This is a small cache - just a container and a log book. The cache is hidden along the Sheltowee Trace National Recreation Trail and is one of the best half-day hikes in the entire Upper Cumberland region. Extremely beautiful landscapes, completley remote and unmolested, beautiful rock formations and pure clean trout streams. It is most certainly worth the time and effort you might expend.
Near the cache you will be in the heart of the Cane Creek Wilderness Unit and you will experience dense Laurel thickets and towering Hemlock forests and great Rock Formations. Near the end you will cross two foot bridges (very close together) - the first over Pounder Branch and the second over Cane Creek itself.
The cache is located just a few steps past the second bridge (Cane Creek).
Be sure to go on up the trail to Vanhook Falls just a few hundred yards past the cache. It is one of the most visited parts of this section of the Daniel Boone National Forest.
ABOUT THE SHELTOWEE TRACE
The Sheltowee Trace is a 343-mile trail passing through beautiful, rugged and remote landscapes as well as by unique geological and cultural features. The southern terminus of the trail now extends to the O&W Bridge in Tennessee and the northern terminus is in the Daniel Boone National Forest just north of Morehead, Kentucky.
The Sheltowee Trace is a National Recreation Trail and is named after Daniel Boone, who was given the name “Sheltowee” by Chief Blackfish when he was adopted into the Shawnee tribe. Sheltowee translates to “Big Turtle,” so a white turtle symbol has been used to mark the trail.
I am continuing the tradition of drawing attention to this trail begun by Moonsovrbend, who placed most of the original caches on the ST. All caches placed with permission of Daniel Boone National Forest Service.