East Bound & Down with Captain Brady Traditional Cache

Just a quick micro ‘cache-n-dash’ for all of you Geocachers driving across our fair state. You won't get dirty, stay on the ashpalt.  If you are going to go into the plaza, use the Cars parking. If you are passing through, you can temp park at GZ, which is Camper area parking. 

Local NEOGeo Cachers are welcome too! No toll money required if you can find the back way in.  

I had a hide here before from 2005 to 2019. It was logged over 1,380 times.  This area sat devouid of hides since 2019, long overdue for another here.  

This is a good spot to slow down and take a pit stop. Just east of here is the local State Highway Patrol barracks. They love stopping you out of staters speeding through here!

This plaza is called, "Brady’s Leap". Named so after a local historical hero. Some history about him:

Captain Samuel Brady was a noted Ohio Indian fighter who had many hairbreadth escapes. The most celebrated escape took place about the year 1780 near the city of Kent in Portage County, Ohio.  Not too far from this hide.  Captain Brady and his men found themselves in a skirmish one day with local Native Americans and they were greatly outnumbered.  Seeing no way to win, he ordered his men to split up and run! He told each to take care of himself.

The Indians responded by deciding to chase down the Captain since he, with his courageous leadership over the years, had become their most dangerous adversary. They pursued Brady alone until they reached an upstream part of the Cuyahoga River that was confined to a narrow chasm, 22 feet from one bank to the other.

There Brady, blessed with exceptional athletic ability, jumped the gap in a single bound! This temporarily stymied his awestruck pursuers who were unable to duplicate the white man's remarkable feat.

They fired their rifles across the stream and one bullet wounded him in the hip.  Brady charged on and managed to reach a nearby pond before the warriors again closed in. He plunged into the pond, swam underwater a considerable distance and came up under the floating hollow trunk of a fallen oak tree. There he hid until the Indians, thinking he had probably drowned, finally departed.

Later... Brady returned to safety, bleeding and barely able to stand, but still very much alive. The pond eventually became known as "Brady's Lake," and the chasm on the Cuyahoga River, "Brady's Leap."

Cool, huh? 

This is the hiking viking's 27th hide since moving back to Ohio. My 508th hide overall.