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The Pig Pen Ledges Letterbox LbNA #11432 (ARCHIVED)

Owner:Adoptable
Plant date:Jul 27, 2002
Location:
City:Montague
County:Franklin
State:Massachusetts
Boxes:1
Found by: Coffacupee
Last found:Apr 13, 2012
Status:FFFF
Last edited:Jul 27, 2002
Placed by: Trickster, Thunderbird, E-MAN, and The Dawn

TIME: An easy to moderate hike about a 2 hour round trip if you don't stop to explore at the ledges.
THE LEDGES ARE VERY SLIPPERY WHEN WET!! Also porcupines live in some of the rocks so be careful when exploring.

DIRECTIONS: Off Rt. 63 in Montague, turn onto North Leverett Rd. Travel approximately 1 mile to Spaulding Brook Rd. on the left, next to a bright red house.
Spaulding Brook Rd. is very short and goes over a bridge. At the end of the road (right after the bridge) park at the small pull out straight ahead.
Walk apoximately 40 steps to your left, to the end of the guard rail. Here you will find a trailhead for the Robert Frost Trail.

The Robert Frost Trail is marked with orange blazes. It is well marked, you shouldn't have any problems staying on the trail. Hike about an hour following the blazes and you will come to a brook. Go straight across the brook and the trail will turn left uphill to some huge rock legdes. You have arrived!*Dramatic music* Now follow the clues to the letterbox.

HISTORY: The story goes that in the 1800's people would let their pigs out in the spring to forage in the woods. In the fall they would go round-up the pigs and drive them into the ledges, where they could then take them home for the winter. Another story says that there were wild pigs in the woods and the farmers drove them to the ledges to capture for their own. Yet another story tells us that people kept their pigs enclosed in the ledges for the summer then brought them home in the winter. There used to be an old farm site down from the ledges aways. Spaulding Brook Farm may have given the ledges its name.

CLUES:
Walk right up into the pen
Go on past the Porcupine den.
Stroll to the tree with markers two
Now go to the rock where the L tree grew.
Walk to the place were the boulders fell
Climb right up and please don't mind the smell.
Now find the rock that looks like a slide
Here our letterbox does hide.
In a crevas on the far left under some rocks
this is were you'll find our letterbox!