Avalon Patapsco River Walk LbNA #59013
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Jul 15, 2011 |
| Location: | Patapsco Valley State Park |
| City: | Avalon Area |
| County: | Baltimore |
| State: | Maryland |
| Boxes: | 6 |
| Planted by: | Camp Briller  |
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| Found by: | DGJL (6) |
| Last found: | Sep 7, 2013 |
| Status: | FFFF |
| Last edited: | Jul 15, 2011 |
By Camp Briller
July 2011
Enter the Avalon Entrance of Patapsco State Park. Please Note: There is often a fee to enter. After the guard house, make a left towards swinging bridge and follow the road to the very end. Park in the parking lot on the left and walk over to Shelter 106. Here you will begin your adventure.
(We recommend wearing good water shoes, and looking for a walking stick to help as you go through the water.)
#1 CLUSTER BEFORE THE BRIDGE
Walk the convenient steps down into the river and head downstream to your right. Walk past the line of rocks making small rapids and pass a big rock on your left. Walk past the rock that looks like it is bisected by an angle. Just before you get under the bridge, come out of the water on the left side of the water. You will see a cluster of 3 trees together with bark peeling off of them going very straight up to the sky, just to the left of the bridge. You will find the treasure under the tree farthest from the bridge under an SPOR.
#2 THREE BROTHERS
Get back in the water and continue walking downstream. If the rocks in the water get too slippery and the rapids are too rough, you can get over to the right side of the river and walk along the bank. As you walk down stream, look towards the left side of the river. You will eventually see a very large, flat, black rock jutting out into the river, just after you pass a variety of smaller striped rocks that look like they may be made of quartz or granite (determined by very amateur geologists). Directly across the river from this flat black rock, walk up the bank on the right side of the river, and you will see a sandy path. Continue down the sandy path, or if you choose, continue along in the water. (If you are out of the river, about ½ way b/t the black flat rock and a roundish rock that is sticking up in the middle of the river on the right side, look for a tree that comes out of the ground at a 45 degree angle and then shoots straight up. Truly a cool trick of nature!!) Keep walking downstream until you get to the roundish rock that is sticking up in the middle of the river. Walk 25 paces from the water’s edge DUE NE crossing a sandy path to a sandy clearing. Face downstream and you will see a W tree (3 Brothers) in a small clearing with the bark peeling. At the base of this tree, you will find what you seek under a SPOR.
#3 CROC ROCK
Go back into the water at this point. Continue downstream past a large black rock on the left side of the water’s edge amongst smaller rocks. About 50 yards from this large black rock, you will see an outcropping of black rocks coming out from the bank on the left. This “dam of rocks” is just after a viney, dead, tree branch jutting into the water, resting on a black rock with a tree growing out of it. It makes a line about 8 feet into the water counting from a tree which comes out of the earth parallel to the ground, and then straightens up to the sky. (As a landmark, just a few feet away in the center of the river is another group of rocks jutting up from the river.) In the outcropping of rocks, walk to the far side of the rocks and turn around to stand looking upstream. Look down at the rocks and you will find what you seek IN A HOLE in one of the rocks covered by another smaller rock, which looks like the head of a crocodile. Just upstream from the rock you seek (behind the rock from the direction you are standing), is a nice flat-ish rock, good for a quick rest. This ends the river portion of the walk.
#4 STEEP CREEP
Just past the rocks, to the left there is a small path which brings you out of the river on the left bank. From here, stand with your back to the water, and scramble over the rocks ahead up to the bike trail to head back to the swinging bridge. Start walking on the path upstream. You can take a nice rest to the bench you will see on your left to get the sand out of your shoes and watch the river you had just traversed. Once you see the metal fencing on your left, your next treasure can be found by counting to the 16th vertical metal pole after the bent part of the railing. Turn to you right (your back is against the railing) and you will see a skinny tree with a huge stump behind it up the hill. What you seek is behind the skinny tree. (If you still have your walking stick from the river, you can use your stick as you climb up and down the embankment – it’s pretty steep)
#5 OLD STONE
Continue walking towards the swinging bridge. Just before the bridge, you will come to another silver railing on your left. As you pass the silver railing, look to your left and you will see a small section of an old stone retaining wall slightly up the hill. Walk to the wall and what you seek will be behind a loose stone in the top right section of the wall.
#6 WHAT GOES AROUND
Follow the path just past the bridge and you will see the end of a metal fence. Take the trail next to the fence, down towards the river to the bottom of the small hill. Follow the trail to the right over 2 fallen trees that make a “V” at the base of the tree. The box with the notebook will be hidden at the upturned base of the first tree.
