The yellow maple leaves
you see below were near the cache on October 15, 2005. The time was
near sunset.
I decided to place this
cache here while we were on our annual family trip to the apple
orchards to get apples and squeaky cheese. In case anyone is
interested, the coordinates for the apple orchards that we go to
every year are: Fleming Orchards at 43 19.907, -90 46.948; Kickapoo
Orchard at 43 19.615, -90 47.696; and Sunrise Orchard Inc. at 43
19.078, -90 49.826. We also love to get squeaky cheese at Mt.
Sterling Goat Milk Cheese at 43 18.942, -90 55.587. The park that
we picnic at in Gay's Mills has some neat log cabins. It's at 43
18.781, -90 50.823. For high resolution imagery plug the above
coords into
this website.
Our favorite place to
stay before venturing out to satisfy out tastes for these
delectables is the Fenmore Motel. This year was not quite the same
however. Gordy, the family patriarch (Grandpa), was not with us. He
passed away the day after Thanksgiving day last year. In honor of
him I decided to name this little cache after him and sign in every
year that we return.
Out back of the Fenmore
Motel there's a nice little woods that I used to explore with my
kids when they were younger. My son and I still like roaming around
out there. The colors were beautiful at the time I placed this
cache! It's easily accessible from the southern edge of the woods
and the owner of the motel knows not to be alarmed by strangers
poking around with one waist height hand holding a small object (a
GPSr) while wandering as though confused. In fact one of the guys
that works there is becoming very interested in geocaching as I
talk to him about it.
I hope others can enjoy
this beautiful location with a spectacular view of the Wisconsin
River valley out the windows in the front. I did ask permission of
the motel owner's son. He assured me that it was OK to place this
cache.
To the left here is a
pair of pictures showing the area where the cache is. The top
picture was taken in daylight, The bottom one in
moonlight!