Date: November 29, 2014
Vicinity: Winnipeg, Manitoba
Significance: This one didn't count as a "find", as it was the most complex cache I ever made. It involved a UV light, a PVC pipe to pour water in, a QR code reader, and a combination lock (plus an optional night cache component). I asked my girlfriend to help me test it out before it was published. What she didn't know was that the final container contained a card, and that the name of this cache is an anagram for "Tari will you marry me". I proposed on the spot, and she said yes :)

*Timely Railway Rumor

Timely Railway Rumor

Date: October 2, 2010
Log: https://coord.info/GL4GW1B4
Vicinity: Nopiming Provincial Park, Manitoba
Significance: First find. Waited almost two years to do any others.

00001. Gem Lake

Gem Lake

Date: August 22, 2012
Log: https://coord.info/GL92ZQW1
Vicinity: Winnipeg, Manitoba
Significance: First find all on my own. In the park near my parents' house that I'd been to a hundred times.

00005. The Hill

The Hill

Date: August 24, 2012
Log: https://coord.info/GL933AZ3
Vicinity: Winnipeg, Manitoba
Significance: First "mind blowing" find. It was a magnetic tin stuck up under a park bench. Utterly unremarkable after years of caching; staggeringly creative when you've found fewer than 10.

00011. Ducks and Possums

Ducks and Possums

Date: August 25, 2012
Log: https://coord.info/GL93T5JY
Vicinity: Boissevain, Manitoba
Significance: Having started geocaching just three days earlier, my girlfriend found a geocache in her hometown and used it to hide her birthday present for me. A magical moment that ended with us telling each other we loved the other. We're married now, and have a son together.

00016. Skirmish on the Hilltop

Buck's Hill Skirmish

Date: August 31, 2012
Log: https://coord.info/GL95FFED
Vicinity: Victoria Beach, Manitoba
Significance: A baby deer rested right close to GZ, allowing me to take a picture that has been my sole avatar on geocaching.com.

00038. Dr. L. Sam McMorris

Dr. L. Sam McMorris

Date: September 3, 2012
Log: https://coord.info/GL96M5WJ
Vicinity: Winnipeg, Manitoba
Significance: My first "favourite" cache. I almost shrieked with delight when I solved the riddle, and again when I found the cache. My first exposure to what I came to call "Trove Magic". And just for good measure, it was also the first time I found a TB - a geocoin - in the wild.

00056. Tribute to GG & J:   "Masterstroke" 2010th in 2010

Tribute to GG & J:   "Masterstroke" 2010th in 2010

Date: September 8, 2012
Log: https://coord.info/GL97TJ8C
Vicinity: Winnipeg, Manitoba
Significance: First cache I ever found that contained at TB.

00082. Hold 'Em Pocket Card #1

Hold 'Em Pocket Card #1

Date: September 9, 2012
Log: https://coord.info/GL989P4T
Vicinity: Winnipeg, Manitoba
Significance: First cache I ever placed a TB in.

00086. It's a Jungle in Here

It's a Jungle in Here

Date: September 22, 2012
Log: https://coord.info/GL9BEMET
Vicinity: Winnipeg, Manitoba
Significance: Before finding the cache, I searched underneath a boulder and disturbed a live wasp nest. Fortunately they were either too cold or too lethargic to do anything.

00121. Rock and Roll

Rock and Roll

Date: September 22, 2012
Log: https://coord.info/GL9BFCNA
Vicinity: Winnipeg, Manitoba
Significance: First cache I ever found on the day it was published. And using my mom's TomTom to boot!

00123. Muys Park #2

Muys Park #2

Date: September 30, 2012
Log: https://coord.info/GL9DR60P
Vicinity: Winnipeg, Manitoba
Significance: Persistence paid off on a long, difficult search well after midnight when I was a new cacher. First "evil" find.

00155. MOE on the Farm

MOE on the Farm

Date: October 4, 2012
Log: https://coord.info/GL9EMPW9
Vicinity: Halifax, Nova Scotia
Significance: First physical find outside my home province.

00160. Cornwallis Cache

Peace and Friendship Park Cache

Date: October 15, 2012
Log: https://coord.info/GL9HFAVF
Vicinity: Winnipeg, Manitoba
Significance: First time being questioned by police.

00229. Archangel

Archangel

Date: November 2, 2012
Log: https://coord.info/GL9NJVCE
Vicinity: Winnipeg, Manitoba
Significance: First time I ran into fellow geocachers looking for the same cache - buldog#1 and wuz1.

00316. Krusty The Clown Motion Sickness Telethon

Krusty The Clown Motion Sickness Telethon

Date: November 22, 2012
Log: https://coord.info/GL9TJHC6
Vicinity: Winnipeg, Manitoba
Significance: First "real" FTF. And one I definitely earned. The cache had gone missing on my first two visits to GZ; finally found it the third time.

00360. Martin Prince

Martin Prince

Date: November 28, 2012
Log: https://coord.info/GL9VW675
Vicinity: Winnipeg, Manitoba
Significance: First event I ever attended.

00368. MBGA Pub Night: Calling All Players

MBGA Pub Night: Calling All Players

Date: November 28, 2012
Log: https://coord.info/GL9VW111
Vicinity: Winnipeg, Manitoba
Significance: Literally stood atop another cacher's shoulders to reach the container and sign all my new friends' names on the log. This after meeting people at my first ever event cache.

00369. Zach's Place

Zach's Place

Date: November 29, 2012
Log: https://coord.info/GL9VYQ7H
Vicinity: Winnipeg, Manitoba
Significance: The first cache I ever found, for which the only reason I looked for it was to fill in a day on the calendar.

00372. Swindon Oaks Park

Swindon Oaks Park

Date: December 6, 2012
Log: https://coord.info/GL9WXNDP
Vicinity: Winnipeg, Manitoba
Significance: First challenge cache completed. RIP to the other meaning of "challenges".

00385. 25-Challenge Challenge

25-Challenge Challenge

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