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Add Location| Owner: | nosox  |
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| Plant date: | May 9, 2010 |
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| City: | Southampton |
| County: | Hampshire |
| State: | Massachusetts |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Found by: | Sagacorn |
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| Last found: | Feb 18, 2020 |
| Status: | FFFFFFF |
| Last edited: | May 9, 2010 |
I finally found the sugar shack I had been searching for out near the Wolf Hill Sanctuary. It took a few trips. On an earlier trip I planted “Sugar & Spice” in this same sanctuary, feel free to try to find both.
The Wolf Hill Sanctuary is on Fomer Rd, fairly near to house #100. The parking lot is across from a newly build mustard house that doesn’t have a number yet. Please note, the trail here is very new and barely even visible in some places. It is rough going and involves a lot of guesswork and a good sense of direction. Please hike carefully. This one is an adventure. There is talk that the Boy Scouts may be creating and blazing clearer paths over the summer of 2010. If so, I will update the clues accordingly.
From the parking lot, take the path through the boulders. Follow it to a fork where you bear left. You can follow the red flags (might be temporary). Continue traveling on in roughly a straight line. You may often lose the flags and then they will show up again. Often it looks like you are traveling on a path where a vehicle has dug ruts. After about 15 minutes it seems like the red flags stop all together. Continue to head in a straight line in the same direction for maybe another 15 minutes..
(Escape Route: This path is fairly parallel to Fomer Rd, so if you become concerned, take a sharp left and you will soon be on the public road. Take another left and follow Fomer Rd. up to the parking lot.)
If you haven’t used the escape route, continue on until you come upon a very large, long pond. The view here is gorgeous; lots of flowering lilly pads, swallows swooping down to the water, and a horse farm on the opposite side at the right-hand end. When you reach the pond, turn right. There is a wide path that follows along this side of the pond. Follow this path all the way to the end of the pond. You will see a few private property signs, stop here.
This is the beginning of the driveway which goes to the sugar shack. It turns out the shack is not on sanctuary property and the owner expressly wishes for the land/buildings to not be tampered with. If you happen to become lost and see it in the distance, please remain a respectful space away from it.
From where you are on the path, put your back towards the “private property” signs. You will see that you have passed a 20 foot high, wood-pecker pecked trunk. Go to this trunk. With the trunk on your right, turn left. Go 16 steps off the path to a twin birch with a rock door on the side. What you seek is here.
When back on the path, follow it away from the private property signs. When you come to the brook, cross at the culvert, and follow the brook upstream, to the left. You will come upon a large evergreen crossing the brook. At this point, continue on about 20 steps. Take a right at the rhododendron, pass a mossy stump and a log. Look left and you will see the red flags begin again. Turn left and follow the red flags. (Return trip escape route from here: take a sharp right, then travel in a straight line. This will take you to Fomer Road. Take a left on Fomer and follow it up to the parking lot.) If you haven't taken the escape route, follow red flags back to the parking lot.
The Wolf Hill Sanctuary is on Fomer Rd, fairly near to house #100. The parking lot is across from a newly build mustard house that doesn’t have a number yet. Please note, the trail here is very new and barely even visible in some places. It is rough going and involves a lot of guesswork and a good sense of direction. Please hike carefully. This one is an adventure. There is talk that the Boy Scouts may be creating and blazing clearer paths over the summer of 2010. If so, I will update the clues accordingly.
From the parking lot, take the path through the boulders. Follow it to a fork where you bear left. You can follow the red flags (might be temporary). Continue traveling on in roughly a straight line. You may often lose the flags and then they will show up again. Often it looks like you are traveling on a path where a vehicle has dug ruts. After about 15 minutes it seems like the red flags stop all together. Continue to head in a straight line in the same direction for maybe another 15 minutes..
(Escape Route: This path is fairly parallel to Fomer Rd, so if you become concerned, take a sharp left and you will soon be on the public road. Take another left and follow Fomer Rd. up to the parking lot.)
If you haven’t used the escape route, continue on until you come upon a very large, long pond. The view here is gorgeous; lots of flowering lilly pads, swallows swooping down to the water, and a horse farm on the opposite side at the right-hand end. When you reach the pond, turn right. There is a wide path that follows along this side of the pond. Follow this path all the way to the end of the pond. You will see a few private property signs, stop here.
This is the beginning of the driveway which goes to the sugar shack. It turns out the shack is not on sanctuary property and the owner expressly wishes for the land/buildings to not be tampered with. If you happen to become lost and see it in the distance, please remain a respectful space away from it.
From where you are on the path, put your back towards the “private property” signs. You will see that you have passed a 20 foot high, wood-pecker pecked trunk. Go to this trunk. With the trunk on your right, turn left. Go 16 steps off the path to a twin birch with a rock door on the side. What you seek is here.
When back on the path, follow it away from the private property signs. When you come to the brook, cross at the culvert, and follow the brook upstream, to the left. You will come upon a large evergreen crossing the brook. At this point, continue on about 20 steps. Take a right at the rhododendron, pass a mossy stump and a log. Look left and you will see the red flags begin again. Turn left and follow the red flags. (Return trip escape route from here: take a sharp right, then travel in a straight line. This will take you to Fomer Road. Take a left on Fomer and follow it up to the parking lot.) If you haven't taken the escape route, follow red flags back to the parking lot.