You are looking for your basic 2-quart Tupperware-like container, containing logbook and some goodies that I threw in there, and maybe some other stuff I shall put in next time I check the cache (my parents--with whom I am in good stead, heh heh!--live about 1/2 mile away). I stashed this a couple of weeks ago (only my second cache), but had to return today cause I deleted the waypoint.
With a little driving or bicycling around, or even walking, the cache nickname shall be a dead giveaway on where to start/park.
The best time to visit this cache would definitely be around dawn or dusk--the twilit hours but not too near darkness to be able to search such an area--at any time of year, because at those times you can see sometimes a dozen or so whitetails browsing there on food people have left for them. So! Bring some food (carrots, gourds, sweets, whatever) to feed them--I always forget to do this, when I visit this place to look at the deer. If you stay in your car for a while you might very well have the bolder (or more stupid) of these deer feeding out of your hand. Don't worry about scaring them off when you do get out to find the cache: They shall just wander off a few hundred yards and wait until you leave before returning. These deer are so inured to living around humans that, on one early morning stroll nearby, I witnessed a local resident have to literally KICK a grazing deer out of the way so she could access her car trunk.
If that is not interesting enough for you, after you log the cache there is something that is definitely worth seeing in this wee town. I shall place the coordinates here because I did not have the foresight to obtain them first to place them with the cache:
41.7370, -87.8662
All I shall say here is that this is one of the oldest things of its ilk in the area, and that there are valid financial reasons for its current state (email me if you want me to tell you what the owner told me about this place). BRING A CAMERA! By all means. This place shall just blow you away! Around Hallowe'en would be a GREAT time to take someone by this place to show off your coolness.
Update
6 September 2004:
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Downgraded difficulty levels.
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Also: If you visit this traditional cache, do not pull up and leave your car unattended right at the feature site unless you are confident that you shall be in and out in a few minutes, as you might get a ticket. Leave your car at the side of one of the nearby roads if you are inexperienced and think you are going to take a while. As the cache is placed, you shall not have to walk more than a couple hundred feet from the feature, but use your own judgement.
As logged below, we actually DID get ticketed at this site, cause we went off to find a nearby cache and left the cars there. Upon our return we found two WS cops there, who proceeded to scold us for our foolishness. Heh! The one cop said, "Well, we had to give you tickets," and they both drove off. As we stood around talking about the tickets, one of the cops drove back up.
"You know what, guys, why don't you give me back those tickets. I think you learned your lesson."
Talk about STRANGE! Not only did we not try to talk the cop out of the tickets, he actually TOOK THEM BACK! That sorta thing just does not happen in the big city.
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YOP...
Nicko
UPDATE: 12 Sept. 2004
I have received several complaints, so:
Second part of the cache. The coolest part:
DMS 41°44'13.2" N 87°51'58.32" W
MinDec 41°44.22 -87°51.972
DegDec 41.737 -87.8662
Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)
Zone Easting (meters) Northing (meters)
16 427968 462093
And if you are STILL puzzled (gah!):
It is up Charleton, around 130 yards up the hill from Archer.
Next thing, I am gonna have to start giving up the owner's phone number so you can call for directions.
Heh!
Enjoy!
Sorry about the confusion.