Here Come Da Judge LbNA #14660
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Apr 24, 2005 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Naugatuck |
| County: | New Haven |
| State: | Connecticut |
| Boxes: | 2 |
| Planted by: | Rubaduc  |
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| Found by: | Nairon (2) |
| Last found: | Sep 16, 2023 |
| Status: | FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF |
| Last edited: | Apr 24, 2005 |
I HAVE A REPORT THAT THE BOX'S CONTENTS ARE WET, IF SOMEONE COULD DO NEEDED REPAIRS I'D BE FOREVER GRATEFUL. THANKS.
On one of our many trips to Beacon Cap, my friend Mendelssohn and I were sloshing through a considerable amount of snow when we saw two women coming towards us from the opposite direction. We stopped to say a few words of cheer and I thought I recognized one of them so asked "Where have I seen you before?" She replied that she didn't know me, but I kept insisting that we were acquainted until her friend eventually said "You don't know her unless you've been in court recently." Upon hearing this, my friend jumped in to say "That's it, Rubaduc's in criminal court regularly". Turned out that she was Chief Judge of Superior Court and of course I had never met her before in my life, not even in criminal court :-) Since Mendelssohn's not likely to ever let me forget this incident, I've planted a box on the spot of this meeting.
I think this is about a three and a half mile hike, one way. After returning the box to it's hiding spot you can go back the way you came or continue on to Beacon Cap where there's another letterbox.
On Rt. 8 south take exit 25 (Cross ST.)turn left at the stop sign, go right onto the first street (Andrasko Rd.) and after crossing the bridge park in front of chain link fence to the right, or park in the commuter lot across the road. (I've been told that if you GPS Andrasko Rd. you need to use Beacon Falls for the town).
Go through the fence and follow Rt. 8 for about half a mile till you see a woods road on the left with a blue blaze on a post. Turn left following blue blazes, watching at the top of the hill for more blue where it turns left into the woods (remember to stay on blue). After a mile you should see a blue and pink trail (this USED to be blazed white) take this trail to the left for 0.1 miles. At the top (no view) is a very large boulder on the left and two smaller boulders on the right. Look in back and in between for the Scales of Justice box.
Return to blue, continuing on the way you were going, staying on blue the whole way, watching carefully for blazes. At one point there's a rock on the left side of the trail with two blue blazes on it and shortly after that you need to turn right into a laurel grove where I suspect some of the trees with blazes were blown over. You soon see blazes again in a short while, this is the only place I had a little trouble following the trail and if you come to a set of stone steps, you know you missed the laurel grove.
Eventually you come to the Whittemore Trail blazed in White (sign on tree to the right) where you need to go straight across even though blue blazes are scarce. Keep on trucking and after walking through much laurel, you see a rocky outcropping to the left of the trail. In a bit there's another rock ledge spot but again the trail goes along the right edge of it. When you come to a fairly open place with again rocky ledge beneath your feet and with a more vegetation then in the other two spots, you have arrived. Just as you get to this spot, there's a cairn at 340 degrees (if it stays there) and a small boulder or large rock (depending on your perspective) at 40 degrees. Look behind the boulder (or rock).
These awesome stamps are carved by Cody B. Cleo and well worth the walk.
On one of our many trips to Beacon Cap, my friend Mendelssohn and I were sloshing through a considerable amount of snow when we saw two women coming towards us from the opposite direction. We stopped to say a few words of cheer and I thought I recognized one of them so asked "Where have I seen you before?" She replied that she didn't know me, but I kept insisting that we were acquainted until her friend eventually said "You don't know her unless you've been in court recently." Upon hearing this, my friend jumped in to say "That's it, Rubaduc's in criminal court regularly". Turned out that she was Chief Judge of Superior Court and of course I had never met her before in my life, not even in criminal court :-) Since Mendelssohn's not likely to ever let me forget this incident, I've planted a box on the spot of this meeting.
I think this is about a three and a half mile hike, one way. After returning the box to it's hiding spot you can go back the way you came or continue on to Beacon Cap where there's another letterbox.
On Rt. 8 south take exit 25 (Cross ST.)turn left at the stop sign, go right onto the first street (Andrasko Rd.) and after crossing the bridge park in front of chain link fence to the right, or park in the commuter lot across the road. (I've been told that if you GPS Andrasko Rd. you need to use Beacon Falls for the town).
Go through the fence and follow Rt. 8 for about half a mile till you see a woods road on the left with a blue blaze on a post. Turn left following blue blazes, watching at the top of the hill for more blue where it turns left into the woods (remember to stay on blue). After a mile you should see a blue and pink trail (this USED to be blazed white) take this trail to the left for 0.1 miles. At the top (no view) is a very large boulder on the left and two smaller boulders on the right. Look in back and in between for the Scales of Justice box.
Return to blue, continuing on the way you were going, staying on blue the whole way, watching carefully for blazes. At one point there's a rock on the left side of the trail with two blue blazes on it and shortly after that you need to turn right into a laurel grove where I suspect some of the trees with blazes were blown over. You soon see blazes again in a short while, this is the only place I had a little trouble following the trail and if you come to a set of stone steps, you know you missed the laurel grove.
Eventually you come to the Whittemore Trail blazed in White (sign on tree to the right) where you need to go straight across even though blue blazes are scarce. Keep on trucking and after walking through much laurel, you see a rocky outcropping to the left of the trail. In a bit there's another rock ledge spot but again the trail goes along the right edge of it. When you come to a fairly open place with again rocky ledge beneath your feet and with a more vegetation then in the other two spots, you have arrived. Just as you get to this spot, there's a cairn at 340 degrees (if it stays there) and a small boulder or large rock (depending on your perspective) at 40 degrees. Look behind the boulder (or rock).
These awesome stamps are carved by Cody B. Cleo and well worth the walk.