Geocaching Adventure 12

I originally had 9 caches planned out, I was going to take it to 26 and Romeo Plank, but we went to get food at Bellacinos first and started our caching off right after that by going to Just Washington #2. This was right by Home Depot, so we parked as close as possible and kept looking low and finally I raised my head to see a little thing dangling from a keychain ring and contained only a log. The whole time there was a guy chilling in front of us but the tree blocked us.


across 26 mile there were 3 caches so we set out to find Under the Boardwalk. This one took us sometime we walked over the boardwalk looked around and finally I got on my hands and knees and reached behind a pole to find it. It was no visible but something told me to look there, we took another travel bug - Steamboat Bound to Abby and I hope it winds up in its destination.


After that we slightly moved over to find Higher Standards, Lower Prices- Urban Wild Life. It was across from a creek so we finally found a way to get over and a little path. After a few minutes I quickly found it buried in pieces of bark.

So we only did 3 of 9, we went over to play soccer at Whispering Woods before school, hopefully weather will be nice tomorrow.

Geocaching Adventure 11

My brothers gf dragged him into this one and our littlest brother went to. I did not really know where to go so I looked for an easy sounding one in Riverbends. So I found Just around the River Bends. This was located in the parking area right between main entrance and the bar across the river. We all quickly got out and walked all the way down the trail and less than 1 minute from getting close to the cache I quickly found it.

Nothing to special about this my brother moped around the whole time.

Geocaching Adventure 10

This was wrote the day after it took place.

I just got off work and was planning on doing some geocaches all day, after work. So we went and quickly ate at Taco Bell and headed straight to Lakeside Island a little island that is towards the SE corner of the lakeside mall area. We parked in the catering restaurant on hayes and walked all the way down till we seen a sidewalk that took us to a bridge that is the only way to access the island. I just put in w/e coords so we wound up doing the furthest one first, and closet one last so it all worked out well there are 3 different caches on the island.

The first cache was named Lakeside Island. For this we walked down the coast, to see plenty of ducks, geese and little ducks. We finally found a opening in the woods and coasted in and the coords took us to Zero, but nothing was in the area, after 10 minutes, we were looking else where when I seen a huge tree knocked over so i started walking to the base of it since that is what the clue was. I found the little bowl covered with bark.

The second cache was kind of in the middle island but on the brim of the forest, but like 40 ft in. Sweet Land Of Liberty was a real easy find, we found a path to walk in from the previous cache and I was walking first (navigating) when Jamie behind me, yelled she found it, sure enough she did. We took our first traveling bug. Traveling Keychain Collector. From here it was time to finish our last cache on the island.

The final cache was right to the side of the bridge, NJB's Surprise so we went down the sides and looked with no luck for about 20 minutes. I kept going up and down to see what the GPS was saying, one of the times I slipped and fell backwards on my elbow and my side. I fell on top of a rock and the edge of it broke from impact, I went to look at the logs for it today and the 2 previous people said they could not find it. Make me the 3rd.

Geocaching Adventure 9

The next few caches were unsuccessful as we concluded our trip for the day, we would wind up trying 4 more caches. The first one was within walking distance from Lambardo Park so we went straight to the sidewalk and crossed over the bridge to look for: It's Driving Me Nuts. We quickly got off the path and went down to the bottom park to look for the cache, after awhile of no luck we walked back up to the top to look, also no luck, so we split and still no luck. after about 30 minutes we finally threw in the towel and headed for Posted Along The Way. This cache was off Remer rd on 22 mile and we took it until the dead end where the cache was supposed to be, when we got there we seen some man working in his backyard and decided to come back another day and let the man enjoy the pleasant sunday afternoon.


The next cache Cito container #1 - Victory Cigar was behind the Louis pizza on 22 and Van Dyke, in the corner with a few trees and a thousand leaves plus a bunch of trash and glass. After 20 minutes, we gave up, all it was, was garbage and leaves.

After 3 straight fails. We went for our 7th and final try of the day, was AAGPBL in Whispering Woods off of 21 mile road. This was a puzzle cache and we thought we had the right answer or at least narrowed it down, to two cords but neither appeared correct so once again we had to quit and rethink, Its kind of sad there is no way to check the coords besides google maps but what help does that really do for this?

After blogging this a day late, due to time, it will probably be another day or 2 before we head out and look for more.

Geocaching Adventure 8

After we ate lunch we headed back to 22 mile road and right to the east of it, is a little park called Lambardo Park, there were 2 caches supposed to be here 1. Lambardo Park and 2. Eat em up Tigers. We did not attempt to do Eat em up Tigers because I was assuming they are in Center Field of one of the diamonds so we said we would do it another time. But we did go after the Lambardo Park cache by heading north, past the play area and then we seen an opening to get into the woods and only needed to travel 20 ft but it was water, so we headed 70 ft out of the way to find a spot to cross. We found the cache hidden in a tree, on a little island and took a knocked over tree to get back to the other side and try to find the next cache of the day.

Geocaching Adventure 7

#7 was Scenic Forest Walk. We just finished Hideout in the woods and moved west to find a trail and let me say this, it was really scenic. But anyways we headed down the trail and followed it until it took us to an area that was open but had a few trees and we looked around for awhile, following the GPS, Jamie was looking else where and about 20 ft from the destined coords was the cache hidden between trees. We signed the little log book and decided it was time to eat lunch, took us over an hour to do these 2 caches. We had a plan to hit up about 6 of them today and these were the first 2.

