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Click on Dash Icon to see the Map GD15-BYTY Terra Server Picture from LostOutdoors.com Coordinates: N 41.6190° W 088.3545° Date Tried: 9/2/2002 12:00 am Hunters: Kelly, Drew, Sam, Sherry Yorkville Area, SW of Chicago 6.67 miles from home

Green Dot is home. Blue Dot is dashpoint.

Dashpoint Name: Buggy Bypass I We left to go do some shopping at a Factory outlet mall near GD15-BYRI. GD15-BYTY is the closest one to my house, but will take some talking to the farmer to get closer than 0.48 miles, at which point there was a prominent "No Trespassing" sign. Will try again later this month. GD15-BYRI was closer to the mall, and we ventured near, but again, it was cornfields, and with cranky kids, we opted out for this one. This is my third-distant cache, and with my schedule being really tight this month, I'm not sure I'll make it to this neck of the woods again. GD15-BYRI did offer me the opportunity to place a cache in a little known/used woods nearby (about a mile away). Very cool area, except for the Mosquitos from Mars. Fresh rains this morning hatched all the new generation, and they were HUNGRY. We bypassed three caches because of them - and the placement of the new one was a solo effort due to the nasty bugs. I can't wait for the first frost! I'll be back for more later this month, but for now, no points for either hunt.

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Cachin’ for Critters by Dad and the Dynamic Duo N 41° 53.846 W 088° 29.282 Difficulty: Terrain: Date Tried: 9/2/2002 Hunters: Kelly, Drew, Sam, Sherry

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BUGS FROM MARS!!! We were headed up to Huntley Outlet Malls for a little shopping, and were going to hit a dashpoint a cache and place a cache. This was the cache we were going to find. As my wife exited the car, no less than 15 mosquitos entered the car. She went out and sprayed herself with deet while I slapped-slapped-slapped the bugs in the car (much to the children's delight --> “Get 'em Dad!”). Having seen the infestation on my wife even after having applied the protection, we chose not to subject our kids to such torture. We never got out of the parking lot.

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Click on Dash Icon to see the Map GD15-BYRI Terra Server Picture from LostOutdoors.com Coordinates: N 42.1717° W 088.5219° Date Tried: 9/2/2002 12:00 am Hunters: Kelly, Drew, Sam, Sherry Near I-90 and Route 20 intersection, Harmony, Illinois 39.50 miles from home

Green Dot is home. Blue Dot is dashpoint.

Dashpoint Name: Buggy Bypass II See detailed description above.

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My 19th Cache!

Choir of Trees by Markwell N 42° 13.257 W 088° 35.014 Difficulty: Terrain: Date Hidden: 9/2/2002 Hider: Kelly

Green Dot is home. Blue Dot is cache.

The cache could have been named Markwell’s Million Mosquitoes though. I had to keep dabbing on DEET, but it did work. Dairy (the Direction Detecting Dane) simply out ran the critters.

Ignorance is Bliss by Greenback N 41° 46.926 W 088° 26.348 Difficulty: Terrain: Date Tried: 9/2/2002 Hunters: Kelly, Drew, Sam, Sherry

Green Dot is home. Blue Dot is cache.

Having been thrwarted at finding caches by Mosquitos and Geomuggles, I saw this one and said “Let's try this one - it's so close to 47. If we can't find it, we'll just go home.” I didn't have the cache page with me, or I wouldn't have even suggested this one. We found the downloaded coordinates all right - and even took a picture of the sign for future reference, but if one reads the cache page, it clearly states... To prevent people from starting at dangerous starting points, and being tempted to cross posted land I've created this cache with a math twist. Go to the posted coordinates where you will find a historical marker. The maker tells about the first 4th of July celebration in Kane County and at the top of this marker there is a year. Simply add the four digit year to the (N) Latitude and (W) Longitude coordinates below, this will be the coordinates of the cache. D'oh! Foiled again!

Spy Games by Cache Hunters N 41° 44.302 W 088° 22.802 Difficulty: Terrain: Date Tried: 9/2/2002 Hunters: Kelly, Drew, Sam, Sherry

Green Dot is home. Blue Dot is cache.

