Howell Hunting (geocaching)

… more “Friday Fun”

With three geocaches under out belt in Brighton, we wanted to tackle five more challenges we knew were in the Howell area.

Hager Hill Cemetery was especially interesting to D as we approached and observed a German flag on a younger man’s grave.

Parking was a bit tricky, but the coordinates were right on target. Notice the snow!

Kid’s Cache took us to a car pool parking lot where a cache was hidden on the slope going down to I-96. This was one of the largest containers we’ve encountered, but pretty junky! It would have taken a crew of 5 all day to properly clean this trashy, muddy area – CITO made no dent! NOTE: CITO is the eco-minded geocaching slogan – Cache In, Trash Out – like a good Girl Scout, you should leave an area better than you found it.
We continued north to the very small Mount Olive Cemetery on Thompson Lake. We thought a woman walking 2 dogs was not very respectful of the location – we named her “Poop Lady”. We had to broaden our search and use our geosenses to find the micro-cache hidden here.
We then went to another edge of the lake to Lakeview Cemetery (I do mean the “edge”).

This was a multi-stage small cache called SQ Howell Remembers. It took a while before the “force” decided to help us find the “chambers” yielding the cache. We enjoyed the beautiful setting and the challenge of this hunt.

Closer to the outlets was Pioneer Cemetery, which was a quaint, small cemetery with a few unique grave markers.

As our swag we took a Euro “penny”.
It was a most successful, informative, and entertaining day of geocaching. ~~K