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Bear Paw-New Location LbNA #33800

Owner:Hez, Grumpy and Mona
Plant date:Aug 4, 2007
Location: Field Forrest
City:Durham
County:Middlesex
State:Connecticut
Boxes:1
Found by: My Hopeful Bunny
Last found:Apr 21, 2020
Status:FFFFFFFFFFFFaOFFFF
Last edited:Aug 4, 2007
This box was missing for over a year, but I finally got out to replace it. Clues have been changed on 4/12/12 so please reprint them before you head out.


Take route 17 in Durham (Main Street) to Picket Lane which
is right near Strong School. Strong School is right on route 17. Take Picket Lane all the way to the end to Coginchaug High School and park in the rear parking lot past the basketball court and the track.

The trailhead is in the Northeast corner.

There have been several sightings of a black bear/bears in Durham in the past few weeks and as that is not a common occurrence in this neck of the woods we decided it was time to celebrate this awesome animal with a stamp.

Follow the red/blue trail, crossing over a stream and continue up hill. Following the red/blue you will take a sharp right, do not go straight and in a short distance take the trail to the left, not the trail south with the fallen log.( I have word that the fallen log has been cut and is no longer there, so make sure you stay left. Go downhill and up again, passing a tree close to the trail with roots exposed. Keep going until you come to the intersection of blue/red and orange. Follow that until you come to orange. Follow orange past a small stonewall on the left, at the next orange blazed tree on the left, look right to a very splintered snag. Behind the snag lies the box, tucked between the snag and a fallen tree.

Please, please rehide the box well.
To return to your car retrace your steps.