Polar Bears LbNA #60739
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Add Location| Owner: | Prince Igor  |
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| Plant date: | Feb 5, 2012 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Troy |
| County: | Oakland |
| State: | Michigan |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Found by: | Plymouth Seekers |
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| Last found: | Sep 30, 2022 |
| Status: | FFFFFaOF |
| Last edited: | Feb 5, 2012 |
This letterbox is dedicated to the American doughboys who fought the Bolsheviks (nicknamed Bolos) at the end and after WWI in the Archangel region of Russia. The majority of the soldiers were from Michigan because it was thought that Michigan men were more used to cold, snowy weather, such as would be encountered in the frozen forests of northern Russia, They gave themselves the nickname “The Polar Bears”.
Many of the Polar Bears are interned in a section on the SW corner of White Chapel Cemetery. The section is easy to find because this section has a beautifully carved monument of a polar bear. Surrounding the polar bear, in a circle, are the graves of 56 doughboys. They were brought back from Russia in 1929 for reinterment in the US.
Also in this section, there is a Michigan Historical Marker that gives a brief synopsis of the Polar Bears and their campaign against the Bolos. When reading the marker, make note of what the granite base of the monument symbolizes. This word is “A” in clue 1.
Much fighting occurred in the area near Shenkursk, Russia, which is about 355 versts from Archangel. Versts is an archaic Russian unit of measurement. Convert versts into miles. This number is “B” in clue 2.
Besides the Spanish flu and Bolo bullets, the Polar Bears also had to worry about frostbite. Temperatures during the winter would dip to a degree that is the same on both the Fahrenheit and Celsius scale. What is that temperature? This number, without the minus sign, is “C” in clue 3.
Time to start marching.
1. From the front base of the monument, head towards and go past the graves of Pvts. Irvin Wenger and Archie Russell. Keep marching in that direction until you come to word “A”.
2. From that mighty word, turn “B” degrees and start marching again. You will eventually come to an object that was practically useless to the Polar Bears in the winter time, but work almost around the clock in the summer time.
3. From the object, face “C” degrees. You will see a rock ledge in front of you. Under the rock ledge, behind a rock, in a camo bag, is the letterbox.
Many of the Polar Bears are interned in a section on the SW corner of White Chapel Cemetery. The section is easy to find because this section has a beautifully carved monument of a polar bear. Surrounding the polar bear, in a circle, are the graves of 56 doughboys. They were brought back from Russia in 1929 for reinterment in the US.
Also in this section, there is a Michigan Historical Marker that gives a brief synopsis of the Polar Bears and their campaign against the Bolos. When reading the marker, make note of what the granite base of the monument symbolizes. This word is “A” in clue 1.
Much fighting occurred in the area near Shenkursk, Russia, which is about 355 versts from Archangel. Versts is an archaic Russian unit of measurement. Convert versts into miles. This number is “B” in clue 2.
Besides the Spanish flu and Bolo bullets, the Polar Bears also had to worry about frostbite. Temperatures during the winter would dip to a degree that is the same on both the Fahrenheit and Celsius scale. What is that temperature? This number, without the minus sign, is “C” in clue 3.
Time to start marching.
1. From the front base of the monument, head towards and go past the graves of Pvts. Irvin Wenger and Archie Russell. Keep marching in that direction until you come to word “A”.
2. From that mighty word, turn “B” degrees and start marching again. You will eventually come to an object that was practically useless to the Polar Bears in the winter time, but work almost around the clock in the summer time.
3. From the object, face “C” degrees. You will see a rock ledge in front of you. Under the rock ledge, behind a rock, in a camo bag, is the letterbox.