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MISERY LOVES COMPANY ... LbNA #22025

Owner:wandaandpete
Plant date:May 8, 2006
Location:
City:???
County:Mystery
State:Mystery
Boxes:3
Found by: ???
Last found:Dec 27, 2014
Status:FFFFFa
Last edited:Nov 29, 2020
130. MISERY LOVES COMPANY ...

Three "mystery" hikes up three mounts named "Misery" - in three different states. Collect all three, and please feel free to add to this series if there is another "Mt Misery" in your area!

Mount Misery I

From the top of this "Mount Misery", continue west following the yellow blazes until you are just "out of the park". Very soon you will be following a black iron fence on your left side. Just over halfway along this fence, note a lone "single seater" rock on your right side. Reach under the sinister far side of this rock for a little black box full of misery!

Mount Misery II

For this little miserable companion letterbox, just follow the blue trail until you find the blue X marking the spot at the top. Then, still basically following the blue trail, take 20 steps NW, 20 steps SW, and 20 steps W to reach a 2-layer rock on the right. (This makes a good spot to sit and rest your feet on the lower foot rest.) From here, just look a couple of feet west. Under the western part of a shallow arch in the next rock over rests a little black microbox curled up inside a piece of bark under leaves.

Mount Misery III

Another pretty little piney peak encroached by suburbia somewhat in the manner of "Walden". To get there, we suggest taking the southern of one of the "Great Roads" and from the parking lot hopping onto one of the many sections of "Circuit" hikes available around the area. Whichever path you choose, perhaps following white and yellow blazes around a pond, and passing several numbers and letters, make your way to the top where my old friend, Ward who used to work here many years ago, told me there was once a lookout tower. From the center of the foundation, take 5-6 steps at about 25 degrees to sit on the NE corner of the foundation facing north downhill. Temporarily removing one small stone from beneath the tiny moss covered projecting lower ledge will allow access to the microbox. Please replace exactly as found, and find your way back down, being careful to stay on trails to prevent erosion on Mt. Misery, as the signs say!