Over the Thanksgiving weekend, I found my 2,000th geocache. I reserved a much talked about geocache called Last One Standing in the Land Between the Lakes area. The cache is near an old Catholic church that has been restored. The LBL was once settled area until 1963 and made into a National Recreation area. I picked Last One Standing due to its interesting location and was not let down.
I saw Friday after Thanksgiving would work out for me and planned to go alone when other cachers were unable to their schedules free. Weather turned out to be great. Minnie Mouse didn't want to go caching but didn't want to spend the day with her grandmother and so opted to go with me. I adjusted to what I wanted to go after and limit caches that required a lot of hiking. We begun with a park and grab in Mayfield, then onto Draffenville for three caches in a park. Being that another park and grab was unavailable in Mayfield; we went a sure thing at Confederate Cemetery Cache and then backtracked to Grand Rivers and found 2 of 3 caches just off I-24. I didn't go after a micro since it required a mile of hiking round trip. We hit the LBL and quickly found KL Overlook and then went after the most difficult cache Night Rider Spring. Night Rider Spring proved to be the most physical and a hunter's camp was very close by. We went east towards Last One Standing seeing many deer hunters along the way. As we approached Last One Standing, driving about a mile on a one lane dirt road, a deer hunter was at the church. He told me he was scouting the area, I told him we were caching, and he asked why I was wearing orange. He told me the deer season begins the following day. Since I didn't know if the deer season was on, I wore orange so I wouldn't be shot geocaching. He mentioned that was a good idea.
Found the cache and took some pictures of the area and thankful I chose this cache to by my 2K milestone.
I saw Friday after Thanksgiving would work out for me and planned to go alone when other cachers were unable to their schedules free. Weather turned out to be great. Minnie Mouse didn't want to go caching but didn't want to spend the day with her grandmother and so opted to go with me. I adjusted to what I wanted to go after and limit caches that required a lot of hiking. We begun with a park and grab in Mayfield, then onto Draffenville for three caches in a park. Being that another park and grab was unavailable in Mayfield; we went a sure thing at Confederate Cemetery Cache and then backtracked to Grand Rivers and found 2 of 3 caches just off I-24. I didn't go after a micro since it required a mile of hiking round trip. We hit the LBL and quickly found KL Overlook and then went after the most difficult cache Night Rider Spring. Night Rider Spring proved to be the most physical and a hunter's camp was very close by. We went east towards Last One Standing seeing many deer hunters along the way. As we approached Last One Standing, driving about a mile on a one lane dirt road, a deer hunter was at the church. He told me he was scouting the area, I told him we were caching, and he asked why I was wearing orange. He told me the deer season begins the following day. Since I didn't know if the deer season was on, I wore orange so I wouldn't be shot geocaching. He mentioned that was a good idea.
Found the cache and took some pictures of the area and thankful I chose this cache to by my 2K milestone.
1 comment:
This was my 11th cache to ever find. I found this one with my father-in-law efbaumann on 8-6-06.
It is a great cache and have taken quite a few cachers back to this cache...the old church is a sight to see. It is a nice ride back to the old church and cache. It is well worth the trip!!
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