Current at 11/6/2011 (Online waypoint URL) You have already found this cache! Master Index    Nearest Caches On the Edge by 1purplemonkeydishwasher1 (2.5/2) N49° 56.312  W97° 01.967 (WGS84) UTM  14U   E 641160  N 5533652 Use waypoint: GC2DPFR Size: Regular    Hidden on 8/19/2010 In Manitoba, Canada Difficulty:     Terrain:           Bring the geohound to the off leash dog park. Cache is located right on the edge of Kildonan Park. Small ditch between road and GZ, small hop may be required if water is in ditch. Cache is a cammo'd container with Geocache sticker on top. Timing of seasons will depend on how easy the find will be.

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2/21/2011 by Kabuthunk
Today was a rather interesting day. Well, for one I got to go geocaching, which is always good. Especially since I haven't had a chance to go geocaching for over 30 days... a decline that's only happened once or twice before in my history of caching. But... slumps happen, and video games come out (and/or are replayed... Fallout New Vegas = awesome). But as it turns out, despite most of the weekend being pretty much entirely taken up by various family gatherings, I managed to get some snowshoeing in today ! Especially nice since the past while has been way too warm, and I'd have a hundred pounds of sticky almost-slush stuck to my snowshoes prior to this recent cold snap.

So off I went, on a geocaching venture. I was batting around where to go, but suddenly latched onto Kil-Cona park (the truly sad part however is that when I drove up today, I JUST realized what that name actually meant . Never thought about it much apparently). It was fun here the past few trips, sounds like a good decision in my book. Finding the parking lot peculiarly full, I found a parking spot and worked my way onto the snow.

The solid, rock-hard snow.

Well, this is a bit of a disappointment, I thought. So I just hoofed it in my winter boots in the general direction of the geocache, hoping to come across softer snow. After going over the hill and a bit down the other side from the parking lot, I finally sank down about a foot or so in some softer snow. Ahhh... THERE'S where my snow is.

Stopping immediately to gear up, I quickly headed off with the snowshoes strapped on. About 10 feet later I found I was on a semi-solid crust again, but there was enough soft spots to warrant still wearing them.

As I reached the coordinates, I was very thankful that, despite having seen dozens of dog walkers going by while putting on my snowshoes, this stretch, as far as I could see in both directions, was completely devoid of people or animals . Perfect timing! I quickly found my way into the trees (where there was also nice soft snow ) and began to hunt around. About 20 seconds in, I happened to spot just a bit of the cache container peering back at me. A quick retrieval later, and the cache was in hand!

Coast still clear? Yep... eeeexcellent.

However, to not press my luck further, I quickly tossed in a chainmail ball, a Dragon-based geocoin, and football TB, and signed the logbook. Quickly closing everything up and replacing it as found, a quick brush of the hand made the area about as identical as possible to when I walked in. Heading back across the trail to continue snowshoeing, I was pleased to see the path still empty. Nice timing indeed .

Thanks for getting me out to Kil-Cona park again. I've really got to come here more often.

Took: Nothing
Left: Logbook entry, geocoin, TB, and chainmail ball