Fort Yargo State Park has over 20 miles of mountain biking trails on their property. The inner loop, blazed and colored yellow on the map, is 6.5 miles and a great place for beginners to learn how to mountain bike. Even if riders take lots of breaks on the various benches scattered along the trail, it should not take longer than two hours to circle the entire lake.

It’s summer of 2016 at Tallulah Gorge, and the nature center is packed with people from all over the Southeast. There are 8 people in line at the gift shop, most of whom are waiting to get a bottle of water after hiking the 1,062 stairs back from the base of the gorge. Jessica James-Weems, Assistant Manager of the Park, gets a message from a visitor: there’s an elderly woman suffering from heat exhaustion and she needs immediate assistance....

My first geocaching adventure in the Appalachian Mountains was finding “Cold Cache” GC3DF1. I thought my journey would end before it started...