I had busted the first code easily on the day the cache went up and had long had the coordinates plugged into my GPS. I had thought about venturing out here two weeks ago when I found Ya Don’t See One of These Everyday, but I'm glad I didn't for time reasons. I got to the location and found the right spot, but the surrounding territory had too many Geomuggles around for my tastes, as they surely would have ventured after what I had found. I guess I'll just have to wait for another chance down the road.

Cigar Tube #1 by Spyderuser N 41° 48.000 W 088° 10.738 Difficulty: Terrain: Date Tried: 9/6/2002 Hunters: Kelly, Sam

Green Dot is home. Blue Dot is cache.

Bugs again! I dropped off Drew at school this morning with a day off of work, but I needed to go in to the office to pick up some material that I had left on my desk. Seizing the opportunity, I figured I'd try one of the Cigar Tube caches. This one had originally been placed on MacDowell Forest Preserve land, but Spyderuser graciously moved it off the land and near a break in the fence that surrounds the area. Cool placement and nice idea. Unforutnately, even with 100% deet on, and a good dousing of Sammy with 20% deet, the mosquitos were still vicious enough that while Sammy stood trailside and I looked for the cache, his face was covered with mosquito bites. Not wanting to subject my son to such torture, we retreated to find the cache another day. My GPS said I was within 3 feet.

Click on Dash Icon to see the Map GD15-BYNO Terra Server Picture from LostOutdoors.com Coordinates: N 40.8967° W 088.8921° Date Found: 9/11/2002 10:13 am Hunters: Kelly Central Illinois, just north of Bloomington/Normal 62.00 miles from home

Green Dot is home. Blue Dot is dashpoint.

Dashpoint Name: Flanagan Farmland On the first day of my annual trek to central Illinois for our state-wide client meeting, I would be travelling down I-55 to Bloomington, Illinois. Last year's trip was to Peoria, during which I hit GD03-0287, GD03-0286 and GD03-0267. This year would be another trifecta. The first (predictably) was near a little town called Flanagan, Illinois. If you've never been to the Midwestern region of the US, the roads all outlay 1 square mile grids - only disturbed by the occassional creek that had the audacity to find its way into the middle of the path of the straight East-West or North-South roads. This particular dashpoint was slightly northwest of the town, but had a commanding view of the entire horizon in 12 miles in any direction. The sky was crystal-clear and a vibrant blue on this sunny day of remembrance here in the US. What a great day to be outside. On to the meeting. The next dashes would be hit on Friday of the meeting - as I would be caching in downtown Bloomington (finding 7 out of 8).

Hidden by the Creek by IKE220 N 40° 31.071 W 088° 59.144 Difficulty: Terrain: Date Found: 9/11/2002 Hunters: Kelly

Green Dot is home. Blue Dot is cache.

After finally getting in to Normal, I skirted over and found this one in short order. Parking was only 400 feet from the cache, so I didn't bother with the hiking boots. I did forget the cache page in the car, but it didn't matter. I grabbed a traveling wooden fish. Only thing I took out of any caches this whole trip.

Highway Power! by carhart2 N 40° 30.955 W 089° 01.684 Difficulty: Terrain: Date Found: 9/11/2002 Hunters: Kelly

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Jeepster had suggested that I do this one after dark, but since I had evening plans for both nights I would be in town, I hit this one in the daytime. Jeepster was right! This would have been PERFECT for a night cache. Cool trails, and the park is well lit and open until 11:00 p.m. Wish I would have listened to him. The volunteer trail being made by caches leads me to think that this won't last too much longer, but you never know. Now that I had two caches and a dash under my belt, I whipped back to Jumer's to get showered and prepared for the afternoon meeting.

Mulberry Lane by HTUNK N 40° 29.069 W 089° 03.324 Difficulty: Terrain: Date Found: 9/12/2002 Hunters: Kelly

Green Dot is home. Blue Dot is cache.

I started off thinking I would hop over to Morton to snag a dashpoint that way, but I thought the better of it. One dashpoint as a drive-by, with an hour's worth of driving, or hitting several caches. I chose the caches. I started out the door at 6 a.m. and it was a crisp clear morning. As I pulled up to the parking area for the cache, the sun was just starting to rise into the pinks and oranges of the clouds overhead. With a wisp of steam on my breath I headed down the asphalt road a good 0.47 miles down the path toward the cache. Ouch. Don't walk more than 0.25 miles from your car while wearing hiking boots, when it's level asphlat that you're walking on. My arches were KILLING me! Found the cache. On to the next one.

