One more time. With the cold weather closing in, we decided to make one more Geocaching trip out to Monkey Mountain. The last time we were out here, we picked up two of the four Geocaches hidden in this Jackson County Park. This time we plotted a 2.5 mile trek to pick up the two remaining caches, Naughty Monkeys (GCBF8E) and East Monkey (GCH4W0). We set our starting point at the parking lot on the Southwest corner of the Park, off of RD Mize Road, and started up the hill.
First stop was visiting the camping areas that are located along the rock cliffs at the top of the access trail, then we spent a little bit of time having fun playing around on the large hay bales that were lined up along our path. We worked our way Northeast across the park to the High Power lines that cut through the park, and eventually found our nice casual walk through mowed fields was to end and the beginning of bush whacking through thorn bushes and Locust trees began.
Naughty Monkeys was in pretty sad shape. The tree that it had apparently been tied to had fallen over, and the contents of the Ammo Can were saturated to the point that signing the log was impossible. Unfortunately, we didn't have the supplies to fix the log, so we had to leave the cache unsigned. Trekking back out of the woods, we started up the .7 mile journey from Naughty Monkeys to East Monkey. We found this cache in good condition, and signed the log before starting on our trek back to the parking lot.
Congrats to our Webelos tag-along, Jay, for not only his first find, but for finding BOTH of the caches on this outting!
