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NOTICE
The time has come! Eight years ago the Prairie Winds Caches were published for "Best of the Bad" Mega, and 2 cache owner groups have been maintaining them. It is time to archive the series, but we would like more people to receive a Prairie Winds coin first.
NOTE: All the Prairie Winds caches will be archived as of the 8th of September, 2020.
The new requirement is: You must have logged, as found, at least 20 Prairie Winds caches to earn a Prairie Winds geocoin. Once you qualify (before September 8, 2020), contact cache owner at lthbridge@gmail.com to receive a coin.
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This is another small hamlet in rural, southern Alberta. Beware of muggles! Here everyone knows everyone and all the vehicles that they might be traveling in. This is your challenge – to get in, grab the cache, get out and not get muggled!
This cache is hidden in a windrow of “Caragana arborescens” or caragana which is a long living perennial shrub that can grow up to 12 feet high. As a legume plant, it fixes nitrogen in the soil for future crops grown nearby. Caragana is commonly planted as a shelterbelt or wind breaks because it can tolerate the extreme cold of winter, the heat of the summer as well as being drought tolerant. When used as a shelterbelt row it would collect the blowing snow into drifts in winter and slow down the winds of spring and fall. It is very likely that this location would collect a lot of snow.