Wedding Cake LbNA #39248
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Apr 1, 2008 |
| Location: | |
| City: | East Haddam |
| County: | Middlesex |
| State: | Connecticut |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Planted by: | SwampYankee&Sunshine  |
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| Found by: | Nairon |
| Last found: | Jan 16, 2022 |
| Status: | FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF |
| Last edited: | Apr 1, 2008 |
Wedding Cake
This box was planted at our daughter’s wedding, to celebrate the day, by our long time friends, Hez and Grumpy. Not only did they help with the festivities, but the box was like the icing on the cake! You guys are the BEST!! Also, a BIG Thank You to CHTHiker for providing the stamp!! The wedding took place on a beach of the Connecticut River in Portland at a private facility, and this box is now in the Chapman Pond Preserve in East Haddam on River Road. Take River Rd. from Rte. 82. Go a short distance, and when the road curves sharply to the left, you will see the access road on the right. There is parking for several cars a little way in from the main road. The day we planted, however, the access was very muddy so we parked out on the road. Use your discretion. The trail is a lollipop, white blazed loop trail, and leads down to Chapman Pond which is on the shore of the river. Water proof boots would be the best footwear, unless it’s summer and you like to hike in sturdy sandals. Your choice.
Bring the clues for a county box as well as one for a very widely used fastener. Toad’s First Retrieve, and Lost and Found are also here, transplanted from Hurd Park.
To find the Wedding Cake, enter the woods on the wide white blazed trail. Shortly it will be joined on the right by the other end of the loop. Take the left fork. Continue as the trail goes gently downhill for a while and then a bit more steeply. After a few minutes you will pass through a stonewall. Go to the large hemlock with the Nature Sanctuary sign on it, just passed the wall. Go 12 steps at 350 degrees to the wall on the same side as the hemlock. Look at ground level behind some rocks, in the base of the wall.
We would encourage you to continue on and stamp in to the rest of the boxes here. It is very pretty the further you go and eventually you look out on Chapman Pond. The loop goes all the way around and back up to where you started. Be careful to watch the blazes so you don’t miss any turns along the way.
This box was planted at our daughter’s wedding, to celebrate the day, by our long time friends, Hez and Grumpy. Not only did they help with the festivities, but the box was like the icing on the cake! You guys are the BEST!! Also, a BIG Thank You to CHTHiker for providing the stamp!! The wedding took place on a beach of the Connecticut River in Portland at a private facility, and this box is now in the Chapman Pond Preserve in East Haddam on River Road. Take River Rd. from Rte. 82. Go a short distance, and when the road curves sharply to the left, you will see the access road on the right. There is parking for several cars a little way in from the main road. The day we planted, however, the access was very muddy so we parked out on the road. Use your discretion. The trail is a lollipop, white blazed loop trail, and leads down to Chapman Pond which is on the shore of the river. Water proof boots would be the best footwear, unless it’s summer and you like to hike in sturdy sandals. Your choice.
Bring the clues for a county box as well as one for a very widely used fastener. Toad’s First Retrieve, and Lost and Found are also here, transplanted from Hurd Park.
To find the Wedding Cake, enter the woods on the wide white blazed trail. Shortly it will be joined on the right by the other end of the loop. Take the left fork. Continue as the trail goes gently downhill for a while and then a bit more steeply. After a few minutes you will pass through a stonewall. Go to the large hemlock with the Nature Sanctuary sign on it, just passed the wall. Go 12 steps at 350 degrees to the wall on the same side as the hemlock. Look at ground level behind some rocks, in the base of the wall.
We would encourage you to continue on and stamp in to the rest of the boxes here. It is very pretty the further you go and eventually you look out on Chapman Pond. The loop goes all the way around and back up to where you started. Be careful to watch the blazes so you don’t miss any turns along the way.