The Sarah Special: A Feast of Fancy- MIA LbNA #1295
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Nov 19, 2002 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Paris |
| County: | Fauquier |
| State: | Virginia |
| Boxes: | 3 |
| Planted by: | Apple Dumpling Gang  |
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| Found by: | Qingwaa |
| Last found: | May 6, 2023 |
| Status: | FFFFFFFmFF |
| Last edited: | Nov 19, 2002 |
Please assume all ADG boxes are MIA unless someone you know has confirmed their active status recently. We have been out of the game for quite a while and have not been maintaining our boxes.
The Sarah Special: A Triple Sized Feast of Fancy
Sky Meadows State Park ($2.00 entrance fee)
Near Paris, VA in Fauquier County
19 November 2002
Placed by the Apple Dumpling Gang
This is a 2.2 mile loop hike with well-marked trails but the first part is very hilly! Park near the visitor center and follow the signs to the hiking trails. Follow the main path to the first sign for the North Ridge Trail (blue), climb up the stairs and over the fence, following the blue blazed trail to the left.
The Apple Dumpling Gang Box 1
Climb up the hill (and we do mean up), to where the trail takes a turn to the left along an old stone wall. Stop here at the bend and turn around to look down the trail the way you came. (Nice view!) Look to the right for the first large grouping of rocks and trees off the trail. Go around to the right and behind this pile to the largest tree in the grouping. Facing the tree, look under the top left rock behind 2 large sticks for our signature box!
All Who Wander Are Not Lost Box 2
Return to the blue trail, take the left at the bend, and continue up the hill past the aliens. Climb the stairs over the fence and at the T intersection with the Piedmont Overlook Trail, continue straight. Here the blue trail levels out (finally) and heads down hill. When the blue trail meets the orange trail in a Y, take a rest on the bench. When you are ready, take the orange trail to the left. Pass some very large rocks on the left and the right as you go down the trail. Follow the stream a ways until you see another very large, flat rock with a fallen tree trunk on top of it on the right side of the trail. If you cross the stream you went too far. Look to the left side of the trail for the remains of two fallen trees cleared off the path. Look in the direction they point up the hill. See the small tree with a hollow cave in its base? Could someone have wandered into that cave and gotten not lost under some rocks?
Believe Box 3
Return to the trail and continue down the hill. Take a moment at the bench on your left to ride a cock-horse then continue on the orange trail across the stream on the stone bridge (carefully). At the Y take a left, staying on the orange trail, past an old stone wall and go through the campsites. (Sarah wants to go stay in #1). Climb up the stairs over the fence. (Desperado, why don’t you come to your senses?) At the T intersection, take a right onto South Ridge Trail. Go up the hill and the trail will curve to the left around a very special, large tree. Stop at its base where the spring emerges from under the roots and look to the left for a dead tree and a long flat gray rock in the side of the hill. Hop the stream and find where the dead tree grew over the rock. Under a large rock and some bark a friend awaits. Celebrate with a Sprite and head back down the Orange trail to the T take a right and follow trail signs back to the visitor’s center (or head the other way and plant a few boxes yourself!)
The Sarah Special: A Triple Sized Feast of Fancy
Sky Meadows State Park ($2.00 entrance fee)
Near Paris, VA in Fauquier County
19 November 2002
Placed by the Apple Dumpling Gang
This is a 2.2 mile loop hike with well-marked trails but the first part is very hilly! Park near the visitor center and follow the signs to the hiking trails. Follow the main path to the first sign for the North Ridge Trail (blue), climb up the stairs and over the fence, following the blue blazed trail to the left.
The Apple Dumpling Gang Box 1
Climb up the hill (and we do mean up), to where the trail takes a turn to the left along an old stone wall. Stop here at the bend and turn around to look down the trail the way you came. (Nice view!) Look to the right for the first large grouping of rocks and trees off the trail. Go around to the right and behind this pile to the largest tree in the grouping. Facing the tree, look under the top left rock behind 2 large sticks for our signature box!
All Who Wander Are Not Lost Box 2
Return to the blue trail, take the left at the bend, and continue up the hill past the aliens. Climb the stairs over the fence and at the T intersection with the Piedmont Overlook Trail, continue straight. Here the blue trail levels out (finally) and heads down hill. When the blue trail meets the orange trail in a Y, take a rest on the bench. When you are ready, take the orange trail to the left. Pass some very large rocks on the left and the right as you go down the trail. Follow the stream a ways until you see another very large, flat rock with a fallen tree trunk on top of it on the right side of the trail. If you cross the stream you went too far. Look to the left side of the trail for the remains of two fallen trees cleared off the path. Look in the direction they point up the hill. See the small tree with a hollow cave in its base? Could someone have wandered into that cave and gotten not lost under some rocks?
Believe Box 3
Return to the trail and continue down the hill. Take a moment at the bench on your left to ride a cock-horse then continue on the orange trail across the stream on the stone bridge (carefully). At the Y take a left, staying on the orange trail, past an old stone wall and go through the campsites. (Sarah wants to go stay in #1). Climb up the stairs over the fence. (Desperado, why don’t you come to your senses?) At the T intersection, take a right onto South Ridge Trail. Go up the hill and the trail will curve to the left around a very special, large tree. Stop at its base where the spring emerges from under the roots and look to the left for a dead tree and a long flat gray rock in the side of the hill. Hop the stream and find where the dead tree grew over the rock. Under a large rock and some bark a friend awaits. Celebrate with a Sprite and head back down the Orange trail to the T take a right and follow trail signs back to the visitor’s center (or head the other way and plant a few boxes yourself!)