This cache is located in the long and narrow
Ithan Valley Park. Ithan Creek runs through the park, which
allows fishing and a little hiking.
"Ithan Valley Park is a remnant piece of an old estate which
was left when the Blue Route was put together. A mill predated the
estate, remains of which are located near the parking area. The
owners of the Mill and the Estate were keenly interested in botany
and collected trees from both North America and the Old World. A
group was formed to identify any trees that are either old enough
to have been part of the original collection or seedlings of those
trees. Yellow tape was placed around 22 trees (listed below) which
are numbered and roughly located taking the old driveway up from
the parking area."
My original plan was to place the cache deeper in the woods to
encourage checking out the area, until I saw the parking lot. Not 5
feet away is an enormous crash that puts
my original cache to shame. This time there is no fence, but
the fallen tree was rather bigger. So big, in fact, that it took
down several of its neighbours in the destruction. All of them have
been smashed into the impressive pile of wreckage that this cache
is named after.