How I walked 10K to do a 2 terrain Geocache

Been a little tardy and neglectful in my posting-Sorry to anybody who is reading this.

We started geocaching in an attempt to loose weight, that never occurred so now we have started walking.  Nice thing is that sometimes these to things can coexist.  To non cachers a 2 terrain geocache means there are some hills involved and the terrain is a bit rougher but no big deal, so people normally don't walk 10K (6.2 miles) to do these types of caches, but who said I was normal.

We arrived in Union Center to the Dairyland Walkers (part of the American Volkssports Association) sponsor walk on the Hillsboro spur of the 400 bike trail.  We wore our Wisconsin Geocaching Assocication sweatshirts and while we were talking and getting information about the club (which we did join) about the club we were also waiting for a shuttle to take us to the starting point.  The sponsor from the club then informs us there is a cache nearby, but it is time to go.

The walk started as a walk around the city streets of Hillsboro for about 4K.  I am not a huge fan of walking on city sidewalks as it jars my knees and ankles.  But the guy who decided airline seats should be smaller, must have designed the width of the sidewalks in this town, we couldn't walk two across the sidewalk. Finally we get to the access point to the trail (so we thought) and did a tour of a liquid fertilizer plant (good thing I quit smoking years ago, open flame would equal BOOM here).  Tried again and found the proper route, the next 6K was on a trail similar to what I am used to walking on and was no problem on the body and completely different from the first portion.  This part was heavily wooded around you, there were several bridges you had to cross and most of the time you couldn't hear Highway 33 even though it was just a few 100 feet away.

In the end it took us about 2 hours to do the distance, this make the furthest my wife has gone in one hike and she handled it wonderfully.  Oh and we nabbed the cache after walking the trail

On the way homes stopped at the Nike Outlet to get some more cold weather friendly gear for hiking.

Next weekends goals Al's Run/Walk for Children's Hospital and hopefully doing the Dairyland Walkers YRE in downtown Milwaukee which is 10K.  Will try to do both in the same day for a total of 15K that day

To date 111897 steps and 62.6 miles, startign to wonder if we can do 250K steps before year end