Halloween Surprise LbNA #12328
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Oct 31, 2004 |
| Location: | |
| City: | East Hampton |
| County: | Middlesex |
| State: | Connecticut |
| Boxes: | 2 |
| Planted by: | McDucks  |
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| Found by: | civilguy |
| Last found: | Jan 10, 2022 |
| Status: | FFFFFFFFFFOFFFFFFFFF |
| Last edited: | Oct 31, 2004 |
Halloween Surprise!
Driving Directions:
From Route 2, take exit 18. Follow Route 16 toward Middletown. At the intersection of Route 149, turn onto Rt. 149 toward Day Pond State Park. Park in the state park lot.
Number of boxes: 1 plus a bonus box
Terrain: Easy to Moderate
Distance: 5.2 miles
Clues to the box:
Park at Day Pond State Park parking lot, near the sandy beach at the pond. Find the park bulletin board and pick up a map. Follow the north or the south loop of the Salmon River trail to the Comstock Bridge Connector. (Note: If there aren't any maps, follow these directions: Follow the blue blazed Salmon River trail that is visible from the bulletin board. Soon you will cross a dirt road and go through a stone wall. Enjoy the large rock, called a glacial erratic that is further along the trail. Soon you will cross a small foot bridge and climb upward. You will cross another dirt road, walk across an outcropping of rock and then see a fork in the trail. Take the left fork @ 260 degrees and look for the blue arrow that is described below. You are now on the Comstock Bridge Connector.) A small blue arrow on a tree, a few steps down the trail will let you know you are going in the right direction. As you go down hill, you will cross two small wooden foot-bridges. Next, a stone wall will appear on the right and quite a bit further a stone wall will be on the left. Even further, some remnants of stone walls will be on the left and then the right. Continue on and you will get to an area of mountain laurel. As you hike through it, look for an evergreen tree on the left with an unusual branch that looks like an elbow. Keep going and look for a dead-looking “nooning tree”. (Ever heard of this? A “nooning tree” is a large hardwood tree with several large, spreading branches. This type of tree would have been a gathering place for field hands for their noon- time meal and for a brief rest under the shade of the branches.) Once you pass the nooning tree, walk a bit further and look for a stone wall off the trail, on the right. Look carefully among the rocks at the end of the wall on the side closest to the trail for the Halloween Surprise letterbox that is hiding behind a "door". Check for the surprise to lead you on to a bonus box. Stamp in and re-hide carefully.
If there are only a few copies left of the directions to the bonus box, please contact us at: ngpenn@snet.net.
P.S. At the bonus box, be sure to read about the legend of the oak and the linden trees. From this day on, whenever you see two trees that are not the same type, growing closely and almost wrapped around each other (like the trees in our clues to the bonus box), you are in a very special place! Please leave the papers describing the legend in the bonus box, for others to read.
Driving Directions:
From Route 2, take exit 18. Follow Route 16 toward Middletown. At the intersection of Route 149, turn onto Rt. 149 toward Day Pond State Park. Park in the state park lot.
Number of boxes: 1 plus a bonus box
Terrain: Easy to Moderate
Distance: 5.2 miles
Clues to the box:
Park at Day Pond State Park parking lot, near the sandy beach at the pond. Find the park bulletin board and pick up a map. Follow the north or the south loop of the Salmon River trail to the Comstock Bridge Connector. (Note: If there aren't any maps, follow these directions: Follow the blue blazed Salmon River trail that is visible from the bulletin board. Soon you will cross a dirt road and go through a stone wall. Enjoy the large rock, called a glacial erratic that is further along the trail. Soon you will cross a small foot bridge and climb upward. You will cross another dirt road, walk across an outcropping of rock and then see a fork in the trail. Take the left fork @ 260 degrees and look for the blue arrow that is described below. You are now on the Comstock Bridge Connector.) A small blue arrow on a tree, a few steps down the trail will let you know you are going in the right direction. As you go down hill, you will cross two small wooden foot-bridges. Next, a stone wall will appear on the right and quite a bit further a stone wall will be on the left. Even further, some remnants of stone walls will be on the left and then the right. Continue on and you will get to an area of mountain laurel. As you hike through it, look for an evergreen tree on the left with an unusual branch that looks like an elbow. Keep going and look for a dead-looking “nooning tree”. (Ever heard of this? A “nooning tree” is a large hardwood tree with several large, spreading branches. This type of tree would have been a gathering place for field hands for their noon- time meal and for a brief rest under the shade of the branches.) Once you pass the nooning tree, walk a bit further and look for a stone wall off the trail, on the right. Look carefully among the rocks at the end of the wall on the side closest to the trail for the Halloween Surprise letterbox that is hiding behind a "door". Check for the surprise to lead you on to a bonus box. Stamp in and re-hide carefully.
If there are only a few copies left of the directions to the bonus box, please contact us at: ngpenn@snet.net.
P.S. At the bonus box, be sure to read about the legend of the oak and the linden trees. From this day on, whenever you see two trees that are not the same type, growing closely and almost wrapped around each other (like the trees in our clues to the bonus box), you are in a very special place! Please leave the papers describing the legend in the bonus box, for others to read.