Peace With Nature

Location: Rochester Hills, Oakland County, Mi
Planted By: Trailtroll (adopted)
Find Date: 5/5/2007
Find #: 51

Comments: We divined our way to this box. We found the Knowledge is Pleasant box first which is off the same Rail Trail. A lot of the landmarks for this box have changed, but we were able to figure it out after a while. There was a whole group of people hanging out. Took forever for them to finally leave so we could find the box. Cute little stamp. Nice place! See, this is really close to the place that creeped me out, but now I think it's really cool! It's all a matter of first impressions and how you view it, I guess. If the Knowledge box clues brought us in the back way, rather than in by that building and weird lake, it would have been much better! There was a nesting duck really close to the trail!

Knowledge is Pleasant

Location: Rochester Hills, Oakland County, MI
Planted By: Lake Norcentra Trail
Find Date: 5/5/2007
Find #: 50

Comments: Maybe it was because it was late in the day and getting darker, maybe it was because we entered the college next to a building that was in disrepair, maybe it was the weird island in the middle of the lake with the large falling down cross, maybe it was all those things together. But, this place creeped me out! The BBQ pit was pretty cool, but again kind of creepy when in context with everything else. This would be a great place for one of those B or C level horror flicks. In the back of my mind, I can see that this place could be really beautiful with the gully, trees and river. But, something about it struck us wrong that day! And to top it all off, the stamp was a pre-made auto-inked stamper thing that just had words on it. It was a pretty stupid stamp. In general, I really don't mind store bought stamps, as long as they're artistic or fit with the theme. And this did "technically" fit with the placement at the school. But, it was really pretty lame. Sorry, no offense to the placers!

Guardians' Point

Location: Rochester Hills, Oakland County, Mi
Planted By: TrailTroll (adopted)
Find Date: 5/5/2007
Find #: 48

Comments: WOW! We had a hard time with this! You really have to be observant and think outside of the box on this one. We skipped ahead in the clues and managed to find our way to the box, though. Nice memorial!