Yellow Brick Road 4: The Cowardly Lion LbNA #51834
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Dec 3, 2009 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Waimea-Hawi |
| County: | Hawaii |
| State: | Hawaii |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Planted by: | Old2AK  |
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| Found by: | masterpiece |
| Last found: | Sep 25, 2012 |
| Status: | FFFFFFFF |
| Last edited: | Dec 3, 2009 |
We're a couple of old geezers who enjoy letterboxing, but who tend to limit our hiding and seeking activity to drive-bys and places that involve easy walks. If we're a long way from home, in a place we might not visit again, we think it's more fun to seek and find easy boxes in several different locations, rather than pursue one hard one. We think our "low impact" letterbox style works work well for families with young children, too.
The Yellow Brick Road series relies on a collection of old, commercially-made rubber stamps that feature characters from The Wizard of Oz. If you get a fairly early start (9 a.m.? 10 a.m.?) you should be able to find all five letterboxes in the series in a pleasant one-day outing that will take you to interesting places you might otherwise not go.
4. THE COWARDLY LION
Start at the Tin Man letterbox location in Waimea. Turn right when you leave the Observatory Headquarters parking lot, heading back the way you came. When you come to the Highway 190/Highway 19 intersection, turn right, following Highway 19 west toward Kawaihae and the resorts on the Kohala coast.
In about 2 miles you'll come to the turnoff for Highway 250, which connects Waimea and Hawi. Turn right. This very scenic drive takes you up the slopes of the dormant Kohala volcano, the oldest of Hawaii's five subaerial volcanoes. (A subaerial volcano is a volcano that is on dry land—as opposed to a subaqueous volcano, which is under the water.) According to the USGS, Kohala probably emerged above sea level more than 500,000 years ago. "Toward the end of its shield-building stage 250,000 to 300,000 years ago, an enormous landslide removed the volcano's northeast flank. Twenty kilometers wide at the shoreline, the landslide cut back to the summit of the volcano, which at the time was about 1,000 m higher than today, and traveled 130 km across the ocean floor. The famous sea cliffs of the windward Kohala shoreline mark the topmost part of the headwall of this ancient landslide."
Highway 250 climbs quickly for the first several miles. Watch for blue and pink morning glories growing alongside the road, sometimes using prickly pear cactus as a trellis.
Just past the Mile 7 marker, pull into a wide turnout on the right side of the road. You'll see the remains of an old roadbed here, and—surprise!—a guardrail. You know the drill: Look (feel) in the guardrail groove, behind the first support post. The letterbox is a camouflaged pill bottle that's stuck to the top of the groove. When you return the "box" to its hiding place, put the end with the cap in first, so the white lid can't be seen.
The Yellow Brick Road series relies on a collection of old, commercially-made rubber stamps that feature characters from The Wizard of Oz. If you get a fairly early start (9 a.m.? 10 a.m.?) you should be able to find all five letterboxes in the series in a pleasant one-day outing that will take you to interesting places you might otherwise not go.
4. THE COWARDLY LION
Start at the Tin Man letterbox location in Waimea. Turn right when you leave the Observatory Headquarters parking lot, heading back the way you came. When you come to the Highway 190/Highway 19 intersection, turn right, following Highway 19 west toward Kawaihae and the resorts on the Kohala coast.
In about 2 miles you'll come to the turnoff for Highway 250, which connects Waimea and Hawi. Turn right. This very scenic drive takes you up the slopes of the dormant Kohala volcano, the oldest of Hawaii's five subaerial volcanoes. (A subaerial volcano is a volcano that is on dry land—as opposed to a subaqueous volcano, which is under the water.) According to the USGS, Kohala probably emerged above sea level more than 500,000 years ago. "Toward the end of its shield-building stage 250,000 to 300,000 years ago, an enormous landslide removed the volcano's northeast flank. Twenty kilometers wide at the shoreline, the landslide cut back to the summit of the volcano, which at the time was about 1,000 m higher than today, and traveled 130 km across the ocean floor. The famous sea cliffs of the windward Kohala shoreline mark the topmost part of the headwall of this ancient landslide."
Highway 250 climbs quickly for the first several miles. Watch for blue and pink morning glories growing alongside the road, sometimes using prickly pear cactus as a trellis.
Just past the Mile 7 marker, pull into a wide turnout on the right side of the road. You'll see the remains of an old roadbed here, and—surprise!—a guardrail. You know the drill: Look (feel) in the guardrail groove, behind the first support post. The letterbox is a camouflaged pill bottle that's stuck to the top of the groove. When you return the "box" to its hiding place, put the end with the cap in first, so the white lid can't be seen.