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Cross Country Skiing LbNA #27575

Owner:Adoptable
Plant date:Dec 3, 2006
Location:
City:Galway
County:Saratoga
State:New York
Boxes:1
Planted by:Mookie
Found by: Sonfronto
Last found:Aug 14, 2007
Status:FFF
Last edited:Dec 3, 2006
Bob's Trees
(518) 882-9455
1227 W Galway Rd
Hagaman, NY 12086

Every year, we go to Bob’s to chop down a Christmas tree. We especially like the Frasier Fir trees for their soft needles that stay on the tree for a long time and don’t poke tiny hands. We have a great time going in the lodge for hot chocolate, taking pictures at the snowman cut-outs and saying hello to the reindeer. We have even seen glimpses of Santa.

But this year, while the rest of the family was fetching a saw, I pretended to be looking for the perfect tree but was really looking for the perfect hiding spot.

On Route 45, there are three driveways going into Bob’s trees. At the first entrance (the most eastern one), look to the right. Count five telephone poles to the right (east). The last telephone pole is at the edge of Bob’s property, at the southeast corner of the area of Frasier Firs where we cut our tree. Walk to the northeastern corner of this field. (Just beyond, through the thicket and trees, is a field of Balsam Firs. Stay in the first field of Frasiers.) Near the corner, there is a pile of logs and what looks like tree debris. After that, there is a pile of rocks that may have been a stonewall but look like rocks piled there from tilling the Christmas tree field. Walk into the corner area (it almost looks like there might be a little path) and go to the rock pile. Look for the telltale pile of rocks a letterboxer has made.

During the winter, Bob’s Trees has cross-country ski trails throughout the property but I don’t think any are near this area of the property. You might have to be quite stealthy to get this box if it isn’t Christmas tree hunting season.