Art Around the Lake LbNA #16801
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Add Location| Owner: | Sojourner  |
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| Plant date: | Jul 24, 2005 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Fairfield |
| County: | Fairfield |
| State: | Connecticut |
| Boxes: | 2 |
| Found by: | Chrissy (2) |
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| Last found: | Aug 12, 2017 |
| Status: | FFFFFFaFFFFFFFaFFOFF |
| Last edited: | Jul 24, 2005 |
For some of you, this may be your first experience with Letterboxing, so before you begin your search today, I’d like to convey to you some aspects of Letterboxing that I personally feel are important.
#1 – STEALTH:
Be discreet while searching for a letterbox if other people are around. You may need to postpone retrieving a box if you can’t do it without being seen. Remember - not everyone is “letterbox-friendly” and you should not jeopardize someone else’s letterbox for the sake of getting a stamp! When you have successfully retrieved it, carry the box away from its hiding place to stamp-in so as not to reveal the hiding place to passers-by or to draw attention to what you are doing. Make sure you are discreet when unpacking the contents of the box and stamping-in. Discretion and stealth are also required when you return the letterbox to its hiding place.
#2 – LETTERBOXING WITH CHILDREN:
Children are often enthusiastic to “do it themselves”, but adults should always oversee their activities and that they close up the box properly and re-hide it well.
#3 – RESPECT THE ENVIRONMENT:
Care must be taken in both finding and planting letterboxes. When looking for a letterbox, remember to leave the area just as, or better than you found it. If you look under a rock, replace the rock back where you found it. Don't pull out plants or rip up the ground looking for a letterbox. Avoid trampling vegetation while searching for the letterbox – if the box is off-trail, try not to create a “social trail” by following where previous boxers walked, it’s damaging plus it’s a dead giveaway to the location! Don’t tear apart that stone wall that has withstood hundreds of years of time to find the box.
#4 – RE-HIDE WELL:
After stamping-in and carefully closing up a letterbox, re-hide it as well or better than when you originally found it. Again, discretion at this time is very important. It is a good idea to cover the box with a handful of dead leaves, anchor the box with a flat rock so that an inquisitive animal can’t run off with it, and then sprinkle a few more leaves or twigs on top so it looks natural to passers-by. Look at it from different angles before you leave to make sure no plastic is showing. Never leave a letterbox out in plain sight! A well hidden letterbox helps ensure its longevity!
#5 – HAVE FUN!:
Letterboxing will take you to many new places – places that you may have never known about had it not been for letterboxing! It could be a short walk or a long, strenuous hike – there’s something for everyone’s preference and ability. Be sure to read the clues before you set off to ensure that it’s a suitable one for you.
Some clues are written simply and straightforward, some are more vague and require some thought and interpretation. Others are written in the form of puzzles and ciphers to challenge those who enjoy that sort of approach. Again, there’s something for everyone.
Whichever path letterboxing may take you, please respect it, enjoy it and have fun!
(taken from AQ and Letterboxing.info)
Thank you and now on with the clues! :-)
Two more carvings depicting the artwork of Keith Haring.
Location: Lkae Mgeoahn, on 170 acres of open space owned by the Town of Fairfield. It is a popular dog-walking park, more specifically, a popular dog-swimming park!
Take Route 58, south of the Merritt Parkway. Turn east onto Tahmore Drive and you will come to the parking lot of the Park at the end where it intersects Morehouse Highway.
Difficulty: easy to moderate, with some rocky and rooty walking.
Time: About an hour to an hour and a half – longer if your dog likes to swim!!!
Dogs: definitely OK, but please make sure to pick up after them!
Other: BYO markers.
