Michigan Geo Rally #1

This was the best fun ever!! Of course we lost one of our players while raceing down the road... Bobby was doing 45 in a 25 and got pulled over. We would have been probably 20 minutes earlier.
Now a note to self when ever doing this again is to make sure we have more then one gps in the car with us.
Alot of teams paired up and had 3 or more gps with them, so it made it alot easier to put multi cords in. I had to put one at a time in and hope for the best.

At the start point they threw the 25 cordinates in the air and you had to snatch and run to your car and get started. OMG talk about the adrenline rush. That alone was fun as hell snatching the cords from someone and knocking them out of the way...LOL

So I get mine and run back to the car. Now mind you I'm not a runner and my team was laughing their ass off at me. We had 6 people in our van. I took Bobby, Fawyn, Brenton, Paige and Josh. I was team captain so I'm the one that had to stay and grab the cords. My old ass was pumped..lol
I get in and said out of breath lets go. We were lucky with the first cords I put in. We went right there and were the first to find that one. Then off we went while I punched in a random cord for the second stage. Now that one wasn't so easy to find, infact we didn't, so I had to punch in a different cord and off we went to that one. We did find that one!
I hate the fact that I didn't take enough pictures. We were so adrenline pumped and bailing out of the van to find these cords that we just didn't get pictures.

Here is the information on the Event it self:
Rules:
* Complete the GeoRally Waiver/Release of Responsibility.
* Bring a happy-go-lucky attitude.
* Recruit a driver/navigator.
* $10 entry fee per team (Geocaching player account) (to help with cost of pizza, prizes, and set-up)
* Rally is limited to 25 vehicles (Strongly recommend teaming together for extra eyes)
* Flying Solo is okay. Rallying with children is okay, too.
* Before the event, log that you will attend. In your log, write the Geocaching player account name of your vehicle Driver, Navigator, and any Back-Seat Driver(s) if you already know

Schedule:
- 1:30 - Sign-in
- 1:50 - Final directions
- 2:00 - Rally starts
- 4:00 - Rally ends
- 4:30 - Pizza

Other Info:
* Rally starts at 2PM SHARP!- plan to arrive by 1:30 for sign-in, vehicle organization and final directions.
* Location cards will be tossed into the air with the 25 different 1st Stage coordinates.
* 25 (Stage 1) film canisters (or similar) have been placed (small Traditional GeoCaches not listed on geocaching.com) approximately the same distance from the GeoRally Start.
* 25 (Stage 2) Tokens have also been placed at approximately the same distance from the GeoRally Start.
* Teams select, find, and take one 1st Stage(Film Canister) containing some of the Stage 2 locations.
* Teams then proceed to and take 2nd Stage(Token) of their choice
* Team with both a stage 1 and stage 2 to return first wins.
* Limit 1 Film Canister Stage and 1 Token Stage per vehicle.
* Teams holding both stages will be ranked higher than teams holding just one of the stages.
* Total straight line distance for event not to exceed 20 miles (you may choose to drive it a bit further based on your road choice).
* Any vehicle not returned by 4:00 will be ranked below vehicles that do.
* We have an indoor facility for the whole time, so non-drivers/non-riders are welcome to stay during the rally.
* Inappropriate or reckless behavior may be grounds for disqualification at judges' discretion.
* Event may be modified due to inclement weather.

Prizes:
1. $50 gas card
2. $40 gas card
3. $25 gas card
4. $20 gas card
5. Large Lock&Lock Container
6. Large Lock&Lock Container
7. Medium Lock&Lock Container
8. Medium Lock&Lock Container
9. Small Lock&Lock Container
10. Small Lock&Lock Container


Post-Rally:
* Pizza and Pop (indoors)
* Trade items @ "Trackable Pit Road"

We came in 18th place out of 25 cars. Took us 1 hour and 24 minutes to do.
I don't care what place we took it was loads of fun, even if I had to bail a team member out of jail..lol


Pictures:
Us getting ready before the Event.


One of the cars in the parking lot decked out to kick some ass!!!


Fawyn found both stages..


Paige going up to get her raffle prize..

Who needs it?

My son use to work here. Talk about getting sick of Wendy's real quick..lol
This was a easy find. Took my kid and her boyfriend Brenton along today.
Bobby was the finder though!

Pine Grove Walk

This was our second one of the day. I hate winter geocaching, but I thought what the heck I need to get rid of a Travel Bug that I had for awhile and why not get a couple in before the new year.
This was at a cemetary that my neice is buried at. So it was nice to visit her for a moment.

The Cache was a 3 Stager and you had to figure out the years of death or birth and add this or that to it to get the cords to each stage.
The first stage I put into the gps wrong.. go figure. I said hang on let me see what
I did wrong.. Fixed it and we were on our way.

The First Stage..


On our way to the wrong part of the Second Stage..


Second Stage Location.. the right one!


This stone was by the second stage and I thought the saying on it was pretty cool, so I had to share..


Bobby & Brenton searching for the cache..


Fawyn looking for the cache...


Fawyn the winner of finding the cache..


Striking a pose..

Save Big Money

Well we all know that theme song!..lol
I figured that was what it was when we were in Lansing today. We happen to be there
and it was freaking cold as hell out and I wanted to at least do one geo while we were out of town. So off we went. OMG it was cold. Of course I was in PJ bottoms so that might be part of the reason.
It was a easy find!



Bob on the trail..


I found it..

Huckleberry's Hideout

I saved this geocache for Bob to do when he got home. So we finally got out today to attempt it. We came up to the location and WOW... It's this huge tree that you had to climb to get to the cache. Which I knew that you had to, but I didn't know how big this tree was.
Bob did a couple steps and you could tell he was wondering if it was wise to do. Only cause there was snow on the tree. The rungs were a bit slippery. But knowing Bob the way I do, he wasn't going to give up.
So me and Fawyn encouraged him all the way up.

On our way..





He finally got to the cache..


Always striking poses...lol

Highland Park

Tried this one back in July and couldn't find it. Second time is a charm.
My kid walked right past it thinking it was in the log laying there. I was watching her and said, Fawyn you walked right by it. I wonder what the history is on the brick wall that is there. I know this park is not a very good one to just hang out in. My husband had a friend that was killed in this park. The area the cache is in is pretty though and worth the second trip to find it.



They never wait for me!

The July heat getting to them..

Awesome combination of fall and winter mixed..


Found it..


Bob checking out the fungus on the tree wondering if it will hold him as a seat..


I found this hanging out on a tree.. awesome little fungus pile..


Me and Fawyn striking a pose..


Took nano nano TB..

Cross-Eyed

Tried this one last fall and couldn't find it. Then the Ann street construction started and there was no way of getting to it. So now that the construction is done we decided to go attempt it again. Found it.. woohoo
I really didn't care for incline of the hill we had to go down to get the cache though. Only cause the Grand River is sitting there waiting for swimmers..lol





First Stage.

Final Stage..


Took Game Piece..

Picket Fence

Well we had to go to Muskegon today to pick something up so I thought I would of course grab a couple geos that were close to where we were. This cache was out in plain sight, but of course we were thinking something totally different with the whole picket fence and nail thing. Then Bob says well there was a nail on the bottom of this log.. ya that's it!! But I picked up the log also and so we both took the credit in finding this one.

Zap!

This is the second one we did while in Muskegon today.
Pretty easy find in a sense. With other geos we have done like this in this setting we had a few things in mind of what it would be like. So with some searching Bob finally found it. Very tricky...love it!