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Chocorua Island LbNA #1642

Owner:Trey
Plant date:Jul 6, 2002
Location:
City:Holderness
County:Grafton
State:New Hampshire
Boxes:1
Found by: Jabula
Last found:Jun 28, 2005
Status:FFF
Last edited:Jul 6, 2002
THIS BOX IS NOW BACK IN SERVICE!

After being found damaged, the box and journal have been refurbished and placed back on the island today, July 6th 2004--the second anniversary of its original placement.

NOTES:

1. Bearing = degrees from MAGNETIC north, NOT true north. (By the way, Ted proved that this box is not easy to find without a compass)

2. Pace = one footfall of either foot (I'm tall and have a relatively long stride).

3. Step = same as a pace (strange but true). Used only because the plurals do not contain the same number of syllables--important for haiku clue construction.

4. Clue Difficulty = 2 (1 is easy, 5 is almost impossible).

5. Terrain Difficulty = 1 (same scale).

6. Access Difficulty = 4 (private boat only).

7. Hike Length = Very short.

8. Poison Ivy = None.


CLUES:

A tiny island:
First Boys' Camp in USA.
Now, outdoor chapel.

Difficult access.
If one needs to ask how to,
One should not go there.

The box location
Respects the island's purpose.
Searchers must also.

Walk from main boat dock
Forty eight steps from water,
Up main chapel path.

Left turn at small path.
Find Ernest Balch's carved rock.
Ponder his great 1st.

Continue past rock
To the water's edge, then turn:
Bear one-seven-oh.

You are very close:
Thirty-three steps to big rock
(Flat top, with lichen).

On south side of rock:
A smaller stone and some leaves
Conceal the journal.

Stamp-in, give congrats
For Jeanne and Ted's wedding--
It happened today!

Now two years later,
Ted and Jeanne still in love--but
No one's found the box!



Remember: STAMP IN, TRASH OUT! Help letterboxing build it's good reputation by finding some litter and packing it out with you!