

Caching since 2011