Tribal Art Series Part 2 LbNA #46656
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Nov 13, 2008 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Thomaston |
| County: | Litchfield |
| State: | Connecticut |
| Boxes: | 10 |
| Planted by: | Sparky Butterfly  |
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| Found by: | happicamp3r (4) |
| Last found: | Nov 24, 2017 |
| Status: | FFFFF |
| Last edited: | Nov 13, 2008 |
Tribal Art Series Part II.
This Hike is 3 to 3 and a half hours long. If you do not want to back track at the end I suggest spotting another car at the trail head on 109 on the Morris town line. To find the starting point, when driving down 109 after passing Thomaston High School on your left continue for 1.4 miles to an unmarked left turn onto Northfield Road. Continue on for .3 miles and take a right. In .2 miles you will come to a yellow gate. Park here. Please be warned that this trail is very upy and downy and has some spots so rocky they will probably be impassable in icy / snowy conditions.
Box 1
Hike past the gate on the paved road until you come to the blue blazed trail heading out on the right. Follow the trail past a rocky cliff. At the third red no hunting sign on the left (not including the one at the very beginning where you turn off the road into the woods) look left up the hill to a huge upright stump with the fallen still attached. In the split on the right side of the upright stump is where you will find box #1
Box 2
Continue on the blue trail. You will cross a wall and eventually head thru an evergreen grove. Soon you will come to the end of a wall with a red post (on the left side of the trail) please note that this short span of wall has a red post at both ends. You want the end farthest down the trail. In the back side of the far end of the wall in the first layer of flat stone is where box 2 is concealed.
Box 3
Continue on making sure to follow the blue. You will head down down down. The trail will cross a woods road. When you reach the woods road turn right and head down it for 18 paces to a large rock on the left side of the trail. From here look due south to a tree with a large flat at its left side. Under the large flat is where you will find Box 3.
Box 4
Back onto blue heading steeply down hill. The blue blazes become more difficult to see so keep your eyes open. Cross a stream and head up hill. Soon you will come to some large boulders on the left side of the trail. Stop here before passing them. Walk left through the two large and circle right up and around to the mossiest. At the far end of the mossiest just below the vertical split is where you will find box 4.
Box 5
Continue on blue crossing a brook and a wall. You will hear rushing water off down hill. Make sure you stay on blue. You will pass a mossy ledge on the right and then to Y trees on the right (one which has red and white on it and a large fallen on the ground behind it. ) Keep going until you come to a red and white boundry stake with a fallen tree with red and white blazes just beyond it. With this post at your left shoulder site 300 to some rocks at the base of a tree. Here is box 5.
Box 6
Cross 3 small streams and then a gully. Cross a brook then three small streams very close together. Then one more crossing and a short stroll through the woods until you cross one more stream. Immediadetly after this last crossing look left and see a 8 foot stump that I couldn’t wrap my arms around. With the stump at your left shoulder take a reading of 210 and go 30 steps to the back of the tree. Please be careful for the barbed wire on the front side of the tree.
Box 7
Continue on and cross big water. It may be tough if it has been especially rainy. Trail will follow the water for a while and then turns off to the left. Stop where the trail crosses a wall. Go left down the wall for 10 steps to a low cubby behind a small white rock.
Box 8
Continue on crossing another wall. Ok ready up the ledges we go. After the right switch back in the ledges come to a diagonal dead on the right. Site 250 and take 21 steps to a rooty evergreen. Underneath a small flat rock at its base is where you will find box 8.
Box 9
Continuing on the blue passing some sort of vineyard on the left. You will cross through a stone wall and then the trail will begin to descend. A stone wall will follow you down hill on the left. When it comes to a corner take a left off the trail and follow the wall for 15 steps to the third tree. Just behind the third at the base of the wall behind a white rock.
Box 10
Continue down crossing a stream and head back up. Cross through 2 walls and then cross another stream. The trail will cross a road. This next are may get over grown in the summer I’m not sure. Cross a large stream with a beautiful waterfall. Up hill then down through a small field of rocks and back up again. Walk through a stone wall on your right and a cut fallen on your left. Stop here and look uphill to the left. You will see a large crooked tree growing out of a large rock. The final box resides in its roots under a rock. Get there how you like but my suggestion is to walk around the left side of the tree to the top of the rock and reach the roots that way.
