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Spring Creek Greek LbNA #67249

Owner:Wry Me
Plant date:Jul 6, 2014
Location: 20634 Kenswick Dr.
City:Humble
County:Harris
State:Texas
Boxes:4
Found by: NLW (4)
Last found:Aug 1, 2014
Status:FFF
Last edited:Jul 6, 2014
Just under a 2-mile hike, depending on how you come back to the parking lot, all flat. Canoe Launch Trail and Jones Bender Trail are paved.

Icarus

Park in first lot. There are 3 trailheads here. You want the southernmost trail (far right as you face the treeline with your back to the nature center.) This trail is not so lovely, frankly. However, it is paved, making it ideal for kids or their grown-ups on wheeled things, and there are many interesting trail markers identifying the various kinds of trees that I found interesting.

Follow trail to the first intersection branching to the left. Just before you get to where the trail curves left, there are two pines in a line perpendicular to the trail. From the last fencepost next to the pine with the yellow trail sign, you can verify which ones with a heading of 282 degrees. Box is behind the first of the pines. I used a chunk of asphalt to push the box against the tree so it doesn’t migrate, then covered it.

Pegasus

Return to trail, ignoring the left branch and staying straight. After the trail bends, look for the 2/3 mile marker. Count 57 steps. Look left to a large pine with a felled pine lying against it in the back. Take 16 steps offtrail, OVER the fallen log, to the pine directly behind it. Box is wedged against the tree with several rocks (not on top, though), and covered for camo.

Charon

Follow the trail around the bend where it suddenly gets pretty. From the edge of the concrete bridge over the drainage channel, count ~135 steps, or look for the 1 mile marker (1/3 mile on the backside). From the mile marker, count 101 steps and look right for bald cypress and its trail marker. Another 13 steps or so to a large tree on the right. Box is behind and base.

Cyclops

Keep walking until you see the Spring Creek Trail intersection to the right. From the highly informative fish identification kiosk, count ~180 steps to a pine barely off the trail. This park is a little swampy, so it’s wedged with the usual rocks against the tree and then covered.

From here, you keep going north, then take the far left branch just past the clearing, which will take you onto the River Birch Trail and to another box in this series, Dike. If you're feeling really ambitious, you can take the interconnecting trails to the Magnolia Trail where it intersects with Old Logging Trail and snag Medusa, too! There are other boxes in this park you'll want to get as well.