Having given up on the area of the cemetery, we went across town to Marvelous Multi. A fairly quick find… the longest part was the walking in between points.

On our last attempt of Veterans Memorial Park Tribute Cache we found the rock that had all the words on it to lead us to the final location, but didn’t have any luck actually finding the cache. After the Moore’s had recently found the cache, we knew for sure it was there. Didn’t take long to find it this evening.

You win some and you loose some. Tonight was definitely the later. We actually tried this one on the 4th but it was getting late and when we got to the point we realized that it was a multi. Not only was it a multi, but it was a REALLY long one (a 2.5 mile hike). Before we found the coordinates for the second point, a guy and his dog came by to check for some birds. We decided to call it a night and come back another night.

Fast forward to tonight and we tried Crossing Hofma again. (On the way out we saw some people trying Hoff N Hide. They said it was their first cache ever. We don’t know for sure if they found it or not. As of the time of this writing, there’s no log entry for it.) This time we managed to find the first two points, but we got stumped at the third. We looked for quite some time, but the GPS just wouldn’t give us a good lock on where we were. It was jumping around so much that the actual point could have been anywhere in about a 100 foot radius. A hundred feet in the woods contains a LOT of places to hide a small laminated card and while we certainly looked in a lot of places, we obviously didn’t look in enough. We decided to call it a night if we wanted to have a chance at any other caches tonight.

After we finished Big Brit, we went to the next closest cache. Wee Brit was in the same blueberry field. Not only was the container on this one smaller, so was the required number of points. We found it pretty quickly. Haylee traded a couple bracelets she had picked up at Big Brit for some beads from this one.

Our first trip out in October started at a blueberry field in Grand Haven. The first cache we did was BIG BRIT. The coordinates at the first point were a little hard to read so when we had a hard time finding the coordinates at the second point we started to doubt if we had read them correct. So we went back and checked again. We had the right coordinates in the GPS. We took a look at the hint for the cache and went back to where we were to look a second time. We managed to find it. All went well until we got to the next to the last point. We couldn’t find coordinates to the last point. The hint said something about cricket. We assumed it meant the game, but neither one of us had a clue how to play it so the clue didn’t make much sense. After a few fruitless phone calls, we looked it up on the BlackBerry and got enough information from wikipedia to take a closer look at a couple things. Sure enough, we found it. Moved on to the final point and found the cache no problem. We left the TYCHO travel bug. We almost forgot to get the clue for the British Invasion so we had to run back and get it.

The next closest cache to us (as the bird flies, not necessarily on the road) after we finished the lookout was Take a long walk off a short pier. We’re typically not very good at micro caches (or multi-caches because they tend to start with micros), but we decided to give this one a shot anyway. After searching everplace would could think of near the coordinates for the first point, we gave up. Always disappointing to throw in the towel, but sometimes you just run out of ideas.

The evening of the 19th began with another trip to Rix’s Run… this time, however, it was a success! We got our first clue toward the Vantage Point cache.

The evening took a turn toward the not quite as nice with Rix’s Run. We found the first stage easily enough and got the coordinates for the second stage. Logic would say that we were in the right area as it seemed like a really good area to hide something, but we came up empty handed. There were some odd mighty odd trees in the area.

The hint we got the other night from paul8178 about the lone pine also had information about the Riverside Park Walk through history. We also got a message from the cache owner, shadowwalker75. So, we decided to go back and try that one again tonight. We did finally manage to find the first clue on the ground near where it was supposed to be. Not sure how we missed it the first night. Anyway, we got the next set of coordniates for it and put it back where it should be. The route took us deeper into the woods than any we’ve been to yet, but we managed to find all 4 clues plus the final cache.  The clue we got from paul8178 gave us the hint to find the third hint, but to be honest, I’m not sure that if we didn’t have the coordinates we would have keep trudging through the thick grass to get that far. This cache was also the first time we’ve really noticed the bugs while out there. All-in-all it was a good hour+ of hiking through the woods. We took two bowling passes and left a red carabiner.

After the Veterans park, Jeff and Jamie had to head out, but we continued on to M.E.R.E.S. Lone Pine. We tried the other night and didn’t have any success, but after that we got a helpful hint from “paul8178″ it was much easier. We found it w/out too much trouble and took a toy car that Haylee picked out rather quickly and left behind a lego. Unforutnately, we missed the travel bug that was in it earlier in the day as somebody else beat us to it.