Nat's Knob

On Novemeber 11, 2005, I was off from work and cleared the geocaches in Benton County. My favorite was Nat's Knob which is located in Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park located on the west bank of the Tennessee River. The park is named for the famous Confederate Cavalry general and the Battle of Johnsonville. I consider this cache one of the better caches in West Tennessee and it's low number of finds, one of the forgotten.

I had visited the park many years ago while in the Boy Scouts and hiked the trails. My best recollection was hiking a few miles before my trip to Philmont Boy Scout Ranch in New Mexico. I visited the park again when I covered the county for Department of Children's Services.

Parking at the bottom of the hill, I hiked up to the cache, passing the sign, "Highest Point in West Tennessee" and found the cache. Later, I went to the museum to rest and drink some water. It was November, but a somewhat warm day. The staff noticed my hiking gear and we got into the discussion of geocaching, where I left them a printout of the cache page.

Wingo Trail

When I first began geocaching in 2005, there were only a handful of geocaches around and debated if I wanted to continue the game. I found a cache that interested and that was The Cardinal Trail which was at an end of a 1.5 mile rails to trails in Wingo, Kentucky. On April 15, 2005, I loaded the truck with my girl's bicycles and along with my two daughters, we hiked the paved trail. On the way, we had second thoughts about pursuing the cache since we encountered teenagers returning from the creek soaking wet with odd conversations. We ignored them and went on about our business besides, this was minnie mouse's first long bike ride and she was enjoying the early afternoon bike ride. We found the cache and stayed a bit at the end of the trail observing the surroundings.

Later that cache became disabled and later archived. After being archived, I wasted little time and returned to the Wingo Trail and set out a power-trail of cache to include Cardinal Trail-Revisited. The trail has seen a lot of activity since placing the caches. Other caches have also been placed on the trail. I returned on New Year's Day of 2009 to find the new caches, Field Trip, The Lighthouse, Butterfly Ridge, Are you serious....A Nano in the woods???? and Gazebo on the Wingo Rails to Trails II . It does appear that Influence Waterfowl Calls is having the same problem with the Gazebo cache being muggled as I did with mine. I did hope he would have better luck than I.

This past Sunday, I visited the trail once again to work on cache maintenance and saw the trail was cleaned up after the massive ice storm.