Time's Wingéd Chariot LbNA #52640 (ARCHIVED)
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Nov 11, 2009 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Ithaca |
| County: | Tompkins |
| State: | New York |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Planted by: | Jayanjas  |
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| Found by: | Not yet found! |
| Last found: | N/A |
| Status: | r |
| Last edited: | Nov 11, 2009 |
But at my back I always hear
Time's wingéd chariot hurrying near;
And yonder all before us lie
Deserts of vast eternity.
(from Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress," 1682)
Hurry to find Time's Wingéd Chariot in Coy Glen on Ithaca's West Hill. Near Coreogonel. Nearer still to Tutelo Park. Up Bostwick, right up Culver. Steep! When Culver Rd. gets a bit less steep, a Right Swerve Sign (a smoother swerve than the Right Zigzag below it) warns you you're close, so slow down. If you reach the 3-way Poole Rd/Elm St Ext/Culver Rd intersection, you've gone about 1900 feet too far. On left, the Undeveloped Town Park of Ithaca's Dress Woods Preserve has signs for Posted Town Park/Trail, No Dumping, Town of Ithaca Preserve Boundary Line and you are very very close. Across from this Town Nature Preserve, stop at a farm road with cable strung across and another Posted Sign hung on it. At some times of the year, a Cornell Plantations Notice at this entrance warns visitors that the Deer Bow Hunting season makes it a good idea to wear bright clothes. Cornell has issued many hunting permits here, hoping to reduce the huge white-tail herd that's destroying this woods by browsing more than it can sustain. During the Deer Firearm Hunting season, from November 18 to December 13, 2009, this Natural Area is open only to hunters wearing official colors. Outside of deer hunting season, the CU Plantation hunting advice signs are taken down, but posted signs stay up year-round. Even before you reach Cornell property, the Davenports have posted their land just north of Culver Road. As this is a Natural Area, please be gentle on the earth! Don't bring crowds! Walk softly! Carry big sticks and be careful not to skid on the slippery parts where you could rip up moss and ferns.
Enter at this posted farm road. Make sure you're at the grassy road just across from Dress Woods, and Ithaca Town Park (another farm road downhill of here has similar sign and cable across it, and if that's where 3Bears went by mistake, may be locked.) If you've got a car, park at roadside here, or you can unhook cable from tree on the right (it's not locked, has tricky tangle of baling wire, tape, and a cable hook that unhooks from tree) to get in and park a short way up road. In a field straight ahead from this mowed road, a Y has a posted "hunting trail" sign to left (again, this will be removed outside of hunting season; the rest of the time it's a simple Posted by Davenport 342 4439 sign), and another posted sign straight/right heading east. You'll see a couple tall apple trees that way, with more apple trees in a line and another Y in mowed way. Take the leftish fork to a great-pumpkin-sized boulder with a Brass Plaque noting "The Howard Worden Babcock Preserve, a Cornell Plantations Natural Area was given to the University by John Butler Babcock in honor of his sister Barbara Babcock Payne 1996." Once you've found this boulder, you're nearly half-way there, at the border of Davenport and Cornell lands; the rest has some real steep parts, though, so stop hurrying! Keep heading straight ("straight" as in more or less the same direction as the mowed way you took from Culver Rd) down into the woods toward the creek in a steep gorge ENE of here. There are no trails in this area, but if you take the easiest way following deer tracks and big piles of fresh deer poop east-north-eastward down through hemlock, ferns, mixed hardwoods, you'll soon come to a very steep gorge around the creek. Not many easy ways to the water! If you take the easiest and safest shortest route from boulder, tending a bit rightward along deer tracks, you'll be at the upper edge of a little zigzag shelf with a six-foot waterfall tumbling down into a cliff-sided chasm with trees tumbled in and across it. Upstream a straight section of flat shallow glide heads north-west. If you measure twenty steps from the downstream south-east edge of this glide heading upstream NNW, on your left you'll note a right-angled notch in the cliff at creek's SW bank. About four feet above the rock you're walking on, a shallow shelf has a SPOR hiding our TWC letterbox. Please re-hide carefully so winter's ice and snow don't knock the box off shelf! If you like, you can get back to Culver Rd by continuing along this creek uphill to the bridge on Elm St. Ext, then back left on the Culver Rd intersection. That way is not so steep, but much longer, with lots more creek-side cliff views. If you find our box, we'd love to hear from you here at letterboxing.org!
