Our second full day in Hocking Hills took us to not one, not two, but Three beautiful places! The morning was rainy - not a heavy rain, but grey misty light rain. The lovely corners and bits of the Hills were still so beautiful, and there weren't too many people in any of the places we poked around.
The descent to our first spot was a little scary... but absolutely worth it! I shared the same picture a few posts ago, but I'm going for a theme here. At the suggestion of a coworker we decided to visit Rock House. The stairs here are not the ones we went down, but you get the idea. Our path down seemed to have had some relatively recent destruction and were fairly 
precarious. I'll be the first to admit that I was a little terrified. We made it safely down, and were not disappointed! These are the most cave-like caves I've seen in the Hocking Hills area. So beautiful and yes - a little bit spooky. With the overcast skies, the darkish spooky caves were even moreso. And then the owls started hooting! Yes, owls. There were at least 3 in the caves and they weren't exactly happy with our time spent 
looking into the dark. We finally bid them farewell and left when our spectacular curiosity turned toward nerves. If you're ever down that way consider going to Rock House - but choose the path down to the right from the top instead of to the left!
Our second stop for the day was Old Man's Cave, and John snapped this picture of the roadside horse having a snack on the way there. Mmmm, snacks.
Old Man's Cave remains the most popular and sort
of iconic Hocking Hills destination. The trails there are beautiful, and the site is most developed for visitors with maintained stairwells, visitor information, and lots of great things to see all on one trail set. They also have a snack bar - with corn dogs!
Still to come here - one more set of pictures and yammerings from our trip.
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