Perfect Sunday Afternoon Letterbox LbNA #2289 (ARCHIVED)
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Nov 3, 2002 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Windsor |
| County: | Hartford |
| State: | Connecticut |
| Boxes: | 3 |
| Planted by: | rtrw  |
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| Found by: | Smooch&Pooch |
| Last found: | May 19, 2012 |
| Status: | FFFFFaFFFFFFFFFFFFFF |
| Last edited: | Nov 3, 2002 |
Difficulty - Not sure. I'm trying something new.
Time - 45 minutes.
Directions to starting place -
From Interstate 91 heading north, take Exit 38. From Interstate 91 heading south, take Exit 38A. Turn right at the exit on to Poquonock Avenue (Route 75). Go about 1.5 miles and turn left on to Prospect Hill Rd. Turn right at the traffic circle on to Lang Road and continue up the road to the Northwest Parking area. Proceed from parking lot to the red barn Nature Center, where trail maps are available. Find the Brookside Trail on the map and head out.
Details you should know - The first two stamps are in double plastic
bags and nothing else. There's no stamp, no book, just baggies and stamps. You will need to look a little harder for these. #3 has all the usual stuff. It occurred to me that sometimes I get "pen-tied" when I'm doing a series, so why do something just because it's always been done. Now, that said, perhaps there are very good reasons for the status quo, so if I'm doing something dumb, please feel free to let me know.
Details you don't need to know -
Two of Northwest Park Little Creature Series by Voyageur are also on this trail. We planted in the same weekend, not realizing the other had planted there. Both times I have visited this park I was deep in the woods thinking
deep woods thoughts and suddenly heard some serious, loud, I mean loud "HEEHAWing". Why does that sound make me laugh? I need to go find that creature one of these days. Look, I told you that you didn't need to know this. Let this be fair warning for all other rtrw box write ups.
Clues:
Start at the northern entrance of the Brookside Trail. Go ahead and read about the wild strawberries, then head into the woods. Count five RECTANGULAR lavender blazes. From the fifth blaze and it's home, take a compass reading of 200 degrees. Walk 7 paces to a tree with accessible roots. Our essential equipment is squeezed into a small space in the roots.
Head a little further down the trail. After ten to twenty minutes of little hills and valleys you will come to the GIANT fallen birch. Biggest birch I have ever seen. If you still aren't sure you are in the right place, at 10 degrees there is a tall thin tree with an odd growth on it and at 80 degrees are two rough and spiky looking small stumps. For your second stamp and the piece of equipment we need more than any other, go to the second stump and look to your right under your end of a rotting fallen log.
The trail starts to head west fairly soon after #2. Keep going until you cross the bridge and read about wild lily of the valley. Head up the hill from the sign at 230 degrees to the car that hasn't been driven in a while. Stand at the steering wheel and look down and a little right. Under a piece of the supporting structure is a complete box with ink and everything. Please be very careful around old rusty metal. Tetanus shots hurt.
Time - 45 minutes.
Directions to starting place -
From Interstate 91 heading north, take Exit 38. From Interstate 91 heading south, take Exit 38A. Turn right at the exit on to Poquonock Avenue (Route 75). Go about 1.5 miles and turn left on to Prospect Hill Rd. Turn right at the traffic circle on to Lang Road and continue up the road to the Northwest Parking area. Proceed from parking lot to the red barn Nature Center, where trail maps are available. Find the Brookside Trail on the map and head out.
Details you should know - The first two stamps are in double plastic
bags and nothing else. There's no stamp, no book, just baggies and stamps. You will need to look a little harder for these. #3 has all the usual stuff. It occurred to me that sometimes I get "pen-tied" when I'm doing a series, so why do something just because it's always been done. Now, that said, perhaps there are very good reasons for the status quo, so if I'm doing something dumb, please feel free to let me know.
Details you don't need to know -
Two of Northwest Park Little Creature Series by Voyageur are also on this trail. We planted in the same weekend, not realizing the other had planted there. Both times I have visited this park I was deep in the woods thinking
deep woods thoughts and suddenly heard some serious, loud, I mean loud "HEEHAWing". Why does that sound make me laugh? I need to go find that creature one of these days. Look, I told you that you didn't need to know this. Let this be fair warning for all other rtrw box write ups.
Clues:
Start at the northern entrance of the Brookside Trail. Go ahead and read about the wild strawberries, then head into the woods. Count five RECTANGULAR lavender blazes. From the fifth blaze and it's home, take a compass reading of 200 degrees. Walk 7 paces to a tree with accessible roots. Our essential equipment is squeezed into a small space in the roots.
Head a little further down the trail. After ten to twenty minutes of little hills and valleys you will come to the GIANT fallen birch. Biggest birch I have ever seen. If you still aren't sure you are in the right place, at 10 degrees there is a tall thin tree with an odd growth on it and at 80 degrees are two rough and spiky looking small stumps. For your second stamp and the piece of equipment we need more than any other, go to the second stump and look to your right under your end of a rotting fallen log.
The trail starts to head west fairly soon after #2. Keep going until you cross the bridge and read about wild lily of the valley. Head up the hill from the sign at 230 degrees to the car that hasn't been driven in a while. Stand at the steering wheel and look down and a little right. Under a piece of the supporting structure is a complete box with ink and everything. Please be very careful around old rusty metal. Tetanus shots hurt.