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Casual Gathering!
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On Friday October 20th, everyone is invited to come out and join us at Jeffries on Henderson (co-ords to follow soon) at 8:30 pm to vist with our cacher of the north, slippery_1. He's in town that week and I've spoken with him about a casual gathering so we can all visit. There is no caching planned for thi...
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ThreeTs
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Events planning
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Can anyone tell me if there is somewhere I can look up "the rules" for putting on an event? I can't seem to find anything on the topic.Any input is appreciated!!
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sam and lily
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I'm coming for a visit
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Wanting to get away from work in Mississippi for fall break, I've decided to spend a few days exploring Winnipeg and the surrounding area. I'll be arriving Friday and spending 3 nights, and was thinking of driving over to Riding Mountain NP over Saturday night. My brother may be coming along, but is st...
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DavidMac
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Christmas Event Poll
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Please take the few minutes to fill out this poll so I can get a good concensus of when to plan this shindig of ours. I know we will not be able to please everybody but we will do our best to accomodate everybody that we can. Any ideas, suggestions, comments, etc are welcome. And yes, it will be my goal to try a...
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Christmas Event!
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What, in August you say? Well, no, but perhaps we should start thinking about it now as we all know how everybody's social calendar gets booked up in the most Seasonal time of year for celebrations!
Anybody have any suggestions, dates, places, ideas, plans they would like to see happen?&nbs...
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ThreeTs
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Spruce Woods Cache and Release
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Just curious how much interest there might be in a cache and release style event in Spruce Woods. It is practically cache free save for two caches added this year, and it is a fair sized provincial park reasonable driving distance from just about everywhere in southern Manitoba. A c...
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Dragonfreys
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Cache Boom
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It's amazing how this game has exploded in Manitoba in the last couple years. As we are approaching the 1000 active caches in Manitoba mark, I thought I'd look back at some of the milestones along the way.
The first cache was hidden in Manitoba on February 5, 2001 (GC21C)
The first tim...
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junglehair
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Disappointed with new Google Earth
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Just downloaded the newest upgrade to Google Earth and am fairly disappointed. There's a lot I'm bothered by but the most relevant complaint to share here is the upgrade's failure to relate with the geocaching.com KML function that I ran on my old version. The old version sho...
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SmartJeff
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Geocaching in the news.
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Another newspaper article on Geocaching.
http://www.interlakespectator.com/News/254798.html
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Jimbo 2
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Woman Finds $700 Dollars...And Returns It!
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I can't believe it!!! I went to the MBGA meeting last night and when I got home, the only thing I can think of is I must have put my gpsr on top of my car, and when I went to work this morning it fell off onto the street. Well a kind woman who had found it turned on the unit and returned it back to me tod...
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Master Instigator
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Back homeafter great trip in WPG
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Good morning everyone,
The MBGA September 13, 2006 meeting was lots fun as I got to meet different geocachers and found out what will be happening for the next few months. Thank you everyone!
Thank you TurdleEggs for the list of geocaches. I only did 3 geocaches as I ran...
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Considerate and carefree
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Whoa, I didn't even get to finish writing before the post disappeared. Not used to that happening in here. Here's my meagre contribution to the discussion. I hope it is not out of line.
Too racey? Delete this thread? I should hope not. This is exactly the kind of discussion this p...
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Dragonfreys
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Plug for Sterling.ca - maker of rubber stamps (ie: signature stamps, etc)
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I feel the need to plug Sterling Marking Products (http://www.sterling.ca). A week or so ago, I orded two stamps from them - one for a travel bug, and one for a signature stamp. Both stamps had custom art, and were considerably cheaper than a similarly sized stamp (even with just plain text, and...
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grnbrg
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2 caches
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Just so you know, there are 2 caches in the Interlake on the Prime Meridian Trail, that aren't listed on Geocaching.com
"Swamps and Songs" Location: N 50°23.430' WO 97°29.165' Level of Difficulty: Easy hiking. 30 minutes from Hwy 415. Hint: Check into Heartbreak Hotel
"Leave it to Beavers" Loc...
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Jimbo 2
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Coming to Winnipeg
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Good evening,
I am driving to Wpg for business trip on Sept 13, 2006, all day mtg in Hadashville on the 14th then head back home on the 15th. I will drop in for the MBGA meeting on 13th but is there anyone who wants to go geocaching before the meeting(who need supper LOL!) or after the meeting.&nbs...
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Dauphin Geocaching COntest
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Gord from Morris and a few other people have told me they heard on CBC radio yesterday a news story about a new geocaching contest being put on by the town of Dauphin Tourism as a way to attract people to visit Dauphin. Any body heard of this or found any details. Gord e-mailed Marilyn Macki of CBC who said i...
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Manitoba Recreational Trails Association gets $1M
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August 30, 2006
PROVINCE COMMITS $1 MILLION
FOR TRANS CANADA TRAIL DEVELOPMENT IN MANITOBA
PINAWA-Premier Gary Doer announced the province is committing $1 million
to the Manitoba Recreational Trails Association and today is providing
$500,000 to assist volunteers in their...
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ertyu
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Manitoba Geocoin
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I saw a Manitoba Geocoin listed in the Geocaching forums, is anyone interested in a trade with me for one?
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Team CoyChev
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Two new nearby Ontario caches.
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grnbrg
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Mega magnet
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If anyone is looking for a ridiculously strong magnet, there is some at Princess Auto on Dugald in the surplus area. If memory serves, they are in the same aisle as the amo tins, but on the other side of the aisle and at the other end. They are about knee height and are wrapped in corrogated ca...
