Academy Awards Multi LbNA #31831 (ARCHIVED)

(Most recent find: 5/18/2011
This may be archived soon!)

A 3-stage, 3-stamp multi, based on three Academy Award winning
movies, connected by easy trails in the upper arb. (Placed with the
kind permission of the arb csar.) As runners, bikers and skiers frequent these trails, please move away from the location of the box while you stamp and sign the log. Thanks.

The tour begins at the corner of Oak and 2nd in Northfield.

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  Stage 1- "Walk the Line"(2005)
  
  Oscar to Reese Witherspoon for Best Actress plus 4 more
  nominations.
  
  Despite the old song - young singer struggles but becomes a star,
  falls in love, goes to pot and booze, professional and personal
  lives go to pot, nearly dies, sees the light just in time - this is
  a spendid movie with Joaquin Phoenix and Witherspoon doing the
  vocals as Johnny Cash and June Carter. The low point in the guitar
  player's life came when he went to Mexico, tried to smuggle drugs,
  got caught and imprisoned.
  
  
  From Oak and 2nd follow the red-brick lined road to the east. About 55 paces beyond the first cement bridge, you'll spot a tree off to the right which resembles where Cash stashed his hash. In it is a Mexican pill bottle with a log and stamp.


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  Stage 2 - "Forrest Gump" (1994)
  
  13 nominations. 6 wins including Best Picture, Director and
  Actor.
  
  The box is metaphorical. Sitting on a bench Forrest (Tom Hanks)
  describes his highly coincidental adventures (All-American
  football, Vietnam hero, coast-to-coast running, shrimping, Elvis, John
  Lennon, LBJ) to a series of benchmates with the theme "Momma (Sally
  Fields) always said: 'Life is like a box of chock-lates; you never
  know what you gonna get.' "
  
  To get to Forrest's bench. Continue uphill on the red-brick lined road until you come to a wild-flower garden. In it is the bench. Sit down. Relax. Enjoy the view. Then go back to the entrance to the garden and cross the road. At 60 degrees and 25 paces into the woods you'll find a tree bearing Forrest's box of chocolates.
  
  
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  Stage 3 - "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" (1948)
  
  Oscars to John Huston for Best Director and Best Screenplay and
  to his father Walter Huston for Best Supporting Actor
  
  Three down-and-out gringos mine gold in Mexico, strike the mother
  lode, bury most of it, and then fight banditos and themselves. The
  most memorable line comes from the head bandito pretending to be a
  Federale when asked for his identification exclaims "Badges!
  We don't need no stinkin' badges."
  
  Continue on the red-brick lined road downhill to another cement bridge. Take the first trail to the right after the bridge. After a while you'll come to a "Y'. Take the left branch. After a shorter while you'll come to another 'Y'. Again take the left branch. After 33 paces you'll find a field of mine tailings on the left. And you should find three mine entrances. Do not enter the shafts. The letterbox is under a brick-sized rock next to a large blue rock near the east side of the triangle formed by the orifices. As this stage has been muggled twice please rehide as found.

This multi-box is also a three-part geocache so can check there to see how recently it's been found or not.

This letterbox was placed with the kind permission of the Arb
Csar. Please refer to Guidelines for Geocaching and Letterboxing in the Arb.