Hidden Mickey: Takes a Bow LbNA #53771
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Add Location| Owner: | Lundy and Vickster  |
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| Plant date: | May 31, 2010 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Ipswich |
| County: | Essex |
| State: | Massachusetts |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Found by: | Judge Family |
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| Last found: | Jun 28, 2012 |
| Status: | FFFFF |
| Last edited: | May 31, 2010 |
We planted two letterboxes in this area. Both boxes have separate parking areas but you can get from one to the other if you want to get both at once. After the main clues, I have provided supplemental clues to get to the Hidden Mickey: Surfs up! letterbox .
Difficulty: 2
Terrain: 2
Time: ~1 Hour for single box or ~2 hours for both boxes.
Distance: ~1.5 miles round trip for single box or ~2.5 miles round trip for both boxes
Other Information:
No ink. Bring your own ink. Black inkpad is best.
Bug spray is advised.
Where it is: Willowdale State Forest – Pine Swamp Area.
Linebrook Rd., Ipswich, MA.
For more information about Willowdale: Willowdale State Forest
Print the trail map and bring it with you. Trail Map.
Parking for this letterbox is on Linebrook Road, Ipswich, MA across from the Linebrook Woods Conservation Area sign.
Main Clues
Continue straight through an intersection with white arrows. You will then be passing a stone wall on the right side of the trail. At a tree with double white blazes (indicating an intersection) the trail will go gently uphill. Stay straight on the main trail to Intersection 24 ignoring all side trails.
At Intersection 24 keep to the left and continue on to Intersection 4, again ignoring all side trails. Continue straight (right) past Intersection 4 for a few more minutes. As the trail takes a wide sweeping left hand turn (you can identify it on the map) look for a very large 3-trunked Pine tree on the right. The Pine has a white blaze and is holding up a log. Across the trail from this Pine is another very large multi-trunked Pine that looks like Poseidon’s trident. The Hidden Mickey: Takes a Bow Letterbox is located at the base of this tree in a neat little cubby hole.
To return to your car just retrace your steps staying on this main trail until you see the farm again.
Supplemental Clues
To get to the Hidden Mickey: Surfs Up! Letterbox, continue on this main trail. When you reach Intersection 5 bear right. Shortly you will come to Intersection 6. At Intersection 6 turn right (following the G-Town-Hood Pond sign). Follow this trail for just a couple minutes and as the trail starts to go up you will see a large Pine on the right with a white blaze (blaze has B-Owl written on it). Slightly past the Pine and across the trail notice a Beech tree a little bit uphill in the woods. Hidden Mickey: Surfs Up! Is hidden behind the Beech tree under some rocks.
To get back to your car, head back to Intersection 6 and turn left to Intersection 5. At Intersections 5 turn left again and follow this main trail past Intersection 4. Stay on the main trail until you see the farm again.
Difficulty: 2
Terrain: 2
Time: ~1 Hour for single box or ~2 hours for both boxes.
Distance: ~1.5 miles round trip for single box or ~2.5 miles round trip for both boxes
Other Information:
No ink. Bring your own ink. Black inkpad is best.
Bug spray is advised.
Where it is: Willowdale State Forest – Pine Swamp Area.
Linebrook Rd., Ipswich, MA.
For more information about Willowdale: Willowdale State Forest
Print the trail map and bring it with you. Trail Map.
Parking for this letterbox is on Linebrook Road, Ipswich, MA across from the Linebrook Woods Conservation Area sign.
Main Clues
Hidden Mickey: Takes a Bow Letterbox
Follow the trail past the metal gate that has a Bay Circuit Trail marker and head straight through the farm land. Just past the end of the crops you will reach a road. Turn right on this road. You will see a white arrow on a tree on the right.Continue straight through an intersection with white arrows. You will then be passing a stone wall on the right side of the trail. At a tree with double white blazes (indicating an intersection) the trail will go gently uphill. Stay straight on the main trail to Intersection 24 ignoring all side trails.
At Intersection 24 keep to the left and continue on to Intersection 4, again ignoring all side trails. Continue straight (right) past Intersection 4 for a few more minutes. As the trail takes a wide sweeping left hand turn (you can identify it on the map) look for a very large 3-trunked Pine tree on the right. The Pine has a white blaze and is holding up a log. Across the trail from this Pine is another very large multi-trunked Pine that looks like Poseidon’s trident. The Hidden Mickey: Takes a Bow Letterbox is located at the base of this tree in a neat little cubby hole.
To return to your car just retrace your steps staying on this main trail until you see the farm again.
Supplemental Clues
To get to the Hidden Mickey: Surfs Up! Letterbox, continue on this main trail. When you reach Intersection 5 bear right. Shortly you will come to Intersection 6. At Intersection 6 turn right (following the G-Town-Hood Pond sign). Follow this trail for just a couple minutes and as the trail starts to go up you will see a large Pine on the right with a white blaze (blaze has B-Owl written on it). Slightly past the Pine and across the trail notice a Beech tree a little bit uphill in the woods. Hidden Mickey: Surfs Up! Is hidden behind the Beech tree under some rocks.
To get back to your car, head back to Intersection 6 and turn left to Intersection 5. At Intersections 5 turn left again and follow this main trail past Intersection 4. Stay on the main trail until you see the farm again.