Though our previous attempts at Stix VI Just hiding out resulted in no cache being found, we tried again tonight. Last night Jeff and Jamie found it so we knew it was still there. It was quite dark out when we got there and we didn’t have flashlights to help… so we were using our phones for illumination. It took a little bit more over the phone prompting than it would have in the daylight, but we did find it. We had looked pretty darn close to where it turned out to be on both of our previous attempts (and the Moores looked there, too, on the trip they took with us).

As disappointing as it is to end on a DNF, we just couldn’t seem to locate Creepy Cache.

In the same rest stop as the duck was Agnew Rest Area TB Campsite. It was a little deeper into “the bush” than most and there were no trails that went nearby it, but we found it nonetheless. We dropped off Naniloa Napa’a travel bug and picked up the Sadie girl geocoin copy (not an actual coin, just a laminated piece of paper with the coin’s number on it).

Next up was Duck Hunt # 5 – Duck Duck Dew. When we found the location that seemed probable, we started probing with a nearby stick. When we finally found the cache, we discovered that the duck was detached from the container. Not sure if we did that to it or not, we reported it needing maintenance.

Update: Band of Bradys contacted us and told us that the duck was broke before we got there but the cache will only be there for a couple more weeks before they close the rest stop for the winter so their just gonna leave it until then.

After the lakeside cache, we went on to troll under the bridge. We were literally crawling under the walkway but had no luck in finding it.

We finally decided that we had traveled south enough so we went to the closest cache to us, lakeshore woods, with the intention of working our way back northward. This cache is now our most southern find.

We still weren’t sure where we were going on this nice October Sunday afternoon, but as we drove by Always in Grand Haven we figured we should probably go grab it real quick. Now that we understand how Light Pole caches work, this was a nice easy and quick park and grab.

There used to be 4 “dog walk” caches between Broadway Ave. and Maple Island Rd on the Musketawa trail. Unfortunately, #2 and #3 disappeared before we started caching so we never got the chance to try to find them. We did, however, find Dog Walk Hide #4 today. All told, we rode 10.5 miles today (including a couple laps around the parking lot)!

We went for a bike ride along the Musketawa bike trail today so we stopped and did Dog Walk Hide #1. It was a nice October day for a bike ride.

This is another attempt for tonight that we’re only logging on this site. It seems we didn’t give up on Crossing Hoffma soon enough because by the time we made it to Tee’d Off it was way to dark to look and flashlights don’t help all that much. It ended up being a pretty dark walk back to the van.