On Tuesday, Capt TailWagger and I took off for Jackson County, Michigan. We took a walk on the Falling Waters Trail, a 10.5-mile long asphalt rail-trail that starts in Concord and finishes someplace south of Spring Arbor. We chose a section directly south of Spring Arbor.
It had a fairly large trailhead parking area. And that is a good thing. The trail was crowded. Well, crowded might be too strong a word. It was busy. When we arrived, there was a school bus in the lot. It was gone after I returned from the john to get Capt TailWagger and begin our trek up the trail toward Lime Lake.
We heard redwing blackbirds and sandhill cranes, though we did not see any of either on our walk. Much of Lime Lake was still frozen, though Capt TailWagger sipped some water when we found a cache that was just a few feet from the water.
I got to GZ for the first cache on the list and then waited for a gaggle of muggles to pass before going up a hill to find the cache. It was a regular. I had some SWAG with me but decided I really didn’t want to trade anything.
When I got to the next cache, I didn’t find it right away. Rather than give myself a DNF, I went on to the next one and made a quick find. I found a couple more and then returned to the one I didn’t find. This time I gave it a more thorough look, and, lo and behold, there it was. Five caches searched for. Five caches found. Basically a month off didn’t knock out my geosenses.
After finding the five caches, it was back to the car for a couple of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, some water and a banana. Then it was off to Livingston County and a cache there. We got to a trailhead on the Mike Levine Lakelands Trail State Park, a mixed-surface rail-trail that we crossed several times between Stockbridge and our trailhead.
We found just one cache, although the map shows many on the trail in this area. I look forward to going back and possibly find more.
For kicks and giggles, I looked at the geocaching profile of some area cachers who have more than twice the finds I have to see where they’ve cached and what their milestone caches are.
None of the people whose profiles I’ve looked at have cached outside the United States. I feel fortunate. I have cached in Canada (all of two finds, both in Ontario), Iceland, France, Belgium and the Netherlands. I have also found caches in 19 US states. I am looking forward to the day the US-Canadian border reopens and we can go back to Canada and cache some more there.
I am approaching 2,000 finds and I’m debating in my mind what I should do for the milestone. For finds 500 and 700, I found a multicache. For find 900, it was my first Wherigo. And for 1,000, it was a megaevent, the 2018 Midwest Geobash. A friend said there is a challenge to find different icons at each milestone, and he found an Earthcache for find No. 2,000. I was thinking of finding GC8NEAT for my 2,000th find. Or maybe an Earthcache. Or a virtual. Or a webcam cache. I have yet to find a webcam cache.
Any suggestions?
Geocaching with Capt. TailWagger 