BMAO in Moab! LbNA #21287
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Add Location| Owner: | N/A |
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| Plant date: | Apr 2, 2006 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Moab |
| County: | Grand |
| State: | Utah |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Planted by: | preboxed
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| Found by: | Boxer Lover |
| Last found: | Dec 6, 2012 |
| Status: | FFFFFFFFFFaFFF |
| Last edited: | Apr 2, 2006 |
BMAO in Moab
I planted this box during my April Fools Day/Birthday 2006 trip to Moab. The day before I left home with a fist full of boxes I’d been working on for months to plant along the way - it occurred to me that this combination of the same 4 letters just worked out waaay too well for this punny fool, but I hadn’t done a box in advance. If LMAO online means one thing, then Shirley a nearly week-long road trip just to go letterboxing in Moab is ..BMAO!
There’s a good chance you’ll see “BMAO” in quite a few other boxes in the Moab area which I stamped into. After you find this box you’ll not only know what it means, but also what it looks like…to me, anyway. After a few days of finding the most amazing boxes in Moab, I just HAD to do something for all my boxing buddies over that way!
So, I took a morning off from finding boxes, to sit by the Colorado River in the sun and dig through the few box-making supplies I’d brought with me and to try to put something together.
This is my first box where I didn’t “borrow” someone else’s artwork as a place to begin a stamp design. It’s a complete original - crude as it is! This box is also what’s becoming one of my trademarks: A camo altoid box with a small hand made logbook, but no ink.
For this box, you’ll have to first do (or have already done) Kat’s wonderful “Layers” boxes – so use her clue sheet for directions to the trailhead, and so on.
Once you’ve completed this series of four stamps and are heading back to your car – hopefully when there’s a rosy glow on all the rocks everywhere you look - now you’ll get one more box – and maybe watch the sun go down, like when I was there.
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Start back towards your car the way you came up to do the Layers boxes. Once you get back to box #2, the place you’ll be stepping off the trail for BMAO is approximately 1/3 of the way back to box #1
After you’ve passed back by box #2 and are heading back towards box #1, find the high point in the trail between these two boxes. It’s what we in the Rocky Mountains might call a “saddle” in the trail. On your right should be first a group of dead trees, then a live tree, then a dead tree. As you keep going from this area, you should be taking a step down from solid rock into the sand, which you’ll walk in for a bit until the spot where it’s safe to step off the trail. Remember: When hiking in the Moab area that we Don’t Bust the Crust!
As you now walk in the sand back to your car from this “saddle” for a bit, start looking for the next dead(ish) tree on your right. Between this tree and the 2nd one that is right after it, you’ll see a strip of rock that that heads N/NW up onto a very large expanse of solid rock. Step off the trail here 36 steps, at which point another dead tree should be on your right.
Stop here and take a bearing of 324. See that grouping of rocks that looks like it’s up on the crest of the hill/horizon from here? Head towards this rock pile for approximately 85 steps. This should put you at the beginning of a “tip” of a black “arrow” on the surface of the rock expanse you’ve been walking on that’s pointing right at you and is emanating from the group of rocks you were heading towards on this bearing.
Stop here at the “tip” of this “arrow”. Don’t step any further or you’ll bust the crust ahead of you. (If you WERE to head straight ahead to the grouping of rocks at your last bearing, you should be about 15 steps away from them at this point.)
Standing at the “point” of the “arrow,” now take a bearing of 270. About 13 steps away you should see a tiny (1 foot high) live tree with a small dead one, then some grass to its NW.
2 more steps beyond the tiny live tree on the same bearing is a flat rock about 2 feet in diameter.
Look very carefully at how these rocks look before you start removing rocks to look for your prize!! There is no “weird looking pile of rocks” here. (See below for more info on where exactly to look.)
Please return this box exactly how you found it, looking as naturally found as possible. You should only have to move 2 rocks for this box.
Why?
1) Turn around and realize that you are in full view of the trail – and that there were many, many places along it when you were hiking that obvious piles of rocks meant: Trail marking cairns!
2) We don’t want anyone else who wanders over this way (perhaps someone who sees/follows you) to see a pile of rocks and start getting curious and poking around.
3) Well – this is how I found it (with 1 exception, see below!) and this is how I’d like this box to be left! It’s beautiful just the way it is
The one exception: I put a rock about 4 inches across which is darker than all the others right on top of where you should look – slightly to the right (NW) of the flat rock that’s about 2 feet in diameter just beyond the tiny tree.