Eerie 1 by htunk N 40° 27.238 W 089° 02.418 Difficulty: Terrain: Date Found: 9/12/2002 Hunters: Kelly

Green Dot is home. Blue Dot is cache.

Sometimes people put up caches because they can. This was one of those instances I believe. Right out in the open and no camoflage. I'm very surprised this hasn't been picked up by a groundskeeper. Oh well - another under my belt. On to just one more before heading back to the hotel.

Running fox by Cisco64 N 40° 26.904 W 089° 01.597 Difficulty: Terrain: Date Found: 9/12/2002 Hunters: Kelly

Green Dot is home. Blue Dot is cache.

What a GREAT cache! Parking was tricky. Luckily, I was there when school wasn't in session, or I would have had a much longer walk. But luck was on my side. I parked 300 feet from the cache. But this was a very desceptive 300 feet. The last 200 feet were straight bushwacking through some pretty dense tree canopy. I eventually found the target, and was quite pleased with myself - although I was covered in webs and leaves. Back to the hotel and ready out the door to start at 8:00 a.m.!

Back from the Abyss by Silly Dilly Duo N 40° 29.599 W 089° 00.776 Difficulty: Terrain: Date Found: 9/13/2002 Hunters: Kelly

Green Dot is home. Blue Dot is cache.

Very nice cache indeed. Quite out in the open, but quite hidden. This reminds me a lot of Fossilized Cache in its hiding mechanism, but it was still fun. Found it, and now on to 3 Lakes (ponds).

3 Lakes (ponds) by Htunk N 40° 27.844 W 088° 57.923 Difficulty: Terrain: Date Tried: 9/13/2002 Hunters: Kelly

Green Dot is home. Blue Dot is cache.

I came from the north, not the south as the cache page suggested. I didn't read the log entries to see that the cache hadn't been successfully found since July 25, 2002. I should have taken a pass on this one, but I tried - and think I verified that the cache is indeed not there. I made it back to the hotel with minutes to spare.

Round Trip by Htunk N 40° 29.774 W 088° 58.026 Difficulty: Terrain: Date Found: 9/13/2002 Hunters: Kelly

Green Dot is home. Blue Dot is cache.

I had saved this one for after the meeting because it was on the way to the dashpoint to the Southeast of Bloomington, and this would be near there. A quick and extremely easy in/out with no problems.

Click on Dash Icon to see the Map GD15-BYNY Terra Server Picture from LostOutdoors.com Coordinates: N 40.4575° W 088.8557° Date Found: 9/13/2002 12:29 pm Hunters: Kelly Just southeast of Bloomington, Illinois 88.18 miles from home

Green Dot is home. Blue Dot is dashpoint.

Dashpoint Name: CIRA Outskirts After the meeting let out (slightly early for once!) I had the opportunity to find a quick cache I had been saving for the last minute effort in town, and then went to find this quick dashpoint. CIRA is the Central Illinois Regional Airport, otherwise known as the Bloomington/Normal airport. It's little more than 3 landing strips in the middle of the cornfields, but it does serve the greater metropolitan area of this two university town (including my alma mater: Illinois State University). The dashpoint was predictably on a road about 6 miles out of town. Travel straight east for a while, then straight south - eventually you'll get there. Pictures uploaded. I now needed to decide on my course of action. Two dashpoints called to me. One (GD15-BYRO) would be 20 miles SE toward Champaign, Illinois. Being gridline roads again, there would be no “straight” was to get there. The other was GD15-BYYJ - closer to home, but less chance of hitting it and getting back in time to see my wife off on her camping trip for the weekend with the oldest boy. GD15-BYRO it is.

