To reach the trail parking, take Brooklyn Road in Mt. Tabor, which turns into Forest Highway 10. After about 6.5 miles, take a right on Forest Highway 30 and travel about 2.3 miles. Please note that the Forest Highways are seasonal roads that are closed in the winter. Trail parking is on the right (see parking coordinates). The trailhead is a short walk back up the road from parking (see trailhead coordinates). When you reach a T in the trail, you will see a shelter (called "Old Job Shelter") on the right. Take a left and then go over the bridge on your right. Continue on this path past the remains of some buildings, and you will come up on the huge pile of sawdust. The cache is within sight of the sawdust pile. The distance from the trailhead to the sawdust pile is 1.1 miles.
Old Job is the former site of Silas Griffith's 19th century mill village. It was originally known as "Mill Glen" (1869), then as "Griffith," and finally as "Old Job" (after Griffith's death in the early 1900s). The village consisted of a large mill (along the Big Branch), a school (on the rise near the shelter), cabins, a boarding house (across the stream from the shelter), offices, homes, and several brick charcoal kilns built at the base of the slope west of Lake Brook and south of the trail through the apple trees. The village operated during the second half of the 1800s and was largely abandoned after 1910. During the 1930s, the Civilian Conservation Corps built the shelter. Later, during the early 1940s, the Bellows Falls Ice Company logged the area and created the large sawdust pile along the trail. The apple trees in the area were probably planted between the 1930s and 1950s to enhance the wildlife habitat.