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Tree Hugger - Squam LbNA #33390

Owner:Adoptable
Plant date:Jul 11, 2007
Location:
City:Center Harbor
County:Carroll
State:New Hampshire
Boxes:1
Planted by:Jumping B.E.A.N.
Found by: Kanos11
Last found:Aug 13, 2016
Status:FFFFFFFFFFFFFF
Last edited:Jul 11, 2007
Welcome, aspiring tree huggers!

This is a box located near the southern end of Squam Lake, on the NEFFA property, which is marked officially on maps as the Chamberlain-Reynolds Memorial Forest. You'll find good maps of both the whole lake and of NEFFA here: http://www.squamlakes.org/sla/Squam-Map.htm.

You start at the a boat dock closest to the main beach and campsites; it's close to campsite #1 on the map. Take the path toward the beach. Follow the sign that points to Campsite 1. Go nine (adult) paces. Look for a double tree on your left. We think it's too big for any person to hug it all the way around and touch fingers. Dare ya to try!

Continue on the path. Look for three "docks" where no boats can be tied, and a "pit of fire" in the middle of them. Exit this area and find where the trail forks: a left takes you to the powder room (Powder your nose of you need to! These composting powder rooms don't smell much at all!) Take a right, toward the lakefront, but take the path on your left just before the beach.

Look for a leaing tower with 2 yellow lines on it.

Head east from there (you don't need a compass ... look for signs of a clue). Go straight on this trail (don't take the West Swamp Trail).

Look for a sign that says _ _ _ _ _ / _ _ _ _ (clue: means the same thing as "bog jog"). Go where that sign points.

Next, walk the plank(s) across the muck and mire. Are blueberries in season? If so, stop and munch a few!

At the end of both boardwalks (the long one and the short one), take nine paces to a map on a tree.

Go 10 paces on the trail to the left (the one away from "Parking"), and look for a pine tree on the right. How about giving it a hug? It might be feeling lonely. Can you get your arms all the way around?

And you might be feeling pretty close to our box! Turn 180 around from the tree and look for a fallen log on the other side of the trail. Start looking and get out your stamps; it's almost time to "Hooray!"