Click on Dash Icon to see the Map GD15-BYRO Terra Server Picture from LostOutdoors.com Coordinates: N 40.2777° W 088.5017° Date Found: 9/13/2002 1:15 pm Hunters: Kelly Between Bloomington and Champaign, IL 95.41 miles from home

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Dashpoint Name: Gridline Roads at the Speed of Light One thing I can say for the founding fathers of these roads: they are as straight as they are deserted. With a commanding horizon view from atop some slight elevations (an extra 50 foot rise can allow you to see extra miles in this spot), I could see that there was indeed absolutely NO ONE around for miles in any direction. Hence, I decided to make up some considerable time that was lost in stair-stepping the map. Since I could only go either straight South or straight East and could not drive the hypotenuse of any of these grids, I decided to make the best of my lonliness on the highway. Let's just say that Einstein was right: as you approach the speed of light, you do start to see the red/blue light shifts. I got to the location (another field) and found that this one was actually a good 250 meters west of the road. I hopped out of the car and skitted the border between a corn and bean field until the GPS read 99.16 meters. Close enough as the scenary did not change in any direction. Scored and back to the car to return home. On another note, I had tried finding a restaurant in these little population 150 farm communities, as it was past lunchtime, and I was really looking forward to a quiet little Mom and Pop restaurant. Nothing was to be found in any of these towns. The closest was a little Inn that had closed some years ago and had a drooping “For Sale” sign in the window. When I did finally stop in Gibson City at a fast food establishment, I exited the car and was immediately aware of the silence ringing in my ears. Except for the occassional car and very infrequent semi-trailer passing by, this town was as quiet as I had ever heard any place outside. No animal sounds, no rushing winds, no rustle of the corn. It was quite eerie, but a very pleasant change from the perpetual noise of trains and airplanes that I hear out my office window as I type this message. What a great place I live in.

Col. Bogey’s Cache by TwoCampers N 41° 36.404 W 088° 33.731 Difficulty: Terrain: Date Found: 9/14/2002 Hunters: Kelly, Sam

Green Dot is home. Blue Dot is cache.

The Chicago Tribune article was finally in yesterday's Fridays section. A very good article by Raoul from our trip back in June. However, since the cache was back up and running, I felt that today was the opportune time to go find this one. I took Sam and drove out. Got to the spot and looked around while constantly keeping an eye on the 3yo to make sure that he didn't go tumbling through the iron work to the river below along with any sticks he was throwing. Found the cache and traded some items. All in all, a nice day. A side note: when I parked for the cache, there was no one else to be seen. While we were at the cache location, a troop of boy scouts were putting into the Fox River with their canoes. When I returned to my car, I noticed that the ENTIRE road was blocked with vans and busses and canoe trailers. One of the leaders said, “We should have everything taken care of in about 10 minutes. We'll move the busses after that, okay?” Needless to say, that was NOT okay with a cranky boy in the car. He rolled his eyes and finally agreed to shimmy the vehicles around until there was just enough room for my car to exit. Not one of the other people offered to help him and many of the scouts just stood there jaws slackened at the spectacle. ...a Scout is Helpful, Friendly, Courteous, has Good Manners...

Click on Dash Icon to see the Map GD15-BYUP Terra Server Picture from LostOutdoors.com Coordinates: N 41.8121° W 088.2214° Date Found: 9/15/2002 11:50 am Hunters: Kelly, Drew, Sam, Sherry Due west of Chicago: Aurora, Illinois 11.69 miles from home

Green Dot is home. Blue Dot is dashpoint.

Dashpoint Name: Just Outside the Ring If you look at any of the mapping programs, streets, topos or satellite photos, just to the northwest of this dashpoint is a VERY large circle. The road is the outer ring of the Fermilab National Accelerator Laboratory. At Fermilab, they take electrons and rev them up to close to the speed of light - smashing them together and seeing what happens. I used to do that with my hotwheels cars, too. But the dashpoint itself is in some undeveloped land to the southeast of the outer ring. Ferry Road cuts through some of the only undeveloped land in the Naperville area, and I feel it just a matter of time before some large warehouse goes up in the area. I had my wife park me 350 meters from the point while on Ferry Road and wait for the 5 minutes it would take for me to trek the necessary 250m in the field and back. Luckily there were tire tracks that had mown down the grass in the general direction of the dashpoint. As the dashpoint wandered to my right, so did the tire marks. Counting down: 130m, 120m, hey - what's that? A 5 foot measuring stick veritcal in the ground? A pink neon ribbon tied to it? It's PRECISELY at the 100m mark! Scout wasn't kidding when he said he went out and marked the dashpoints on August 31. Pics to follow. The drainage ditch just beyond the 100m pole that Scout left prohibited me from making a clean cross, so I got to 91m and called it scored and got back to the car. Then off to the local Cracker Barrel 0.93 miles away for a great lunch. Thanks for the hint, Scout!

