Jega's Crossing LbNA #63100
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Add Location| Owner: | N/A |
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| Plant date: | Sep 9, 2012 |
| Location: | N 42° 37.324 W 071° 42.782 |
| City: | Lunenburg |
| County: | Worcester |
| State: | Massachusetts |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Planted by: | Spandrel
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| Found by: | Nairon |
| Last found: | Jun 30, 2024 |
| Status: | FFF |
| Last edited: | Sep 9, 2012 |
This is a memorial letterbox, located in the woods where my dad loved to blaze trails. (It's also a geocache: N 42° 37.324, W 071° 42.782) It's in the north of Lunenburg at the border of Town Forest and Hickory Woods, but the nearest public access route requires coming in from the Townsend direction and hiking in along some nice clear trails -- mostly double-track snowmobile trails. It's about a quarter-mile hike from the intersection with Seaver Rd trail. The hike will be longer, of course, depending on where you park on Seaver Road. (I haven't tried driving in, and don't know where it's best to park. I presume the road is public at least to the town line or last house.)
Start by heading south on Seaver Road in Townsend (off Tyler Road or South Row Rd), which peters into unpaved double-track after it crosses into Lunenburg. Pass a driveway on the right for the one last luxurious house on the road -- built just inside the Lunenburg line, and say "Aha!" when you reach a major intersection of trails in the woods. (As of 2012, there is an abandoned vehicle shortly before that. Depending on season, you may glimpses of houses off ahead to your left -- at the end of Williams Dr. in Lunenburg)
Set off hiking (or mountain-biking) to the right (northwest) from this intersection, onto a double-track snowmobile trail with red diamond-shaped blazes. Follow the trail along through some bumpy parts and across a nice patch of forest ferns (if it's summer), and to a stone wall that marks an intersection with private property. There's a posted NOTICE sign here, warning motorized vehicles to stay on trail (or risk losing access to this trail system). This is Hickory Woods (kept by an association of landowners around the lake nearby) and the letterbox is in the stone wall border between the town forest and private land.
Cross through the stonewall gap just far enough to turn right (northwest) and follow the inside of that stonewall along a path marked by logs on each side. After the parallel logs and one more marker-pile of stones on your left, start examining the wall for likely hiding-spots. Please be careful not to harm intact portions of the stone wall! (The stones are not too heavy for school-age children, but should be carefully re-packed by adults to conceal box well.)
You're looking for a lock-and-lock box wrapped in leopard-spot duct tape. Inside there's a stamp-pad and a homemade stamp of something my dad often carried with him in the woods. (Hint: He loved watching birds. He also loved star-gazing, though it was hard to do that in the woods!)
If you brought a stamp, please stamp the yellow geocache log with it; otherwise, please sign in and comment. There should be a pen in the box, too, though it may not work in winter.
You will also find some small geocache treasures packed in a tin; feel free to take home a treasure from the cache, so long as you leave something of similar value. To start out with, I've included some low-value coins from around the world. Jega originally hails from Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), but lived in Great Britain, Canada, Japan, and the US, and has had family connections to Italy, Australia, Zimbabwe, Philipines, and many more. Bring a coin to exchange if you can!
Happy Letterboxing!
Start by heading south on Seaver Road in Townsend (off Tyler Road or South Row Rd), which peters into unpaved double-track after it crosses into Lunenburg. Pass a driveway on the right for the one last luxurious house on the road -- built just inside the Lunenburg line, and say "Aha!" when you reach a major intersection of trails in the woods. (As of 2012, there is an abandoned vehicle shortly before that. Depending on season, you may glimpses of houses off ahead to your left -- at the end of Williams Dr. in Lunenburg)
Set off hiking (or mountain-biking) to the right (northwest) from this intersection, onto a double-track snowmobile trail with red diamond-shaped blazes. Follow the trail along through some bumpy parts and across a nice patch of forest ferns (if it's summer), and to a stone wall that marks an intersection with private property. There's a posted NOTICE sign here, warning motorized vehicles to stay on trail (or risk losing access to this trail system). This is Hickory Woods (kept by an association of landowners around the lake nearby) and the letterbox is in the stone wall border between the town forest and private land.
Cross through the stonewall gap just far enough to turn right (northwest) and follow the inside of that stonewall along a path marked by logs on each side. After the parallel logs and one more marker-pile of stones on your left, start examining the wall for likely hiding-spots. Please be careful not to harm intact portions of the stone wall! (The stones are not too heavy for school-age children, but should be carefully re-packed by adults to conceal box well.)
You're looking for a lock-and-lock box wrapped in leopard-spot duct tape. Inside there's a stamp-pad and a homemade stamp of something my dad often carried with him in the woods. (Hint: He loved watching birds. He also loved star-gazing, though it was hard to do that in the woods!)
If you brought a stamp, please stamp the yellow geocache log with it; otherwise, please sign in and comment. There should be a pen in the box, too, though it may not work in winter.
You will also find some small geocache treasures packed in a tin; feel free to take home a treasure from the cache, so long as you leave something of similar value. To start out with, I've included some low-value coins from around the world. Jega originally hails from Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), but lived in Great Britain, Canada, Japan, and the US, and has had family connections to Italy, Australia, Zimbabwe, Philipines, and many more. Bring a coin to exchange if you can!
Happy Letterboxing!