Busy Beaver

Planned a trip to go see my parents today, so I had to print out some geos on the way.

The first one was at a graveyard but we couldn't find it.

So off to this one the Busy Beaver. Now when we pulled up to the gate we had .73 miles to go.

We knew we would be walking a ways on this one. And YES we did. Thank goodness it was a shaded path.

Now I thought we was doing good until we got to the swampy area and the gps was telling it was further across the swamp. I'm thinking great now we have to go around. Cause there was no way in hell we was going through it..lol

We truck our butts around it, and of course you know we could have avoided all that if we would have turned earlier off the path.. but you know me.. can't make it easy at all.

By now we are sweating balls and the bugs are now attracted to us. Fawyn just looks at me like I should know what I'm doing by now.. I just smirk.

We do find it I must say. We felt like we were so far away from the world sitting and relaxing it was kind of scarey. The swamp is something like you would see in a scarey movie just waiting for some gross creature to crawl out of the it and turn us into a reptile or something..lol

Yes the name of the geo sorta fit to this one. The place that the geocache was located was for sure visited by a beaver at one time. Of course I didn't see any beavers, but I think the swamp creature at them all.. hehe

The beginning:


The middle:


The End:

Big L TB Stop

Thank god this one was closer to my mom and dads. We did the first 2 stages and went to get into the car and it wouldn't start. I think we left the radio on... women anyways..lol

So called dad and told him what geo I was at and he says, Oh been to that one I know where your at.

So he comes and gives us a jump. He then says your going to finish this one aren't you.

Damn straight, can't let a broken down car stop us from geoing.. :)

So we follow him the final stage. He supervises while we find it.

Then off to mom and dads for lunch :) and of course rest.

I tried to talk Fawyn into doing some more on the way home, but she wouldn't hear of it. So out of 8 geos planned, we only did 2...GOOD GRAVY!!

She found it!!

Bring Your Canoe

Exactly what the title indicates.. It was a place to launch you canoe.
Now getting back to it was pretty cool. It was like a 2-track. I kept thinking to myself that I'm so glad that I bring someone with me on these caches, cause I wouldn't have wanted to be stranded out there by myself if something was to happen.

Just another place we didn't know about that we can go to for something or other. Like a picnic or just to relax and read. Or better yet how about to drop your canoe in the river..lol


Dang Frog I almost stepped on. It wouldn't even move when I was up close and personal taking its picture. After taking it I touched it and it finally decided that was enough :)


FOUND IT..

Binoculars, you'll want them

Lots of Horses at this one. We pulled up and there is just hundreds of acres with lots of horses just grazing along.
Now this cache is known for its Elk, Bison and Deer. We didn't see them right away, just the horses. I was in awe on how much room they have. If I was on the other side of the fence it would look like a field full of wild horses out in the wilderness. I know I'm pathetic. But I guess it is so nice to see animals have so much room.

When we turned the corner is when we seen the other Beast. They were taken a nap until Fawyn got out of the car to take a picture, then they stood up.

FOUND IT..

Gordon Park Cache

We were on our way to Cedar Springs today and I decided to pick up some caches along the way.

3 of them off Northland Drive.

Now I've been to Gordon Park before for another cache. I think there is 3 of them in this park. It's pretty big, so there's plenty of room for them.

After getting this one done we picked some dandylions to take home and fry up. Thanks to my parents, I think I know how to make food out of pretty much anything..lol.

This was a fun cache. I watched Paige try to cross a little trickle of water. All you had to do is cross a root bridge, but sheesh you think she was crossing a swamp land...to damn funny :)

STAGE 1


PAIGE GOING AROUND THE ROOT BRIDGE..


FOUND IT!!

Morning Comes Early When There's No Snooze Button

Down the pine trail again we go. This trail goes through many towns, so I can imagine all the caches on it. I think this is only my third one on this trail.

At least this one we didn't slide down the bank or get our feet wet. I know what fun is it if we don't ..lol

Very easy find! I have a feeling I'll be seeing this trail again in the near future.

PB-2 Cindy's Ice Cream

Easy as pie getting this cache today. It had a lock on it, which of course you had to get the combination from the geo place. To bad though Cindy's wasn't open cause me and Paige wanted a twist...

131 Times Two

This cache was at a carpool. We pull in and we notice a older lady sitting in her van. We get out and she is watching us. So we have to wander around a bit until she finally leaves.

