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Pop Art LbNA #22407 (ARCHIVED)

Owner:Adoptable
Plant date:May 23, 2006
Location:
City:Chillicothe
County:Ross
State:Ohio
Boxes:1
Planted by:Pioneer Spirit
Found by: familycircus
Last found:Mar 22, 2008
Status:FFFF
Last edited:May 23, 2006
Pop Art

Not handicap accessible
Perhaps a ¼ mile walk.
This box is located in Great Seal State Park

Look up the PDF map of the park here: http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/parks/parks/pdf/greatseal604.pdf

Follow Rocky Road until you find the Grouse Rock trail head located across the road from the park service area.

Do not be fooled by the illustration, the trails running through the area that are not to scale of the map. I thought I was on a loop and ended up walking out onto Lick Run Road. This is also a mountain bike trail and I suspect it was added recently and the heavy traffic made the little used Grouse loop unnoticeable.

Once you park, cross the road and find the Grouse trailhead, simply follow the trail as described and then return the way you traveled. I saw no other visible trails that joined this one so I do not know why the maps in this park are not correct.

The low side of the hill will always be on your right all the way to this box and at times, you will be walking a ‘roller coaster’ of small gullies.

Enter the trail and go up hill and follow the bike / hiking trail.

You will find yourself between two beech trees with graffiti carved into them and soon you will walk over a very small wood bridge sunk into the mud.

A little more (about 80 paces) and you will see a grove of closely packed dead black locust trees with woodpecker holes on the right of the trail.

33 paces past the grove and you will come to a sharp turn in the trail. You will see a tall stump on the left and an unusual amount of downed trees on the hillside.

100 paces over the trail will bring you to a spot on the trail where there seems to have been some mining or earth work some decades ago. You will notice a few bare mounds of dirt on the left side of the trail and there will be various rocks and small boulders in this area.

A badly rotten log will be parallel to the trail, the stump end seems buried under the dirt. It almost looks like the dirt covered the tree after it was down. I don’t think that this was a landslide area. On the upper part of the mounds I found a pool of water with frogs.

There are some large boulders up that hillside and a long pile of dirt running up the hill from some activity perhaps 80-100 years ago.

This Pop Artist is located where the first and lowest branch sticks up on the stump end of the log. It’s behind the tree in a nest of branches and wood.

If you see a greenish PVC pipe under the trail, you’ve went 45 paces too far.

Stamp in re-hide as found or better and head on back to the car.