Medieval Birds Letterbox Series LbNA #12223 (ARCHIVED)
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Oct 8, 2004 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Deering |
| County: | Hillsborough |
| State: | New Hampshire |
| Boxes: | 9 |
| Planted by: | rtrw  |
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| Found by: | kids rule (9) |
| Last found: | May 22, 2010 |
| Status: | FFFFaFFFFF |
| Last edited: | Oct 8, 2004 |
June 2006 - #3 is at the base of the tree. Something else is in the tree. #5 the stamp is missing, but the box is there. Curious.
Planted by Butterbaby, Runner of the Woods and rtrw on October 8, 2004. Happy Birthday to the Anti-boxer who was away for his birthday
Difficulty – no clue. We haven’t had these tested by anyone yet, so email us a difficulty rating when you finish
Time – pretty long for us and we were a little tired when we finished. The last hill is a long one
Directions to starting place – Route 149 in Deering a mile or so from Hillsboro. Turn onto Clement Hill Road and proceed straight up the hill for a mile, plus. Make sure you check out the views of the valley on your way back down the hill. Clement Hill Road turns sharply right and you want to make the right turn. About 3/10 of a mile after the right turn is a small parking area for the Deering Audabon property. Please park there.
Details you should know – This is a nine box series, but it only has one log book. You may count it however you would like in your PFX counts. At times these boxes come close together, but not all of them. Let us know if the clues are stinky and you have better ideas for us. Since the boxes only contain a stamp, most of them are micro boxes, mint tins, etc. You will be looking for small things on this search.
Clues:
After you park, go past the mailbox and head down Black Fox Pond Trail. You will be following yellow trail markers.
Box # 1 – Very soon, on your left, you will see a skinless “V” tree that has seen better days. Your first stamp is about ten steps off the trail. Look under some bark behind the tree. If you get to a dead tree that’s almost on the trail, you missed it. There’s another cool dead tree to your left, but it will be no help in your quest for stamp # 1.
Box # 2 – Keep descending on the trail, walk through a low stone wall that’s connected to a wide wall. Keep on trucking for a while, generally down with twists and turns. You will come to a tall dead tree next to a 6 foot stump. Then take ten steps to a 3 foot stump. Now that we have your attention and slowed you down a bit, directly down the path ahead of you is a low stone wall. Walk to it. Turn right and take 12 steps to a 5 sister tree and peek around behind it. #2 awaits you.
Box # 3 – Head back to the trail and you will probably see the pond through the trees. Keep going until you cross the two board bridge. Directly after the bridge is a wide stone wall. Look left to the “L” shaped tree. The hole in the base of it holds #3. Actually, #3 is under the tree. Might be worth looking in, though.
Box # 4 – Ease on down the path. Why look, it’s Black Fox Pond. Of course, we saw no fox of any color today. Perhaps you will. We did, however, see both a canoe and a boat. No guarantees of these for you, though. Walk along the edge of the water. We planted this series in the afternoon in the fall and it was breathtakingly beautiful. We saw another boat on a rock, but it looks like the kind of thing that might be in a different spot on different days. Walk until you see Joshua’s bench. Sit. Look right. Check out the crook of the armpit of that resting tree. (rtrw would like to blame Butterbaby for that armpit thing. She’s not sure that she can, but she would like to)
Box # 5 – Cross the bridge and keep walking. There’s a small hill on the trail which has a good sized rock on the right and a bunch of smaller rocks on the trail. After this spot take 15 paces down the trail to the second yellow marker. Up the hill 10 steps to a stump with a letterbox in a hole.
Box # 6 – Pass the by the swampy beaver lumber yard. When the trail next touches the water you will see a dying birch at your left. Look in the base and rehide well, please. (ROTW and Butter wanted the box here, but rtrw thinks this will be the first one non boxers will discover.)
Box # 7 – Walk on until you see the GIANT rock and the dead birch that crosses your path. On your left, ¾ of the way down in a small can.
Box # 8 – Keep going for a couple minutes. The trail turns away from the water. Turn onto the Reclement Path. When you soon see a mid size woodpecker tree on your right, search in the wall, very carefully, please. Walls are special, particularly old ones.
Box # 9 – This last section is definitely the long one, and much of that downhill in the beginning will be paid for now. Sorry about that. Stop, rest, have sip of water and hit the trail. You will see the water again, but no time for us to stop and enjoy. The 13 year olds are behaving a bit like horses in view of the barn. Pass the fire pit field. Walk the old (we assume) logging road. It was a bit wet and had a brook running through parts of it in October. I have no idea what spring will be like here. Once you have climbed the hill and found the “real” dirt road, look back down to the 7 sister tree with a blaze and another Reclement Path sign. 3 steps to an overhang rock with a regular sized Tupperware box behind it. After stamping in, turn right onto the real dirt road and head toward your car. We hope you enjoyed our box series. We’d love to hear any comments, especially Runner of the Woods, since this is her first time boxing. Thanks.
