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Blue Moon LbNA #67666

Owner:Adoptable
Plant date:Oct 17, 2012
Location: Hubbard Hills
City:Viroqua
County:Vernon
State:Wisconsin
Boxes:1
Planted by:Gnomes and Fairies
Found by: wolf trackers
Last found:Nov 3, 2013
Status:F
Last edited:Oct 17, 2012
You can only find this letterbox once in a Blue Moon.

When our son turned 10 is was on the August blue moon of 2012. For his birthday we hid a letterbox, but it (mysteriously) disappeared the same day we hid it and was never seen again. (It is rare to see a blue moon, but that letterbox blue moon was even more rare. We never saw again.)

And so, true to the Blue Moon metaphor we made a second full moon stamp for this letterbox. It only seems appropriate.

Happy (belated) 10th Blue Moon birthday, Sage!

From downtown Viroqua, head south until you see a street named for a tree that makes a sweet late winter/early spring treat. Turn west and travel past the "Dead End" sign. Park just before the row of evergreens (on the right) that edge a large open field.

Walk the final half-block past the fire hydrant and the tree farm sign.

Are you planning on lighting any fires? Smoking? Drinking alcohol? If not then you are welcome to come in (Between 8 AM and 8 PM that is.) The sign stating these rules lets you know you're in the right place.

Walk two paces past the gate and take a bearing of 240. Choose this trail.

Before you run off crazy-style into the forest, make a note of the shape this trail is about to take through the woods. You'll need to know the shape to proceed to the letterbox!

Follow the winding path around a curve and past a bench. Keep going. Look up. What kind of trees are these? On my first few visits I assumed they were red pine, but it turns out they're not. Stay on this trail until you pop out of the tree plantation and back into the sunshine (or rain).

The trail you just walked made a backwards letter. That letter is one of the four cardinal directions. Go roughly in the direction (closer to 190 degrees) of the (backwards) letter until you reach an evergreen tree beyond the bottom of the hill. Do you see it? Get there any way you can (directly or by following the nearest trail).

This tree stands guard over a Y intersection. Take the left/uphill/southern trail and proceed to the top of the hill. Follow the curve to the right and back into the forest, keeping left at any minor crossroads. You will be following a fence line that separates a strip of woods from a farm field.

Go past the large fallen, barkless tree on the left. Soon you'll be back in the open. If you look up you should be able to see power lines in the distance, and straight north (right) is the spruce plantation you just walked through.

Continue past the bench and back into the woods once more. You will be walking due west, straight toward a tree line (oaks and maples if you're wondering). Turn left at the Y and follow the short comma-shaped path before the next junction.

At the junction go left again. Walk to the fence post nearest the trail before you.

With your back to the fence post you have a choice to take the trail to the left, the center, or back to where you came from. Choose the trail to the left, but don't go yet. Look up first and find the tree with crazy arms reaching out and up every which way. Walk to it.

Keep going downhill, perhaps in the slippery mud. Look for a broken off tree between two benches. Go to this tree and stand with your back to it.

Look ahead. Do you see the tree with the huge broken limb? Go to it.

From the broken-limbed tree the trails seem to go in all directions! Go to the left-most trail from the direction you just walked (at a bearing of ~ 280/W.)
Just to the side of this trail's beginning you will see a pair of trees that come almost together at the ground. There is a short, dead, decomposing limb reaching upward on the left tree. Yeah. That one. The box is here, hidden away beneath some bark.

Rehide the box well!