Love Letter Letterbox LbNA #70958
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Add Location| Owner: | Hello From Bakersfield  |
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| Plant date: | Feb 14, 2017 |
| Location: | Mouth of Kern River Canyon |
| City: | Bakersfield |
| County: | Kern |
| State: | California |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Found by: | Kelsung |
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| