Showing posts with label adventures. Show all posts
Showing posts with label adventures. Show all posts

Saturday, March 9, 2013

#61 - Geocaching at the Dr. James Rich Wildlife Management Area

Today my husband and I drove about 30 minutes north of Lexington for a little geocaching date. I love just spending time in the woods and geocaching has added a whole new level of enjoyment to that!

We visited the Dr. James Rich Wildlife Management Area (WMA) and spent about 4 hours basically playing in the woods. It was awesome! The WMA is 1700 acres of wooded area. It is a public hunting area so it's a good idea to wear blaze orange during hunting season.


Entrance 
Information about the WMA
 We found 9 caches today and tried to find a 10th but couldn't find that one. Here I am signing one the logs. I must say we found some of the most unique caches we've found so far during this adventure. Special thanks to Ground Fox for placing all these fun caches!  Yes my shirt is on inside out. I was trying to keep the right side cleaner since it was kinda muddy out there today and I was climbing through trees etc.
Found a cache!
Putting a log back inside the cache for the next person to find.
All smiles! I love being in the woods!
Isn't it gorgeous?!

Sunday, February 24, 2013

#54 - Ziplining





My wonderful husband took me for adventure to celebrate our anniversary this weekend. One part of the day we spent riding ziplines through caves in Louisville, KY.  Not only was it my first time on a zipline, the Mega Cavern in Louisville is the only all underground zipline adventure.

Due to the nature of ziplining, I didn't get any pictures of me in action. It was a lot of fun though we didn't go down the line as fast as I thought we would. I curled up into a little ball trying to go faster but it didn't work too well really. lol Ziplines are angled down then back up a slightly so that they slow you down a little at the end of the line (to keep you from crashing into the wall or the guide who is at the end of the line to help catch you). The video above is one of the Mega Cavern's promotional video.


Here are some cool facts about the Mega Cavern:

The Louisville Mega Cavern was an operational limestone mine from 1930s to 1970s.

The cavern has over 17 miles of passageways that run underneath Louisville, KY.

The Mega Cavern is classified by the State of Kentucky as a building which makes it the largest building in the state.

The Mega Cavern houses a recycling center. This recycling center is the largest in Kentucky. In fact, it houses more recycling tonnage than all the other recycling centers in Kentucky combined!!

Most of the lights in the Mega Cavern are motion sensor activated to conserve power.