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Making Faces LbNA #4781 (ARCHIVED)

Owner:Adoptable
Plant date:Jul 11, 2003
Location:
City:Estacada
County:Clackamas
State:Oregon
Boxes:5
Found by: Karma (3)
Last found:Sep 30, 2006
Status:FFFFFFFFFF
Last edited:Jul 11, 2003
Last reported in place: 5/31/04

To Milo McIver: from Portland, go south on I-205 to the Estacada exit #12b. Head east and stay on highway 212 to the small town of Carver. The road forks in Carver where you will go right across the Clackamas River and follow the signs about ten miles to the park. Pay the day use fee of $3 & grab a map.

Placed for Stamp Camp at Milo McIver, July 2003
In season, there are stinging nettles crowding onto the trails—you will want to wear PANTS! For the same reason, it’s best if very young children travel in backpacks. The path is not strenuous and is perhaps a mile (?) long.

Go to the Northern Day-Use Area, parking lot E. If you find Heather’s Jurassic Park series first, you will be poised to begin Making Faces. There are two junctions of the Maple Ridge Trail and Cedar Knoll Trail—you want to begin at the southern one, which is farthest from the parking lot. (You should start with the first box, Face and Hair, or your stamp images are unlikely to fit together.) All boxes are located very near the edge of the trail, and none require you to battle the nettles.

CLUES:

Face and Hair: From the southern junction of Maple Ridge Trail and Cedar Knoll Trail, go west, young letterboxer. Watch for the old couple who have deteriorated but still take care of their growing youngsters. Go to the largest one and look under the pile of sticks and moss on top of it.

Eyes: Continue on the trail, and walk undaunted through the field of nettles, taking the curve as it comes. Now watch for the next couple; they are childless and separated—but still live within sight of one another. Go to the second of these two. Look on its westside, against the base, under sticks and moss.

Nose: Continue on. Look for the second set of seven sisters on the left. The box is on the north side, under sticks and duff.

Mouth: Continue on. Go past the pond’s trident, and as the trail heads east, look closely for the disintegrating log on the left. The box is on the westside of the log, under moss & sticks.

Accoutrements: Pass the northern Cedar Knoll and Maple Ridge trail junction. On the right, watch for a single, older parent, whose crowning glory is a young red-cedar—and a long wide petticoat. Discreetly hidden, toward the skirt’s east side, under the ferns, behind a stone (don’t hurt the oxalis!!) is the final box.

(P.S. If you have your carving kit with you and are inspired to add to the choices at any box, please feel free to do so!!!)

(P.P.S. There are LOTS of LBs in this park, since the summer 2003 gathering was held here--check on the list so you don't miss any!)