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Lizardo
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Wooh! 10 finds without a GPS!
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Yes, I realize this is a pathetic "goal" at best for like... everyone I'm sure, but hey... it was a pseudo-milestone that I made for myself. Getting at least 10 finds before I get my GPS system (which should be here either late this week, or the week after... or worst case, the week after that).
Well....
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Kabuthunk
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Knight Caching
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Any Interest in doing a night cache group effort, I know of at least two that are supposed to be done at night I am thinking of a 12:30 departure with several caches in the wpg are and maybe a sunrise breakfast/supper at sal's?
There is only a few that I know of that are specific of night caching... these a...
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FoodNinja
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500 Manitoba Caches
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It’s a big day for GeoCaching in Manitoba! It looks like Manitoba’s top finder, winnipgek5 placed two caches today to put the active count in Manitoba at 500.
Way to go Manitoba cachers! This crazy activity is growing rapidly in Manitoba with more new cachers joining up every day and great...
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TurdleEggs
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MetroGuide North America
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Does anyone have a copy of Garmin's MapSource MetroGuide North America v5 or better? If so, can I borrow it for a few days?
Thanks!
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dani_carriere
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Dani's Quest for 2006
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As most of you know, I am the slowest geocacher on the planet. I'm at 94 finds after only 4ish years of caching.
My goal for the year was to get all caches (less than 4 x 4) within 5kms of my house. I was doing pretty good until the last few weeks when 20 more caches had been placed.&nb...
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September Blitz Event!
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Its coming to that time where we need to start planning our September Blitz wind-up event! We have one very generous offer to host this event but I would like to know if there is any interest elsewhere that anybody has of hosting or ideas for the event? Around Sept 23rd ish? Please re...
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ThreeTs
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Back country travel restrictions are now in place due to extreme fire danger.
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http://www.gov.mb.ca/chc/press/top/2006/07/2006-07-12-03.htmlFIRE HAZARD UPGRADED TO EXTREME IN EASTERN REGION - - - Backcountry Travel Not Permitted; Daytime Campfires Banned
Manitoba Conservation advises the fire hazard in the eastern region of the province is...
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grnbrg
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Lithium Battery Coupon
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http://www.rebeltrail.com/energizer/entry/en_coupon_3.cfm
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ertyu
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Heading East to Maritimes
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Going on holiday to the Maritimes in a week or so. If anyone has been before, please let me know of some must visit caches or sites to see.
Thanks
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JayPeg
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Found #1 =)
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Well I found my first one this afternoon =) Thanks to slipery_1 MHz and ertyu for helping me get the right datum in my GPS. Once I had that it wasnt bad at all.
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Big Thank you to grnbrg & Burchill
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for being great host to Spongebob_familymb - Mom and dd Kimi. Even after all the complaining from Kimi she told me she had a great time today. It was fun going geocaching with the pros.
Sarah & Kimi
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Getting all our ducks in a row at Rubber Ducky
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This is the schedule for the geocaching day at our Resort.
There will be a geocaching orientation session for newcomers Saturday morning at 10:00am followed by an afternoon of caching. There will be a minimum of 5 caches placed with approximately 1 hour (30 minutes as the duck flies) total travel t...
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Rubber Ducky
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Folklorama Co-ords
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Any chance some cachers want to contribute the co-ords to the various pavilions? I can't do a reverse in Streets and Trips with location sadly to my GPSr. Or hide a cache at each of them and give us yet another thing to do while standing in line at the events?
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1queenand4jokers
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UofM cache tour tomorrow (July 25th) at 4:30.
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For those interested, I'll be doing a tour of the caches at the UofM tomorrow with spongebob_family.
As with the Bison Madness: Cache'n the UofM! event, we will be starting at the co-ordinates for G.U.E. Magic Scroll Cache #69,105. Parking in the adjacent lot (and most other lots on campus) is f...
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Peter and Gloria==> 800+
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Congrats, I just saw you guys crossed this mark WTG.
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Canada Multi-cache, or Cachin' across the Great White North
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I received this email today, but I won't be able to participate. Any takers? Please resond on the groundspeak forum link below. Thanks
Hello there folks. I'm helping to put a national multicache together and the last place we need is Winnipeg. Could you have a look at this forum and let me know if you a...
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Peter and Gloria
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MBGA Chatroom.
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Well, it was a slow afternoon....
I'm now running a chat server dedicated (at the moment) to providing a chat channel for the association. For those familiar with IRC, the server is irc.grnbrg.org, and the channel is #mbga.
Clients:
Mozilla -- Mozilla has a built-in client.
F...
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grnbrg
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Camping Event
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Did a little research on the group camp here at Clear Lake called Camp Kippechewan. Fairly booked up already but there is one weekend still open in July 7-9. (i.e. available from Friday at noon to Sunday at noon)
The cost is $5 per person/night, kids 12 and under free. Holds up to 60 people.
The site i...
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Dragonfreys
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Northern Geocachers Coffee Day Event.
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Northern Geocachers Coffee Day Caching Outing
Saturday, July 8, 2006
Meet at The Dutch Drive Inn, The Pas
N- 53 48.399 W- 101 15.083
Time 2:00 PM (1400 hours)
(Cancelled if raining.)
Coffee, ice cream, soft drinks e...
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slippery_1
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Geocaching.com
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http://www.geocaching.com/Gallery/banner.aspx?IID=e1937233-d85b-4851-9bc2-5a0b9edf454c&DS=2&BID=2632
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