Oakland Hill Cemetery-Challenge Course #3 LbNA #32196
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Add Location| Owner: | jeffthetreasurehuntr  |
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| Plant date: | Jun 23, 2007 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Medway |
| County: | Norfolk |
| State: | Massachusetts |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Found by: | NancyT |
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| Last found: | Jul 11, 2015 |
| Status: | FFFFF |
| Last edited: | Jun 23, 2007 |
Oakland Hill Cemetery #3
This is the third of the Oakland Hill Cemetery series and the last leg of my letterboxing challenge course. If you have succeeded with the first two boxes…congratulations! This third box is where I’m suspecting that some people will fall behind because this box uses a skill that not many people know; however there are some boxes out there that use this skill exclusively. To find this box you need to know how to use a compass.
Using a compass isn’t difficult and I personally learned how to use one through my Dad and Boy Scouts. If you’re an avid hiker or outdoors person, using a compass is a highly recommended skill. However with this box there’s no danger of you getting lost in the woods, so don’t worry.
As with my other boxes I have a small story to go along with this one. When I went to plot this box out my girlfriend came with me. As we were walking around she kept saying that there were little things moving in the grass and at first I just thought that she was being paranoid but after a while I finally saw that same movement. After I started seeing the same twitching movements in the grass, I decided to investigate a little further just to make sure that we both weren’t going insane. Once I started getting close to one of the random twitches, what I discovered was a little tiny baby toad hopping through the grass. Once I discovered this, we both started looking closer at all the twitches and discovered that there were lots of these baby toads all over the place. This story doesn’t have anything to do with the letterbox itself but it was just something interesting to add. So if you see any strange twitching in the grass, take a closer look and you will probably find one of these interesting little toads. Just watch your step so that you don’t squish any of them!
Now that that little story has been told, on to the clues!
The Clues:
• Start where box #2 ends.
• Go back to the first WOOD. Notice the Travers stone on the way and the intricate carvings along the top (this isn’t a part of the clue; I just thought the stone work was cool).
• 206* to the leaning lady.
• Directly west to a stone that reminded me of a rocket ship from a distance.
• Face the side with a flower on top. 94* towards a bulky stone gets you going in the right direction, along the way look for a stone that has a shape similar to that of a policeman’s badge.
• From the nonagon star, 314* to a stone similar in theme to that of a different stone from box #2.
• Facing the side on which a 1970’s singing families name is, go 204*to the next stone point. Here’s the challenge for you though, if you do your heading right you will have two stones lined up on this bearing, go to the second one (not the cross).
• Facing the side with the markings on it, 154* to the answer to clue number 10 in box #2.
• Facing the direction that you were walking, go 140* to the trident on its side.
• With the trident on your right side, go 64*to the last stone on the corner.
• (This next direction is not direct but points you in the right direction.) Set your compass to the name on the stone and go to Mother Mary.
• Facing Mother Mary, go 98* to how you would normally eat corn.
• Face Oliver and look to your right, there is a trail there. Follow it over the mound but do not go down the hill. Turn right and go to the end of the level ground.
• Turn right, once again, and go to a pine tree. There is a large flat stone at its base. Under this stone is your prize!
I hope that you have enjoyed doing my letterboxing challenge course as much as I have enjoyed making it. Please send me a message and let me know what you think of it, especially which challenge section you enjoyed most. Your input will help me to decide how to design future boxes so keep an eye out for more upcoming boxes around Medway and Holliston.
Happy boxing!
~Jeff the Treasure Hunter~
This is the third of the Oakland Hill Cemetery series and the last leg of my letterboxing challenge course. If you have succeeded with the first two boxes…congratulations! This third box is where I’m suspecting that some people will fall behind because this box uses a skill that not many people know; however there are some boxes out there that use this skill exclusively. To find this box you need to know how to use a compass.
Using a compass isn’t difficult and I personally learned how to use one through my Dad and Boy Scouts. If you’re an avid hiker or outdoors person, using a compass is a highly recommended skill. However with this box there’s no danger of you getting lost in the woods, so don’t worry.
As with my other boxes I have a small story to go along with this one. When I went to plot this box out my girlfriend came with me. As we were walking around she kept saying that there were little things moving in the grass and at first I just thought that she was being paranoid but after a while I finally saw that same movement. After I started seeing the same twitching movements in the grass, I decided to investigate a little further just to make sure that we both weren’t going insane. Once I started getting close to one of the random twitches, what I discovered was a little tiny baby toad hopping through the grass. Once I discovered this, we both started looking closer at all the twitches and discovered that there were lots of these baby toads all over the place. This story doesn’t have anything to do with the letterbox itself but it was just something interesting to add. So if you see any strange twitching in the grass, take a closer look and you will probably find one of these interesting little toads. Just watch your step so that you don’t squish any of them!
Now that that little story has been told, on to the clues!
The Clues:
• Start where box #2 ends.
• Go back to the first WOOD. Notice the Travers stone on the way and the intricate carvings along the top (this isn’t a part of the clue; I just thought the stone work was cool).
• 206* to the leaning lady.
• Directly west to a stone that reminded me of a rocket ship from a distance.
• Face the side with a flower on top. 94* towards a bulky stone gets you going in the right direction, along the way look for a stone that has a shape similar to that of a policeman’s badge.
• From the nonagon star, 314* to a stone similar in theme to that of a different stone from box #2.
• Facing the side on which a 1970’s singing families name is, go 204*to the next stone point. Here’s the challenge for you though, if you do your heading right you will have two stones lined up on this bearing, go to the second one (not the cross).
• Facing the side with the markings on it, 154* to the answer to clue number 10 in box #2.
• Facing the direction that you were walking, go 140* to the trident on its side.
• With the trident on your right side, go 64*to the last stone on the corner.
• (This next direction is not direct but points you in the right direction.) Set your compass to the name on the stone and go to Mother Mary.
• Facing Mother Mary, go 98* to how you would normally eat corn.
• Face Oliver and look to your right, there is a trail there. Follow it over the mound but do not go down the hill. Turn right and go to the end of the level ground.
• Turn right, once again, and go to a pine tree. There is a large flat stone at its base. Under this stone is your prize!
I hope that you have enjoyed doing my letterboxing challenge course as much as I have enjoyed making it. Please send me a message and let me know what you think of it, especially which challenge section you enjoyed most. Your input will help me to decide how to design future boxes so keep an eye out for more upcoming boxes around Medway and Holliston.
Happy boxing!
~Jeff the Treasure Hunter~