GPS Check Time-Pure Evil

OH YOU BET YOUR SWEET ASS THIS WAS PURE EVIL!!!
Me and my daughter and her friend tried to find this cache back in June. We were all over that baseball field. In the bushes, fences, playground, trashcans..etc. We even found two head stones
on the west side of the field in the bushes. Creepy! We just could not find it for nothing.

Then I started reading the logs on this cache today and some people said it was pretty easy to find now that the grass was short and dead. I thought ok let's give this another try. I went right to were the gps narrowed down to and it was right in the middle of the baseball field. Mind you there is nothing there but air..lol. But I read a log that said they got on their hands and knees and started looking. So that's what I did, right there in the open field. I often wonder when you find yourself in these positions if anyone is watching you wondering what the hell your doing. "Yes, 911 there is a crazy white lady on her hands and knees in the middle of the field, should I approach with caution?"..lol

I found it and I'm telling you the cache owner is evil.. It was a copper tube about the size of a pen buried in the ground. It was hollow and had a metal thin rod in it with the log book wrapped around it. Ya, ummm ya .... awesome!!!!
So I got this cache off my "did not find list".. after 3 months. Happy, happy, joy joy!!!!

Playing around:




The headstone we found:


The field with the evil cache..lol:


Found it.. I'm looking all sorts of hot and tired:

A Trubute to Hotdog

Nice little place to remember over by Belmont! I felt bad going through the bushes and stuff looking for the cache. Just like going to cemetarys and a cache might be close to a grave.

Invissible Ink

This cache has been on my to-do-list for awhile. The first stage was blank paper with the cords written on it with onion juice. You had to figure out how to get the invisible onion juice to appear. It took awhile. I hint from someone off another board and google were my friends. So I found stage one and took my lighter and heated it under the paper, what should appear but the numbers..woohooo!

Stage one:
I did block the numbers so other fellow cachers would have to do it themselves.


Found the final stage:

Honey! Have you seen my club

Well I thought since I'm out and about having to drop my kid off to school.. woohoooo!! That I would do some caching while its so darn nice out this morning.
I did 4 caches. This was the first one I did.

Brand new cache put out, I happen to be the second one to find it. Never have I been able to be the FTF.. sighs.

This cache was in a park area hidden among a bushy tree. Took me a few to find it. It was a half of a golf club stuck in the ground with a wooden dolly stuck in the middle of it with the log wrapped around it. Pretty cool idea.



Found it..

Notice the bush leaf and the messed up hair trying to retrieve it.. lol

Dean Lake

Very pretty lake this morning. This being my 2nd one of the day. The water was so still and clear. That's the kind of lake you want to go fishing on so you don't drift all over the place. Sometimes I wish I could just puff boat out my ass right along with a fishing pole..LOL
The locals around there where outside with their cups of java enjoying the scene also. Talked to a older gentlemen about the house across the lake. He said it had like 60 windows in it.
I don't know if you'll see if very good, just click on it it will make it bigger, but that's the house he was talking about.




Found it.. then just sat there soaking in the peaceful morning.

Out in Left Field

3rd one this morning. This was a tucked in park. Meaning you wouldn't think with such a high traffic area, plainfield and east beltline that there would be a park here. It was a pretty easy fine. Another cap on top of a post cache. I love those ones. Nobody in their right mind would ever think to look under one of those for any reason what so ever. Ok maybe looking for spiders..lol

Nice shelter for a picnic. There was also a little playground for the kiddies..


On my way to find it..


Found it..

Ice Breakers #2

4th find of the day. I have been to this lake about 22 years ago to swim all the time. Now you have to pay to go swimming here. It's much bigger now. It also has way more people living around and businesses that sprang up over the years. It was not as calm as the other lake I seen this morning, but still great to look at and watch for awhile.

Had to use stealth to retrieve this one. It was located under a lamp pole box thingy..lol But it was right behind a business so had to be sneaky.




Found it, but not a very good picture. The sun was beaming its rays into my eyes.. I thought I was going to melt..lol

The Grand and Rogue River Confluence

This is a Earth Cache. Just had to go to the destination they pointed out and take a picture of yourself there.
This was the 1st of five we did today.

Here is the information they supplied on it: Pretty interesting!
River - A large natural stream of water emptying into an ocean, lake, or other body of water and usually fed along its course by converging tributaries.

Tributary - a stream or river which flows into a larger stream or river.

Confluence - The meeting of two or more bodies of water. It can be where a river meets a lake, sea, or ocean. Or in our case here, the junction point of a river and its tributary.

The Grand and Rogue River Confluence

Down river, 150 yards or so to the right from where you stand, the Rogue River enters the Grand River. This spot where the two rivers join together is called a confluence.

From here the mouth of the Rogue River may be hard to see at times because the Rogue is a much smaller river. But the contribution of its waters and their effect on the Grand River are unmistakable.

