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Juan’s Wanderings LbNA #68306

Owner:Azroadie
Plant date:Apr 6, 2015
Location: Sycamore Rd
City:Atascadero
County:San Luis Obispo
State:California
Boxes:1
Found by: Woman to Blame
Last found:Sep 27, 2022
Status:FFFFaF
Last edited:Nov 21, 2021
Trail difficulty: fairly easy, a fairly flat dirt trail with one short down section.
Walk distance: 0.13 mile one way.
Stamp hand-carved.
Status: alive and well on November 18, 2021

This letterbox is placed along the historic route of the Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail (NHT). Starting in 1775 in Sonora, Mexico, Anza lead an expedition of over 200 men, women, and children to the San Francisco Bay area to colonize that region. They arrived at what is now San Francisco on June 27, 1776.

From U. S. Highway 101 in Atascadero, take exit 218B and head northeast on Curbaril Ave. After it crosses over the railroad tracks, it will curve to the left and become Sycamore Rd. Continue on Sycamore Rd. to the small rectangular partially fenced dirt trailhead parking for the Juan Bautista de Anza NHT (This is at 6805 Sycamore Rd. and there is a brown sign there identifying it as the Anza NHT).

Walk through the trail opening in the fence and step over the 4 “trail rails”. Walk northwest on the flat dirt trail to a brown Anza NHT stake on the right [if the sign is missing it was located where the trail starts down a slope]. From the stake, sight at 0 degrees (from mag. north) downslope to a large light grey-green boulder. The box is under the east edge of the boulder under a flat rock.

Please please be sure the contents are double ziplocked when you put them back in the box (i.e. the stamp is in a ziploc, the book is in a ziploc, and the two are in the larger ziploc bag) and put all of it INSIDE the box. Please rehide the box well under the rock and covered with some plant debris so that it can not be seen from any direction.

Please record your find at www.letterboxing.org/ or at www.atlasquest.com/ .