Click for Satellite Photo Showing Fermilab's Ring and the Dashpoint.

Lund Lake Cache by Patrick,Thomas,Randy&Karma (cliff_nuts) N 41° 48.166 W 088° 10.627 Difficulty: Terrain: Date Found: 9/18/2002 Hunters: Kelly

Green Dot is home. Blue Dot is cache.

Lunchtime Geocaching. There are several caches near my office at IHA in Naperville and the weather has turned to fall in these parts. Crystal clear skies and moderate temperatures of the mid-to-low 70s during the mid-day makes an irresistable combination for Geocaching. Since I've been negligent in finding caches near my office, and since the next couple of weekends are so jam-packed with activity, I decided that the month of September will be “Cache for Lunch.” The first of these lunchtime sojourns was to the Lund Lake cache, a scant 2.35 miles from my office parking lot. It's also the closest unfound cache to my office - making it a perfect romp on a sunny day. I parked the car in the Cantera lot at Rockin' Robins and hoofed it the 0.27 miles to the box, laying right out in the open about 30 feet from the trail. I didn't even break a sweat and came back to the office a few calories lighter and with one more box under my belt.

Cigar Tube #1 by Spyderuser N 41° 48.000 W 088° 10.738 Difficulty: Terrain: Date Found: 9/23/2002 Hunters: Kelly

Green Dot is home. Blue Dot is cache.

Another lunchtime cache, I revisted this one since the weekend eradicated many of the mosquitos in the area. They just don't seem to like 37°F nights. Since it was a revisit, I knew exactly where to go. I quickly walked the distance, using my trusty walking stick and found the Cigar Tube in short order. Back to the office and I logged the find.

Cigar Tube #2 by Spyderuser N 41° 49.503 W 088° 10.389 Difficulty: Terrain: Date Tried: 9/24/2002 Hunters: Kelly

Green Dot is home. Blue Dot is cache.

Now I'm getting cocky! I've started taking my tennis shoes along with me in the car for the lunch caches! I honed in on the location, and found the barbed wire fence mentioned by Bspeng. I must have searched for a solid 30 minutes with poor reception and numerous hiding locations for a tube of that size. When I thought I had actually found the location (3 feet away) and searched it thoroughly, I gave up, with a note to Spyderuser regarding my situation. All I asked was for a confirmation that I was in the right area and that the cache was indeed there...

Cigar Tube #2 by Spyderuser N 41° 49.503 W 088° 10.389 Difficulty: Terrain: Date Found: 9/25/2002 Hunters: Kelly

Green Dot is home. Blue Dot is cache.

...and Spyderuser sent me EXACT directions on how to get to the cache. Not that I'm complaining too much, but I wish he would have encrypted it a little. That way I wouldn't be shocked with a spoiler when I open my e-mail. My online log was particularly eloquent, so I'll tell my story with that log: September 25 by Markwell (120 found) Find Number 120. With a fresh hint from Spyderuser in my hand, and a confirmation that the cache is indeed in its hiding location, I decided to partake of this glorious weather once again and look for hidden treasure among the floral and fauna during my midday respite. Donning my well-worn walking sneakers and trusty hiking stick, and removing the trappings of the work-a-day world embodied in the mauve, grey and blue tie I wore around my neck, I retraced the footpath that I had taken the previous day. The coordinating satellites were smiling on me today, as I only lost their transmission intermittently during my walk, and even then, most notably under heavy tree cover. This lack of reception continued to increase as I approached the cache coordinates, as if some nefarious necromancer did not wish me to know with any precision where I was. I approached the location that Spyderuser had given me in the telltale hints via e-mail, and there was the treasure in all its glory. I can honestly say that I was near the locations I had been yesterday, but I had not been to this particular locus. I took note of the necessary information to log this find, violently eradicated a few blood-sucking mosquitoes and made a hasty retreat back to my vehicle. It should be noted that I had considerable difficulty with reception near the point. However, I did endeavor to get an accurate reading on my GPS76S. I am not saying that my coordinates are any more accurate than those given by Spyderuser, but consider them as alternatives that might assist the future finders. They are only 33 feet from the given coordinates. N 41° 49.506 W 088° 10.383. Considering the hiding location of this Cigar Tube, when compared with the hiding location of Cigar Tube #1, I would suggest that the difficulty rating could be raised by at least one half star. 1.5 seems a little low given the circumstances of the hiding location. I also found it very eerie in that throughout my whole journey, I noted many sounds of insects and whirring of various crickets and cicadas - but on the whole walk, I did not hear a single bird chirping. I am hesitant to be a fear monger on this subject, but I have heard the reports that the ornithologists are worried about the decimation of the bird population by the West Nile Virus. This report came distinctly and sharply to mind on this hunt. Here is a link to the Star Newspaper report on the subject. The article is dated just two days ago, September 22. Many thanks to Spyderuser for a unique placement, and I look forward to continuing the series of Cigar Tubes.

