Creek Road/Morgan Lake. LbNA #52511
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Add Location| Owner: | Racoon in the Baloon  |
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| Plant date: | Mar 18, 2010 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Poughkeepsie |
| County: | Dutchess |
| State: | New York |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Found by: | W.O.W. Explorers |
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| Last found: | Oct 14, 2012 |
| Status: | FFa |
| Last edited: | Mar 18, 2010 |
NOTICE: Due to construction work on the new section of the Dutchess Rail Trail (Morgan Lake to Parker Avenue), the directions below were revised in October of 2013.
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This box is located along the Maybrook Line, an out-of-service rail corridor that contains the Dutchess Rail Trail, Walkill Valley Rail Trail, and the Poughkeepsie/Highland Railroad Bridge, each of which have been converted into pedestrian walkways for the general public to enjoy.
Due to a lack of talent on the part of the stamp-carver, it also contains exactly the same hand-carved stamp as the box that was placed in the City of Beacon. If you do not want to collect two of the same stamp impression, then this box at Morgan Lake may not be the box for you, and we apologize for any inconvenience that this may cause you.
It was hidden during late winter/early spring. For this reason, it might be surrounded by poison ivy/deer ticks in the event that you try to search for it during any time of year when there is vegetation on the ground and/or green leaves on the trees. Furthermore, it is filled with junk.
In order to reach this box, it is first necessary to reach the Creek Road Walkway Station, which is part of the Dutchess Rail Trail. This rail trail station/walkway station is adjacent to Morgan Lake. Morgan Lake is located on Creek Road in the Town of Poughkeepsie, and it is roughly half a mile south of the Main Campus of Dutchess Community College. The main campus of Dutchess Community College is located at the intersection of Pendell Road and Creek Road.
Once you reach the Walkway Station, you will be able to see two on-ramps to the walkway (in lieu of a platform for you to wait for your train, they instead have on-ramps for you to accelerate your vehicle downward through Earth's gravity well). One on-ramp is an eastbound on-ramp for eastbound bicycles/pedestrians, which carries you in the direction of the Overrocker Road Walkway Station. But in order to reach the box, you must walk down the westbound on-ramp, which carries you in the direction of the Poughkeepsie/Highland Railroad Bridge on the Maybrook Line. The Poughkeepsie/Highland Railroad Bridge carries the Maybrook Line across the Hudson River, in much the way that the Golden Gate Bridge carries California State Route One across the opening of San Francisco Bay.
There is a certain procedure that must be followed from this point onward. Please read this carefully.
1) You must walk (down the westbound on-ramp) until you reach a wooden signpost which is painted black. There will be two green signs. One sign will say "North Grand Avenue 0.8 mile," while the other sign will say "Walkway Over Hudson 1 mile."
2) When you reach the aforementioned signpost, stop walking. Then, carefully stand in such a way as to ensure that the the signpost is to your right. As you do this, your back will be facing west (in the direction of the Poughkeepsie/Highland Railroad Bridge), while your eyes will face east (in the direction of the Overrocker Road Walkway Station).
3) This will sound bizarre, but you must now walk a certain distance to the east. In order to measure the distance, I (the placer of the box) used my size eleven shoe as a measuring stick. The distance that I walked was 30 times the length of my size eleven shoe (in other words, I walked 30 shoe lengths).
My size eleven shoe is about 12 or 13 inches long (it is a basketball shoe), as far as I know.
4) Upon walking the prescribed distance, look to your right. As you do this, you will see a very thin tree stump. The tree was cut down at an angle. Make eye contact with this tree stump.
5) Walk to where the aforementioned tree stump is. If you do not wish to walk up a steep incline then you will have walk westward in order to enter the wooded area.
(The entire wooded area is filled with hazardous materials that one can easily trip over. For this reason, it is imperative that you watch your step at all times when going in there).
6) When you reach this tree stump you will find a pile of rocks at the base of the stump (the pile of rocks is north of the tree). Logs will be on top of the rocks, and the logs will be perpendicular to the rail line.
7) The box is hidden under the rocks. The box is ultimately hidden deep inside of a naturally occurring crevice in the ground. If you persist in removing rocks, then you will find the box. It will happen.
8) If it is highly probable that you may trip, then this may not be the box for you. If so, then we apologize for any inconvenience that this may cause you.
9) Due to the design of the new section of the Dutchess Rail Trail (Parker Avenue to Morgan Lake), it will be easy for pedestrians to see you searching for this box, so you might want to search for this box in the early morning when few pedestrians will see you. I apologize for this fact of life, as the box was placed several years before C.S.X. sold the new section of the rail trail to Dutchess County; therefore, the hiding spot was not readily visible like it is now.
Please use this box responsibly. Do not make it obvious (to those around you) that you are searching for (and looking at) a box. In addition, please re-hide this box carefully. This area is filled with a massive number of pedestrians, and we do not want any accidental findings of this box.
We also do not want any uneducated thieves to steal the contents of this box. Thank you very much.
Additional information:
This box contains items for trade (for whomever is interested in that type of thing). It also contains a hand-carved stamp, for all those who enjoy collecting stamp impressions in their personal logbooks.
