Premium members have an option to view trails as well as roads in their geocaching maps. But are they really there?
According to these maps, you should be able to reach the starting co-ordinates using a trail running off of Brenda Crescent. Don't do it! You'll find yourself up someone's driveway and into a business' private back lot. It's a proverbial false trail. (As of 2025, at least...I suppose someone might correct the map now that I've pointed this out, so I've included a screenshot for posterity.)
No matter, for THIS CACHE IS NOT AT THE STARTING CO-ORDINATES. What you can see instead if you go to starting co-ordinates is many signs for that aforementioned business, one of which has a lot of numbers. Use these numbers to fill in the following waypoint co-ordinates:
N 43° 43.[take the last 7 #s on the sign, drop the last 4 of them, and use what remains]′
W 79° 15.[take the first 4 #s on the sign, drop the 1, and read them backwards]′
When you're standing at the waypoint, you can see the entrance to a real trail. You might wonder why they just didn't make this tiny trail into a road...but at least it's really there! Check the waypoint description to see what you need to observe on that trail in order find the final co-ordinates.
There is a potential surprise near GZ; please be sure to heed all signals in order to avoid crossing paths with a whole different kind of trail runner!
Either way, we've learned that trail maps can't replace visiting the real things. 😁
Congrats Barnie's Band of Gold 😊 FTF 30 Oct 2025, major thanks for catching an error in the instructions, and extra kudos for finding the cache despite that error (now corrected)!