Just a note, The metro park is in Greene County Ohio - just barely!

--- In letterbox-usa@y..., n4fpm@y... wrote:
> Name: Mad Mad World
> Location: Ohio, Near Wright Patterson AFB
> Date: 14 Nov 2001
> Type: Hybrid Letterbox/Geocache
>
> It was a toss-up whether to name this after the Mad River or "Those
> Magnificent Men and their Flying Machines." As a fisherman, the
river
> won the day. The Mad River here gets too warm to support trout,
like
> it does in Urbana. I have caught some nice Smallmouth Bass just
north
> of the cache.
>
> Leave a parking lot in the Huffman Metropark as far south and east
as
> you can get. Follow a GPS to N 39 degrees 48.219 minutes and W 84
> degrees, 5.302 minutes. There is a level trail all the way to the
> cache/letterbox. There is a little broken, rocky ground. Watch your
> ankles. Strollers and mountain bikes are possible but difficult
> because of the trees across the path. The path does not appear to
be
> maintained by the park staff. If you get to a trash barrel you have
> gone too far.
>
> The cache is equidistant to the parking at the north end of the
park,
> but without waders or a canoe it is a very cold wade in swift 3-
foot
> deep water to get to this cache from the north. From the south it
is
> a breeze up the long peninsula. For more detail and hints see
> placename GC26B1 on the www.geocache.com website.
>
> The cache/letterbox contains toys for boys and girls of all ages
and
> a MAD stamp! Have fun. If you are there in spring and see someone
> wading the Mad with a fly rod, stop and ask if it is me. :)
>
> Flyfisher 2P0F