Begin walking at the NE corner of the parking lot by the large bulletin board. Follow the snow fence to the “doggie beaches”, then alongside the open meadow where the Goldfinches flit. At the northern tip of the lake continue upstream - a riparian meander ‘neath shady young beech trees. The trail will curve uphill and join a wider path going north/south. Go north to a 4-way intersection where a mid-trail beech tree with red blazes indicates a left turn. Here, though, you will turn right onto an unmarked trail and climb steadily and gently to a T junction. Turn northwards on the yellow blazed trail, soon passing a line of handsome beech trees. A bit further, uphill, stop at the beech tree (before reaching the power lines) that has "H K Whitie" and "Erica" carved into it....Take a reading of about 140* and walk along the left side of the downed tree about 45 steps to another stately beech. From here look right, hop over the tree and walk a few steps to the Euonymus bush that's in front of the jumble of fallen trees and logs. Find Box #1 at its base, hidden under the fern that's growing there.
Return to the yellow trail and a few steps further takes you under power lines. Continue on the trail, then down the staircases until you come to a second smaller lake. Walk northwards around the lake in a counterclockwise direction. Just before completing the circle around the lake, the trail forks. Left you'll see it cross a small stream exiting the lake, but you will take the right fork, up and over the hillock, and over the wooden foot bridge that crosses another stream. Pick up the red-blazed trail going southwards downstream. Be sure to check out the "Cascades" ravine and the (no)swimming hole. As you walk under power lines take the left fork down a wooden staircase, then continue on the red trail stream-side. If you're observant enough to notice “Ellis’s” red-blazed, multi-carved beech on the right, take about 95 steps from there (if you reach the picnic area, you've gone too far) to an unmarked trail that heads westwards (it's just after a large red-blazed tree that's on the left). At the end of this short unmarked trail, you will meet a tree with a vertical “stripe”. Turn right onto an orange-ish blazed trail and walk 20 paces. Walk westwards a few steps to a T intersection in a stone wall. Continue west 5 steps along the southerly side of the wall to Letterbox #2 hidden in the wall. When there are no leaves on the trees, you may be in view of a parking lot, so please be careful!
Return to the orange-ish colored trail heading south into the small parking/picnic area (there is usually an outhouse here). At the southern end of the lot, pick up the trail that goes lakeside all the way back to where you parked (the last stretch is along Morehouse Hwy.)
As always, thank you for looking for my letterboxes, enjoy the walk, please stamp-in discreetly and re-hide carefully, camouflaging box with leaves or debris so that it cannot be seen. And let me know how your search went! You may log your finds into LbNA and AtlasQuest.
#1 – STEALTH:
Be discreet while searching for a letterbox if other people are around. You may need to postpone retrieving a box if you can’t do it without being seen. Remember - not everyone is “letterbox-friendly” and you should not jeopardize someone else’s letterbox for the sake of getting a stamp! When you have successfully retrieved it, carry the box away from its hiding place to stamp-in so as not to reveal the hiding place to passers-by or to draw attention to what you are doing. Make sure you are discreet when unpacking the contents of the box and stamping-in. Discretion and stealth are also required when you return the letterbox to its hiding place.
#2 – LETTERBOXING WITH CHILDREN:
Children are often enthusiastic to “do it themselves”, but adults should always oversee their activities and that they close up the box properly and re-hide it well.
#3 – RESPECT THE ENVIRONMENT:
Care must be taken in both finding and planting letterboxes. When looking for a letterbox, remember to leave the area just as, or better than you found it. If you look under a rock, replace the rock back where you found it. Don't pull out plants or rip up the ground looking for a letterbox. Avoid trampling vegetation while searching for the letterbox – if the box is off-trail, try not to create a “social trail” by following where previous boxers walked, it’s damaging plus it’s a dead giveaway to the location! Don’t tear apart that stone wall that has withstood hundreds of years of time to find the box.
#4 – RE-HIDE WELL:
After stamping-in and carefully closing up a letterbox, re-hide it as well or better than when you originally found it. Again, discretion at this time is very important. It is a good idea to cover the box with a handful of dead leaves, anchor the box with a flat rock so that an inquisitive animal can’t run off with it, and then sprinkle a few more leaves or twigs on top so it looks natural to passers-by. Look at it from different angles before you leave to make sure no plastic is showing. Never leave a letterbox out in plain sight! A well hidden letterbox helps ensure its longevity!
