Highway 68/80 run

Since my return from deployment a year ago, I had not ventured into the Kentucky side of the Land Between the Lakes. During this time, I watched the amount of caches along Highway 68/80 grow and grow and had been tempted to make a cache run of the area.

Being there were so many caches to go after, I posted on GOWT and RVG sites on Facebook that I would make a run of the area the Friday after Thanksgiving. The Friday after Thanksgiving has traditionally been a free day for me and have used the day to be geo-aggressive. My aggressiveness paid off with 29 finds. All my caching partners set new daily find records and cleared at least two Fizzy terrain/difficulty grids as well.

The highlight caches of the day were:

Turkey Bay ATV Series # 1 The Silo and Turkey Bay ATV Series # 2 Edsel proved to be the most physically challenge with steep hills to traverse. Both are 5-star terrain caches, requiring an ATV. Neither of us had ATV's and we did it the hard way by hiking. Thankfully, we found the caches before the ATV's were on the course.

Mt. Everest, another physically challenging cache, we parked .10 away and hiked straight up the hill.

!!! BE PREPARED !!!, a clever hide. I had found two caches like this in my geo-career and wanted to show chicontator of the work some cachers will put into a cache. The cache container was missing. We ended up taking the entire device apart and repaired the cache. Cache is located in secluded area of the LBL were many duck blinds could be seen.

One of the most unusual experiences was at Bogard Cemetery where dhrnrcpa found a pentagram on a headstone and we were all a little freaked out that someone buried here was a worshiper of Satan.

We also found caches on a brand new LBL greenway. I plan to return with my girls when the weather turns nice for a bike ride. Most memorable of those caches was: LBL Greenway East Duck Island/End of the road took a lot of effort but we found the cache.