Wednesday, March 9, 2016

Not exactly lost


I think we have all been there.  The directions seemed clear enough at the start:  Eaton county, 2.5 mile east of I-127, 0.5 miles north of Round Lake Road.

My first clue regarding the quality of the directions should have been the fact that Round Lake Road and I-127 are in Clinton County, 25 miles north of here.

The second complication involved the 2.5 miles.  Was that GPS east or 2.5 miles on Round Lake Road?  It makes a difference.  Round Lake Road staggers across the landscape like a drunk on his way to the party store to pick up his third bottle of whiskey.  Round Lake Road is also devoid of shoulders so I had to park a mile ease of the site.

I figure I walked four miles today.  The middle two miles were the hardest.  I was walking on soggy corn stubble.  I never did find the tree I was looking for.

I did see some pretty country and some magnificent deer blinds.

This fellow has a 200 yard shooting range and a pond.  Additional targets at 50 yards and 100 yards.  Bench is on the left end of the grass strip.
Space aliens?  Pirate treasure?  Signaling Soviet landing sites?  Nope, just a deer hunter who mowed his shooting lanes to better see the deer.
Snow melted on Sunday.  Chickweed blooming on Wednesday.

3 comments:

  1. Yep, that 25 mile difference WOULD call the whole thing into question...

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  2. What tree? It must have been special for that effort.

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    1. It was supposed to be a Rock Elm listed in the Michigan Big Tree registry: http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/mbot/0497763.0045.201/--big-trees-and-shrubs-of-michigan?view=image&seq=63&size=100 Last entry.

      It should have been easy to find, Girth (at breast height) of 196 inches, height of 70 feet and a crown 107 feet across.

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