Geocaching with Geocacher Ken

Good morning everyone.  The first ever CITO event to be held in Manitoba occurred on April 22nd, 2006.  'Belly Full of Flapjacks CITO Race' GC3J0 took place on Earth Day.  It included a pancake breakfast, a CITO race, followed by a tailgate party with prizes.  This CITO event had 19 attended logs and 8 found it logs.  The reviewer note on the day it was published was amusing.  LOL. Who went out and did some geocaching on palindrome day?  As we all know, a palindrome is anything that can be written forwards or backwards and still be spelt the same, such as racecar or radar.  February 2nd, 2020 was palindrome day because anyway you wrote that day down, it was the same set of numbers forwards and backwards. My story actually begins and January 31st.  I'm driving out to the neighboring city of Portage La Prairie so my boys and the geo-dog can spend the weekend with their mom.  Since I'm in Portage, I may as well grab a few caches.  I really should grab a few since I hav

Good morning everyone.  The oldest Earthcache in Manitoba is "Dunes Day', GC12902.  It was hidden on April 18, 2007.  It is still active, receiving 16 favorite points so far with 76 found logs.  The oldest event listing for Manitoba is interesting.  "Turtle Island Festival GPS Challenge" GCGKHB is listed to have taken place on August 6, 2003.  In the description, the event date is listed as August 9, 2003.  There are only two log entries for this event.  Both in 2004.  A needs archive by local cachers Peter & Gloria (they're still active) and by mtn-man, who archived this listing.  I'm not sure if this event did take place in 2003 and how many people actually attended. There are many attractions and places of interest in and around the city of Winnipeg.  In the Fall, there are corn mazes.  It is just that, a maze carved in a field of corn.  One of these mazes can be found about 10 minutes South of Winnipeg.  It is called A Maze In Corn.  It's not ju

Good morning everyone.  Continuing with last week's fun fact; the furthest caches in Manitoba (including archived caches) located in the North, West, and South.  To the North, "Gangler's - Northern Pike"  GC327X9.  It had a D/T rating of 5/3.5.  Hidden in July of 2011, it was found twice before being archived in August, 2014.  It's latitude was N58 58.807  To the West, "Builded Better" GC2GGK8.  Hidden in October, 2010 with a rating of 1/1.  It was found 16 times before being archived in September, 2015.  It had a longitude of W101 52.785  Finally, the most Southerly geocache in Manitoba.  "Straight to the Point"  GC206D6.  Hidden in October, 2009 with a 1.5/1.5 rating.  It was found 46 times before being archived in August, 2012.  It's latitude was N49 00.080. I've been getting some geocaching stuff in the mail over the past couple of months.  More so over the Christmas holidays.  This week, I want to share with you some of the goodi

Good morning everyone.  I like to play around on project-gc from time to time and see what interesting stuff I can find.  I discovered a map that shows the furthest North, South, East, West and oldest geocache in a particular area.  Of the five for Manitoba, the only active caches on that list are furthest East:  "Port Nelson"  GC4Q38M.  It was hidden in October, 2013 and only found once, July, 2014.  It has a 4/4 D/T rating.  It's longitude is W92 35.629  The other active cache is Manitoba's oldest, "C1BUA - cache1n a built up area" GC21C.  Hidden in February 2001, it has 477 logged finds so far. The January Cache Advance Cache Crate arrived.  What goodies are inside this time?  When I do this, I have no idea what I'm about to pull out of the box.  I reach in and take pictures of the items as I pull them out.  It sort of adds to the excitement.  Same could be said when I open my mailbox.  I never know what's inside.  Mostly bills, flyers, and othe