Annie's Birthday LbNA #35008
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Add Location| Owner: | N/A |
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| Plant date: | Sep 5, 2007 |
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| City: | Albany |
| County: | Albany |
| State: | New York |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Planted by: | the Doodles
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| Found by: | cassellas |
| Last found: | Sep 19, 2009 |
| Status: | FFa |
| Last edited: | Sep 5, 2007 |
This letterbox is hidden at Hollyhock Hollow Sanctuary at 57 Rarick Road, Selkirk, NY.
The trail is easy/moderate and hiking the entire trail takes about 30 minutes. Use caution on Rarick Road.
This letterbox was created and hidden to celebrate my dear friend Annie's birthday. Annie is a great person with many interests and talents. Everyone loves her! Skiing, tennis, golf, gardening and quilting are some of her hobbies, and incredibly, she is good at all of them. She loves to be outdoors and enjoys hiking and camping. She knows alot about insects and birds, and we have dissected an owl pellet or two during our long friendship! Naturally, letterboxing is a great activity for Annie!
The Trails of Hollyhock Hollow Sanctuary are part of a 140-acre property that includes woodlands, meadows, a creek, and garden habitats. The land was donated to the Audubon Society of NY State by Dr. Robert Rienow in 1987. It has seven clearly marked trails that are in a semi-wild state.
Go to the Water Trail, which is clearly marked past the Rienow Center. Go downhill on the path and then uo to a ridge. Follow the blue circle trail markers. Go past the pond on the right and continue to a clearing with a bench, large rocks and the remains of a totem pole. Take the path at the end of the clearing. Onesquethaw Creek will be on your left. Go up a rise, there will be moss- covered boulders on your right. Continue on trail until you reach Rarick Road. Walk on the shoulder of the road until you reach the car pullout, possibly 50 yards. Annie would like you to pause and enjoy the creek and behold the power of water! Maybe you will be lucky to see the Great Blue Heron, like we did! (The road is quiet, but watch children and stay to the side!) Take the trail as it resumes back into the woods on the left. Follow the trail to the large mossy rock outcropping on your right. In the Spring you may see Jack in the Pulpit. Find a tree with a hollow base and look for a CAIRN (Scottish for rocks) (Ordinarily this would be called a SPOR but Annie has stacks of rocks about her yard called CAIRNS ...and this IS her letterbox afterall!) Please stamp in and make a birthday wish for Annie!
To return to the parking lot, you can go back the way you can continue ahead to follow the trail back around, or head back to the road and walk straight back to the Center.
Let us know how you do!
The trail is easy/moderate and hiking the entire trail takes about 30 minutes. Use caution on Rarick Road.
This letterbox was created and hidden to celebrate my dear friend Annie's birthday. Annie is a great person with many interests and talents. Everyone loves her! Skiing, tennis, golf, gardening and quilting are some of her hobbies, and incredibly, she is good at all of them. She loves to be outdoors and enjoys hiking and camping. She knows alot about insects and birds, and we have dissected an owl pellet or two during our long friendship! Naturally, letterboxing is a great activity for Annie!
The Trails of Hollyhock Hollow Sanctuary are part of a 140-acre property that includes woodlands, meadows, a creek, and garden habitats. The land was donated to the Audubon Society of NY State by Dr. Robert Rienow in 1987. It has seven clearly marked trails that are in a semi-wild state.
Go to the Water Trail, which is clearly marked past the Rienow Center. Go downhill on the path and then uo to a ridge. Follow the blue circle trail markers. Go past the pond on the right and continue to a clearing with a bench, large rocks and the remains of a totem pole. Take the path at the end of the clearing. Onesquethaw Creek will be on your left. Go up a rise, there will be moss- covered boulders on your right. Continue on trail until you reach Rarick Road. Walk on the shoulder of the road until you reach the car pullout, possibly 50 yards. Annie would like you to pause and enjoy the creek and behold the power of water! Maybe you will be lucky to see the Great Blue Heron, like we did! (The road is quiet, but watch children and stay to the side!) Take the trail as it resumes back into the woods on the left. Follow the trail to the large mossy rock outcropping on your right. In the Spring you may see Jack in the Pulpit. Find a tree with a hollow base and look for a CAIRN (Scottish for rocks) (Ordinarily this would be called a SPOR but Annie has stacks of rocks about her yard called CAIRNS ...and this IS her letterbox afterall!) Please stamp in and make a birthday wish for Annie!
To return to the parking lot, you can go back the way you can continue ahead to follow the trail back around, or head back to the road and walk straight back to the Center.
Let us know how you do!