#5 – HAVE FUN!:
Letterboxing will take you to many new places – places that you may have never known about had it not been for letterboxing! It could be a short walk or a long, strenuous hike – there’s something for everyone’s preference and ability. Be sure to read the clues before you set off to ensure that it’s a suitable one for you.
Some clues are written simply and straightforward, some are more vague and require some thought and interpretation. Others are written in the form of puzzles and ciphers to challenge those who enjoy that sort of approach. Again, there’s something for everyone.
Whichever path letterboxing may take you, please respect it, enjoy it and have fun!
(taken from AQ and Letterboxing.info)
Thank you and now on with the clues! :-)
Two more carvings depicting the artwork of Keith Haring.
Location: Lkae Mgeoahn, on 170 acres of open space owned by the Town of Fairfield. It is a popular dog-walking park, more specifically, a popular dog-swimming park!
Take Route 58, south of the Merritt Parkway. Turn east onto Tahmore Drive and you will come to the parking lot of the Park at the end where it intersects Morehouse Highway.
Difficulty: easy to moderate, with some rocky and rooty walking.
Time: About an hour to an hour and a half – longer if your dog likes to swim!!!
Dogs: definitely OK, but please make sure to pick up after them!
Other: BYO markers.
Begin walking at the NE corner of the parking lot by the large bulletin board. Follow the snow fence to the “doggie beaches”, then alongside the open meadow where the Goldfinches flit. At the northern tip of the lake continue upstream - a riparian meander ‘neath shady young beech trees. The trail will curve uphill and join a wider path going north/south. Go north to a 4-way intersection where a mid-trail beech tree with red blazes indicates a left turn. Here, though, you will turn right onto an unmarked trail and climb steadily and gently to a T junction. Turn northwards on the yellow blazed trail, soon passing a line of handsome beech trees. A bit further, uphill, stop at the beech tree (before reaching the power lines) that has "H K Whitie" and "Erica" carved into it....Take a reading of about 140* and walk along the left side of the downed tree about 45 steps to another stately beech. From here look right, hop over the tree and walk a few steps to the Euonymus bush that's in front of the jumble of fallen trees and logs. Find Box #1 at its base, hidden under the fern that's growing there.
Return to the yellow trail and a few steps further takes you under power lines. Continue on the trail, then down the staircases until you come to a second smaller lake. Walk northwards around the lake in a counterclockwise direction. Just before completing the circle around the lake, the trail forks. Left you'll see it cross a small stream exiting the lake, but you will take the right fork, up and over the hillock, and over the wooden foot bridge that crosses another stream. Pick up the red-blazed trail going southwards downstream. Be sure to check out the "Cascades" ravine and the (no)swimming hole. As you walk under power lines take the left fork down a wooden staircase, then continue on the red trail stream-side. If you're observant enough to notice “Ellis’s” red-blazed, multi-carved beech on the right, take about 95 steps from there (if you reach the picnic area, you've gone too far) to an unmarked trail that heads westwards (it's just after a large red-blazed tree that's on the left). At the end of this short unmarked trail, you will meet a tree with a vertical “stripe”. Turn right onto an orange-ish blazed trail and walk 20 paces. Walk westwards a few steps to a T intersection in a stone wall. Continue west 5 steps along the southerly side of the wall to Letterbox #2 hidden in the wall. When there are no leaves on the trees, you may be in view of a parking lot, so please be careful!
Return to the orange-ish colored trail heading south into the small parking/picnic area (there is usually an outhouse here). At the southern end of the lot, pick up the trail that goes lakeside all the way back to where you parked (the last stretch is along Morehouse Hwy.)
As always, thank you for looking for my letterboxes, enjoy the walk, please stamp-in discreetly and re-hide carefully, camouflaging box with leaves or debris so that it cannot be seen. And let me know how your search went! You may log your finds into LbNA and AtlasQuest.