"Along a stretch of Old U.S. 6, seven black walnut trees stand in a row of straggly reminders of the past. They are 90 years old, among the last of 550 planted along the roadway by a gritty fellow named Ashton Nelson, who was our Johnny Appleseed of walnuts. The trees still bear walnuts, some round as oranges. In these early autumn days, you may see drivers stop and harvest walnuts that have fallen into the ditch. How the seven trees have survived together in a perfect line, like brethren, is one of Mother Nature’s curious secrets. All the rest of the 550, save a singular puny few here and there, are gone — extinct."
You can see these last few historic walnut trees just west of the actual cache hide.
Click this link to read the full Bill Wundram story!
Additional information is available at the Wilton Depot Museum.
To find the 2nd waypoint and the cache:
1. At the sign that is located at the posted coordinates, count the number of WORDS that go around the circle at the top of the sign AND MULTIPLY THAT NUMBER BY TEN.
2. Then ADD THAT RESULT TO BOTH/EACH of the following North AND West Coordinates: N 41 35.714, W 90 58.173
3. Go to those calculated coordinates and get the FINAL !
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