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2 Sisters LbNA #54197

Owner:Adoptable
Plant date:Jun 28, 2010
Location:
City:Schiller Park
County:Cook
State:Illinois
Boxes:1
Planted by:Urban Trails Familia
Found by: frequent.adventurer
Last found:Nov 7, 2010
Status:FF
Last edited:Jun 28, 2010
***UPDATED MAY 5, 2011: LOOK AT NOTES WRITTEN IN CAPS***


The 2 Sisters in the Urban Trails Familia share July as their birth-month. We call it the birth-month because our familia is so big, birthday cards & gifts are bound to arrive through out the entire month. We planted this Letterbox to start of their festivities.

This box can be found at Schiller Woods South, Grove #15. The parking lot is on the south side of Irving Park Rd., right next to the Des Plaines River. At the entry to the grove (in front of the parking lot), you will see a black post - it marks this as Grove #15.

If you stand just east of this post and glance THROUGH 2 trees in the southwestern direction, you can see a hollowed-out tree that still stands, walk toward this tree. Just behind this tree, there is a path. Get on this path and head south. Keep the Des Plaines on your right, and you will be headed in the right direction. Soon on your left you will see 2 trees standing close together, as if they were 2 Sisters,(NOTE: CHECKED ON MAY1ST,2011 : THE MENTIONED TREE IS NO LONGER BEING HELD BY THE TWO TREES, BUT YOU WILL SEE SEVERAL TREES LAYING ON THE PATH ON THE SAME SPOT) carefully holding a tree that has fallen - much like the 2 Sisters of the Urban Trails Familia care for their little brother. Stay on the path & take another 110 or 117 paces (depending on which of the 2 Sisters you ask) south until you see another set of 2 Sister trees on your right. No, the box is not here, but directly across from these trees you will see a tree laying in front of another set of 2 Sister trees. Under that log, directly in front of the big sister, is the prize you seek.

If you do this in the summer time, walk quietly & slowly & you will run into pretty butterflies & graceful deer - we did when we planted it! The butterflies are pretty, but the mosquitoes are thirsty, so do not forget the bug spray!