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Blue Blazes ***RETIRED LbNA #11683 (ARCHIVED)

Owner:trailtracker
Plant date:Oct 16, 2004
Location:
City:Logan
County:Hocking
State:Ohio
Boxes:1
Found by: Stella & Malone
Last found:Oct 7, 2007
Status:FFFFFFOFFFFFFFFFFFFF
Last edited:Oct 16, 2004
Location: Hocking Hills State Forest
Difficulty: Easy
Bring: Pen or pencil and stamp pad

Locate and park in the Cedar Falls parking lot. Look for the trail head to ASH CAVE!!! (Not Cedar Falls.) This is part of the Buckeye Trail AND part of the infamous Grandma Gatewood Trail. This trail is also part of the American Discovery Trail. The trail head is marked by a bright orange gate and can be found the easiest by driving around the entire parking lot loop which runs around the Gazebo and past the restrooms.

From the trail head, walk 23 paces to the first Blue Blaze on a tree trunk to your right. For those who might not know....the upper blaze is a better representation of what a blaze is supposed to look like. It is a rectangle rather than a round circle, but often both are used.

From here, continue along the path walking past the official park entrance sign at a large trail intersection following directions to Ash Cave. (With this letterbox, you will not even come close to completing this journey...so please do not worry.) Go past another split in the trail...NOT taking the service road, but continuing along the trail in the same general direction. You will cross a bridge.

Keep watching for Blue Blazes on your right ONLY as you travel this trail. As you see one, ask yourself:

if it's on a medium sized tree
is there is a nice 3-4 foot log to sit on just one pace up on the left side of the trail---immediately next to the trail.

If there is, then sit on that log.
Can you see a creek bed?
Do you see a long fallen, kinda skinny tree that is COVERED in nice soft moss? This tree runs parallel to the trail and is right next to the trail itself.
If so, from your sitting position, take a reading of approximately 230 degrees. You should see a stub of an old branch. This stub is COMPLETELY covered in moss. Blue Blazes is a camo-micro box hiding directly under that stub...on the backside of that falled tree under some flat rocks.

***Please, please be descrete as the entire area of Hocking Hills is extremely popular, especially right now during the fall leaves turning colors.

Let me know if you find Blue Blazes!