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A Rose by Any Other Name is Still A Mendelssohn LbNA #28567

Owner:Adoptable
Plant date:Jan 31, 2007
Location:
City:Roxbury
County:Litchfield
State:Connecticut
Boxes:1
Planted by:Rubaduc
Found by: cooledcoyote
Last found:Aug 31, 2020
Status:FFFOFFFFF
Last edited:Jan 31, 2007
This is a two mile round trip with some steep uphills in a very pretty preserve in Roxbury dedicated to a fallen Viet Nam Vet. Be sure to take the clues to Brian E. Tierney Preserve with you, this is an add on and comes between the two boxes.

From exit 15 on I-84, route 6 east and 67 north go the same way. From the intersection where they split from each other go 4.8 miles on route 67 and turn left onto Squire Road. From the intersection of routes 172 and 67 in the corners of Southbury, Woodbury and Roxbury go 2.6 miles and turn left onto Squire Road. Travel one half mile on Squire Road and look for the preserve on the left right after the house with stone pillars. Watch carefully, it's easy to miss. This is the Brian E. Tierney Preserve of the Roxbury Land Trust.

My best friend (Richard Rose) passed away just after Thanksgiving Day 2006. Even though he was an anti-letterboxer, he had a stamp with a log book and his trail name was Mendelssohn. This box is dedicated to him and all the joy he brought into my life.

From your car go down the stairs and straight across the field into the woods. There's a map board on the right and just before the bridge on the left is a tribute to Brian E. Tierney. Cross the bridge and go right (this is a loop so you'll be coming back on the left trail) stay on the blue trail the whole way. The trail goes mainly up for awhile then levels out with rock ledges to the right. When you come to the vernal pool, keep it to your left following the tin discs and then some more uphill which is quite steep. At the top of this hill you have to clamber up and over a rocky cliff face but then the trail levels out with a very nice stone wall on your right.
Continue on the blue trail and you'll see a giant erratic up a small hill at a fork in the trail. Take the right fork going along the erratic (which up close is actually a split rock) and soon see a stone wall on your left. After a bit there's another stone wall on the right (a little off trail) and when you get to the top of the hill there's another wall to the right but very run down. From the lesser of these walls, take 15 steps back the way you came and then 15 steps to the right along a low ledge line. Check under a slanty rock next to a (oak?) tree and be sure to cover completely

Go back to the erratic, take a right and follow blue blazes to the waterfalls. At the foot of the falls (on the left) is a small cairn built in memory of Mendelssohn, feel free to add a rock or two. Continue on blue to the bridge where you entered, go right back to your car and thanks for the visit.