Turning Over a New Leaf- MIA LbNA #20 (ARCHIVED)
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Oct 19, 2002 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Fairfax |
| County: | Fairfax |
| State: | Virginia |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Planted by: | Apple Dumpling Gang  |
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| Found by: | K&K |
| Last found: | Nov 8, 2002 |
| Status: | FFaam |
| Last edited: | Oct 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.
Turning Over a New Leaf (MIA as of 2003)
Eakin Park, Accotink Trail
Off Tobin Road in Fairfax, VA
8 September 2002
From Gallows Road, take Woodburn Road in the only direction it will allow you to travel. At the next light, turn right onto Tobin Road and follow this to the parking lot for Eakin Park. This road changes names and unfortunately, we can't remember what it changes into. (a butterfly perhaps?) Nevertheless, stay on this road until you either find the park or drive off the edge of the earth.
Take the gravel path at the far end of the parking lot (keep the tennis courts on your left) and head into the trees. When you get to the fork in the path, you take the low road, let someone else take the high one. Imagine what lurks to your left as "tranquility belies what lies beneath". Continue on the original path to the paved Accotink trail and go right. Enjoy the walk and answer the age old question "What good are ticks anyway?". Continue down the trail, carefully cross Prosperity Avenue, and stay the course. We saw some beautiful orange mushrooms on the left side of the trail when we were here. Pass mile marker 1.5 and cross over a little bridge.
Immediately after the stream, take the small path to the left that runs along the creek bed and proceed into the woods. Continue past the large downed tree that bridges the stream. At the end of the small peninsula cross over the dry creek bed and climb up the bank to the right. After a few paces, take the right fork in the trail at the large, yellow poplar. Walk 21 paces down this path and spy 2 large trees to your left. Stand between the two trees and take a bearing of 170 (almost due south) to find a large uprooted tree. It was a sizable tree so the roots stand about 6 feet! Go around the back of this tree and follow the trunk towards the stream. The "X" marks the spot.
Turning Over a New Leaf (MIA as of 2003)
Eakin Park, Accotink Trail
Off Tobin Road in Fairfax, VA
8 September 2002
From Gallows Road, take Woodburn Road in the only direction it will allow you to travel. At the next light, turn right onto Tobin Road and follow this to the parking lot for Eakin Park. This road changes names and unfortunately, we can't remember what it changes into. (a butterfly perhaps?) Nevertheless, stay on this road until you either find the park or drive off the edge of the earth.
Take the gravel path at the far end of the parking lot (keep the tennis courts on your left) and head into the trees. When you get to the fork in the path, you take the low road, let someone else take the high one. Imagine what lurks to your left as "tranquility belies what lies beneath". Continue on the original path to the paved Accotink trail and go right. Enjoy the walk and answer the age old question "What good are ticks anyway?". Continue down the trail, carefully cross Prosperity Avenue, and stay the course. We saw some beautiful orange mushrooms on the left side of the trail when we were here. Pass mile marker 1.5 and cross over a little bridge.
Immediately after the stream, take the small path to the left that runs along the creek bed and proceed into the woods. Continue past the large downed tree that bridges the stream. At the end of the small peninsula cross over the dry creek bed and climb up the bank to the right. After a few paces, take the right fork in the trail at the large, yellow poplar. Walk 21 paces down this path and spy 2 large trees to your left. Stand between the two trees and take a bearing of 170 (almost due south) to find a large uprooted tree. It was a sizable tree so the roots stand about 6 feet! Go around the back of this tree and follow the trunk towards the stream. The "X" marks the spot.