Buck Creek Walkabout Returns with Things Unspoken

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N/S ? ??.??? W/E ??? ??.???  [] In Michigan, United States

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This cache takes you for a nice walk down the Buck Creek Trail System in the Buck Creek Nature Preserve with the posted coords being the parking area. The terrain is that of easy walking but you should be advised that this cache is to be considered unavailable following heavy rains as the area does flood easily. Also the boardwalk may be quite slick if its wet so please be careful under these conditions. This is a great place to do some CITO as well.
To begin, Count the number of rocks on the inside of the circle, multiply by 128439.82843 divide by 49 then add 5749430029 and 1/64th converted to a decimal and then add 7739296649.54889754 Take this number and compute the square root of that number and multiply that by pi (3.1415923) then again compute the square root of that number to get the N coord... just kidding. :) Your journey begins at N42.53.281 by W085.42.454 which is a short walk down the paved trail to the right of the building you will see there.
I am not real sure of what I should rate this cache as far as difficulty goes so I'll start it out as a 4. Finders, Please post your thoughts as to what difficulty you think it should be and I'll adjust it based on your input.
As usual, please be discrete as this park has a lot of visitors. Replace the stages as well as the cache as you found them so that they are not obvious to people walking by. A cell phone may also come in handy as a "ask a friend lifeline" may be needed.
One last thing, PLEASE!!! DO NOT REMOVE any of the stages to take them home and solve. Others may be working on this cache as well and if you take the tags then they will not be able to find them which tends to tick people off really bad. I recommend taking along a digital camera or pen and paper as you may find it usefull. Note: The difficulty may be a bit higher during summer as tree cover will likely mess with your GPS.
Thanks and enjoy your hunt.


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(letter above equals below,
and vice versa)

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4. jbnu, fcrrq ohzcf rireljurer! (Decrypted Hints)

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August 24 by Caveboy_ken (2547 found) stage 4 missing, will replace hopefully this week. CBK [view this log]

July 21 by Monkey Man & Lulu (713 found) Had lots of fun on this one................... Trip #1 - Oops I forgot the coord at home. Duh! Back home we go. Trip#2 - Drive all the way home and back. Found first stage with no problem. Took picture with digital camera to work on at home. Trip#3 - Found stage #2, had to scratch my head for a minute. Of course I forgot the camera. Monkey man didn't have his glasses, so Lulu is at an akward angle calling out information and repeating it again, and again. Off we go home to use our "googling" powers. Trip#4 - Found stage #3, and had tools I thought were needed to solve. We came up with an answer, and off we went. Arrived at stage #4, and thought for sure after searching we were in the wrong spot. Back to stage #3 to confirm findings. We still think we are right. Need to stop for the night and try again tomorrow. Trip#5 - Arrived at stage #4 and looked, and looked, and looked. Came home and emailed owner to confirm we were in the right spot and ask if he would check on the stage. He emailed back that indeed stage #4 was missing, and gave us the final numbers until he gets out the next few days to replace stage #4. Trip#6 - Very short and sweet. We found the final, and the mosquitos found us! Didn't take long to sign the log and zip out of there! Had lots of fun doing this one, even with all the trips. Good thing we don't live far. TFTC! [view this log]

June 12 by mboensch (3455 found) #2262 The 9th find of the day. Found with Hiker Willie. I had been working on this one for some time now. Today, I was able to finish it up. [view this log]

June 12 by Hiker Willie (4041 found) Found today with mboensch. TNLN. SL. TFTC! #2115 [view this log]

May 21 by Sprinkles 4 (611 found) I was able to get this cache with the help of my parents, CacherX4. Thank you. [view this log]

Current time: 11/22/2009 3:00:33 AM
Last Updated: 8/24/2009 10:04:56 PM
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Coordinates are in the WGS84 datum