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Scatter Creek LbNA #28479

Owner:Adoptable
Plant date:Jan 27, 2007
Location:
City:Littlerock
County:Thurston
State:Washington
Boxes:1
Planted by:flyingbat
Found by: Not yet found!
Last found:N/A
Last edited:Jan 27, 2007
Take Old 99 to 88th SW and turn West (start mileage at the traffic light at Kipperts farm store). Stay on this road until you get to 93rd, past Tilley (1.8 mile) at stop sign. Turn left (South) onto Case Road and travel parallel to freeway on your right. At 113th & Case stop sign (4.3 miles) Case jogs to the other side of I-5. Turn right, and take the overpass over I-5, then turn left back onto Case Road. Now go South with I-5 on your left. Cross Maytown Rd., continue south, pass 140th on right, cross railroad tracks, pass under power lines, you'll head directly toward the big animated casino billboard, and pass 163rd, 165th. You are still on Case Road. But not much longer. Right around 10.8 miles on your trip odometer you'll see a gravel parking lot on your right, with a bathroom facility and an information board. After all of the lovely scenery you got to see from your car, now you get to see more on foot.

Proceed through either of the two closest cattle guard breaks in the wire fence to your SW. The trails merge in a hundred or so feet. Follow the well-worn trail through the prairie, still heading pretty much South to Southwest. There will be a rather prominent clump of brush off to your right shortly. That obscures the remains of an old building that has since turned to a pile of weathered boards. I actually found a Western fence lizard sunning itself on one those boards last summer. You'll also pass to the right of a tall, lone, Christmas tree shaped fir tree. The path will intersect with a set of wheel tracks that parallel Scatter Creek. At or a little before this intersection, if you look off a little to your left, you will see the remains of another old house, its roof anyway, and little further away is an old cast iron well-pump body. Who lived there? I hope they had a nice life and enjoyed the camas blooming all around in the spring. OK, follow the tire tracks to the west. In about an eighth of a mile you'll come to an intersection of trails. One goes to your left, to the creek, one goes to your right along a tree line and one goes off at 220 degrees into the oak woods - follow it. At about 65 paces from the intersection, the trail will appear to divide. It does, kind of. Follow the right hand meander (about 280 degrees). You should be stumped, very shortly (about 35 paces). It's a nice rotten one. The perfect place to hatch a letter box. You'll find the box on the SW side of the stump down in the nice soft bark dust between the inner core of the tree and the sturdy bark ring around it.
We hope you enjoy your search, and thank your for giving our box your attention. Hitch hikers welcome.

A WA Department of Fish and Wildlife decal is required for parking (We wouldn't have been so cavalier about parking without one if we'd known ahead of time [we didn't get a ticket]). Hunter orange must be worn at all times during hunting season. I saw a number of people recreating and none but gun toters were wearing the orange. Many dogs were about, none on tethers on this day (January 27, 2007).
Scatter Creek wildlife area includes some of the last remaining native grasslands and oak woodlands in western Washington, so please stay on the beaten paths as much as possible. Off-leash dogs are allowed, conditionally. Those conditions are posted at the site and I will add them to this message as soon as I find out what they are.