Old Highway 40 LbNA #: 33240
| Placed by: Azroadie (Contact the Placer) | |
| Placement date: Jul 5 2007 | |
| State: Colorado | |
| County: Routt | | | Nearest city: Steamboat Springs |
| Number of boxes: 1 |
CluesWalk difficulty: fairly easy; it is a flat dirt road with a short uphill scramble.
Walking time: about 10 minutes one way
Stamp hand-carved
Status: alive and well on October 25, 2009
From the town of Steamboat Springs, travel east on U. S. Highway 40 for about 15 miles. Between mileposts 147 and 148 turn right (south) into Meadows National Forest Campground (USFS). In a very short distance, park at the intersection of a dirt road coming in from the left, and it is just before the gate (there is a round wooden post with a yellow sign that says “No Camping Here”).
Walk northeast on the dirt road. This is an old alignment of U. S. Highway 40 probably dating back to the early 1930s. After this alignment was abandoned, the pavement was ripped up; however, you can see chunks of the old pavement along the edges of the dirt road. Walk on the road until you see an old concrete culvert on the left (there is a boulder on the left edge of the road in front of the culvert). From the culvert, continue on the road for about 63 steps. Now, look to your right for an outcrop of boulders. There is a large pointed boulder about 10 steps from the edge of the road. From that boulder, climb up the slope for about 7 steps to a medium-sized Pine Tree (with a small tree to its right). The box is about 2 steps behind (east) the Pine Tree under some rocks covered with some plant debris.
Please be sure the contents are double ziplocked when you put them back in the box (i.e. the stamp is in a ziploc, the book is in a ziploc, and the two are in the larger ziploc bag). Please rehide the box well under the rocks and covered with some plant debris so that it can not be seen from any direction.
I will not be able to check on this box very often; so, please let me know if you find it. Also, let me know if it is missing so that I can update the clues:
http://home.att.net/~azroadie/letterboxing.html
Please record your find at www.letterboxing.org/ or at www.atlasquest.com/ .
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Before you set out, please read the
waiver of responsibility and disclaimer.
Please be sure to reseal baggies and boxes carefully so that they stay dry
and rehide boxes in their original location, completely hidden from view. |
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