Since you’re in view of that trail, step away from this area to stamp in and enjoy that sunset view!
Since I’m not local, I would really apPREciate status updates on how my box is doing.
preboxed
Denver, CO
I planted this box during my April Fools Day/Birthday 2006 trip to Moab. The day before I left home with a fist full of boxes I’d been working on for months to plant along the way - it occurred to me that this combination of the same 4 letters just worked out waaay too well for this punny fool, but I hadn’t done a box in advance. If LMAO online means one thing, then Shirley a nearly week-long road trip just to go letterboxing in Moab is ..BMAO!
There’s a good chance you’ll see “BMAO” in quite a few other boxes in the Moab area which I stamped into. After you find this box you’ll not only know what it means, but also what it looks like…to me, anyway. After a few days of finding the most amazing boxes in Moab, I just HAD to do something for all my boxing buddies over that way!
So, I took a morning off from finding boxes, to sit by the Colorado River in the sun and dig through the few box-making supplies I’d brought with me and to try to put something together.
This is my first box where I didn’t “borrow” someone else’s artwork as a place to begin a stamp design. It’s a complete original - crude as it is! This box is also what’s becoming one of my trademarks: A camo altoid box with a small hand made logbook, but no ink.
For this box, you’ll have to first do (or have already done) Kat’s wonderful “Layers” boxes – so use her clue sheet for directions to the trailhead, and so on.
Once you’ve completed this series of four stamps and are heading back to your car – hopefully when there’s a rosy glow on all the rocks everywhere you look - now you’ll get one more box – and maybe watch the sun go down, like when I was there.
***
Start back towards your car the way you came up to do the Layers boxes. Once you get back to box #2, the place you’ll be stepping off the trail for BMAO is approximately 1/3 of the way back to box #1
After you’ve passed back by box #2 and are heading back towards box #1, find the high point in the trail between these two boxes. It’s what we in the Rocky Mountains might call a “saddle” in the trail. On your right should be first a group of dead trees, then a live tree, then a dead tree. As you keep going from this area, you should be taking a step down from solid rock into the sand, which you’ll walk in for a bit until the spot where it’s safe to step off the trail. Remember: When hiking in the Moab area that we Don’t Bust the Crust!
As you now walk in the sand back to your car from this “saddle” for a bit, start looking for the next dead(ish) tree on your right. Between this tree and the 2nd one that is right after it, you’ll see a strip of rock that that heads N/NW up onto a very large expanse of solid rock. Step off the trail here 36 steps, at which point another dead tree should be on your right.
Stop here and take a bearing of 324. See that grouping of rocks that looks like it’s up on the crest of the hill/horizon from here? Head towards this rock pile for approximately 85 steps. This should put you at the beginning of a “tip” of a black “arrow” on the surface of the rock expanse you’ve been walking on that’s pointing right at you and is emanating from the group of rocks you were heading towards on this bearing.
Stop here at the “tip” of this “arrow”. Don’t step any further or you’ll bust the crust ahead of you. (If you WERE to head straight ahead to the grouping of rocks at your last bearing, you should be about 15 steps away from them at this point.)
Standing at the “point” of the “arrow,” now take a bearing of 270. About 13 steps away you should see a tiny (1 foot high) live tree with a small dead one, then some grass to its NW.
2 more steps beyond the tiny live tree on the same bearing is a flat rock about 2 feet in diameter.
Look very carefully at how these rocks look before you start removing rocks to look for your prize!! There is no “weird looking pile of rocks” here. (See below for more info on where exactly to look.)
Please return this box exactly how you found it, looking as naturally found as possible. You should only have to move 2 rocks for this box.
Why?
1) Turn around and realize that you are in full view of the trail – and that there were many, many places along it when you were hiking that obvious piles of rocks meant: Trail marking cairns!
2) We don’t want anyone else who wanders over this way (perhaps someone who sees/follows you) to see a pile of rocks and start getting curious and poking around.
3) Well – this is how I found it (with 1 exception, see below!) and this is how I’d like this box to be left! It’s beautiful just the way it is
The one exception: I put a rock about 4 inches across which is darker than all the others right on top of where you should look – slightly to the right (NW) of the flat rock that’s about 2 feet in diameter just beyond the tiny tree.
Since you’re in view of that trail, step away from this area to stamp in and enjoy that sunset view!
Since I’m not local, I would really apPREciate status updates on how my box is doing.
preboxed
Denver, CO