ANIMAL PRINT -- Series # V LbNA #48385
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Jun 24, 2009 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Thomaston |
| County: | Litchfield |
| State: | Connecticut |
| Boxes: | 3 |
| Planted by: | Trail Snail  |
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| Found by: | Corrina (3) |
| Last found: | Oct 17, 2010 |
| Status: | FFFFF |
| Last edited: | Jun 24, 2009 |
This is the fifth installment in our Animal Prints Series. There will be 6 series for a total of 18 letterboxes. Enjoy the hunt!
HOW TO GET HERE: Travel from the North, South, East or West to the light on Main Street intersecting Clay Street and Union Street., Thomaston, CT. At this intersection you want to have the US Post Office and Town Hall/Opera House on your right and Webster Bank & Thomaston Savings Bank on the left. Head South on Main Street onto South Main (heading toward Waterbury), at the 2nd light which is the intersection of South Main and state Route 254 take a right onto Route 254. Take the first left onto Marine St. (House on your left has wood fence with “Beware of Dogs” signs.) Continue straight keeping the Stone Building on your left and go up the hill into Hillside Cemetery. In the cemetery there is a 4-way intersection, keeping the second smaller stone structure on you left, turn right on the paved road where you can see the Trail Head at the end of the paved cemetery road. Park anywhere off the road so other cars can get by.
The whole trail is about 1.25 miles, uphill with a couple of wet spots and a couple of downhill places to take carefully. Bring your clues, stamp, ink pad, water, a snack, compass & tape measure. Spray well with insect and tick repellant.
START AT THE TRAILHEAD:
Walk uphill on “Orange” past a boulder on the left. Note the Barberry bushes on the right off trail. These are invasive! Keep on “Orange” until you come to an intersection with a field on your left. Turn left onto “Yellow” crossing the field and entering the woods walking until you come to an intersection of “Yellow” going straight and “No blaze” going left. Take the left “No Blaze” walking approximately 50 steps to a ledge covered with moss in the middle of the trail. On the left is an Oak tree with healed bark and twin birch trees and roots wrapped on the right side of the Oak. From this moss covered ledge sight 35°. Walk 15 paces into the woods to the base of a dead fallen. There you will find prints of a squirrel.
Walk back the way you came and turn left onto “Yellow”. The trail goes through a “Laurel Forest” with a low wet area, cross the small brook and over the rise continuing on “Yellow”. There is a converging of two brooks with the trail going to the right over the brooks which flow heavily during wet times. Cross where best for you and then get back on “Yellow” watching for a grey birch with a “Yellow” blaze, go 10 steps past this tree, stop, turn left looking toward a lovely scenic pond. From here walk 25 steps toward the pond to a 16” diameter tree and at the base of the tree you will find the print of a beaver. We couldn’t see any in the pond, but they may be there.
Return to the trail continuing on “Yellow”. Later another small brook where you will see an old log bridge on the right trail side. Over and around some cliffs then another small brook. You eventually get to another small “Laurel Forest” where you cross a dead fallen in the trail When you arrive at the change direction blazes with “Yellow” going left through low bush blueberries stop and look for a 4’ high ledge on the left of the trail with a 12” diameter oak tree leaning to the left. Look for the outcropping of quartz. Below the quartz in the leaves you will find the print of a Gorilla. They are not native to the USA and do not live here but can be found in zoos.
This part of the series is now complete. You may continue on the trail or turn around and go back the way you came. Either way will bring you back to the trail head and your parked vehicle. Dragon Fly & I hope you enjoyed the hunt for animal prints, the trail, listening to the birds and seeing the wildflowers. Did you see the Red Eft Newts, a snake or hear the wild turkeys?
Please log your find at Letterboxing.org and/or Atlasquest.com. Thank you.
HOW TO GET HERE: Travel from the North, South, East or West to the light on Main Street intersecting Clay Street and Union Street., Thomaston, CT. At this intersection you want to have the US Post Office and Town Hall/Opera House on your right and Webster Bank & Thomaston Savings Bank on the left. Head South on Main Street onto South Main (heading toward Waterbury), at the 2nd light which is the intersection of South Main and state Route 254 take a right onto Route 254. Take the first left onto Marine St. (House on your left has wood fence with “Beware of Dogs” signs.) Continue straight keeping the Stone Building on your left and go up the hill into Hillside Cemetery. In the cemetery there is a 4-way intersection, keeping the second smaller stone structure on you left, turn right on the paved road where you can see the Trail Head at the end of the paved cemetery road. Park anywhere off the road so other cars can get by.
The whole trail is about 1.25 miles, uphill with a couple of wet spots and a couple of downhill places to take carefully. Bring your clues, stamp, ink pad, water, a snack, compass & tape measure. Spray well with insect and tick repellant.
START AT THE TRAILHEAD:
Walk uphill on “Orange” past a boulder on the left. Note the Barberry bushes on the right off trail. These are invasive! Keep on “Orange” until you come to an intersection with a field on your left. Turn left onto “Yellow” crossing the field and entering the woods walking until you come to an intersection of “Yellow” going straight and “No blaze” going left. Take the left “No Blaze” walking approximately 50 steps to a ledge covered with moss in the middle of the trail. On the left is an Oak tree with healed bark and twin birch trees and roots wrapped on the right side of the Oak. From this moss covered ledge sight 35°. Walk 15 paces into the woods to the base of a dead fallen. There you will find prints of a squirrel.
Walk back the way you came and turn left onto “Yellow”. The trail goes through a “Laurel Forest” with a low wet area, cross the small brook and over the rise continuing on “Yellow”. There is a converging of two brooks with the trail going to the right over the brooks which flow heavily during wet times. Cross where best for you and then get back on “Yellow” watching for a grey birch with a “Yellow” blaze, go 10 steps past this tree, stop, turn left looking toward a lovely scenic pond. From here walk 25 steps toward the pond to a 16” diameter tree and at the base of the tree you will find the print of a beaver. We couldn’t see any in the pond, but they may be there.
Return to the trail continuing on “Yellow”. Later another small brook where you will see an old log bridge on the right trail side. Over and around some cliffs then another small brook. You eventually get to another small “Laurel Forest” where you cross a dead fallen in the trail When you arrive at the change direction blazes with “Yellow” going left through low bush blueberries stop and look for a 4’ high ledge on the left of the trail with a 12” diameter oak tree leaning to the left. Look for the outcropping of quartz. Below the quartz in the leaves you will find the print of a Gorilla. They are not native to the USA and do not live here but can be found in zoos.
This part of the series is now complete. You may continue on the trail or turn around and go back the way you came. Either way will bring you back to the trail head and your parked vehicle. Dragon Fly & I hope you enjoyed the hunt for animal prints, the trail, listening to the birds and seeing the wildflowers. Did you see the Red Eft Newts, a snake or hear the wild turkeys?
Please log your find at Letterboxing.org and/or Atlasquest.com. Thank you.