Pride Of Columbus Series LbNA #21222
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Add Location| Owner: | N/A |
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| Plant date: | Mar 29, 2006 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Columbus |
| County: | Franklin |
| State: | Ohio |
| Boxes: | 6 |
| Planted by: | Safari Man
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| Found by: | The Davidson Clan (3) |
| Last found: | Nov 29, 2013 |
| Status: | FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF |
| Last edited: | Mar 29, 2006 |
Difficulty: Easy
Time: appox. 1 hr maximum. Distance ~ 400 yards round trip. Short trip for 5 boxes and I apologize to the avid hikers.
Please bring your stamp, a stamp pad, pen and an old rag to wipe off the box/your hands. Bug repellant might come in handy during the summer months.
Note: a couple of these boxes have been reported missing but I have not confirmed this.
Directions:
These letter pouches are all located in Whetstone park, close to the Park of Roses. A map of this and other parks along the Upper and lower Olentangy Multi-use Trail can be found at:
http://recparks.columbus.gov/Asset/iu_files/trails_maps/
upper_and_lower_olen1.doc
Whetstone Park is located between North Broadway and Henderson Road, just west of High Street at 3923 North High Street. To reach these letterboxes you will take High Street to Action/Hollenbeck Drive and go west on Hollenbeck all the way to the end at the Casting Pond. You will pass the Library on the right, Tennis Courts past the Library, baseball fields further on and then down a slight hill to a parking lot on the right. Remember the parking lot since you will be coming back to it.
The actual institutions of each letterbox are located in various parts of town and due to time constraints (me being from out of town) and the fact that the areas in which part of the subjects are located do not lend themselves to placements, leads me to put all the letter pouches in the series in this location. Also, you will notice that the enclosure pouch for the letterbox is not water proof so please make sure the baggies are resealed well to protect the logbook from moisture. This park can also very busy so please be discrete in getting and replacing the boxes and try to hide your tracks and the box well upon replacing it. Thank you in advance for your courtesy and I hope you enjoy your hunt.
Clues:
BOX 1: (This Institution chronicles the history of fast fun on two wheels) Go to the end of Hollenbeck past the Park of Roses and park at the parking lot at the Casting Pond close to the arched bridge. Walk across the bridge and take the path to the left, passing two large evergreens fairly close together on the left. Continue on until reaching the sign "Urban Wildlife Management" on the left and start counting your steps. After 30+ steps look left off the path about 6 steps at a cut off stump with a chunk of the cut off trunk lying beside the stump. This first letterpouch is under the back side of the cut off chunk lying on the ground. After discretely stamping in and replacing the pouch, return to your car.
BOX 2: (Columbus can take pride in knowing they have the only remaining manufacturer of shrill noise making devices in the U.S.)
Drive back, past the Park of Roses, to the parking lot on the left just after passing over a creek. Park in this parking area. Walk forward to the path which is between the creek on the left and the steep hillside on the right. You will pass some large concrete square things on the right with a large concrete pipe heading northerly across the creek and another pipe running parallel with your path going in an easterly direction. Follow the one going Easterly until it disappears into the ground. Look up the hill and you should see a very large tree that has been cut down into several sections. Climb carefully up the hill (or continue down the path to some easier to climb areas and come back to this point) to a path at the top of the hill that parallels the path in the gully. Once on the path at the top of the hill beside the downed log, follow the path through the cut section of log and then over the other portion of cut log. The second box is at the upper end of that left section of cut log you just went over.
BOX 3: (This institution is renown for its success on the gridiron and many other spin offs of higher education these days.)
Continue down the path toward the road and parking lot, 40 steps from where you found box 2, to a point where there is a tree on each side of the path. Box three is behind the tree on the left under the vines. I am very sure the vines are not poison ivy.
BOX 4: (This institution is famous for entertainment/education and the repopulation of endangered species)
Reverse your direction and go back down the path passing box 2 and continue on until you come upon a very rough set of wooden steps in the hillside going up/down from the top to the creek below. From the wooden steps, start counting steps and go 50 steps further, to a log crossing your path.. Just before the log look to the right about 6 steps off the trail to a rounded rock. Box 4 is behind this rock under a rock, limbs and debris. After stamping in return to the path.
Box 5: (This event has helped put Columbus on the Golf Map of the U.S.G.A. for sure) go back to the path and to the right to that log and continue 50 more steps. Look to the right and proceed 11 steps into the woods to the fallen log. Look under the root end for this box.
BOX 6: (This institution is known for exploring science and discovering fun.)
From the point on the path where you left to get box 5 retrace your steps to the crude wooden steps going down the hill. Box 6 is 70 steps further on the upper path, back toward you car. Here there is a fallen log that does not completely block the path. The log where the box is hidden is just before this one, on the far end...or something like that.....if its not exactly there...look around for other logs close to the path. ;-)(Lizard Lovers gave me an update on this series recently, 7/20/07, and say its under the end of that log...thank you)
That completes my series in this park and I hope you all enjoyed the hunt.
