Picnic Fun LbNA #56083

Our family picnic started way back as our Grandmother’s birthday party. When we started letterboxing we started the Picnic Fun series. We always have a duck race and a theme for the year which you will figure out by the boxes. The 10th one was Christmas in July and we thought it would be a great place to end the series with a new carver.
Sorry about all the log books, so feel free to just stamp in the last one.
Happy Boxing!

To find Box #1, turn onto Macedonia Brook Rd from the Kent side or the Amenia Union side. Go to and park at the parking area across from the stone pavilion. Walk over the bridge on Cobble Mt. trail. We wanted this to be easy so our first thought was in the woodpecker tree but that's too easy. So keep going on the trail. You might think the decomposing log near the brook might be a good place and you would be correct. But that's not where it is either. Just ahead, after the trail bends to the left, it forks. Just before the fork, there is a very tall tree on the right with several rocks at its base. The box is behind the large pointed rock closest to you. Blue ink works well. Please hide it well when you are finished as with all the boxes. Thanks!

To find Box #2, continue up the trail to the road and turn right. Walk past the first section of stone wall and half of the next section. Watch for a two sister tree on the left with white/orange blazes and carved hearts. :( The next big tree with a rock in front, has a flat rock behind it. Check under it.

Box #3 will show you this year's activity that was taken from a children's book. After finding box #2 continue down the road to the end of this stonewall. Take the trail on the left watching for white blazes. Isn't that a gorgeous large birch on your right? When you get to the second white blaze stop! Turn around, walk back down the trail 11 steps, to the rock cluster on your left. Is that a triangle pyramid at the end? Hopefully you have brown ink.

Box #4. Go back out onto the road and continue in the same direction as before. See the gigantic rock up ahead? Well, around 75 steps past that rock starts a large outcropping of rocks. There's a large mossy rock near the beginning of the outcropping. Check on the back side of the tree that seems to be growing out of that rock. You shouldn't have to move any rocks to find the Box. They are just covering very deep holes.

Box #5 Back on the road, keep walking in the same direction, following the stone wall on your right. This section ends with one large rock. If you are here at the right time of year, you will see some ferns behind it. Please use yellow ink!

Box #6 Better sit and rest a bit, especially the picnic children! Next you're counting steps. Count 50 steps, same direction, 7 times. Now add 5 to 8 more steps. Yep, that's about 357 steps, total! Just before the right hand curve, look left for a fallen 6 foot horizontal tree. Careful now, up, up, and behind. (It is getting harder to see but it's there!)

Box #7 Ok, look straight ahead. See the 2 fallen trees on the left? There is a bunch of rocks just off the road before the 1st tree. Look between the points.

Box #8 Turn around and walk back past box #6, looking for a knobby 2 sister tree on the right. Look under the front of the rock of the next tree. Please hide very well. It may be visible from the "road".

Box #9 Heading back toward your car, stop when you get to the gigantic rock and take 26 paces. Look right for a tree with a slight curve. This stamp will look gorgeous if you color it in when you get home ;-)

Box #10 Going in the same direction, go past the white blaze trail on the left, that would take you to your car and take the next path that will intersect that trail. Is that a large rock on your right? Red and blue ink only please!

We hope you enjoyed our picnic fun!

***Please rehide and record your finds***

Hike length: 0.1 miles