Crazy Eights #6 - Red Back Club Traditional Cache

The Crazy Eights #6 - Red Back Club cache is located on Eight Mile Road midway between Founder's Sports Park and Gill Road. The apartment complexes immediately to the east and west are posted against unauthorized parking. Parking is available further to the east and west. There should be a pencil in the cache but you may want to bring your own. Coordinates used in the averaging were typically in the 5-15m error range.

This should have been called Golf Ball Woods cache. Somebody must have been hitting buckets into the woods and not caring to retrieve any. I did a CIGBO (Cache In Golf Balls Out) and left with 38. It was a bit of a distraction in placing the cache. If you approach the wooded area directly from the sidewalk you will be more stealthy. You will also see the path in. This cache may be difficult in winter.

NOTE: Crazy Eights #6 - Red Back Club and Crazy Eights #1 - Red Back Diamonds have a duplicate square.

This series was inspired by the Twelve on Twelve Mile Series by Team Topkat. My children wanted to do something similar but Eleven on Eleven Mile seemed a bit derivative. We then came up with the idea for the Crazy Eights series.

There are eight caches in this series located along Eight Mile. Each have a clue necessary to figure out the location of the final. Hopefully this will provide some fun and challenge in the southern most six square miles of Farmington and Farmington Hills.

Each of the eight Crazy Eights caches is a small, camo painted Lock & Lock container. Inside of each is a playing card, an eight naturally. A series of holes has been cut out of each. Whether or not you will find all eight caches, please treat the playing card carefully so the next person can use it. Please be sure the separate ziploc bag is closed. Put the card on the bottom of the container so that it has less risk of being bent or damaged.

You will need to bring a piece of paper with you if you wish to solve the puzzle for the final. For the first cache you find, trace the outline of the card on your paper. Then fill in each of the holes that are cut out of the card (with your #2 pencil.) There is a hole in the upper left of each card for getting the orientation and alignment correct. After you have completed all eight caches you will need to figure out the puzzle to find the coordinates of the final cache. You should use the same piece of paper for all eight caches or you will make the puzzle substantially more difficult.

FTF: The Frito Bandito
STF: band of hawks