Ravensdale Creek LbNA #61473
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Apr 14, 2012 |
| Location: | Black Diamond Natural Area |
| City: | Black Diamond |
| County: | King |
| State: | Washington |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Planted by: | Prying Pandora  |
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| Found by: | Not yet found! |
| Last found: | N/A |
| Last edited: | Jan 14, 2017 |
This letterbox is in a wooded trail system between Lake Sawyer and Hwy 169. There are trail heads closer to the letterbox location, but this is a labyrinth of trails and it would take a long list of clues to direct you there from those trail heads. For simplicity, I have chosen a longer and less complicated route, about 3 miles round trip. This will be a pleasant, mostly flat hike through a young forest that is heavily used by hikers, mountain bikers, and horseback riders. The letterbox is next to the trail near Ravensdale Creek, which drains into Lake Sawyer.
Clues:
1. Start at the trail head on SE 288th St., just west of Maple Valley Black Diamond Rd. SE (Hwy 169)
2. Turn left almost immediately and head east 160 feet to the raised railbed trail.
3. Turn right on the railroad trail. You will know you're on it because it is straight and completely flat.
Go South on the railroad trail 0.68 miles. When you get to that vicinity, watch for a 4-way trail intersection. You will know you're at the right intersection when you see a maple tree on your left with two signs on it, a vertical one that says Mapletree Mistress and a smaller one that says Cranberry Slough-->. Turn right at this intersection, not left where the signed tree is.
4. Go down that trail about 300 feet to a T intersection. There will be a 15' Douglas fir at the left and scotch broom on your right. Turn right at this intersection.
5. The first intersection after that will be a fork. Stay left.
6. Go about 300 more feet and watch for a side trail about 80' past a 6' tall holly bush. Turn left on this trail.
7. Go down this trail about 130 ft and turn right at a trail with an 8"diameter blister barked fir tree on one side and a 4x6" gray rock on the right.
8. The trail will go downhill in about 50 feet. Keep going about 200 more feet to another T intersection. There will be a 2' diameter hemlock on your left and a very rotten 3' long small log on your right. Turn left at this intersection.
9. Go down that trail about 400' and look for a hemlock tree with low sweeping branches growing out of a large nurse stump. Most of the trees on this section of the trail are deciduous, so the hemlock tree will stand out. The outer container is an ammo box tucked into a hollow on the back side of the stump.
10. The letterbox is a separate container inside the ammo box.
Hike length: 2-3 miles
Clues:
1. Start at the trail head on SE 288th St., just west of Maple Valley Black Diamond Rd. SE (Hwy 169)
2. Turn left almost immediately and head east 160 feet to the raised railbed trail.
3. Turn right on the railroad trail. You will know you're on it because it is straight and completely flat.
Go South on the railroad trail 0.68 miles. When you get to that vicinity, watch for a 4-way trail intersection. You will know you're at the right intersection when you see a maple tree on your left with two signs on it, a vertical one that says Mapletree Mistress and a smaller one that says Cranberry Slough-->. Turn right at this intersection, not left where the signed tree is.
4. Go down that trail about 300 feet to a T intersection. There will be a 15' Douglas fir at the left and scotch broom on your right. Turn right at this intersection.
5. The first intersection after that will be a fork. Stay left.
6. Go about 300 more feet and watch for a side trail about 80' past a 6' tall holly bush. Turn left on this trail.
7. Go down this trail about 130 ft and turn right at a trail with an 8"diameter blister barked fir tree on one side and a 4x6" gray rock on the right.
8. The trail will go downhill in about 50 feet. Keep going about 200 more feet to another T intersection. There will be a 2' diameter hemlock on your left and a very rotten 3' long small log on your right. Turn left at this intersection.
9. Go down that trail about 400' and look for a hemlock tree with low sweeping branches growing out of a large nurse stump. Most of the trees on this section of the trail are deciduous, so the hemlock tree will stand out. The outer container is an ammo box tucked into a hollow on the back side of the stump.
10. The letterbox is a separate container inside the ammo box.
Hike length: 2-3 miles