Griffiths Hill Tower

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N/S ? ??.??? W/E ??? ??.???  [] In Manitoba, Canada

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The coordinates above are for the sign that has the first part of the information required to get the final coordinates for the cache. Have fun out there! The hike should be about 1.5 miles roundtrip.

Fire hazard travel restriction in Bird's Hill Park have been lifted but be careful and always obey park regulations.

This cache is located in Bird's Hill Provincial Park. Don't forget your park pass.

During the winter Chickadee Trail is a Cross-country Ski ONLY trail. No Walking; No Dogs.

Final Coordinates are N 50° 01.X and W 096° 53.Y

X = 304 plus the elevation in meters shown for Griffiths Hill (as shown on the sign at the starting coordinates).

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If the sign that has the elevation of Griffiths Hill has been removed, there may be a brown Cross Country Ski Trails "warning" sign about hiking & dogs. Count the numbers of M's and W's on that sign. X = 300 times the number of W's minus 31 times the number of M's. X can be calculated using either method.

At N 50° 01.645 & W 96° 53.835 are more signs. Y = 785 + distance in kilometres to the Stony Mountain Penitentiary + distance in kilometres to the Selkirk Water Tower (as shown on the signs at the second location).

Original container was a large camouflaged pail. Original contents are shown in a jpg below as well as log book, pencils & pencil sharpener.July 12/06 Container is now a large ammo box

FTF prize this time was a wooden scroll-sawed wheelbarrow and an FTF certificate (2nd jpg below).

This is our third cache. We hope you enjoy the hunt.

Additional Hints ( Decrypt ) 

Decryption Key
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z
(letter above equals below,
and vice versa)

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Pnpur vf va n frzv pvepyr bs fvk fznyy gerrf. (Decrypted Hints)

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Original Contents

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Cache Logs

November 11 by Trove Chasers (2578 found) We really enjoyed the chickadee trail and this multi. We managed to pick up a few others while on this hike. Next...Lime Kiln Trail... TNLN Stamped log TFTH TFTC [This entry was edited by Trove Chasers on Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 3:00:29 PM.] [view this log]

November 8 by The Doctor 155 (149 found) The Doctor and his Wife along with K-9 went for a walk along the trail. Thinking it would be time to solve this one, we took the GPS and lo and behold the cache was found. Left a TOTB pin (One ofthe Doctors Calling cards). Nice cache on this wonderful day of +12C and partly cloudy skies. [view this log]

October 9 by mcphee (97 found) Went out for a snowy walk with the hubby and geodog. Lots of deer out tonight. Great cache. Thanks. [view this log]

September 19 by swylie (471 found) I found this several years ago. Today I had several older Girl Guides that wanted to do some caching and we were camped near by. So off we went on a beautiful Sept. afternoon and found it with no difficulty. The girls were thrilled. Thanks for thr cache. Sunny Owl [view this log]

September 6 by kt13579 (48 found) Found it - and the mosquitoes. Great multi-cache. Thx [view this log]

Current time: 11/22/2009 10:04:00 AM
Last Updated: 11/19/2009 11:00:30 PM
Rendered: From Database
Coordinates are in the WGS84 datum