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Mount Higby Letterbox LbNA #12071

Owner:Adoptable
Plant date:Dec 31, 1969
Location:
City:Middlefield
County:Middlesex
State:Connecticut
Boxes:1
Found by: mattyfungos
Last found:Dec 20, 2018
Status:FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
Last edited:Mar 18, 2023
Directions:

Take 91 north, or 691 east to RTE 66 - travel 1.69 miles to guidas parking lot and TURN AROUND, heading back on rte 66 west for about 1/4 mile, and park in small parking lot.

The trailhead is here.

From rte 91 south you need to take East main street exit, back over the highway, right at light, follow signs for 66, basically it sends you on 91 north where you get off on 66 ea



Higby Letterbox (my compass was acting alittle screwy when I placed this so the compass dir. might bee off a bit.)

Walk up Red Blazed trail up the hill about 110 paces untill you cross a Blue Blazed trail running perpendicular to the Red trail. Turn left on to the Blue Trail.

Follow the trail straight for a while then it will curve right, up the hill and keep following it. From here if you look left you should see Black Pond and the Ridge above it where BLACK SNAKE letter box is hidden.

After you've followed the trail up some ways you will come to a spot that seems fairly flat. Keep on the trail until you see a group of large boulders off to the immediate left side of the trail. The boulder closest to the trail will have a Blue blaze mark on it. Standing next to that boulder so it is on your left look directly in front of you or about N and you'll see a big rock up the hill about 30-40 ft. away on the right side of the trail.

Walk to that rock as straight a line as you can from the Boulder you're standing next to about N. (you'll have to go off the trail) Once you get to it look to your left or about W and you will see another rock. This rock will be smaller, about knee high. Walk to it.

When you get there you will see that there will be two knee hihg rocks that look like one that was split down the center. In the crevis inbeween the big rocks you will find the HIGBY letterbox under a few stones. Good Work!