Time's wingéd chariot hurrying near;
And yonder all before us lie
Deserts of vast eternity.
(from Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress," 1682)
Hurry to find Time's Wingéd Chariot in Coy Glen on Ithaca's West Hill. Near Coreogonel. Nearer still to Tutelo Park. Up Bostwick, right up Culver. Steep! When Culver Rd. gets a bit less steep, a Right Swerve Sign (a smoother swerve than the Right Zigzag below it) warns you you're close, so slow down. If you reach the 3-way Poole Rd/Elm St Ext/Culver Rd intersection, you've gone about 1900 feet too far. On left, the Undeveloped Town Park of Ithaca's Dress Woods Preserve has signs for Posted Town Park/Trail, No Dumping, Town of Ithaca Preserve Boundary Line and you are very very close. Across from this Town Nature Preserve, stop at a farm road with cable strung across and another Posted Sign hung on it. At some times of the year, a Cornell Plantations Notice at this entrance warns visitors that the Deer Bow Hunting season makes it a good idea to wear bright clothes. Cornell has issued many hunting permits here, hoping to reduce the huge white-tail herd that's destroying this woods by browsing more than it can sustain. During the Deer Firearm Hunting season, from November 18 to December 13, 2009, this Natural Area is open only to hunters wearing official colors. Outside of deer hunting season, the CU Plantation hunting advice signs are taken down, but posted signs stay up year-round. Even before you reach Cornell property, the Davenports have posted their land just north of Culver Road. As this is a Natural Area, please be gentle on the earth! Don't bring crowds! Walk softly! Carry big sticks and be careful not to skid on the slippery parts where you could rip up moss and ferns.
Enter at this posted farm road. Make sure you're at the grassy road just across from Dress Woods, and Ithaca Town Park (another farm road downhill of here has similar sign and cable across it, and if that's where 3Bears went by mistake, may be locked.) If you've got a car, park at roadside here, or you can unhook cable from tree on the right (it's not locked, has tricky tangle of baling wire, tape, and a cable hook that unhooks from tree) to get in and park a short way up road. In a field straight ahead from this mowed road, a Y has a posted "hunting trail" sign to left (again, this will be removed outside of hunting season; the rest of the time it's a simple Posted by Davenport 342 4439 sign), and another posted sign straight/right heading east. You'll see a couple tall apple trees that way, with more apple trees in a line and another Y in mowed way. Take the leftish fork to a great-pumpkin-sized boulder with a Brass Plaque noting "The Howard Worden Babcock Preserve, a Cornell Plantations Natural Area was given to the University by John Butler Babcock in honor of his sister Barbara Babcock Payne 1996." Once you've found this boulder, you're nearly half-way there, at the border of Davenport and Cornell lands; the rest has some real steep parts, though, so stop hurrying! Keep heading straight ("straight" as in more or less the same direction as the mowed way you took from Culver Rd) down into the woods toward the creek in a steep gorge ENE of here. There are no trails in this area, but if you take the easiest way following deer tracks and big piles of fresh deer poop east-north-eastward down through hemlock, ferns, mixed hardwoods, you'll soon come to a very steep gorge around the creek. Not many easy ways to the water! If you take the easiest and safest shortest route from boulder, tending a bit rightward along deer tracks, you'll be at the upper edge of a little zigzag shelf with a six-foot waterfall tumbling down into a cliff-sided chasm with trees tumbled in and across it. Upstream a straight section of flat shallow glide heads north-west. If you measure twenty steps from the downstream south-east edge of this glide heading upstream NNW, on your left you'll note a right-angled notch in the cliff at creek's SW bank. About four feet above the rock you're walking on, a shallow shelf has a SPOR hiding our TWC letterbox. Please re-hide carefully so winter's ice and snow don't knock the box off shelf! If you like, you can get back to Culver Rd by continuing along this creek uphill to the bridge on Elm St. Ext, then back left on the Culver Rd intersection. That way is not so steep, but much longer, with lots more creek-side cliff views. If you find our box, we'd love to hear from you here at letterboxing.org!