I often wonder what these people think when they see people get out of their cars and go into the woods or bushes...lol. Specially at a carpool. I mean its not like its a nature trail area or theres a bench to sit on and watch traffic. So there is really no excuse to be wandering around. Unless your a weirdo and do that sorta of thing or of course your GEOCACHING... :)

Owlfoot's Nest

On my way to get my tooth pulled in White Cloud I HAD to do a couple geocaches..lol

This one was pretty simple. What's so cute about it is that there was little faces pressed against the glass across the street watching us. It must either be the owners of the cache or they at least know what we are doing. Me and my daughter waved at them.. to cute!

PB-2 Rest Area

Now as you know I love doing Photobugs caches as I have mentioned before. So we thought we would take the highway home after doing Winfield Lake cache, so we could pick this one up.
I don't know where the hell my head is sometimes. Now when you read the logs on this cache everyone gets stuck on stage 3. Noooo I get stuck on stage 1. Let me show you what we had to do: (taken from the cache information)

Cords will take you to a Memorial Plaque
To get the cords for stage two you will need the birth year and the year of death of the individual on the plaque.
N43*27.NNN ( NNN = year of birth -1455 )
W085*28.WWW ( WWW = year of death -1447 )

Ok that seems pretty simple enough. Well we must have had to do more to the numbers or something cause it just wasn't right. So thank god, once again Photobug let us call him and get a hint.

So after that we went straight to the other stages without a hitch. Yes stage 3 did take us a bit to find. But no need to call on that one.

Now normally I take lots of pictures, but I was so weirded out about stage 1 that I just didn't take many. So I'll just show you that we did find the cache.

Winfield Lake Cache

What a nice day to go out Geocaching. Tracys mom took us out for breakfast and we took her geoing.
This one is located in Howard City. Another park found that we didn't know about. Of course since we live fairly close to this one I'll have to take the kids swimming here while Tracy and I go fishing. I like the smaller parks like this one cause you know its not going to be over populated in the summer. Maybe just us redneck hillbillys..lol
The cache was extremely easy to find considering it was laying on the ground and not hidden at all. Which sucks, cause I love a good hunt. But I re-hid it where I'm sure it was suppose to be.
Then we walked around a bit. Seen a swan and scoped out the swimming area to see if it was icky..lol







FOUND IT..

PB-2 Hardy Pond View

Nice hike with this one. It's a 3 stager and the first stage about scared the hell out of Fawyn.

There were alot of mounds on this trail. I don't know exactly what they were but they were probably ant hills or something to that fact. I didn't take no pictures of them, but that's one thing we talked about on this one. We discussed what they might be and I told Fawyn that their probably dead geocachers that didn't find the final stage..lol. I know I'm awful, but it's fun!!

Here is a couple pictures of the view that we had>>

It don't look like it, but that shore down there was WAY DOWN THERE!!


That's a whole lot of water!

Second Stage>>



FINAL STAGE!

PB-2 Trail Trek

This cache is one of those that there is a little hide away waiting for you. It was a perfect spot to just sit and relax. Maybe read a book or just get lost in thought.

PB-2 River Walk

This is a 10 stage cache. Now don't ask me what ever made me ask Tracy to do this one today. Usually we get family memebers together to do a big one like this.
We did it anyways and found every single one. I only had to call the owners on Stage 4. Thank goodness cause we would have never have found it.

Now you know I love showing pictures, but I'm not going to on Stage 9 cause that really has to be found by true geocachers. It's amazing and I hate to give it away here. Lets just say it scared the hell out of Tracy and she had me going to on it.

You know what really had me going for awhile, was the lack of nature. Usually we see all kinds of critters when we do geo's out in the woods. It wasn't until the last 2 stages that we heard or seen anything. And of course being jolted from stage 9, we heard everything in the woods then..lol

This was truelly an amazing geo adventure. I really look forward to doing Photo bugs hides again!!
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I'm going to skip over stage 1 also..

HERE IS US GOING IN>>>



SOME PICTURES OF THE MUSKEGON RIVER..



STAGE 2..


STAGE 3..


STAGE 4.. which we got stuck on for about a hour. "Tool" got us stumped. We were
to use that arrow as a tool.. ya well we didn't have a clue. We had to call at this point in the game.


STAGE 5..


STAGE 6.. (and a rest for me)



STAGE 7..


STAGE 8..(and a weird tree)



STAGE 9..(sorry can't show pictures for this stage)

FINAL STAGE 'THE CACHE'..