23 August 2013 Shadow Lake and the Buckeye Trail

We've figured out with the current cache density on the trails, Ali and the geodogs can stop by my office and we can walk to three caches at the nearby Cleveland Metroparks. Today we parked by Shadow Lake and walked back to the Buckeye Trail for some finds. The caches were well done and there were still stands of wildflowers. The biggest surprise was Ali spotting a fishing spider. It was really large. The Penn State extension page says it is a smaller relative of the wolf spider, but this one dwarfed any wolf spider I have seen.