Two Along the River

This trip features two cache hunts, but the first one took me two trips, as I did not find it the first time due to the snow cover. (At least that's my excuse, and who's to know any different?) Both of these hunts are along the south (or east) bank of the Susquehanna River, the first directly across from Shickshinny along a system of trails under the aegis of the Earth Conservancy

One sets out from a dubious setting down a side street in Mocanaqua, past a sewage plant...

...things quickly improve!

The snow was spotty, but quite deep in some places.

The higher one climbs, the more the rocks emerge from the hill.

There are the usual fine sights if one looks closely.

Fixer-upper... Needs work, but a wonderful view!

	A steep climb, at times and pterodactyl..., ummm, or turkey tracks. I was not alone!

Shickshinny, from across the way.

At the top, it is very rocky... not just the bare rocks that protrude through the soil through which scrub pines make their way, but also very strange boulders. See that one through the trees? Take a closer look.

Somehow that sucker climbed up on top of those little rocks and balanced itself for a better look over the rim! You can see right under it, and not a speck of the big rock is touching the ground.

Well, like I said, on the second trip I found it, and if you've been curious about what might be in a geocache, this one is fairly typical - postcards, pencils, toys, tools, etc., etc., etc.


With a little imagination, one can find spooky sights - shadow rocks and black lagoons, from which a creature, or Yoda, might emerge.

On the return trip, one is presented with an array of vistas that perhaps we were too winded to appreciate on the way up. Shickshinny, again, across the river, and downalong, the nuclear power plant, which we visit next!

Downriver

Some weeks later, on Easter weekend, I dragged Uncle Jim out for a coupla hunts, and found myself once again above the river, just a few miles downstream. "Council Cup," the Indians apparently called this area. If you wanted to watch for people coming upriver, this would be the place!

This was a short walk, since you can drive to within a mile of it, thanks to the folks at PP&L who have made a nicely developed overlook. There are ugly chain link fences, for obvious reasons (it's a LONG way down), but you have to shoot pictures through the holes.

PP&L has a sign up there that explains how that thing operates (sort of), but the thing I noticed is that not once do they use the term "nuclear." It is, said the public relations guru, The Susquehanna Steam Power Plant.

Thanks for your indulgence, JR, and I hope everyone enjoyed our little walk along the river. It's a wonderful river, and we should take very good care of it.

The cache pages:

High Rock Mini-Cache
Nuclear Power Plant Cache