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Giant Crossover HodgePodge LbNA #19035

Owner:Adoptable
Plant date:Oct 27, 2005
Location:
City:Hamden
County:New Haven
State:Connecticut
Boxes:3
Planted by:sadie&russ
Found by: Nairon
Last found:Jun 17, 2023
Status:FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
Last edited:Oct 24, 2015
Giant Crossover HodgePodge (box #2 appears to have gone missing Dec. 2011)

Background:
A series of boxes with no relevance to each other or the Giant. Two stamps made brief appearances elsewhere – the other just never got planted where intended.
In the autumn of 2005 we decided to become SGPA “Giant Masters” and hike the entire length of every blazed trail in Sleeping Giant State Park – so why not leave a few boxes behind in the process!?
The Giant has over thirty miles of trails on its 1500 acres. There are four “crossover” trails that link some of the east-west trails. There are two different colored, pointed blazes on these trails: one color for one direction; another color for the opposite direction.
The boxes are planted on three of these trails.
We hope that you enjoy hiking on the Giant as much as we do. Please print out the color map provided by the Sleeping Giant Park Association found at:
http://www.sgpa.org/colormap.pdf
or the DEP map at:
http://www.dep.state.ct.us/stateparks/maps/sleepgiant.pdf

We leave the route to the boxes up to you. There is parking at the main entrance (Fee on weekends summer through foliage season), at the eastern Chestnut Lane trailheads, and more limited parking at most of the red trailheads.

Clues:
Box 1 – on the Blue/White crossover trail.
This stamp was entered in the “Will Work for World Peace” contest in Gorham, Maine, March 2005. Only those people who submitted a stamp received a booklet of all the images (Thanks, Merenwen!).
On the Blue/White trail find the tilted white pine being supported by a rock tripe-covered boulder on the east side of the trail. Look behind for “Tank Man” (Tiananmen Square).

Box 2 – (MISSING) on the western Green/Yellow crossover trail.
This was to be a mystery box planted inside a public building, but we were too timid to ask permission or to plant it on the sly. There were no good planting options outdoors in the vicinity of the building, so this stamp has been sitting on the workbench for 2 ½ years.
On the Green/Yellow trail midway between the Orange and White trails. From either the Orange or White trail count 6-7 blazes in. On the west side of the trail you will see a 4-sister oak about 10 steps in, beside a jumble of low boulders which border a vernal pool.
At the base of the tree you will find “Bricktown Books”.

Box 3 – on the easternmost Green/Yellow crossover trail.
This stamp debuted at a picnic/mini-gather of a few boxing friends in Sept. 2004.
About mid-way between the Orange and Blue trails look on the west side of the G/Y trail for a 6-foot, pointy hollow stump. Three steps south of it and behind the wall you will find where the “Great White Heron” has come to roost.

There is one more crossover trail, but an old friend just planted a box there – maybe you will search for that, too!