TIGER'S STRIPES
Tigers, the largest natural cat species, are beautiful and elusive animals. The striking orange and black stripes of these animals allow them to hide well in the southeast asian jungles.
Tigers are the biggest of the big cats. Male Siberian Tigers (the largest subspecies) average over 227 kg (that's 500 lbs!). While Begal Tigers (the most common subspecies) are a little smaller, they are still larger than the average lion. Tigers are probably best known for their striking black on orange striped pattern. This pattern extends from the face all the way to the tip of the tail. The stripes are even found in the skin. A completely shaved tiger will still have a striped pattern. The stripes in a tigers face can serve as a finger print in that no two tigers have the same facial stripes. Tigers prefer to live in dense forests and jungles where they can sneak close to their prey and then sprint and pounce on the unsuspecting animals. Unlike most cats, tigers do not mind the water. In fact tigers can often be found swimming or just lounging around in lakes and rivers.
This cache is a four stop multicache along a walking/biking trail I found one day while out biking. Now I'm sharing it with you if you never knew it was here either. It's a nice trail that follows plaster creek from the Ken-o-sha area west to Eastern Ave.
You'll start on the west end of the trail. The first three stops are "micro-sized" while the final is a regular sized ammo box. Each stage is just a little off the trail to one side or the other. I have clues for each stage below. The path is paved, but of course you'll need to get off trail a little bit for the different stops. There is a private, but currently unused parking lot immediately south of the first stop. It's about a mile walk from the beginning to the end of the multi.
The cache is mildly Detroit Tiger themed. I'll try to stock some Detroit Tigers items here and appreciate others doing the same, but it is by no means exclusively Detroit Tigers items.
A number of people have had difficulty with stage two. I tried to make the clue a bit more descriptive of the area, and bumped up the difficulty half a star.
Please be sure to re-hide the different stages carefully and watch for muggles. I'd provided space below to write in the different stages as you hit them:
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