The Happy Wanderer - Part 2

If you somehow missed Friday's Part 1 post, go back and read it so you get up to speed.  As I said, we were in Kentucky at the LBL (Land Between the Lakes) and decided to get out into the woods for a little hiking and geocaching.  The 2nd half of the day found Petey more comfortable in his surroundings and since we were deeper in the woods, we removed his leash so he could explore a little.  Here he is, hot on the geocaching trail....

Does he look like he's on point to you?

Cache found and secured ma'am!

Petey bringing up the rear...

The next cache took us to a great cliff overlooking the lake.  We tried to grab this cache last year but a family was camping right near ground zero.  This year the coast was clear and we quickly made the grab...

This next cache was my favorite cache of the day - Night Rider Spring.  I know, it was hard to top the fire tower cache, but I really liked this one because it was a nice hike through the woods to get to the cache location.  Petey has really taken to his new role as geocaching dog and led the way....

Near the cache location was a hiker shelter.  This is the first time we've come across one of these on the LBL, so it was fun to see it.

We checked the GPS which pointed that-a-way, and that meant up a steep incline.  I silently cursed myself for not grabbing our hiking poles out of the car.  Off we went....

Even Petey was determined to climb that hill....

We were rewarded with an easy to find ammo can...

Snoopy says "Hello there!!"

 Going down was a lot harder than going up.  We took the zig zag approach and I was laughing so hard I practically rolled down the hill.  Look at Louie clutching at that tree!  ROFL!!

In all we grabbed 7 caches for the day.  It felt so good to be out in the woods enjoying the springtime sunshine and warm temperatures.  We were barely a mile down the road towards home and Petey the geocaching wonderdog was fast asleep.

 Take a few minutes to go over to CacheCrazy and read this fantastic post by Kevin.  He's got pictures and video of an awesome cache they did a couple of weeks ago.  This post really gives an excellent example of the fun times you can have while geocaching.