Hope that you enjoyed the hike and spotted a car. If you did spot a car continue on the trail for maybe 10 or 15 mins. You will cross one more stream and you will be at the car. If you did not spot a car you will probably wish you had at this point. Happy hiking
This Hike is 3 to 3 and a half hours long. If you do not want to back track at the end I suggest spotting another car at the trail head on 109 on the Morris town line. To find the starting point, when driving down 109 after passing Thomaston High School on your left continue for 1.4 miles to an unmarked left turn onto Northfield Road. Continue on for .3 miles and take a right. In .2 miles you will come to a yellow gate. Park here. Please be warned that this trail is very upy and downy and has some spots so rocky they will probably be impassable in icy / snowy conditions.
Box 1
Hike past the gate on the paved road until you come to the blue blazed trail heading out on the right. Follow the trail past a rocky cliff. At the third red no hunting sign on the left (not including the one at the very beginning where you turn off the road into the woods) look left up the hill to a huge upright stump with the fallen still attached. In the split on the right side of the upright stump is where you will find box #1
Box 2
Continue on the blue trail. You will cross a wall and eventually head thru an evergreen grove. Soon you will come to the end of a wall with a red post (on the left side of the trail) please note that this short span of wall has a red post at both ends. You want the end farthest down the trail. In the back side of the far end of the wall in the first layer of flat stone is where box 2 is concealed.
Box 3
Continue on making sure to follow the blue. You will head down down down. The trail will cross a woods road. When you reach the woods road turn right and head down it for 18 paces to a large rock on the left side of the trail. From here look due south to a tree with a large flat at its left side. Under the large flat is where you will find Box 3.
Box 4
Back onto blue heading steeply down hill. The blue blazes become more difficult to see so keep your eyes open. Cross a stream and head up hill. Soon you will come to some large boulders on the left side of the trail. Stop here before passing them. Walk left through the two large and circle right up and around to the mossiest. At the far end of the mossiest just below the vertical split is where you will find box 4.
Box 5
Continue on blue crossing a brook and a wall. You will hear rushing water off down hill. Make sure you stay on blue. You will pass a mossy ledge on the right and then to Y trees on the right (one which has red and white on it and a large fallen on the ground behind it. ) Keep going until you come to a red and white boundry stake with a fallen tree with red and white blazes just beyond it. With this post at your left shoulder site 300 to some rocks at the base of a tree. Here is box 5.
Box 6
Cross 3 small streams and then a gully. Cross a brook then three small streams very close together. Then one more crossing and a short stroll through the woods until you cross one more stream. Immediadetly after this last crossing look left and see a 8 foot stump that I couldn’t wrap my arms around. With the stump at your left shoulder take a reading of 210 and go 30 steps to the back of the tree. Please be careful for the barbed wire on the front side of the tree.
Box 7
Continue on and cross big water. It may be tough if it has been especially rainy. Trail will follow the water for a while and then turns off to the left. Stop where the trail crosses a wall. Go left down the wall for 10 steps to a low cubby behind a small white rock.
Box 8
Continue on crossing another wall. Ok ready up the ledges we go. After the right switch back in the ledges come to a diagonal dead on the right. Site 250 and take 21 steps to a rooty evergreen. Underneath a small flat rock at its base is where you will find box 8.
Box 9
Continuing on the blue passing some sort of vineyard on the left. You will cross through a stone wall and then the trail will begin to descend. A stone wall will follow you down hill on the left. When it comes to a corner take a left off the trail and follow the wall for 15 steps to the third tree. Just behind the third at the base of the wall behind a white rock.
Box 10
Continue down crossing a stream and head back up. Cross through 2 walls and then cross another stream. The trail will cross a road. This next are may get over grown in the summer I’m not sure. Cross a large stream with a beautiful waterfall. Up hill then down through a small field of rocks and back up again. Walk through a stone wall on your right and a cut fallen on your left. Stop here and look uphill to the left. You will see a large crooked tree growing out of a large rock. The final box resides in its roots under a rock. Get there how you like but my suggestion is to walk around the left side of the tree to the top of the rock and reach the roots that way.
Hope that you enjoyed the hike and spotted a car. If you did spot a car continue on the trail for maybe 10 or 15 mins. You will cross one more stream and you will be at the car. If you did not spot a car you will probably wish you had at this point. Happy hiking