Froggie Dude LbNA #43504 (ARCHIVED)
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Add Location| Owner: | Qingwaa  |
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| Plant date: | Sep 20, 2008 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Columbia |
| County: | Howard |
| State: | Maryland |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Found by: | Whisper Foot |
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| Last found: | Feb 8, 2009 |
| Status: | FFFFF |
| Last edited: | Sep 20, 2008 |
April 2009... This box is reported as missing. Stay tuned as we work on getting it back out there.
One of our favorite Letterbox finds in Columbia, Maryland is the Middle Patuxent River Box (MPR). So we hid our box along the path after the MPR box. If you haven't already found that box, you could find that box on this same journey. This BOX was placed by Qingwaa, Hopping Rabbit, Dragon Moose and Erin Zee Bo.
Driving directions:
From either the Baltimore or Washington, D.C. area, take I-95 to the exit for Route 32 west. Take the first exit for Broken Land Parkway. Stay to the left. At the end of the exit ramp, make a left turn onto Broken Land Parkway, and follow it to its end at a traffic light. Make a left turn at this light onto Guilford Road. Stay to the right, and at the next light, make a right turn onto Murray Hill Road. Now turn onto the first street on your right, Rain Flower Way, and follow it a short distance to its end. You are looking for townhouse #7572. Find a parking place, not in front of a townhome (those spots are reserved for the homeowners), but rather in the parking spaces in the grassy “island” in the center of the area of the parking lot.
TO THE LETTERBOX.
Walk over to house #7572, and look to your right. You should see house #7566. Between these two townhomes is the beginning of the path. You should see a light green Verizon underground cable marker that also has the number 7566 on it.
Follow the path, which at first will parallel some tall electric transmission lines on the right. At the first branch in the path, make a right turn. This new path will take you through a meadow of sorts, which is actually the right of way for the power lines. You’ll pass under the lines and head towards a wooded area. Here the path ends in a “T” intersection. Turn left, and you will enter the woods that will take you to the Middle Patuxent River. From here on, you’ll be following a simple rule: whenever you come to a fork in the path, Choose LEFT.
First, you will go gradually down a hill and come to a fork. You’ll see a wooden bridge---the 1st of 3 on your journey. Head LEFT and go over the bridge. Soon you will come to a second bridge and go up a hill. Just before the next intersection, you’ll see fishing rules posted high in a tree on the left. This means you’re getting closer to the river! Turn LEFT at the intersection. The homes you see to your right are on “Sweet Hours Way.”
Follow this path until you come to the 3rd Bridge. Each of the bridges you’ve crossed spans a small creek that feeds into the Middle Patuxent. Immediately after this bridge is another fork. Again, turn LEFT. And at the next FORK, Turn LEFT once more.
At last! You will be walking beside the lovely Middle Patuxent River. During the Summer months the river may be a little low of water. Enjoy the scenery anyway.
In a short while you will see a substantial outcrop of gray-black rock on your right. Immediately after this, the path turns away from the river and heads up a hill. Follow the curve that the path makes going up the hill, until the path curves like a Y. You will want to go LEFT again on the path. You will see a playground on the LEFT. If you have kids, why not stop and let them play a few minutes. Our box is not too far from this playground. This is a perfect place to stamp in since there are two benches.
From the playground, continue on the path and follow it down the hill. The Path will slightly curve to the RIGHT, then to the LEFT and then to the RIGHT again. Now, you will want to look on your Left side for a tree that is approx. 8 inches in diameter with a large gaping hole in the bottom part of the tree trunk. This hole is almost a triangular shape. From this point, count 25 steps and look for a 3.5 foot Tree stump on the RIGHT side of the path that is leaning at a 45 degree angle from the ground. The treasure you seek is in the back under the rootball covered by twigs and bark.
After stamping in, return the box to its hiding place, being sure to push it into the rootball so it doesn’t stick out from view. Add some extra bark or sticks if necessary.
To return to your car, retrace your steps (making right turns this time at each fork on the way back) to get to the start of the trail at the townhouses.
One of our favorite Letterbox finds in Columbia, Maryland is the Middle Patuxent River Box (MPR). So we hid our box along the path after the MPR box. If you haven't already found that box, you could find that box on this same journey. This BOX was placed by Qingwaa, Hopping Rabbit, Dragon Moose and Erin Zee Bo.
Driving directions:
From either the Baltimore or Washington, D.C. area, take I-95 to the exit for Route 32 west. Take the first exit for Broken Land Parkway. Stay to the left. At the end of the exit ramp, make a left turn onto Broken Land Parkway, and follow it to its end at a traffic light. Make a left turn at this light onto Guilford Road. Stay to the right, and at the next light, make a right turn onto Murray Hill Road. Now turn onto the first street on your right, Rain Flower Way, and follow it a short distance to its end. You are looking for townhouse #7572. Find a parking place, not in front of a townhome (those spots are reserved for the homeowners), but rather in the parking spaces in the grassy “island” in the center of the area of the parking lot.
TO THE LETTERBOX.
Walk over to house #7572, and look to your right. You should see house #7566. Between these two townhomes is the beginning of the path. You should see a light green Verizon underground cable marker that also has the number 7566 on it.
Follow the path, which at first will parallel some tall electric transmission lines on the right. At the first branch in the path, make a right turn. This new path will take you through a meadow of sorts, which is actually the right of way for the power lines. You’ll pass under the lines and head towards a wooded area. Here the path ends in a “T” intersection. Turn left, and you will enter the woods that will take you to the Middle Patuxent River. From here on, you’ll be following a simple rule: whenever you come to a fork in the path, Choose LEFT.
First, you will go gradually down a hill and come to a fork. You’ll see a wooden bridge---the 1st of 3 on your journey. Head LEFT and go over the bridge. Soon you will come to a second bridge and go up a hill. Just before the next intersection, you’ll see fishing rules posted high in a tree on the left. This means you’re getting closer to the river! Turn LEFT at the intersection. The homes you see to your right are on “Sweet Hours Way.”
Follow this path until you come to the 3rd Bridge. Each of the bridges you’ve crossed spans a small creek that feeds into the Middle Patuxent. Immediately after this bridge is another fork. Again, turn LEFT. And at the next FORK, Turn LEFT once more.
At last! You will be walking beside the lovely Middle Patuxent River. During the Summer months the river may be a little low of water. Enjoy the scenery anyway.
In a short while you will see a substantial outcrop of gray-black rock on your right. Immediately after this, the path turns away from the river and heads up a hill. Follow the curve that the path makes going up the hill, until the path curves like a Y. You will want to go LEFT again on the path. You will see a playground on the LEFT. If you have kids, why not stop and let them play a few minutes. Our box is not too far from this playground. This is a perfect place to stamp in since there are two benches.
From the playground, continue on the path and follow it down the hill. The Path will slightly curve to the RIGHT, then to the LEFT and then to the RIGHT again. Now, you will want to look on your Left side for a tree that is approx. 8 inches in diameter with a large gaping hole in the bottom part of the tree trunk. This hole is almost a triangular shape. From this point, count 25 steps and look for a 3.5 foot Tree stump on the RIGHT side of the path that is leaning at a 45 degree angle from the ground. The treasure you seek is in the back under the rootball covered by twigs and bark.
After stamping in, return the box to its hiding place, being sure to push it into the rootball so it doesn’t stick out from view. Add some extra bark or sticks if necessary.
To return to your car, retrace your steps (making right turns this time at each fork on the way back) to get to the start of the trail at the townhouses.