Once you have the necessary info from the Two Caches, and are in the correct location, (if you park nose in, trail is to the right) Start down the trail. This is an official park trail with blue blazes and these corny Trail signs. This trail crosses multiple streams ranging from easy to moderate and passes by 2 waterfalls. There are no Eyes at first but they will start appearing around the 1/4 mile point. The hike will be about 2.5 miles round trip ( assuming you backtrack out ) unless you have fairy wings or water wings then it will be a bit shorter. <p>
The first part of the trail takes you thru a majestic older Oak-Hickory Forest with Large White Oaks ( Quercus alba ) towering over the trail, so if you are doing this one on a different night from the other 2, You can start the hike just before dusk and enjoy the beautiful forest. You will pass by a few geocaches and you will want darkness after that point to see the trail of EYES. <p>
Breadcrumbs ( fire Tacks ); <p>
Single Crumb- continue in the same general direction <p>
Double Crumbs- A change in direction is possible <p>
Double Crumbs moving- Beware of Heffalumps and Woozels<p>
**NOTE, soon after your first turn, you will encounter hunters trails using the same Crumbs. I had to come up with a way to distinguish this trail from theirs. So you will see 2 Crumbs on a Honeysuckle branch. From this point on until you come to the Triangle, you will be looking for double tacks. You can follow single white, red or orange Crumbs if you want to, but they won't lead you to your prize. Let me know if you know a better way.
triple Crumbs in shape of a Triangle, hard turn to left
4 Crumbs in Diamond shape- Waypoint Projection point. 380' @ 2˚ degrees <p>
The final hiding spot should be pretty obvious when you get near your projected waypoint. I shot this multiple times in both directions and got distances ranging from 350' to 405' <p>
The cache is rated 5-4. The cache by itself, I would call it 4-4 but am adding a point for requirement of finding 2 other caches to get started. <p>
One last thing. The park maintenance folks have recently regraded sections of the trail and you can expect lots of MUD. Trekking poles, Hiking sticks will help you with the moderate stream crossing ( I don't recommend doing this Cache if its raining or has recently rained a lot.). Leave your thoughts about these 3 Night caches in your ( Hopefully ) Found Logs online. Logs of TFTC or similar are EXTREMELY frowned upon on nicer caches such as this one. If you intend to log it like this, I would like an explanation of why you didn't like the cache sent to my message box please