Planted by Butterbaby, Runner of the Woods and rtrw on October 8, 2004. Happy Birthday to the Anti-boxer who was away for his birthday
Difficulty – no clue. We haven’t had these tested by anyone yet, so email us a difficulty rating when you finish
Time – pretty long for us and we were a little tired when we finished. The last hill is a long one
Directions to starting place – Route 149 in Deering a mile or so from Hillsboro. Turn onto Clement Hill Road and proceed straight up the hill for a mile, plus. Make sure you check out the views of the valley on your way back down the hill. Clement Hill Road turns sharply right and you want to make the right turn. About 3/10 of a mile after the right turn is a small parking area for the Deering Audabon property. Please park there.
Details you should know – This is a nine box series, but it only has one log book. You may count it however you would like in your PFX counts. At times these boxes come close together, but not all of them. Let us know if the clues are stinky and you have better ideas for us. Since the boxes only contain a stamp, most of them are micro boxes, mint tins, etc. You will be looking for small things on this search.
Clues:
After you park, go past the mailbox and head down Black Fox Pond Trail. You will be following yellow trail markers.
Box # 1 – Very soon, on your left, you will see a skinless “V” tree that has seen better days. Your first stamp is about ten steps off the trail. Look under some bark behind the tree. If you get to a dead tree that’s almost on the trail, you missed it. There’s another cool dead tree to your left, but it will be no help in your quest for stamp # 1.
Box # 2 – Keep descending on the trail, walk through a low stone wall that’s connected to a wide wall. Keep on trucking for a while, generally down with twists and turns. You will come to a tall dead tree next to a 6 foot stump. Then take ten steps to a 3 foot stump. Now that we have your attention and slowed you down a bit, directly down the path ahead of you is a low stone wall. Walk to it. Turn right and take 12 steps to a 5 sister tree and peek around behind it. #2 awaits you.
Box # 3 – Head back to the trail and you will probably see the pond through the trees. Keep going until you cross the two board bridge. Directly after the bridge is a wide stone wall. Look left to the “L” shaped tree. The hole in the base of it holds #3. Actually, #3 is under the tree. Might be worth looking in, though.
Box # 4 – Ease on down the path. Why look, it’s Black Fox Pond. Of course, we saw no fox of any color today. Perhaps you will. We did, however, see both a canoe and a boat. No guarantees of these for you, though. Walk along the edge of the water. We planted this series in the afternoon in the fall and it was breathtakingly beautiful. We saw another boat on a rock, but it looks like the kind of thing that might be in a different spot on different days. Walk until you see Joshua’s bench. Sit. Look right. Check out the crook of the armpit of that resting tree. (rtrw would like to blame Butterbaby for that armpit thing. She’s not sure that she can, but she would like to)
Box # 5 – Cross the bridge and keep walking. There’s a small hill on the trail which has a good sized rock on the right and a bunch of smaller rocks on the trail. After this spot take 15 paces down the trail to the second yellow marker. Up the hill 10 steps to a stump with a letterbox in a hole.
Box # 6 – Pass the by the swampy beaver lumber yard. When the trail next touches the water you will see a dying birch at your left. Look in the base and rehide well, please. (ROTW and Butter wanted the box here, but rtrw thinks this will be the first one non boxers will discover.)
Box # 7 – Walk on until you see the GIANT rock and the dead birch that crosses your path. On your left, ¾ of the way down in a small can.
Box # 8 – Keep going for a couple minutes. The trail turns away from the water. Turn onto the Reclement Path. When you soon see a mid size woodpecker tree on your right, search in the wall, very carefully, please. Walls are special, particularly old ones.
Box # 9 – This last section is definitely the long one, and much of that downhill in the beginning will be paid for now. Sorry about that. Stop, rest, have sip of water and hit the trail. You will see the water again, but no time for us to stop and enjoy. The 13 year olds are behaving a bit like horses in view of the barn. Pass the fire pit field. Walk the old (we assume) logging road. It was a bit wet and had a brook running through parts of it in October. I have no idea what spring will be like here. Once you have climbed the hill and found the “real” dirt road, look back down to the 7 sister tree with a blaze and another Reclement Path sign. 3 steps to an overhang rock with a regular sized Tupperware box behind it. After stamping in, turn right onto the real dirt road and head toward your car. We hope you enjoyed our box series. We’d love to hear any comments, especially Runner of the Woods, since this is her first time boxing. Thanks.