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Droops LbNA #26406

Owner:Adoptable
Plant date:Oct 15, 2006
Location:
City:Temple
County:Hillsborough
State:New Hampshire
Boxes:1
Planted by:mamaandpapa
Found by: Nairon
Last found:Jun 7, 2014
Status:FFFFFFF
Last edited:Oct 15, 2006
Our old man Droops was a Staffordshire Terrier (Pit Bull). He was Nick's best friend for most of his 16 1/2 years. There will never be another dog as special as Droops. He's truly a legend in the area. Hikers saw and recognized Droops and would call out to him on the trail without giving Nick a second glance. He touched everyone who met him--from here in New Hampshire to Washington State and even Chicago. Please help us honor him with this letterbox.

We just checked on our boy (July 31, 2010) and he is doing quite well. We changed out his box and bag and added a really nice fresh pen. Thank you to the school group that recently visited and let us know what we needed to bring with us! The Blueberry bushes are booming up here, so come get some!

DRIECTIONS: Find your way to Temple Ski Mountain. It's on your left on 101 heading toward Peterborough. Once there, park and find the safety gate. Follow the service road it blocks all the way up to the cell tower. There are several yellow arrows along the way--ignore them and stay on the service road. Once at the tower, find the trail heading south. Take this past the Beebe memorial bench (there may or may not be a noticeable split right after the bench--stay to the left!). You'll cross through 3 stone walls and pass several small cairns. Eventually you'll come to a much larger cairn. Keep going. Once you get to the second large cairn, stop and look right. There is a large number of incredible cairn structures here (There is also another letterbox). You should definately explore this area, but then get back on the trail, and starting from the large cairn marking this stop, continue about 200 steps, stop, and look right. A trail is almost noticeable. Take this trail up to another smaller cairn structure area. Here, find the tall western fat stack. Once there, spot a short stack at 300 degrees and go to it. Once there, find 320 degrees and walk to the 2 legged stack behind the small pine. From there, face north and follow the trail 16 steps to a rocky ledge. Turn slightly left and follow the base of the rocky ledge 7 steps to a very small stack. Face the small cairn (40 degrees) and spot the rusty red door stone that connects the cairn with the rocky ledge. Behind that reddish rock and two smaller rocks lies our old man.

Please be sure to re-hide it well.