Boxing the Net, Part II LbNA #59861
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Add Location| Owner: | Bluebird  |
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| Plant date: | Oct 17, 2011 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Guilford |
| County: | Middlesex |
| State: | Connecticut |
| Boxes: | 4 |
| Found by: | Team Rogue (3) |
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| Last found: | Jan 1, 2023 |
| Status: | FFFFFFFFFF |
| Last edited: | Oct 17, 2011 |
These boxes are add-ons to Rubaduc’s Menunketuck boxes and Wanda and Pete’s “NET”(New England Trail) boxes. Park at Bluff Head on Route 77 in North Guilford, follow the blue trail using their clues and continue from there! It took 3 ½ hours for us to plant boxes and walk the 7 miles from Bluff Head to Route 80. Spot cars! We tried to plant one box every 15-20 minutes of hiking.
You will come to a semi-clearing after a rocky area – a grassy knoll, of sorts. On the left is a tree with a hole. Want to play basketball? You will need a NET – look under the edge of the largest rock near that tree-with-hole for the Basketball NET letterbox.
Come to a T in the trail, with blaze signs marking the way. Go right, then left, following the markers. You will go up a “rock mountain” with a weirdly bent tree straight ahead at the top. Did not plant there – too soon. Head down and note wire fencing on the right and a steep cliff to the left. Wind your way through the woods, heading to the left and then come to a long “elephant” rock ledge on your right. Follow the trail along its base; about ½ way down, see a rock pile on the left, across from 2 birches growing on the ledge/rock on your right. Step down a level and look under the rock pile for another another type of NET,
You will come to a cart path; follow blue to the right. Next you will arrive at a gravel road with a sign indicating .5 miles to Race Hill. You go left. “2.2 miles to trailhead.” Don’t give up now! Follow blue; GSA (Guilford Sportmen’s Association) property will be on your left. You may hear, “Bang! Bang!” Down the slope, you will see Hart Road ahead. Behind the last large rock on the right before the road and gate (across from a large light-colored feldspar rock on the left side of the trail) find yet another NET.
Continue past the yellow gate, taking the road to the right and then back into the woods you go. Eventually, as the trail curves to the right, see a “balancing rock” on your left. Behind the balancing one, under an overhang of a rock close to the base of it, find the NET NET logo of this new trail system. Finish the last mile of the hike by following blue to the Route 80 parking area.
You will come to a semi-clearing after a rocky area – a grassy knoll, of sorts. On the left is a tree with a hole. Want to play basketball? You will need a NET – look under the edge of the largest rock near that tree-with-hole for the Basketball NET letterbox.
Come to a T in the trail, with blaze signs marking the way. Go right, then left, following the markers. You will go up a “rock mountain” with a weirdly bent tree straight ahead at the top. Did not plant there – too soon. Head down and note wire fencing on the right and a steep cliff to the left. Wind your way through the woods, heading to the left and then come to a long “elephant” rock ledge on your right. Follow the trail along its base; about ½ way down, see a rock pile on the left, across from 2 birches growing on the ledge/rock on your right. Step down a level and look under the rock pile for another another type of NET,
You will come to a cart path; follow blue to the right. Next you will arrive at a gravel road with a sign indicating .5 miles to Race Hill. You go left. “2.2 miles to trailhead.” Don’t give up now! Follow blue; GSA (Guilford Sportmen’s Association) property will be on your left. You may hear, “Bang! Bang!” Down the slope, you will see Hart Road ahead. Behind the last large rock on the right before the road and gate (across from a large light-colored feldspar rock on the left side of the trail) find yet another NET.
Continue past the yellow gate, taking the road to the right and then back into the woods you go. Eventually, as the trail curves to the right, see a “balancing rock” on your left. Behind the balancing one, under an overhang of a rock close to the base of it, find the NET NET logo of this new trail system. Finish the last mile of the hike by following blue to the Route 80 parking area.