Follow the path back in to the water for a rinse and cool off, and make your way back upstream and out. You should recognize where you are!
We hope you have a great time!
July 2011
Enter the Avalon Entrance of Patapsco State Park. Please Note: There is often a fee to enter. After the guard house, make a left towards swinging bridge and follow the road to the very end. Park in the parking lot on the left and walk over to Shelter 106. Here you will begin your adventure.
(We recommend wearing good water shoes, and looking for a walking stick to help as you go through the water.)
#1 CLUSTER BEFORE THE BRIDGE
Walk the convenient steps down into the river and head downstream to your right. Walk past the line of rocks making small rapids and pass a big rock on your left. Walk past the rock that looks like it is bisected by an angle. Just before you get under the bridge, come out of the water on the left side of the water. You will see a cluster of 3 trees together with bark peeling off of them going very straight up to the sky, just to the left of the bridge. You will find the treasure under the tree farthest from the bridge under an SPOR.
#2 THREE BROTHERS
Get back in the water and continue walking downstream. If the rocks in the water get too slippery and the rapids are too rough, you can get over to the right side of the river and walk along the bank. As you walk down stream, look towards the left side of the river. You will eventually see a very large, flat, black rock jutting out into the river, just after you pass a variety of smaller striped rocks that look like they may be made of quartz or granite (determined by very amateur geologists). Directly across the river from this flat black rock, walk up the bank on the right side of the river, and you will see a sandy path. Continue down the sandy path, or if you choose, continue along in the water. (If you are out of the river, about ½ way b/t the black flat rock and a roundish rock that is sticking up in the middle of the river on the right side, look for a tree that comes out of the ground at a 45 degree angle and then shoots straight up. Truly a cool trick of nature!!) Keep walking downstream until you get to the roundish rock that is sticking up in the middle of the river. Walk 25 paces from the water’s edge DUE NE crossing a sandy path to a sandy clearing. Face downstream and you will see a W tree (3 Brothers) in a small clearing with the bark peeling. At the base of this tree, you will find what you seek under a SPOR.
#3 CROC ROCK
Go back into the water at this point. Continue downstream past a large black rock on the left side of the water’s edge amongst smaller rocks. About 50 yards from this large black rock, you will see an outcropping of black rocks coming out from the bank on the left. This “dam of rocks” is just after a viney, dead, tree branch jutting into the water, resting on a black rock with a tree growing out of it. It makes a line about 8 feet into the water counting from a tree which comes out of the earth parallel to the ground, and then straightens up to the sky. (As a landmark, just a few feet away in the center of the river is another group of rocks jutting up from the river.) In the outcropping of rocks, walk to the far side of the rocks and turn around to stand looking upstream. Look down at the rocks and you will find what you seek IN A HOLE in one of the rocks covered by another smaller rock, which looks like the head of a crocodile. Just upstream from the rock you seek (behind the rock from the direction you are standing), is a nice flat-ish rock, good for a quick rest. This ends the river portion of the walk.
#4 STEEP CREEP
Just past the rocks, to the left there is a small path which brings you out of the river on the left bank. From here, stand with your back to the water, and scramble over the rocks ahead up to the bike trail to head back to the swinging bridge. Start walking on the path upstream. You can take a nice rest to the bench you will see on your left to get the sand out of your shoes and watch the river you had just traversed. Once you see the metal fencing on your left, your next treasure can be found by counting to the 16th vertical metal pole after the bent part of the railing. Turn to you right (your back is against the railing) and you will see a skinny tree with a huge stump behind it up the hill. What you seek is behind the skinny tree. (If you still have your walking stick from the river, you can use your stick as you climb up and down the embankment – it’s pretty steep)
#5 OLD STONE
Continue walking towards the swinging bridge. Just before the bridge, you will come to another silver railing on your left. As you pass the silver railing, look to your left and you will see a small section of an old stone retaining wall slightly up the hill. Walk to the wall and what you seek will be behind a loose stone in the top right section of the wall.
#6 WHAT GOES AROUND
Follow the path just past the bridge and you will see the end of a metal fence. Take the trail next to the fence, down towards the river to the bottom of the small hill. Follow the trail to the right over 2 fallen trees that make a “V” at the base of the tree. The box with the notebook will be hidden at the upturned base of the first tree.
Follow the path back in to the water for a rinse and cool off, and make your way back upstream and out. You should recognize where you are!
We hope you have a great time!