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HINENI GOLD LbNA #58778

Owner:Adoptable
Plant date:Jul 16, 2011
Location:
City:Monroe
County:Fairfield
State:Connecticut
Boxes:1
Planted by:Skip & TJ
Found by: Hez, Grumpy and Mona
Last found:Nov 15, 2015
Status:FFFFFFFF
Last edited:Nov 16, 2015
HINENI (HEE-NAY-NEE) GOLD

-in memory of Howard Saad

Many hikers and letterboxers have come upon locations of such majesty and natural beauty, where they feel they have been in the presence of a Power greater than themselves. Some have heard their Creator call out to them in these places. Some have responded, "Hineni! Here I am!" and thus identified themselves as people who have a place in their lives for the sacred and the divine.

The Hineni Series of six letterboxes represent the colors that were mandated to be woven into the curtain which once hung in Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem, spearating the people from the Holy of Holies. This series celebrates people who in death have passed through this curtain, but in life walked daily with divine companionship. The six letterboxes are all hidden in locations of blessed peace and Nature at her finest.

Follow Rt 111N in Monroe, through the town green. RT111 will begin a steep descent marked by two yellow truck steep slope signs on your right. Be looking for a stop sign and a Post Office sign to your right which marks Cottage Street. Turn right onto Cottage St.(If you go under the railroad and come to Rt 34, you have gone too far.) Follow Cottage St. with the railroad tracks immediately to your left. Be looking on your right for a metal guard rail which ends as the street descends. See a telephone pole on your right with two blue blazes. At the bottom of the hill, as the street bends to the left, there is a small parking space on the left, and more blue blazes where the trail crosses the tracks. Park here.

Walk back up Cottage street to the telephone pole and look up the bank and into the woods to find the trailhead and a green metal gate. This is an up-front, straight and athletic hike. The steep climb doesn't last very long. Be sure to peek over the edge on the left and look down into the ravine. About 15 minutes into the hike, the trail will descend to meet the river. Continue for about 5 minutes more and you will pass a CT Forest and Park barrier and marker. You will then come to a long, narrow clearing where a buried gasline crosses the trail. STOP, and turn around, and head back along the trail the way that you came.

To your left, you will see a large, light-colored boulder with a vine, which has been cut, draped across it. The HINENI GOLD LETTERBOX is hidden under the tip of this boulder facing the trail, and under a small pile of white flint rocks. Be sure to follow the blue blazes back to your vehicle.