VanJam’s maternal grandfather was raised on and currently owns this property near Witch Lake. He’s known as Papa. He and Grammy are the Yooper grandparents who’ve given their permission for the geocache. VanJam’s paternal ancestors emigrated from Holland in the early 1900’s to a Dutch community in central Wisconsin. Grandma and Grandpa, his paternal grandparents, are the cachers who are pleased to place this for their first Yooper grandson. So this is indeed a heritage cache from our young Geocacher VanJam. (Google Translate will help with the Dutch words in the cache name. The Yooper term needs no translation, eh?)
As is typical of a Grandma & Grandpa cache, this one is X-L, winter friendly, and easy to find. It’s well off the ground. However, wading through deep snow from Grosbeak Lane to the cache may be necessary 8 or 9 months of the year. The container is a big dry-ingredient jug from a baloney factory, appropriately camo’d and labeled. It’s loaded with lots of kid things, and has room for lots more. It is situated in a woods about 150 feet east of Hwy 95, within several feet of Grosbeak Lane. This road goes to an active gravel pit and a few camps. Watch for occasional dump truck traffic during the warm months and minimal plowing during the snowy season. Keep this is mind when parking – do not block the road. By the way, various online maps have the roads in this area mislabeled. Look for the “Grosbeak Lane” road sign out next to the highway.
VanJam’s father from nearby Ishpeming and grandfather who lives closeby have agreed to be the local guardians and caretakers of this geocache. Much appreciation is expressed to Papa for his assistance and permission for Geocachers to enter his private property to seek the cache.
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*** Congrats to DrMushroom on the FTF
almost exactly 2 years after finding our other U.P. cache GC44X0Z ***