It’s really painful to log Onward and Upward as a Did Not Find because it’s not our fault at all. In fact, we’re only logging it on our site and not on geocaching.com. We got to pretty close to where the cache is when a group of teenagers came by. Most of them were smoking and they seemed to be under age. It would appear they were just hiding out in the woods. Anyway, it seemed unwise to look for the cache in their field of view (and it had to be within view of where they were) so we moved on.

The second cache we did in the park was Hoff N Hide. This one was a slight hike into the woods, but not too bad. We took a battery case and left behind the the White Jeep Travel Bug “Ardella”. There was another cache in the park, but it was a 2.5 mile multi and it was getting too late to do that one. We’ll have to head back that way another night.

After we did two out of the three Brit prerequisites, we went over to the Hoff Preserve where there were a few caches. We tackled Hof and Puff and Blow the Trees Down first. A pretty easy find fairly close to the parking lot. We took a bracelet and left a princess mini-frisbee.

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.

Very close to the hide out we couldn’t find was Mona Lake Geocache so we figured we could hit that one real quick before we called it a night. It was a little difficult to find in the dark with nothing but a couple flashlights for illumination, but we found it.

We didn’t log Stix VI Just hiding out last time we tried it, but we did try it once before without any luck. Unfortunately, even with the extra eyes tonight we didn’t have any better luck .

There seems to be an entire series of “Dead Drops,” though at this point in time, Dead Drop #5 is the only one we’ve done. We found this one relatively quickly with the number of eyes we had looking for it and got the information we needed from it.

This was our 80th find in our first month of caching!!

After we left the Pine Park cache we stopped and let the Moores do the TV 38 cache. Once we left that, we went to the next closest cache. As we got closer we noticed that while the cache we were chasing may have been close “as the crow flies,” on the road we had to go another route. We redirected to Duck Hunt #2 – Rosie Duck being that it was right on the way. The duck wasn’t identical to the last Duck Hunt we did so it took a little longer to find it, but find it we did.

We started out the trip in the rain with Moore Adventures at the Pine Park Cache. We parked in the wrong lot so we had to walk a little longer, but it probably wasn’t too much longer. We took nothing and left nothing.