Plato the Platypus LbNA #50354
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Add Location| Owner: | Doodles the Hippo  |
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| Plant date: | Sep 13, 2009 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Milton |
| County: | Norfolk |
| State: | Massachusetts |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Found by: | Doodles the Hippo |
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| Last found: | May 21, 2021 |
| Status: | FFFFFFFFFF |
| Last edited: | Sep 13, 2009 |
This walk begins at the Houghton’s Pond Visitor Center in the Blue Hills Reservation. You will need a compass and some skills at following bearings and distances in order to find the letterbox.
Sit on the bench out in front of the Visitor Center facing the pond. You will see a path running left along the pond’s edge. Follow this path, past the bathhouse, to where it splits – the yellow dot trail continuing along the pond’s edge and the green dot trail continuing to the southeast. Follow the green dot path. Soon you will see a paved road ahead of you, heading in an easterly direction.
Follow this paved road, which soon turns sharply left (north) and uphill. Continue on up the hill to the intersection marked 2070. Here two gravel paths diverge from the road – one north and one south. Take the south path and follow it to intersection 2075. From this intersection, take the easterly fork in the path. This trail meanders for a while mostly on a level route, to a slight rise. As it starts downhill from the top of this rise, you come to another marked intersection where a path diverges sharply right. Follow this path.
You will soon pass a stand of dead trees on your left, an area scarred by fire in recent times. At the next marked intersection (whose four digits add up to five), take the trail heading south. This trail begins to pitch steeply downhill, passing several large boulders at the edges of the path. The path then levels out at a 4-way intersection with a large rounded boulder in one of its corners. Continue straight through. The path quickly swings right and continues down to another “Y” intersection. Take the left (south) fork at this junction.
You soon come to an old paved road. Turn right and follow this road. After about 100 yards, you pass over an old school crossing marked on the pavement. What a strange place to find such a thing? Can you guess where the old school might have been? Continue west another 80-90 yards down the road, and look for a large rock outcropping just off the road on your right.
Find the southwest corner of this large jagged outcrop and take a bearing due north. Follow this bearing for 25-30 yards to another similar, rocky outcropping with a split down the middle. Look for a “finger” of rock in this split, pointing at a bearing of about 290 degrees. Your treasure is hidden in a crevice at the base of this finger.
Sit on the bench out in front of the Visitor Center facing the pond. You will see a path running left along the pond’s edge. Follow this path, past the bathhouse, to where it splits – the yellow dot trail continuing along the pond’s edge and the green dot trail continuing to the southeast. Follow the green dot path. Soon you will see a paved road ahead of you, heading in an easterly direction.
Follow this paved road, which soon turns sharply left (north) and uphill. Continue on up the hill to the intersection marked 2070. Here two gravel paths diverge from the road – one north and one south. Take the south path and follow it to intersection 2075. From this intersection, take the easterly fork in the path. This trail meanders for a while mostly on a level route, to a slight rise. As it starts downhill from the top of this rise, you come to another marked intersection where a path diverges sharply right. Follow this path.
You will soon pass a stand of dead trees on your left, an area scarred by fire in recent times. At the next marked intersection (whose four digits add up to five), take the trail heading south. This trail begins to pitch steeply downhill, passing several large boulders at the edges of the path. The path then levels out at a 4-way intersection with a large rounded boulder in one of its corners. Continue straight through. The path quickly swings right and continues down to another “Y” intersection. Take the left (south) fork at this junction.
You soon come to an old paved road. Turn right and follow this road. After about 100 yards, you pass over an old school crossing marked on the pavement. What a strange place to find such a thing? Can you guess where the old school might have been? Continue west another 80-90 yards down the road, and look for a large rock outcropping just off the road on your right.
Find the southwest corner of this large jagged outcrop and take a bearing due north. Follow this bearing for 25-30 yards to another similar, rocky outcropping with a split down the middle. Look for a “finger” of rock in this split, pointing at a bearing of about 290 degrees. Your treasure is hidden in a crevice at the base of this finger.