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Our Ammo Box LbNA #54515

Owner:Calli-K
Plant date:Jul 10, 2010
Location:
City:Fossil
County:Wheeler
State:Oregon
Boxes:1
Found by: The Bear Team
Last found:Jul 23, 2013
Status:FFF
Last edited:Jul 10, 2010
Drawn by my daughter, who finally picked a trail name for herself:
“Look Mom, I finally Tricked a Pailname”

I’ve told her many times, “you’ve gotta pick a trail name for yourself.” This time I got my tongue twisted around my lips and said “when are you going to trick a pailname”? So that’s where her brand-new trail name comes from – too funny – maybe you had to be there...

Anyhow, we were camped together at Bear Hollow Campground a few miles south of Fossil, Oregon, trying to think of something to use as an idea for this on-site joint-effort letterbox creation. Looking around we decided on the old ammo box we have used for family camping ever since I can remember. It serves as a container for all the “kitchen” items usually used when tent camping. The image you see in this box is the back corner of our ammo box, drawn by my daughter and carved by me. You’ll have to find the box to see her new signature stamp – appropriate to her new trail name of course!

NOTE: The view coming down the mountains from Antelope into Clarno is really stupendous – don’t forget to stop, park, and gaze back down the mountain if Clarno was your last stop and you are traveling from Clarno to Antelope on your way home – my first time through the Fossil Beds I didn’t even think to do that. On this, my second, visit I made the visit visiting Clarno first instead, and realized what I had missed the first time through. Truly a Journey Through Time.

CLUES: From Fossil, Oregon, go south on hwy 19 about 7 miles or so (some sites said 13 miles, but I don’t think it was that far) and watch for the sign to Bear Hollow Campground on the right. Pass that campground and continue a few more miles, about 3 or so, to Shelton Wayside Campground, also on the right. Find the small footbridge that crosses the creek between sites 12 and 15. Cross the creek, go up the hill a ways, look for two stumps on your left – the box is hidden in one of them.

From Spray, Oregon, travel north on hwy 19 and reverse the above directions above. Fossil to Spray is about 30 miles, a section of highway you would be traveling if you are visiting all three of the John Day Fossil Bed Units. This section is between the Clarno Unit and the Sheep Rock Unit.