As you hike you can likely see Tekoa to the west through the trees.
This side of the mountain is not nearly as dramatic in appearance as the western face, but here's a little info about it:
At 1,121 feet, Tekoa Mountain is a dramatic, rocky high point overlooking the Westfield River Gorge. While very prominent from the Jacob's Ladder section of Route 20 in Russell, it is not a true mountain at all.
Instead it is a cleaver jutting from a dissected plateau. This is why the hike up is so gradual- you are actually hiking up and along the edge of a plateau. The cleaver was produced by glacial action and continuous erosion by the Westfield River and Moose Meadow Brook before and after the last ice age.
The cache you are looking for is... you guessed it... a bison tube in the woods! ;-)
