2007 Winter Social West

This one is a 3 stager. How I talked Tracy into doing this one today I don't know.
Considering our feet were soaked and we were just starting to get cold.
This one is located in Howard City at a park that we always pass. The Bridge is always a eye cather. Of course I didn't get a very good picture of it. It doesn't matter cause the summer time would be the best time for pictures at this park. So you can see the little river that runs under the Bridge.

Tracy did very well finding the first 2 stages. But I told her I was finding the final. She laughed and said ya ya, we'll see.. guess what...













Yep you guessed it.. I found it!!

Pooh's Hundred Acre Woods

This was our second cache of the day. Pretty much in the same area as the Shaft one below.
Now this one got our legs burning. It's been awhile since we walked around in the woods.
It was a easy find though. Once again the pictures are blurry do to my dumb ass not setting the camera right.. good gravy.







Sucks we didn't come across any Heffalumps!! :)

Old Abandoned Mining Shaft

What a great day to go out cacheing. A wee bit to much snow on the ground still, but we ventured out anyways.
We started out with this one. Now we looked and looked for something that
looked like a mining shaft. I'm pretty sure Tracy was looking in the right place as far as that goes. To me it looked more like a old ground level tree house. But I wasn't the one over there looking, I was zeroing down on the cache, which of course I found!!!
(the pictures suck, cause I had the camera on the wrong setting, but it will do)

New & Used

Well I decided that we would finally do a geocache in the winter.
It looked nice out until you stepped out of the car.. good grief!!!
We about got blown away.
The store was closed when we went. It sucked cause that was some of the reason
we wanted to do this one is to check out the store. By the looks of others logs on this cache it seems to be closed alot. Hopefully this summer it will be open to check out.



FOUND IT!!

A Legend is Born

Well this cache was fun to try. It took 3 attempts to finally get it done, with 3 sets of different people..
The first attempt was with Fawyn and her 2 sisters. We got to stage 1 and found it, but it was obvious we didn't have the right coords. So when we got home I asked for a hint from the owners. I just had the first few numbers wrong..


Then a few days later Fawyn and her boyfriend and I went out to track down stage 2.
We freaking searched and searched the area. I usually do extra looking and go over the kids area of looking, but this time I didn't. Fawyn I thought had that one area pretty well covered.
Well we just couldn't find it.


So about a week later Tracy and I go out. Which I always grab Tracy when I'm stuck on a cache... I think I have giving her a big head on the situation, but she does find them thats for sure.

I went right to stage 2 when we started looking for it. I went over to where Fawyn was looking that day and there it was. I think its cause she was paying more attention to her boyfriend then the cache..lol

Then we were off to stage 3. Now after this one I will never think that .43 is close enough to walk to..
We did this up hill climb along a fence just to find out that it was on the other side
of John Ball Park... So we climbed back down the hill and I fell and slide down it..sheesh

So we drive over to the zoo area and take these steps up up up and freaking more up to the area of the cache. I'm telling ya, I really need to stop smoking, I didn't think I was going to make that climb.
There was a few sites to see while we were there though.








But we did, or I should say Tracy did find the cache!! It was well worth the 3 attempts to find it..

Geocaching Forecast

This cache was a easy drive up and find. Took my daughter and her boyfriend
on this one.

English Hills Park Cache

Almost right around the corner from me. Never knew this park existed.
Took the girls on one more geo adventure before taking them home. Of course
they had to play on the playground first..

A Nice Walk in the Bland

What a nice place to go. The trails in this place remind me of
a roller coaster.
Had a couple extra kids with me today. Fawyns sisters. Boy were they
full of piss and vinger.. good god!
We went on a couple caches today and couldn't find them so they were
of course doubting this existed. But Brit found the cache and was extremely
happy. Then of course they wanted to go on 10 more after that. But not
today. It was WOW cold today!

20 And Counting

We pass this rest area every single day. We watched the place get rebuilt all summer long.
Now I have to mention what was interesting about this place. I'm sure its not new of course, but it was to me cause I never seen it before and the fact I don't get out much..lol
There was a rest room for familys. How cool is that. I have seen uni sex bathrooms and of course the his and hers, but never just one for the family.
This cache took us to a tree that was so cool. The limbs were so long and they draped down
to the ground. So you had to actually spread them to get into the clearing in there. It was so peaceful and cool to be in it more or less.
We were looking all over the ground and at the base of the tree. I told Fawyn to go over
and look by the rock. She turned around to tell me nope its not there and as she did that she
said, OH found it!! It was hanging from a nob in the tree...

Hidden Limb

This one was an almost give up and get clue and come back later cache.
When we walked up on this one, we were so sure it was in the hole in the tree.
I mean come on, most are like that.. the obvious. Well not this time..lol
We looked and looked and finally I just stood up and scanned the area. Something caught
my eye, more like a tiny shadow, so I looked a little closer and low and behold there it was.
Sheesh, talk about cool!
It was a film holder with a wire wrapped around it then camfloged with tape then wrapped
around a tree limb.. ya I know the title of the cache should have told me something :)

Hero Cache

Another cache in a cemetery. I love doing these ones cause after we are done, we
look around at how old some of them are. Alot of early 1900's in this one. Whats sad with some is that  you see two names on the head stone and only one is there. So  you know the husband and wife are lonely somewhere waiting to be next to their loved one.
Timothy Brown is buried in this cemetery. He was a soldier from Cedar Springs.
Died in November of 2005. It amazes me how much stuff is around his head stone. Pretty neat to check out. I'm just glad people respect it and leave the stuff alone.
Infact when we were  looking for stage 2, before I read the hint, the gps took us close
to another grave spot and all I kept thinking is god please don't let it be in there somewhere among their stuff.. I couldn't bring myself to touch it if it was.