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SGFDHM Series: Box 2 - Laputa: Castle in the Sky LbNA #47060

Owner:Adoptable
Plant date:May 3, 2009
Location:
City:Midway
County:Wasatch
State:Utah
Boxes:1
Planted by:Moo Poo
Found by: Adventurous Campers
Last found:Sep 1, 2014
Status:FFFFFFFF
Last edited:May 3, 2009
Studio Ghibli Films Directed by Hayao Miyazaki Series:
BOX 2 – Laputa: Castle in the Sky Letterbox

Created and Placed by: Moo Poo
1 Hand-Carved Stamp

Hayao Miyazaki is a well-known filmmaker of many popular animated feature films. He is also a co-founder of Studio Ghibli, an animation studio and production company. He remained largely unknown to the West, outside of animation communities, until Miramax released his 1997 Princess Mononoke. By that time, his films had already enjoyed both commercial and critical success in Japan and Central Asia. Miyazaki's films often incorporate recurrent themes, such as humanity's relationship to nature and technology, and the difficulty of maintaining a peacekeeper ethic. Reflecting Miyazaki's feminism, the protagonists of his films are often strong, independent girls or young women; the villains, when present, are often morally ambiguous characters with redeeming qualities.

1986
天空の城ラピュタ
“Tenku no Shiro Rapyuta”
Pazu is an apprentice to an engineer who maintains a mine’s elevator machinery. One night, while he’s carrying dinner to the mine, he looks up and notices a young unconscious girl descending from the sky with a glowing pendant around her neck. Pazu befriends the girl, Sheeta, and the two of them head off on an adventure while being chased by air-pirates, the army, and a government agent. All three parties are obsessed with Laputa, a legendary kingdom on a floating island in the sky. Sheeta and her pendant are believed to have a connection with Laputa, and her marauding foes will do all they can to catch her.
The name Laputa comes from the name of the floating island in Jonathan Swift's novel Gulliver's Travels.
It is the first film created and released by Studio Ghibli, although it is often considered the second, since Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind was created by the founding members two years before.
The film was released on DVD in the US on April 15, 2003. The English-dub version stars many famous voice actors including Cloris Leachman, Mark Hamill, James Van Der Beek, and Anna Paquin.

Directions:
Sorry, no dogs allowed.
From Heber: Turn onto 100 S/ Hwy 113 W. In Midway, take a left on Center St/ Hwy 113 S following the brown “Soldier Hollow” signs. Take a right at Tate Lane and then a left at the “T” at the end of the road (left is Soldier Hollow Lane). You’ll pass an old barn on the left, then an equestrian trailhead (also on the left), and then a parking area with bathrooms. After this parking area is a road on the left. There is a sign reading “Chalet” that points down this road. Park at the end of the road.
From Provo Canyon: Take US-189 to Heber City. Take a left at S 3600 W/ S Charleston Rd/ UT-113. Take a left at Tate Lane and then a left at the “T” at the end of the road (left is Soldier Hollow Lane). You’ll pass an old barn on the left, then an equestrian trailhead (also on the left), and then a parking area with bathrooms. After this parking area is a road on the left. There is a sign reading “Chalet” that points down this road. Park at the end of the road.

Clues:
1) Go through the green gate onto the Deer Creek North Trailhead.
2) Follow the trail as it goes in-between giant trees that remind me of the tree in Laputa: Castle in the Sky.
3) The trail curves left.
4) Train tracks are on your left as the trail curves right.
5) You’ll walk over a ditch and pass a sign on the right that reads, “No horses past this point.”
6) On the right are large “slick-rock” boulders…and I mean LARGE.
7) If you stand on the trail with the lake to your back, you’ll notice that you can cut this “slick-rock’ area into three sections. The left section has a big slick rock face. The center section has the LARGEST slick rock face. The right section has many small clusters of slick rock. The right section is where you want to go up.
8) Start where two rock boulders are closest to the trail (remember, these rock boulders are still part of the right section)…these two rocks are across from one-another. Walk up the trail in-between them. Go straight up the slope. Do your best to step on rocks so as not to harm the top soil…or to make a social trail up to the hiding spot.
9) You’ll come to a rusting clump of barbed wire. Start on the right side of the barbed wire. Count 17 steps on uphill.
10) You’ll end up where small trees surround a large boulder on the left. The Castle in the Sky is in a hole within the boulder. It’s hidden behind some little rocks.
11) Since I am unable to check on the box, please contact me with an update on how my letterbox is doing! Blazehime7@aol.com
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