Geocaching Adventure 6

This was our 6th cache we found, Hideout In The WoodsWe started the adventure at about 11 15, from St. Teresa's parking lot, the lot was full but nonetheless we got ourselves situated and prepared and headed out to north part and found a little trail probably used by the people who travel to find the cache, a few feet in we spot flower pot thing flipped over and a film canister thing under it and that was the cache. The GPS still said we were 40 ft away at the time so kept looking and eventually the the thing pointed us back to where we found the cache, so we wasted quite so time, so we moved on to the next cache in the woods.

Geocaching Adventure 5

This was the last cache of the day for Friday before we got home to watch Smackdown and clean by scratched legs from the previous 2 caches. Luckily Duck Duck Goose involved no wooded area or anything because my leg wounds were killing me, we parked in a local business on the west side of Garfield and walked down to a creek and seen a bunch of little trees isolated, we walked there and within a half a minute we found it and took a Golem, Zubat and team rocket trainer card and we could go back home and be ready for next challenge. Click here for a picture, you can see more too on there.


The next day we went to look for micro mayhem series 1 and 2, In Hampton park between Ryan and Mound closer to 17 mile rd. We looked hard for both of them but no luck.

Geocaching Adventure 4

This Cache is located in the middle of the woods between Gratiot and Fairchild on 21 mile by parking in the church to the east of the railroads. The description for Haven't You Heard of a Ladder?sounded pretty simple so we decided to give it a try.

From the church parking lot we headed out west towards the train tracks and the forest the GPS was pointing we needed to .2 miles that way. I dont know how many people are familiar with that area but it is all four wheeler tracks and we walked past them, Luckily they weren't driving else we could of been in danger. Click here for a picture of the track, also can browse more pictures of the woods in the album. After awhile we wound up in front of a big pile of logs and I assumed thats what it meant by ladder so I climbed on them and searched but with no luck we followed the GPS coordinates back to where it was pointing, before the logs we did that but did not see anything. The second time I get there and walked around and I look up and see the piece of crap like 30 foot up and there were little tree branches each about 3-4 apart from each other. After trying to convince Jamie to let me go and get it I finally stopped and we walked away, but want to go back but we need to bring some men with us so they can spot me. You can see the cache in the middle of this picturebut the zoom is on so it looks closer.


There was another cache right when we entered the woods past the railroad tracks but had the other one in first. So we came back here and looked for Four Wheeler The GPS kept changing on me and we wound up not finding it, but came back on geocaching.com and on the comments it says the coordinates are changed but does not show it on the top of the page.

Also there was a cache just west of here on Fairchild Fairchild Inn and Resort As I was driving by I seen all houses and I dont want to go to a persons house just to get a cache so we said F that. But why would you want to place a cache on your property are people really that stupid to believe, no one would do anything bad? In todays world I would take a chance like that, not worth it. Hope people follow suit and get some common sense slapped into them and save people like me, from going to your house. Its just a cache hide it somewhere, where people want to get it.

Geocaching Adventure 3

Our 3rd cache of the day was located on Central Industrial Dr. on 23 mile between m-53 and Schoenherr, and it is called Land BridgesThere was a dead end sign and 2 parking lots on the side of it so we went on the right one (good guess) but we did not feel like going through the forest right away, we looked for an opening so we found one and went an extra 300 ft out of the way, the clue use the bridges really makes sense after thinking about it. We took the long way but nonetheless a right way and the total find was 15 minutes, out of car to back in the car. The cache was hidden behind a few pieces of bark on the treeA real easy find once my GPS took me to the spot I spotted it less than a minute.


I am writing this 4 days after because of sooooo much rain but tomorrow friday looks good so we might be out fetching more.

Geocaching Adventure 2

Here is the second cache we found just mere seconds after the first find. St. Teresa's Paper RetrieveWe started this one after Dare you to cross over because church was just getting out and a'lot of kids were running around, So as soon as we started walking over to all the pine trees I immediately started walking over to southern est tree, I did not think it would be there but I wanted to start there and make my way across so I looked down and BOOM there it was, I quickly let everyone know and they came running over. It was a little box that blended well with the tree but was easy noticeable.

The clue for this one was something about where a Christmas present would be... pretty easy to comprehend, But nonetheless this was our 2nd cache and we felt good about finding one quickly and without using my GPS.

Geocaching adventure 1

This is the first of hopefully many Geocaching blogs. Geocaching is when you try to search for hidden objects that other geocachers hide, normally there is stuff in the object like toys and a log book. Visit geocaching.com for the full thing. Well anyways the first time we tried geocaching was sunday May 9th and we accomplished 3 caches. Here is how the first one went down.

We started off with me (Jeff), my girlfriend (Jamie), and friend (Pete). Our first one was "Dare You To Cross OverAs I said this was our first cache and the first time I used a GPS. Pete knew the area pretty well, so when I explained to him that we needed to find a tree that was knocked over and had pellets on the bottom he knew where to take us, There were several trees that were knocked over but none as big as the tree the hider chose. When the tree fell over it knocked down at least 4 other trees (Click here for pic of fallen treeWell after we managed to cross over the tree, I read that it was approx 100 feet away and I was not sure how to use my GPS, so I started walking around and about an hour later I realized my GPS was saying I was a foot away so I told everyone else about it and seconds later Jamie spotted a little pill case hidden in the roots of the tree if you want to see the rest of pictures browse through that album, I don't want to spoil it all for people who have not found it, but looking back at it, the clue gives it all away. It was my first time so I did not take the clue seriously and did not remember it. Around 5 minutes before we found the cache, when I realized the GPS was directing me here, I glanced down at the cache but thought it was a bottle cap, Looking back it, I feel retarded why would anyone put a water bottle under the tree like that? I thought, but it was the first time and learned 2 valuable lessons. 1. Remember clues and 2. Don't hesitate to take a second look at something.