Gila LbNA #63330
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Add Location| Owner: | Azroadie  |
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| Plant date: | Oct 14, 2012 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Gila Hot Springs |
| County: | Grant |
| State: | New Mexico |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Found by: | Dawgdok |
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| Last found: | Mar 9, 2018 |
| Status: | FFF |
| Last edited: | Apr 5, 2022 |
Walk difficulty: easy
Distance: very short
Stamp hand-carved
Status: alive and well on July 20, 2015
This letterbox is placed along State Highway 15, a very scenic byway that goes through the Gila NF and Gila Wilderness area and ends at the Gila River and Gila Cliff Dwellings NM. The box is located north of the junction with State Highway 35, so you may use Hwy. 35, which actually is a better road, to get to the junction. Just past mile marker 32 look for the brown National Forest sign for "Copperas Vista". At the left turn into the vista area there is a roadside sign titled "Senator Clinton P. Anderson Wilderness Overlook". This is the same place as the Copperas Vista. Park in the vista lot.
Walk back towards the entrance, stop at the large Alligator Juniper tree on the left, just before the cattle guard.
Sight at 20*, walk 12 steps forward, you should be standing on a black pipe with a tree/shrub at your left shoulder.
Sight at 15* and walk forward 15 steps to a very weathered downed tree split into 2 pieces.
There is a small diameter burned stump to the left of the downed tree.
Near the middle of the downed tree the split forms a "V". The box is in the "V" under a flat rock covered with some pieces of bark and other plant debris.
Please please be sure the contents are double ziplocked when you put them back in the box (i.e. the stamp is in a ziploc, the book is in a ziploc, and the two are in the larger ziploc bag). Please put the lid on tight. Please rehide the box well under the flat rock and covered with plant debris so that it can not be seen from any direction.
Contact me if the box needs attention:
http://members.cox.net/azroadie66/index.html
Please record your find at www.letterboxing.org/ or at www.atlasquest.com/ .
If you live in Arizona or New Mexico or have an interest in letterboxes in those states, you are invited to join the Letterboxing Southwest Discussion Group. Go here to join: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LetterboxingSouthwest/ .
Distance: very short
Stamp hand-carved
Status: alive and well on July 20, 2015
This letterbox is placed along State Highway 15, a very scenic byway that goes through the Gila NF and Gila Wilderness area and ends at the Gila River and Gila Cliff Dwellings NM. The box is located north of the junction with State Highway 35, so you may use Hwy. 35, which actually is a better road, to get to the junction. Just past mile marker 32 look for the brown National Forest sign for "Copperas Vista". At the left turn into the vista area there is a roadside sign titled "Senator Clinton P. Anderson Wilderness Overlook". This is the same place as the Copperas Vista. Park in the vista lot.
Walk back towards the entrance, stop at the large Alligator Juniper tree on the left, just before the cattle guard.
Sight at 20*, walk 12 steps forward, you should be standing on a black pipe with a tree/shrub at your left shoulder.
Sight at 15* and walk forward 15 steps to a very weathered downed tree split into 2 pieces.
There is a small diameter burned stump to the left of the downed tree.
Near the middle of the downed tree the split forms a "V". The box is in the "V" under a flat rock covered with some pieces of bark and other plant debris.
Please please be sure the contents are double ziplocked when you put them back in the box (i.e. the stamp is in a ziploc, the book is in a ziploc, and the two are in the larger ziploc bag). Please put the lid on tight. Please rehide the box well under the flat rock and covered with plant debris so that it can not be seen from any direction.
Contact me if the box needs attention:
http://members.cox.net/azroadie66/index.html
Please record your find at www.letterboxing.org/ or at www.atlasquest.com/ .
If you live in Arizona or New Mexico or have an interest in letterboxes in those states, you are invited to join the Letterboxing Southwest Discussion Group. Go here to join: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LetterboxingSouthwest/ .