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Garbage Hill Memories Traditional Cache

Hidden : 5/29/2009
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

So many garbage hills, so many memories...

Cache is a large lock n lock. Please do not unhook the outer container. Much of the land around the cache is vacant, but if you want to roam, please obey the property pin (marker is visible in the field, and waypoint with coordinates and more details is supplied with this listing). There is no parking along Grassie Boulevard, but there is along Cordite Road. In winter (assuming the snow isn't deep enough to bury the cache completely) it's a short walk across the Cordite Ditch. In summer you'll have to walk from one of the Cordite Trail's endpoints. Nearest one is near another cache. Another possiblity, one I used before the culverts were installed on the trail, is the east end of Jacques Avenue.

Everyone seems to know about the garbage hill near Polo Park. But out here in northeast Winnipeg there are no less than three garbage hills! Probably the oldest is this one on Kimberly Avenue. Then up till the 80s there was the landfill site that became Kil-Cona Park. My first ever cache find had a view of that garbage hill. And then there is the more obscure hill along Cordite Road, north of this cache. I used to ride my bike up there, till the city fenced it off a few years ago. There was a good view down into the North Transcona rail yard on its north side. According to signage along the Cordite Trail, this was the Town of Transcona's landfill in bygone years.

All of the "Cordite" names around here (Cordite Ditch, Cordite Road, Cordite Trail) refer to a cordite plant that operated during WWII just east of where the Floodway is today, and used the ditch as drainage.

One final thing of note, the fence around the garbage hill isn't stopping some people from leaving little messages using stones on the hill. The messages change quite frequently. If any cachers bring cameras and are able to post a picture of an interesting message of the day it would be appreciated.

Congratulations to Skil101 on being First To Find!

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