ANIMAL PRINT -- Series # VI LbNA #49072
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Jul 22, 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: | FFFFFF |
| Last edited: | Jul 22, 2009 |
Clues
This is the sixth and final installment in our Animal Prints Series. There are 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 (We saw a white tailed deer in the field) and entering the woods. Walking through a “Laurel Forest” on both sides of the trail until you come to a large paper birch with a yellow blaze on the right side of the trail, an overhead Laurel arch and on the left trail side a standing dead with lots of woodpecker holes. From the white paper birch go 12 paces ahead; look left for a two sister Oak tree. On the backside of the tree you will find prints of a frog.
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 lovely scenic pond on your left. Later another small brook where you will see an old log bridge on the right trail side. Stay on “Yellow” keeping the brook (it was babbling with all the recent rains when we scouted the area) on your left, passing cliffs on the right, pass blazes on stones on the path. At the end of the cliff look right to a large flat rock leaning on the cliff. Under the flat rock you will find prints of a horse.
Continue on “Yellow” crossing another small brook, a small “Laurel Forest” , through low bush blueberries, you eventually step over three well rotted logs, through another small laurel forest, over a couple of logs over the trail and come to a 16” mound in the path with a leaning tree. Look left to a three sister Oak tree on the far side of a ledge or rock outcropping. At the base of that three sister tree you will find prints of a Turkey (Bird). We actually heard turkeys gobbling off to the left. Keep your ears open, maybe you will hear them also.
This is the last installment of the series. 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.
Please log your find at Letterboxing.org and/or Atlasquest.com. Thank you.
This is the sixth and final installment in our Animal Prints Series. There are 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 (We saw a white tailed deer in the field) and entering the woods. Walking through a “Laurel Forest” on both sides of the trail until you come to a large paper birch with a yellow blaze on the right side of the trail, an overhead Laurel arch and on the left trail side a standing dead with lots of woodpecker holes. From the white paper birch go 12 paces ahead; look left for a two sister Oak tree. On the backside of the tree you will find prints of a frog.
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 lovely scenic pond on your left. Later another small brook where you will see an old log bridge on the right trail side. Stay on “Yellow” keeping the brook (it was babbling with all the recent rains when we scouted the area) on your left, passing cliffs on the right, pass blazes on stones on the path. At the end of the cliff look right to a large flat rock leaning on the cliff. Under the flat rock you will find prints of a horse.
Continue on “Yellow” crossing another small brook, a small “Laurel Forest” , through low bush blueberries, you eventually step over three well rotted logs, through another small laurel forest, over a couple of logs over the trail and come to a 16” mound in the path with a leaning tree. Look left to a three sister Oak tree on the far side of a ledge or rock outcropping. At the base of that three sister tree you will find prints of a Turkey (Bird). We actually heard turkeys gobbling off to the left. Keep your ears open, maybe you will hear them also.
This is the last installment of the series. 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.
Please log your find at Letterboxing.org and/or Atlasquest.com. Thank you.