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First aidNot In Our Forests LbNA #53608

Owner:Sagacorn
Plant date:May 24, 2010
Location:
City:Foxboro
County:Norfolk
State:Massachusetts
Boxes:8
Found by: Maya's Pack (8)
Last found:May 16, 2020
Status:FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
Last edited:May 24, 2010
Clues and some stamp locations changed 10 18/13. I found this to be a 2.1 mile loop.

This series of boxes depict things you don't or shouldn't see in our forests. All but the last box is film canister size and only the last box has a log book..
There will be some bushwacking involved.

The Foxboro Conservation Area is on the north side of F. Gilbert Hills State Forest area and is accessible from Lakeview Rd. off Rt. 140. Go .4 mile passing on your right Lakeview Pavilion, and the trail head is directly after that and a small lake at a brown conservation sign. There is parking for 2-3 cars.

You will be making a loop around a pond (not the small pond on the street) on relatively flat and easy, but sometimes rocky and rooty paths. To me this is one of the prettiest ponds I have seen in all my boxing years, especially in the Autumn.

I have two things to mention: You may encounter bikers on these trails; please give them the right of way. The other issue is: in Spring you will see many Lady slippers in bloom. Please do not pick them and be mindful of where you are stepping. I believe they are on the endangered list. Also there is a lot of Princess Pine in these woods. Please be mindful of that also.

A minute or so after you enter the trail from your car notice a sign on a tree that says 'Welcome to Foxboro Cons. Area'; you may need it for later.

Please replace any stones that cover the boxes as you found them. Some of these I brought from my house.

Box #1::::Follow the main path in staying straight (do not follow area behind house). At a Y and behind 2 smallish boulders stay right; for now do not follow the Warner Trail to the left. After a 2 minute walk the area starts to have many young white pine trees, esp. on the left side; the area has many trees down and is swampy on the right. Look left about 12 steps in for a tannish peeling tree that looks like it is on tippy-toes. At the back of this tree where the legs spread and under a piece of stone is the box. Box is about a foot off the ground.

Box #2::::Return the way you came and go right on the Warner Trail marked by white discs. At 7 steps before the second stone wall there is a small decaying dead fall on your right. Walk 18 steps to its root end for the box.

Box #3::::Continue on the trail, at the Y bear left and shortly at another juncture take a sharp right onto a raised esker-like trail. Bear left to follow pond. Walk a while enjoying the new bridge and the sights and sounds of the lake. At the Warner Trail wooden sign go right. At the START OF the first log running PARALLEL IN the trail bushwack left to stone wall. See a deadfall laying across the wall? Four feet to its right is a very small trap door hiding the box.

Box #4::::Go back to Warner Trail wooden sign and continue straight for a few minutes. At the T go right onto bike path for 90 steps. See left a fallen tree that may look like an anchor out of water. At its small end bushwack 14 steps into the woods to a 2 sister tree. The small pine behind this 2 sister holds the box at 6 feet off the ground. Please re-hide AS YOU FOUND, BEHIND TREE TRUNK.

Box #5:::: Return to Bike Path and Warner Trail intersection and continue straight for several minutes crossing a small bridge. At 4-way go straight onto a small path. Stone wall. Largest boulder on left. Walk to it and see a grouping of 10 very small saplings to its right. In the middle of these saplings under a larger rock. Please re-hide with this rock.

Box #6::::Return to 4 way and go right. Pass path to lake and take next left. At a small island of 3 medium sized trees guarded by a very long limb on the ground go left to 3 boulders. At furthest one back look behind it on side closest to large fallen tree for box. This is hidden with a geocache. Please re-hide BEHIND geocache so hopefully if a cacher finds it they will see the difference.

Box #7::::Continue on trail. Pass a small trail to the lake. When trail splits enter a depression on the right that has several downed tree limbs in it. Look far right behind the Paperwhite tree. You have now completed a loop around the lake. This spot should look familiar to you.

Box #8:::: Continue on lower trail. Count three stone walls including one at box 7 esker, then 20 steps to knobby oak on left of trail; 20 bushwacking paces to your right into woods to highest boulder (you may or may not be able to see this boulder from the trail). Enter a small depression behind this boulder. Look in back of the boulder, in the depression, with tiny pine tree growing on top of it where it meets a fallen tree for box with log. I hope this has been a rewarding and surprising find.

Now back on the trail continuing to the right. You are 2 minutes from the trail head.
When you see a path coming in from the left (where box #1 is) go right and you are soon back on Lakeview Rd.