Walnuts, hazelnuts (or filberts as some folks call them), almonds, pecans and Brazil nuts are a common nut mix we all see in grocery stores around the Christmas holidays. These nuts come still in the shells and a nutcracker of some sort is needed to extract the delicious treat. Nut crackers come in all shapes and sizes; some will even bite your fingers if you get too close – but that kind of nutcracker is for another cache. For this letterbox hybrid cache, you are in search of the wooden soldier kind of nutcracker.
To find this cache make your way to the posted coordinates. There you will find a large mossy stump alongside the trail. Turn east (a heading of 90°) and travel about 16 yards into the woods to a large, classic beacon. There you will find the goodies, complete with a nutcracker stamp. Please do not remove the stamp from the cache. If you want to use the stamp, please bring your own inkpad!
Cache is placed with the landowners’ permission. Land is part of the Wisconsin Managed Forest Law Program and is “open” to the public. Open designation allows public access to the property only for hunting, fishing, hiking, sight-seeing and cross-country skiing without additional permission from landowners. The landowners’ grant additional permission to geocachers to search for caches.
A trail map of the property with parking locations can be downloaded here: Link to trail map. Please, do not park on the gravel road.