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Camping Memories (PULLED 10/30/05) LbNA #10442 (ARCHIVED)

Owner:Adoptable
Plant date:Aug 27, 2004
Location:
City:Swansea
County:Bristol
State:Massachusetts
Boxes:5
Found by: capecodletterboxer (2)
Last found:Oct 30, 2005
Status:FFFFFFFFFFFF
Last edited:Aug 27, 2004
*THANKS TO ALL OF YOU WHO HAVE VISITED THESE BOXES SINCE THEIR PLACEMENT A LITTLE OVER A YEAR AGO. THE SERIES NEEDS SOME MAINTENANCE AND I AM EXPECTING A DAUGHTER IN MARCH OF 2006 SO I DECIDED TO PULL THEM UNTIL THINGS CALM DOwN A LITTLE. (IF THAT IS AT ALL POSSIBLE WITH A BABY!) IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, PLEASE FEEL FREE TO E-MAIL ME. THANKS AGAIN, KERRI*





PLACED BY: Kerri, Bowhunter, and Brandy

LOCATION/DIRECTIONS: This series is located near Abram's Rock in the town park. To get into the park, park behind the Town Offices and the library on Stevens Rd. The entrance for the lot is between the two buildings and the trailhead begins there.

AREA INFORMATION: For some interesting history on the area, go to www.swanseamass.org/history/abramsrock.html This is a very popular area for hiking, dog walking, paintballing, fishing, and hunting. *Please wear your safety orange from October to February.* Sadly, it is also a favorite party area for local teens and there is a lot of broken glass in places. As always, your discretion and care with the boxes is greatly appreciated. This series was placed in honor of our favorite summer activity and the stamps are among my first hand-carved. Hope you like them!

DIFFICULTY: It should take no more than 1 1/2 hours max, including stamp time, to complete this series. It does include some mild rock climbing with some heights involved. Leashed dogs are welcome. Brandy, our lab/boxer mix, did very well climbing the rocks but I'm not sure how little ones would do with it. If you choose to bring them, please watch small children carefully while on the rocks.

STAMPING INFORMATION: The five stamps in this series make one cohesive image. There is a picture of the completed image in the back of the first log book. It is 5 1/2" wide and 5" high when done. Four out of the five stamps need to be stamped more than once. Before starting out, drawing some pencil lines on your page will help you line everything up. You will use the bottom of your page as the first line. Draw one line at 2 1/2" from the bottom and another at 3" from the bottom. I've included suggested stamping info at the end of the clues for each box.

CLUES:

BOX #1:
Enter path at northern end of parking lot. Continue on past a newer cemetery on the right and around a yellow gate. Continue straight on the path. You will soon enter an area with large rock formations, called puddinstone, on the left and the right of the path. Look for the first large rock formation on the left. It has a small cedar and other plants growing out of the top of it. Walk around to the back of the rock. Look up at the horizontal split in the rock. Looks like a good hiding spot to me! The box you seek rests in that crevice, behind some other loose rocks. Please re-package and re-hide well.
STAMPING INFO: Line the bottom of the stamp up with the bottom of your page. Stamp twice, horizontally, side by side to make the river.

BOX #2:
Return to the path and continue on to the left. Pass a small, free-standing boulder on your left, as the path moves slightly uphill. After the boulder, a rocky ridge rises out of the ground and continues on for a short distance. Follow the ridge, passing a rock formation direclty on the trail to your right, until it ends. Doesn't that tree look like it's holding the rock back? Take the path just after the rock ends at 10 degrees. Follow it uphill until you have a large oak in front of you. Look right and take the faint path at 20 degrees until you are standing on some small, exposed roots. Warmth and shelter are hidden inside the "flame" tree at 130 degrees. *Please be careful when removing the box from the tree. Let me know if it crumbles too much to continue to be a good hiding spot.* Please re-package and re-hide well.
STAMPING INFO: Place stamp slightly above the middle of your river.

BOX #3:
Return again to the main path and continue on to your left. At the first fork in the path, turn left and travel uphill. At the next fork, go right between two double-trunked trees. At the next fork, head left, again travelling uphill. Continue downhill and to the right. When the largest rock formation that you've seen yet is in front of you, travel to the left and keep it on your right. The trail will continue between the rock and a stone wall on your left. At the "T", take a left and walk through the break in the wall. Continue on to a "Y" in the trail and go right. Stay straight on the left fork of this trail and you will see Abram's Rock in front of you, to your right. Follow the trail, to Abram's Rock's northern end and turn right onto the path at 80 degrees. Follow the path as it winds to the right and continue up the rock. Climb up the rock to the top. Standing at the top (there will be a small oak in front of you), look to the right. The box is hidden under some leaves in a crevice in the rock in front of the left-most white birch growing out of the rock. *This is the most popular area of the park and you may meet people on top of the rock. Please be discreet and watch out for broken glass.* Please re-package and re-hide well.
STAMPING INFO: This stamp should be stamped four times to complete the picture. It is carved on both sides. It helps to think of this as a four-stamp grid...bottom-left, bottom-right, upper-left, upper-right. Starting on the 3" line, stamp the "star" side of the stamp into both bottom positions. Then, stamp it again into the upper-left position. The "moon" side should then go in the upper-right spot.

BOX #4:
Go back down Abram's Rock and follow the small path back out to the main path. Turn left onto main path and follow trail to a spot where a tree stands in the middle of a major intersection. Walk all the way up to the tree and take the left path. Follow path back to where the stome wall crosses the trail and turn right. Immediately after turning, look left. A mossy path goes up the rock at 240 degrees. Follow the path to the top of the rock, past a small tree growing out of the rock and then turn to the right and follow the ridge of the rock. You will pass a "bent knee" tree on the left and then the rock ends in a grassy spot. Look at the end of the rock in front of you. We nestled a large rock against the end of the rock on the left. Although it looks like part of the rock, the box is hidden behind it. Please re-package and re-hide well.
STAMPING INFO: Line up the stamp on the 2 1/2" line. Stamp in twice, horizontally side by side.

BOX #5:
Head back down the rock. We suggest going back the way you came but there are a few (steeper) options. Turn left back onto the main path. Go right at the "Y" in the trail and continue to follow it around an "S" curve to where the path splits around a lone beech tree. Take the left fork which travels uphill. Pass a tree of three on the right and continue on. Take a right at the next "Y". Stay straight on the path as it curves to the right and ignore all side paths. A larger path will also join in from the left, behind you. You will the re-enter and pass through the area with rock formations on both sides of the path. Follow trail past a rock where someone spray painted "E-Low" and "Key" and through a circular clearing with a doulbe-trunked tree standing in it to the left. Go around the yellow gate and pass the cemetery now on your left. When you see the trees up against both sides of the path, stop. Look to the right, where there is a falling down stone wall in with the trees. Take 18 steps into the woods to the multi-trunked tree right up against it. Look in the wall on the west side of the tree and between it and another smaller one for the box. Please re-package and re-hide well.
STAMPING INFO: Stamp to the left and the right of the tent and fire.


Hope you enjoyed our first series! Contact me with any questions, comments, or concerns at playschoolteach@yahoo.com. Happy trails!