On Saturday nights in the early days of the last century, families
in rural Grand Traverse county would load up the buggy or the Model
T and head "out ta Scheck's Place" along the Boardman River. Known
locally as a "model of a modern livestock farm", the barn boasted a
cork block floor. From the time the hay was used up in the spring
until the barn was refilled in the fall, community dances were held
there. They were the highlight of the week in those days before
computers. The Schecks lost their farm in the depression and today
the only reminders of those happy days are the remnants of the
concrete foundations in the State Forest campground and the fading
reminisces of the old timers. The cache site overlooks the Boardman
River less than a quarter mile outside Sheck's Place camp on the
Hopkins Creek spur of the Shore to Shore trail.
The Michigan Shore-To-Shore Trail begins at Lake Michigan in
Empire and ends more than 200 miles east at Lake Huron near
Oscoda.The trail was created and is maintained by the Michigan
Trail Riders Association in cooperation with the DNR. Closed to
motorized traffic, it passes through meadows and forests where
possible and uses roadside shoulders where necessary.
Find and copy the number codes contained in all of the
containers in this 14 cache series. They will allow you to find and
unlock the Hopkins Creek cache and complete the Geochallenge.
Commemorative high quality S2S T shirts have been created and will
be presented to ten members of the first teams to complete the
challenge. To be eligible, the members receiving shirts must
all have participated in the quest and must all be
present and listed when logging finds. After the complimentary T
shirts have been awarded, shirts will be available for purchase by
additional challenge finishers for their cost plus shipping.
The cache is a plastic nut jar just down hill from the trail.
Depending upon where you park and the route you take it can vary
from a short stroll to a pretty good hike. As with all caches,
please take the time to hide it at least as well as you found
it.
The fourteen caches in the S2S Geo-challenge are;
Empire,
Garey Lake,
Lake Dubonnet,
Sheck's Place,
Rapid River,
Goose Creek,
4 Mile,
Luzerne,
McKinley,
Gabions,
South Branch,
River Road,
Oscoda,
And the final at
Hopkins Creek
