On The Trail LbNA #14050 (ARCHIVED)
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Mar 27, 2005 |
| Location: | |
| City: | ??? |
| County: | Mystery |
| State: | Oklahoma |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Planted by: | osugeography N5CL  |
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| Found by: | ??? |
| Last found: | Jul 7, 2005 |
| Status: | FFFa |
| Last edited: | Mar 27, 2005 |
Updated 8 January 2006!
Again determined to be missing. It will be the end of summer of 2007 before this box is back in place.
PHYSICAL DIFFICULTY: Flat, no more than a hundred yards walk, roundtrip.
CLUE DIFFICULTY: On the easy side--two of five, at the worst? Please tell me later what you think.
WATCH THE HIGHWAY TRAFFIC, as it is fast, and can be busy near this site.
Here goes, Dear Reader:
1) A present-day highway in Oklahoma roughly parallels a famous Oklahoma historic trail. The trail was started after the Civil War to move a still-alive food source.
2) On this highway, there is a small town whose name is part of the scientific name for the largest land mammal to roam North America. (No dinosaurs, etc., or ice-age mega-fauna, please. In case I overlooked something, the male of this species is said to weigh nearly 3000 pounds).
3) From this town, go north along the highway almost 19 miles to a seldom-frequented monument. Access it legally AND carefully! Be careful about traffic! There is no entry fee, no guards, no restricted access--JUST BE CAREFUL about highway traffic driving to it.
4) Once in the lot, read the description on the monument. NNW of the monument very roughly 75 feet, and within the fenced area is an old concrete picnic table. From this table, look toward the monument--the letterbox is hidden in the branches of a cedar tree, at about the five foot level. The letterbox is in a Zip-Loc bag, painted to match the greenery, but it shouldn't be hard to find even then. Watch out for scratchy and poking twigs, snakes, ticks, etc. Carefully supervise kids and irresponsible adult males. Okay, adult males.
There were a trio of items in the box for the first finder(s): a buffalo nickle, a plate block of four stamps, uncancelled, and a first day cancellation envelope-- I think it was for the Cherokee Strip. They are gone now, but later today (12 June 2005) I will put in a few other things for the intrepid traveler. Please take only one thing per group, please, unless you leave something of your own like the GeoCachers do!
After the journey, if you wish, stop at the McDonalds about five miles south of the marker, have a hamburger, and be thankful that your present-day hamburger meat doesn’t have to make the same journey the monument commemorates, from Texas to Kansas. Google for more trail information—you might try using the name “Glen Seeber”—-he has graciously provided us with a cyber book on the ‘net about the trail.
Best,
Marvin
osugeography aka N5CL
Again determined to be missing. It will be the end of summer of 2007 before this box is back in place.
PHYSICAL DIFFICULTY: Flat, no more than a hundred yards walk, roundtrip.
CLUE DIFFICULTY: On the easy side--two of five, at the worst? Please tell me later what you think.
WATCH THE HIGHWAY TRAFFIC, as it is fast, and can be busy near this site.
Here goes, Dear Reader:
1) A present-day highway in Oklahoma roughly parallels a famous Oklahoma historic trail. The trail was started after the Civil War to move a still-alive food source.
2) On this highway, there is a small town whose name is part of the scientific name for the largest land mammal to roam North America. (No dinosaurs, etc., or ice-age mega-fauna, please. In case I overlooked something, the male of this species is said to weigh nearly 3000 pounds).
3) From this town, go north along the highway almost 19 miles to a seldom-frequented monument. Access it legally AND carefully! Be careful about traffic! There is no entry fee, no guards, no restricted access--JUST BE CAREFUL about highway traffic driving to it.
4) Once in the lot, read the description on the monument. NNW of the monument very roughly 75 feet, and within the fenced area is an old concrete picnic table. From this table, look toward the monument--the letterbox is hidden in the branches of a cedar tree, at about the five foot level. The letterbox is in a Zip-Loc bag, painted to match the greenery, but it shouldn't be hard to find even then. Watch out for scratchy and poking twigs, snakes, ticks, etc. Carefully supervise kids and irresponsible adult males. Okay, adult males.
There were a trio of items in the box for the first finder(s): a buffalo nickle, a plate block of four stamps, uncancelled, and a first day cancellation envelope-- I think it was for the Cherokee Strip. They are gone now, but later today (12 June 2005) I will put in a few other things for the intrepid traveler. Please take only one thing per group, please, unless you leave something of your own like the GeoCachers do!
After the journey, if you wish, stop at the McDonalds about five miles south of the marker, have a hamburger, and be thankful that your present-day hamburger meat doesn’t have to make the same journey the monument commemorates, from Texas to Kansas. Google for more trail information—you might try using the name “Glen Seeber”—-he has graciously provided us with a cyber book on the ‘net about the trail.
Best,
Marvin
osugeography aka N5CL