Near a Catalog giant by Geoff, and Leah N 41° 49.503 W 088° 02.297 Difficulty: Terrain: Date Found: 9/26/2002 Hunters: Kelly

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Once again, my log was fairly flamboyant, so I'll post that here and comment afterward. September 26 by Markwell (121 found) Find Number 121. One day short of six months after my first attempt at this cache, I decided that today's weather was once again smiling on my opportunity for a lunch hour dash. I scoped out the clues, and decrypted Dolphin's May 10 parking hints. His suggested parking (and the other comments by cachers stating "I parked in the street," etc., made me feel all the more determined that I would go my original route. I weighed all of the factors in with what I had seen on my first attempt on March 27, and I decided to be a man of action. I parked at the Forest Preserve Entrance 0.77 miles away from the cache. While it did make for an “extended” lunch hour (marked my car at 12:34 and marked the waypoint of the car on the return as 13:35), I would not have traded this walk for any hopping of fences to make the hike shorter. All I can say is that any of you that have found this cache by parking near the catalog giant have missed the best parts of this preserve. My details on my personal website log (found on the September 2002 page of www.markwell.us ) will detail more of the waypoints and the nifty things I found, but be warned: there will be spoilers in the form of waypoint-to-waypoint instructions of the path I took. I will not spoil the last 400 feet of the cache. That being said, this was a particularly wonderful hike, although I would have liked to have had my boots instead of sneakers on this, just for the duration and a little terrain. I also would have preferred to have been in jeans instead of dress pants and a white shirt, as I flailed and sputtered through many eye-level spider webs reminiscent of the tensile-strength lashings used by the arachnids near the “Lost Kendall Wilderness”. The cache was in good shape, and well hidden from any passers-by. The camera (after I took my self-portrait) said that there were four pictures remaining on the roll. The booty was sparse, so I pitched in one of Spyderuser's light sticks and a Chicago Magnet notepad that never made it out to the Great Plaines Geocaching Event in Des Moines back in June (thanks Grampa). All in all, a great cache. Thanks for the placement! Now for the additional promised information. The adventure of starting at the west parking entrance for the Hidden Lake Forest Preserve made this adventure well worth the additional time I took on my lunch hour. Parking Coordinates: N 41° 49.575 W 088° 03.198. What a nice little parking area. A little footbride to the south and you're on the right path. But what's this? A trail into the wilderness? If you're at N 41° 49.525 W 088° 03.180, you're at the point that Markwell ventured toward the cache. N 41° 49.582 W 088° 02.762 - Ah... stop and really smell the roses. This is a great rise that commands a view of the area around you. From here, you're able to take in the grandeur of how nice this preserve is. Onward! The cache is still 0.41 miles away. N 41° 49.641 W 088° 02.505 - A turning point. I reached this spot 13 minutes into my journey. The cache was pretty much straight ahead, but I would find PATHS to get me to the cache. My decision took me to N 41° 49.508 W 088° 02.528 one of the neatest aspects of having found this cache from this direction. At these coordinates is probably the largest tree I've seen since either Junk Pile Treasure's large tree (found in this picture) or the tree giving the name to “In The Shadow Of A Giant” (found in this picture). There's also evidence of a foundation of a small shed here, and if you look to the west side of the path while continuing south, there's remnants of an old split rail fence. The final waypoint I'll give is the trailhead to the path that will lead you to the cache: N 41° 49.472 W 088° 02.536. It's a scant 221.88 feet from the previous waypoint, but it's not readily seen as the way to get to the cache. By following these waypoints to the area of the cache, it's a marvelous journey of adventure and the reason I got involved in Geocaching to begin with - trekking outdoors.

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