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Impatient Cow & One Cool Cat LbNA #2285

Owner:Adoptable
Plant date:May 1, 2003
Location:
City:West Hartford
County:Hartford
State:Connecticut
Boxes:2
Planted by:rtrw
Found by: Trailhead Tessie (2)
Last found:Sep 12, 2012
Status:FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFa
Last edited:May 1, 2003

October 20th, 2008 - Have had many reports that the cows tree isn't findable or the box is gone. Cat seems to still be ok, though.


Reservoir # 6
West Hartford, Connecticut (though the actual address is Bloomfield, the entrance is in West Hartford)

Easy, I think, and it will probably take you an hour if you are slow and out of shape. :) I have no idea how fast the rest of you will do this. Have fun.

Directions
From the North, South and East: Take I-91 North or South to I-84 West to Exit 40 (New Britain Avenue/Corbins Corner). At the end of exit ramp, take a right onto Ridgewood Road. Follow Ridgewood Road to the end. Take a left onto Farmington Avenue and then take the first right onto Mountain Road. At the second traffic light, take a left onto Albany Avenue. Reservoir #6 is 1.1 miles on the right.

From the West: Take I-84 East to the New Britain Avenue/CorbinsCorner Exit. At the end of exit ramp, take a right onto New Britain Avenue. At the first light, take a right onto Ridgewood Road. Follow Ridgewood Road to the end. Take a left onto Farmington Avenue and then take the first right onto Mountain Road. At the second traffic light, take a left onto Albany Avenue. Reservoir #6 is 1.1 miles on the right.

Built from 1920 to 1960, the reservoir has the capacity to provide 50 million gallons of water per day and serves the towns of East Hartford, Hartford, Newington, Rocky Hill, West Hartford, and Wethersfield, as well as portions of Farmington and Glastonbury.

Printable Map at http://www.themdc.com/bwtfmap.htm

The Clues:
Park at the first parking lot you encounter. Head into the recreation area by passing through a gate and following the paved road that turns to the right.When you come to the lake on your left, look for the top of the Heublein Tower in the distance to the northwest. On both sides of the road are metal and wire barriers like they have on some highways. At the end of the barrier on the right side, start to head up the grassy knoll

Quickly turn right onto the path into the woods. Soon after you enter the woods you will find the PERFECT TREE to hide a letterbox. It just calls to you, "This is where you can find a letterbox". Of course, it might call out, "Come explore me" to the non-letterboxing world, so perfect tree or not, I obviously couldn't plant it there.

If you don't happen to have the trees talking to you while you are in the woods, find the broken white birch that has fallen on your left. The perfect tree will be at 190 degrees on the other side of the trail. Go check out the tree and extra dessert to the one who can tell me what the interesting black spots with the holes are. It was new to me. From the perfect tree (which is about 17 steps off the trail) look for another tree at 160 degrees and 12 steps away. An impatient cow is waiting. Hurry. This box is named after a dumb knock knock joke that makes me laugh.

Head back to the trail and continue in the same direction you were going before all that perfect tree nonsense. I think it's eastish. When you arrive in the meadow turn right and south. As you walk you will pass some back yards, a blue painted pole on the left and some vines hanging above you over the trail. When you see something that looks like what mound building native Americans might have made rising up in front of you (which I'm sure is not the case here), look right. Actually take a few steps along the mound, then look right.

There's a cat just chilling behind a grey guard with giant roots. To double check you have the right tree, find the lonely white birch to the southwest with a nearby tree whose neck was wrung. These were two of the first stamps I carved, and I finally decided to stop looking for a farm and a cat house and just get them out there. I tried to make this a loop, but finally had to turn around and go back the way I came.