The Rogue River is 42 miles long and has 234 square miles of watershed. It varies from 15 feet wide in the upper sections to 80 feet wide near its end and is between 1 - 4 feet deep. There is one dam along its length- the Rockford dam.

The Grand River is Michigan’s longest river and has 8,592 square miles of watershed. Its headwaters are in Somerset Township, Hillsdale County and it flows into Lake Michigan approximately 260 miles downstream at Grand Haven. It has numerous dams along its length. Its major tributaries are the Red Cedar River, Looking Glass River, Maple River, Flat River, Thornapple River, and the Rogue River.

Early in our country's history both the Rogue River and the Grand were used as an important transportation routes by Indians, explorers, traders, and finally white settlers. During Michigan's lumber era in the late 1800s their waters floated timber to the mills along the shores of the Grand River. Today their uses are mainly recreational.

Logging Requirements

To log this cache you will need to complete the following. All that should be posted with your log will be a photo. The answers should be e-mailed to us and not posted in your log. Go ahead and log your find at the same time you're sending your email answers.

* Post a picture of yourself/team with the Grand River in the background.
(alternately: if you do not have a digital camera - include with your email the answer to this question - what is located at the posted coordinates?

Many times at a confluence the tributary will have a dramatic effect on the course and width of the river it is entering. Email us the answers to the following questions which can be found by observing the rivers from the posted coordinates.

1. Describe what happens at the confluence of the Rogue River and the Grand River. Is there any change in the course of the Grand River?

2. Is there any change in the width of the Grand River after the confluence?



I don't know if you can see it but there is a huge crane on the tree out there.


This is what we had to take a picture with..
Paige was scared she was going to fall in. I told her to hell with fallen in worry about what will come out of the water and snatch you off the dock..lol She hated me after that.

ACT-ing in Plainfield

Another cache located at a cemetery. Quick easy find! The second one found out of five today :)




Found it!

Signing Log..

Rogue River Gaging Station

3rd one of the day. This was another Earth Cache. Read all about it..

Rogue River Gaging Station

This earthcache is designed to show you how today’s rivers are monitored/regulated. The above coordinates will take you to a United States Geological Survey (USGS) gage station for the Rogue River near Rockford.

A Gaging Station is a facility used by hydrologists and others to monitor streams, rivers, lakes, canals, reservoirs, and other bodies of water. Gaging stations typically collect information such as water height and discharge (flow) through a stilling well or a vertical pipe that is located beneath the gage house. Water enters this well through one or more inlet pipes which in turn makes the water level equal to the stream or river. This information is recorded and sent to the USGS via telephone or a satellite communication system in real-time.

It is very important to monitor, and control the river’s flow for several reasons. We can start with the control of flooding or at least the warning of flooding. Since the Rogue Rivers flow is regulated by damming downstream, these gauging stations relay the information to do the necessary regulating of the dam. Another important reason for this gauging and regulating of the river is to limit erosion of the river banks. Even though erosion will always take place, it can be held to a minimal. Ground water also depends on these regulated flows. Ground waters include some small lakes, marshes and wetlands.

Gaging Station History
In the 1880's, John Wesley Powell, the second director of the USGS, requested that stream flow be monitored in eight river basins in the West. It was his idea to measure the flow of streams and rivers and determine the viability of irrigation systems for this acrid region. In 1889, the first U.S. stream gaging station was established on the Rio Grande River in New Mexico. At this station, standard stream flow measurement procedures were devised.

Today, the USGS operates and maintains more than 85% of the nation's stream gaging stations. There are over 7,000 stream gaging stations in the United States, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Territories of the Pacific Islands.

The USGS uses its stream gaging network to provide a free continuous source of well documented and archived water data. This data is used by government agencies and private companies to forecast flooding, design bridges, allocate drinking and irrigation water, for recreational use, and to manage our valuable surface water resources.

Paige with the Gage Station..


Pretty view near by..

xryiva

This was a mystery cache. You had to solve a puzzle to get the right cords. No way in hell would I have figured it out. The owner tried to show me but math is not one of my stronger points. So she helped me out another way.
Now Paige and I was all over with this one. We thought it was going to be at the very north end of Riverside Park. Nope, still way off. So we got in and drove closer. Parking was a bitch, but I parked at the construction place. No one said anything thank god.. lol
This was the 4th of the day. Alittle bit more searching involved with this one. I thought I was going in the water for a moment. :)
Really didn't take no pictures of this one. I think we were getting flustrated and hot and want to just find it.

I found it!!!


We had to strike a pose..


Took a Travel Bug..

Griff was Here

5th of the day. Paige pooped out on me with this one so had to find it on my own. Pretty easy find. They gave a clue of "MH", which screwed me all up. There was a pole with a marker on it that had the MH on it. So I was all over that and the man hole by it looking for the cache. Well it wasn't there, it was still about 14ft away.
But I found it :)