The stamp is NOT a trade item. For the good of all those who use this box, the stamp cannot be removed from the box (if you remove the stamp from the box, then people will not be able to collect stamp impressions in their personal logbooks anymore, and that would be a shame).
This is a 50-calibre ammunition box, built to withstand horrible weather. This is one of those extremely nice boxes that people are excited about finding.
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This box is located along the Maybrook Line, an out-of-service rail corridor that contains the Dutchess Rail Trail, Walkill Valley Rail Trail, and the Poughkeepsie/Highland Railroad Bridge, each of which have been converted into pedestrian walkways for the general public to enjoy.
Due to a lack of talent on the part of the stamp-carver, it also contains exactly the same hand-carved stamp as the box that was placed in the City of Beacon. If you do not want to collect two of the same stamp impression, then this box at Morgan Lake may not be the box for you, and we apologize for any inconvenience that this may cause you.
It was hidden during late winter/early spring. For this reason, it might be surrounded by poison ivy/deer ticks in the event that you try to search for it during any time of year when there is vegetation on the ground and/or green leaves on the trees. Furthermore, it is filled with junk.
In order to reach this box, it is first necessary to reach the Creek Road Walkway Station, which is part of the Dutchess Rail Trail. This rail trail station/walkway station is adjacent to Morgan Lake. Morgan Lake is located on Creek Road in the Town of Poughkeepsie, and it is roughly half a mile south of the Main Campus of Dutchess Community College. The main campus of Dutchess Community College is located at the intersection of Pendell Road and Creek Road.
Once you reach the Walkway Station, you will be able to see two on-ramps to the walkway (in lieu of a platform for you to wait for your train, they instead have on-ramps for you to accelerate your vehicle downward through Earth's gravity well). One on-ramp is an eastbound on-ramp for eastbound bicycles/pedestrians, which carries you in the direction of the Overrocker Road Walkway Station. But in order to reach the box, you must walk down the westbound on-ramp, which carries you in the direction of the Poughkeepsie/Highland Railroad Bridge on the Maybrook Line. The Poughkeepsie/Highland Railroad Bridge carries the Maybrook Line across the Hudson River, in much the way that the Golden Gate Bridge carries California State Route One across the opening of San Francisco Bay.
There is a certain procedure that must be followed from this point onward. Please read this carefully.
1) You must walk (down the westbound on-ramp) until you reach a wooden signpost which is painted black. There will be two green signs. One sign will say "North Grand Avenue 0.8 mile," while the other sign will say "Walkway Over Hudson 1 mile."
2) When you reach the aforementioned signpost, stop walking. Then, carefully stand in such a way as to ensure that the the signpost is to your right. As you do this, your back will be facing west (in the direction of the Poughkeepsie/Highland Railroad Bridge), while your eyes will face east (in the direction of the Overrocker Road Walkway Station).
3) This will sound bizarre, but you must now walk a certain distance to the east. In order to measure the distance, I (the placer of the box) used my size eleven shoe as a measuring stick. The distance that I walked was 30 times the length of my size eleven shoe (in other words, I walked 30 shoe lengths).
My size eleven shoe is about 12 or 13 inches long (it is a basketball shoe), as far as I know.
4) Upon walking the prescribed distance, look to your right. As you do this, you will see a very thin tree stump. The tree was cut down at an angle. Make eye contact with this tree stump.
5) Walk to where the aforementioned tree stump is. If you do not wish to walk up a steep incline then you will have walk westward in order to enter the wooded area.
(The entire wooded area is filled with hazardous materials that one can easily trip over. For this reason, it is imperative that you watch your step at all times when going in there).
6) When you reach this tree stump you will find a pile of rocks at the base of the stump (the pile of rocks is north of the tree). Logs will be on top of the rocks, and the logs will be perpendicular to the rail line.
7) The box is hidden under the rocks. The box is ultimately hidden deep inside of a naturally occurring crevice in the ground. If you persist in removing rocks, then you will find the box. It will happen.
8) If it is highly probable that you may trip, then this may not be the box for you. If so, then we apologize for any inconvenience that this may cause you.
9) Due to the design of the new section of the Dutchess Rail Trail (Parker Avenue to Morgan Lake), it will be easy for pedestrians to see you searching for this box, so you might want to search for this box in the early morning when few pedestrians will see you. I apologize for this fact of life, as the box was placed several years before C.S.X. sold the new section of the rail trail to Dutchess County; therefore, the hiding spot was not readily visible like it is now.
Please use this box responsibly. Do not make it obvious (to those around you) that you are searching for (and looking at) a box. In addition, please re-hide this box carefully. This area is filled with a massive number of pedestrians, and we do not want any accidental findings of this box.
We also do not want any uneducated thieves to steal the contents of this box. Thank you very much.
Additional information:
This box contains items for trade (for whomever is interested in that type of thing). It also contains a hand-carved stamp, for all those who enjoy collecting stamp impressions in their personal logbooks.
The stamp is NOT a trade item. For the good of all those who use this box, the stamp cannot be removed from the box (if you remove the stamp from the box, then people will not be able to collect stamp impressions in their personal logbooks anymore, and that would be a shame).
This is a 50-calibre ammunition box, built to withstand horrible weather. This is one of those extremely nice boxes that people are excited about finding.