If anyone else would like to add to this theme feel free to do so. I think there are lots of ideals, attractions and institutions in the city in which the folks of Columbus should take pride.
Cordially, Safari Man of Vincent, Oh.
Time: appox. 1 hr maximum. Distance ~ 400 yards round trip. Short trip for 5 boxes and I apologize to the avid hikers.
Please bring your stamp, a stamp pad, pen and an old rag to wipe off the box/your hands. Bug repellant might come in handy during the summer months.
Note: a couple of these boxes have been reported missing but I have not confirmed this.
Directions:
These letter pouches are all located in Whetstone park, close to the Park of Roses. A map of this and other parks along the Upper and lower Olentangy Multi-use Trail can be found at:
http://recparks.columbus.gov/Asset/iu_files/trails_maps/
upper_and_lower_olen1.doc
Whetstone Park is located between North Broadway and Henderson Road, just west of High Street at 3923 North High Street. To reach these letterboxes you will take High Street to Action/Hollenbeck Drive and go west on Hollenbeck all the way to the end at the Casting Pond. You will pass the Library on the right, Tennis Courts past the Library, baseball fields further on and then down a slight hill to a parking lot on the right. Remember the parking lot since you will be coming back to it.
The actual institutions of each letterbox are located in various parts of town and due to time constraints (me being from out of town) and the fact that the areas in which part of the subjects are located do not lend themselves to placements, leads me to put all the letter pouches in the series in this location. Also, you will notice that the enclosure pouch for the letterbox is not water proof so please make sure the baggies are resealed well to protect the logbook from moisture. This park can also very busy so please be discrete in getting and replacing the boxes and try to hide your tracks and the box well upon replacing it. Thank you in advance for your courtesy and I hope you enjoy your hunt.
Clues:
BOX 1: (This Institution chronicles the history of fast fun on two wheels) Go to the end of Hollenbeck past the Park of Roses and park at the parking lot at the Casting Pond close to the arched bridge. Walk across the bridge and take the path to the left, passing two large evergreens fairly close together on the left. Continue on until reaching the sign "Urban Wildlife Management" on the left and start counting your steps. After 30+ steps look left off the path about 6 steps at a cut off stump with a chunk of the cut off trunk lying beside the stump. This first letterpouch is under the back side of the cut off chunk lying on the ground. After discretely stamping in and replacing the pouch, return to your car.
BOX 2: (Columbus can take pride in knowing they have the only remaining manufacturer of shrill noise making devices in the U.S.)
Drive back, past the Park of Roses, to the parking lot on the left just after passing over a creek. Park in this parking area. Walk forward to the path which is between the creek on the left and the steep hillside on the right. You will pass some large concrete square things on the right with a large concrete pipe heading northerly across the creek and another pipe running parallel with your path going in an easterly direction. Follow the one going Easterly until it disappears into the ground. Look up the hill and you should see a very large tree that has been cut down into several sections. Climb carefully up the hill (or continue down the path to some easier to climb areas and come back to this point) to a path at the top of the hill that parallels the path in the gully. Once on the path at the top of the hill beside the downed log, follow the path through the cut section of log and then over the other portion of cut log. The second box is at the upper end of that left section of cut log you just went over.
BOX 3: (This institution is renown for its success on the gridiron and many other spin offs of higher education these days.)
Continue down the path toward the road and parking lot, 40 steps from where you found box 2, to a point where there is a tree on each side of the path. Box three is behind the tree on the left under the vines. I am very sure the vines are not poison ivy.
BOX 4: (This institution is famous for entertainment/education and the repopulation of endangered species)
Reverse your direction and go back down the path passing box 2 and continue on until you come upon a very rough set of wooden steps in the hillside going up/down from the top to the creek below. From the wooden steps, start counting steps and go 50 steps further, to a log crossing your path.. Just before the log look to the right about 6 steps off the trail to a rounded rock. Box 4 is behind this rock under a rock, limbs and debris. After stamping in return to the path.
Box 5: (This event has helped put Columbus on the Golf Map of the U.S.G.A. for sure) go back to the path and to the right to that log and continue 50 more steps. Look to the right and proceed 11 steps into the woods to the fallen log. Look under the root end for this box.
BOX 6: (This institution is known for exploring science and discovering fun.)
From the point on the path where you left to get box 5 retrace your steps to the crude wooden steps going down the hill. Box 6 is 70 steps further on the upper path, back toward you car. Here there is a fallen log that does not completely block the path. The log where the box is hidden is just before this one, on the far end...or something like that.....if its not exactly there...look around for other logs close to the path. ;-)(Lizard Lovers gave me an update on this series recently, 7/20/07, and say its under the end of that log...thank you)
That completes my series in this park and I hope you all enjoyed the hunt.
If anyone else would like to add to this theme feel free to do so. I think there are lots of ideals, attractions and institutions in the city in which the folks of Columbus should take pride.
Cordially, Safari Man of Vincent, Oh.