Saturday, March 26, 2011

"M"adJack Tribute Cache

Last weekend I made a trip up to Wisconsin to do a few terracaches and check out some areas that have some geocaches I'm interested in hunting down.  I wanted to do a little recon to see if all the snow was gone since most of these I have picked out are high terrain.  But I came across this terracache that I just knew I had to do it, while I was there.

"M"adjack Tribute Cache  just peaked my interest when I rolled right past Platteville and saw the giant "M".  Now I've seen the M before, but long ago before I ever did any caching.


When I was getting close my thought was I have to get to the top of this thing.  I didn't know they had a stairwell on the south side of it that takes you to the top.  Which each step has a plaque with a name of someone that donated time, or money on the creation of this thing.  Plus it has a number on each plaque.  Yup, the number of each step.  There is a total of 266 stairs to the top.

While I was heading up to the top, they have a couple of places you can stop with benches on there was a geocache at about the middle of the way to the top.  I won't fully show the spoiler photo but you can pretty much get the idea here.


Now I'm thinking cool, but still I'm only half way up.  Time to get to the top.  So I continued on and up and up and up.  Finally I reached the top.  They do have one of those bonicluar things you can look threw to see the view.  Which was amazing.  Here's a panaramic photo I made with my camera:
Well, now half of the task was done, reaching the top.  But still was a ways from the cache.  There was a nice trail that led back into the woods for a 1/4 mile or so, that I followed and took me very close to the cache location.  Once I reached ground zero I was doing a quick look and didn't spot anything, lots of good hiding spots but wasn't able to find anything.  I'm blaming that on the lack of oxygen. :)  Finally I decided I would sit down on this log and grab a breather and I about sat on the ammo can.  Funny how that can happen sometimes.

Now my hat goes off to anybody that would carry a fully loaded ammo can up all those stairs, and back that far.  That's Freakin awesome!!!


All in all this was my favorite cache hunt for the day.  I'm so glad I saw the 'M'.  I really enjoyed this cache.  I'll also post some photos of the information on the "M" itself.