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MUDPUPPY TWO LbNA #60705

Owner:Adoptable
Plant date:Jan 31, 2012
Location: Lane's Mine Nature Park
City:Monroe
County:Fairfield
State:Connecticut
Boxes:1
Planted by:Skip & TJ
Found by: Our Adventures
Last found:Jan 2, 2023
Status:FFFFFFFFFFF
Last edited:Sep 18, 2015
"Mudpuppy" (Necturus Proteidae)

This is my new altar-ego. (There is an intended pun, here, for those who know me.) The mudpuppy is an aquatic salamander that always manages to find the wettest, muddiest places to hide. Mudpuppy stamps will always be located near the wettest, muddiest trails that I know. Even during the hottest, driest summers, these trails are WET! And after I have hiked through these trails, "Mudpuppy" Me always appears.

DIRECTIONS

You can reach this location following Elm Street North toward Newtown until it connects with Fan Hill Rd. Or you can follow the scenic twists and turns of Fan Hill Rd. as it leaves the green in historic Monroe. Eventually, you will pass the Monroe Middle School Campus on your left, continuing on Fan Hill Rd. into the woods. The road will suddenly become a tight zigzag, heading down a hill. At the bottom of the hill is Garder Road, a dirt and gravel road. But you will be descending too fast to stop. I recommend that you stay on Fan Hill Road a little farther, pull into the driveway of one of the small industrial parks on the left, turn around and come back up to the intersection in the direction that you just came. Now you can see Garder Road clearly, and at the corner, the trailhead and sign for Lane's Mine Nature Park. Park here.

CLUES

The yellow-blazed trail immediately ascends into the woods. Follow the trail for about 3 minutes with the rock wall on your left. At about 3 minutes, the trail begins to turn right and descends. STOP at the bottom of this small hill; DO NOT begin to climb again. Now look to your right. You should see a magical natural spring that someone surrounded with flat rocks way back when there was a copper mine in these woods. The spring is always cold and running and a perfect mudpuppy playground.
Admire your reflection in the well. Then look up to see that the spring has created a mucky, sucky, boggy, soggy, mossy mess on the forest floor. Also look up to see that there is a stone wall in the distance, on the other side of the mud. Behind the wall is a large boulder whose top can be clearly seen above the wall. Get to the boulder, and you will see that very near, there is a tree with a large split in its trunk. The MUDPUPPY TWO LETTERBOX is hidden in the tree under a rock.

After you have stamped in and hidden the letterbox again, you can continue on the yellow-blazed trail to some nice ledge and modest views. Or you can return to the trailhead, and your vehicle.

2 CORINTHIANS 4:7