Manitoba Geocaching Association

ohmic · Joined: 07 Nov 2006 Posts: 456 Location: Winnipeg

As it was a good friend's birthday recently I decided to place not one but two geopics in his honour!

It is close to this:

And there is a cache close to this one too!

Coordinates are:

N 49° 5X.XXX W 096° 4X.XXX

Good luck and Happy Birthday!

lizardo · Joined: 02 Sep 2005 Posts: 497 Location: Winnipeg

N 49 57.864
W 096 42.989

I was surprised that there was a "Scott Park" in Winnipeg on Scott Street. So I zoomed right over there to see what fun I could have in the park.

Hmmm. Seems that Scott Park doesn't exist...Mebbe I should check the hint coordinates. Lessee...

So I enter 4 waypoints on the GPS for the 4 potential corners of the virtual search box. As luck would have it, there is only one cache within the box that exists in my unfound caches that isn't the solution to a puzzle. A quick Blackberry lookup tells me that OHMIC has recently found this cache. Target Acquired. And only 27 KM from where I am currently parked. Practically walking distance.

Off I go to Hazelridge. I grow nervous as I approach the area. This is, after all, Turdle Country. And on warm June days Turdles have been known to set aside their fastidious work of data manipulation and spreadsheet analysis to go and warm their shells in the local parks. "Meh", I figure. If I see him on site I will tackle him and throw his camera in Cooks Creek.

I was happy to arrive to see no sign of Turdles or speedy Glaciers. I snapped the pic of the streetsign:

And the Park sign:

A rather low-key park. Not much in the way of activity. I decide to take advantage of my solitude and look for the Bon Jovi cache. Unfortunately no amount of searching turned up any type of container. Oh well.

Response pic to come soon.

lizardo · Joined: 02 Sep 2005 Posts: 497 Location: Winnipeg

I know at least 2 cachers who have a picture of this ready to go. Question is...who will post first??
***Response requirement.***
There must be no geocachers recognizable in the pic.

You don't need to post it sideways, but I am doing this at Tim Hortons and am down to 4% battery!!!No time to edit.
As if you need a coordinate hint...
49 5x.xxx
97 1x.xxx

Ztirnats · Joined: 20 Jul 2006 Posts: 192 Location: Winnipeg

We certainly have the coords but unfortunately the picture eludes us at the moment.

ertyu · Joined: 25 Apr 2005 Posts: 547 Location: Winnipeg

Heh, this has been a geopic already.

Ztirnats · Joined: 20 Jul 2006 Posts: 192 Location: Winnipeg

49.54.243 N
097.12.123 W

glacier_ice · Joined: 16 Aug 2007 Posts: 688

LOL, I drove by here on Saturday but due to construction couldn't get over to get a picture.

Ztirnats · Joined: 20 Jul 2006 Posts: 192 Location: Winnipeg

I guess we are up? Hunting for the elusive Polar Bear.

N 49 XX.XXX W 097 XX.XXX

glacier_ice · Joined: 16 Aug 2007 Posts: 688

Well, now I know where the bear is, but now I've got to get there to get a reply picture and coords.

lizardo · Joined: 02 Sep 2005 Posts: 497 Location: Winnipeg

Finally found it.
The first excursion with the new GPS was a success! And the geo-tagging feature of the camera worked great!

49 52.633
097 09.905

Ztirnats · Joined: 20 Jul 2006 Posts: 192 Location: Winnipeg

Your turn Lizardo. Wow, that sure took a long time!

lizardo · Joined: 02 Sep 2005 Posts: 497 Location: Winnipeg

All-right. Here's one with a pretty central address. Who can find it?
49 5x.xxx
097 09.xxx

angelcastaneda · Joined: 04 Jan 2010 Posts: 47

Found at N49 53.573 W97 09.173

http://twitpic.com/1edjre

lizardo · Joined: 02 Sep 2005 Posts: 497 Location: Winnipeg

Way to go Mr. Castaneda! You are up!

glacier_ice · Joined: 16 Aug 2007 Posts: 688

Wow, that sucker's so new it doesn't even show up on street view.