Geocaching at Settler's Cabin Park

It was such a lovely afternoon Sunday afternoon that we decided to take Rio someplace we've never been before. We have a book about places to take your dog in Pittsburgh. Grant noticed an entry for Settlers Cabin Park, which is near Bayer where he used to work.

We decided to see if there were any geocaches in the area. We picked one that looked like it was doable. The cache is off a trail loop which is connected to other loops. We missed the right loop and ended up walking a two mile trail just for the pleasure of walking. We lost the blaze markers near the end and decided to go up to the road to walk back to the car.

After a water and snack break we figured out where we went wrong and decided to see if we could get on the correct loop. We managed to find the cache. Grant bushwacked down a steep hill to find it. We tried to continue along the loop but it suddenly went steeply down hill. We decided we would be better off going back from where we came.

All in all we walked about three hours. I think we probably did 6 to 7 miles today. Rio flaked out after we got home. Grant and I took some pain relievers. Rio had a bit of his limp during our outing but he was fine for the duration of the walk.