If it Weren't for Bad Luck LbNA #70889
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Add Location| Owner: | FamilyTreeShaker  |
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| Plant date: | Jan 29, 2017 |
| Location: | lassoloC evaC niatnuoM kraP |
| City: | Vail |
| County: | Pima |
| State: | Arizona |
| Boxes: | 7 |
| Found by: | JoySong (7) |
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| Last found: | Jan 23, 2024 |
| Status: | FFFFFFFFFFF |
| Last edited: | Feb 8, 2017 |
To the Park:
lassoloC evaC niatnuoM kraP is located at 16721 E Old Spanish Trail, in Vail, Arizona. It is exit 279 off the I10 (Wentworth Road Exit). Go north on Wentworth to traffic light at T and make a right. Follow Pistol Hill Road until it intersects with Old Spanish Trail Road and turn right.
There is no entrance fee for the park but please be aware the front gates and the picnic areas close at 5 pm. There may be extended hours in summer but it's best to call to find out on the day you'll be visiting.
To the boxes: All reading are magnetic.
Make your way to the aL atsoP adameuQ picnic area and park there.
Box 1 – Bird:
Find the large AZT trail sign and make your way across the wash (may or may not be running) following the cairns and head up the trail (FYI, this is actually the spur to get you from the parking lot up to the AZT). Walk a short distance and stop when you see the windmill off on a hillside to your left and the trail turns right. Look to your right about 240* for a tall dead tree. Make your way over to the dead tree to look in a hole at the top of the main trunk. Please rehide well with the extra wood.
Box 2 – Splash
Continue on the trail. You will make your way through some switchbacks but stop when the trail turns NE to face that same windmill. Look to you right to find a small, squatty palo verde with lots of dead friends at its base. Tree is about 20 steps off the trail. The box is in a hole at the drip line (not at the trunk base) of the palo verde. Again, rehide well and you shouldn’t have to add any rocks when rehiding.
Box 3 – Ball
Continue on the trail. At the trail juncture (“built by amazing volunteers”) turn left and walk up the trail (you’re now actually on the AZT) to find the “Through the Millennia” sign. Stop here. Look to the right of the sign to spy a big grey rock with white patches slightly downhill. Box is under a single rock on the NE side. Again, rehide well and you shouldn’t have to add any rocks when rehiding.
Box 4 – Flat Tire
Continue on the trail. When you reach a large rock on the left with an old telephone pole at its base, stop here. Standing at the cut base of the pole, look uphill (about 210*) to your right for a big rock with a palo verde behind it. Make your way up there, about 20-25 steps. Behind the big rock is the box in a hole under some rocks.
Box 5 – Potty
Continue on the trail. When the trail turns and faces the windmill again, you should notice that the trail color changes to a reddish brown and starts to drop. Keep your eye out on the right for a grouping of plants in a line that goes like this: saguaro, double barrel, single, single, palo verde. The box is under some rocks behind this palo verde.
Box 6 – Gum
Continue on the trail which will change color back to white. Stop at a hairpin turn where there is a large white trunked Sycamore on the left and that same windmill. Count 85 steps down the trail. You should be at a spot with a mesquite tree at 140* with a dead snag behind it (you can’t see the snag if you’re on the trail, so start looking for it at about 60-70 steps.) Box is under a single rock at the front of the mesquite.
Box 7 – Dog
Continue on the trail. When you start to pass a cliff face high up on the right side of the trail, start to look for a very green telephone pole on the left side of the trail. The trail will eventually turn towards that telephone pole. Make you way to it to find the box at the base of the pole.
That’s it. You’re about 1.1 miles from where you parked your car. Make you way back the way you came and enjoy the views!
WARNING: Be careful! Don’t make your own bad luck. Arizona is full of things that will bite, poison, stick, impale and generally hassle you. Poke around before sticking your hand in any hole or overturning a rock.
lassoloC evaC niatnuoM kraP is located at 16721 E Old Spanish Trail, in Vail, Arizona. It is exit 279 off the I10 (Wentworth Road Exit). Go north on Wentworth to traffic light at T and make a right. Follow Pistol Hill Road until it intersects with Old Spanish Trail Road and turn right.
There is no entrance fee for the park but please be aware the front gates and the picnic areas close at 5 pm. There may be extended hours in summer but it's best to call to find out on the day you'll be visiting.
To the boxes: All reading are magnetic.
Make your way to the aL atsoP adameuQ picnic area and park there.
Box 1 – Bird:
Find the large AZT trail sign and make your way across the wash (may or may not be running) following the cairns and head up the trail (FYI, this is actually the spur to get you from the parking lot up to the AZT). Walk a short distance and stop when you see the windmill off on a hillside to your left and the trail turns right. Look to your right about 240* for a tall dead tree. Make your way over to the dead tree to look in a hole at the top of the main trunk. Please rehide well with the extra wood.
Box 2 – Splash
Continue on the trail. You will make your way through some switchbacks but stop when the trail turns NE to face that same windmill. Look to you right to find a small, squatty palo verde with lots of dead friends at its base. Tree is about 20 steps off the trail. The box is in a hole at the drip line (not at the trunk base) of the palo verde. Again, rehide well and you shouldn’t have to add any rocks when rehiding.
Box 3 – Ball
Continue on the trail. At the trail juncture (“built by amazing volunteers”) turn left and walk up the trail (you’re now actually on the AZT) to find the “Through the Millennia” sign. Stop here. Look to the right of the sign to spy a big grey rock with white patches slightly downhill. Box is under a single rock on the NE side. Again, rehide well and you shouldn’t have to add any rocks when rehiding.
Box 4 – Flat Tire
Continue on the trail. When you reach a large rock on the left with an old telephone pole at its base, stop here. Standing at the cut base of the pole, look uphill (about 210*) to your right for a big rock with a palo verde behind it. Make your way up there, about 20-25 steps. Behind the big rock is the box in a hole under some rocks.
Box 5 – Potty
Continue on the trail. When the trail turns and faces the windmill again, you should notice that the trail color changes to a reddish brown and starts to drop. Keep your eye out on the right for a grouping of plants in a line that goes like this: saguaro, double barrel, single, single, palo verde. The box is under some rocks behind this palo verde.
Box 6 – Gum
Continue on the trail which will change color back to white. Stop at a hairpin turn where there is a large white trunked Sycamore on the left and that same windmill. Count 85 steps down the trail. You should be at a spot with a mesquite tree at 140* with a dead snag behind it (you can’t see the snag if you’re on the trail, so start looking for it at about 60-70 steps.) Box is under a single rock at the front of the mesquite.
Box 7 – Dog
Continue on the trail. When you start to pass a cliff face high up on the right side of the trail, start to look for a very green telephone pole on the left side of the trail. The trail will eventually turn towards that telephone pole. Make you way to it to find the box at the base of the pole.
That’s it. You’re about 1.1 miles from where you parked your car. Make you way back the way you came and enjoy the views!
WARNING: Be careful! Don’t make your own bad luck. Arizona is full of things that will bite, poison, stick, impale and generally hassle you. Poke around before sticking your hand in any hole or overturning a rock.