2016-04-19 42 -85
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Location
Bank of Plaster Creek, Kentwood, MI
Participants
Expedition
Only about 5 miles from home, and apparently accessible: couldn't pass it up. It was bikeable but I was unable to leave home until 8 pm, and on the bike it would have been dark by the time I arrived, so I drove.
I was able to park in a pleasant neighborhood about 270 m from the hashpoint. The approach was to the west along a power-line right of way that was mostly grassy but in places swampy. When I needed to turn south through a clearing toward the hashpoint I found that its first 30 meters were one giant puddle. I was able to go a little further to the north and west to get around the puddle, and then go south through brush and rejoin the grassy clearing where it was dry. I saw a couple of whitetail deer run through the brush but was not fast enough to get a photo. The hashpoint was easy to reach a couple dozen meters above the creek.
On the way back I saw fresh deer tracks all over the place, including ones probably made by the deer I had seen.
Photos
Proof.
View to west, toward hashpoint, along powerline right-of-way.
Originally planned route from powerline right-of-way to hashpoint: no go.
View south from hashpoint to Plaster Creek.
Grin.
Deer tracks (smallish ones; hand in shot for scale).
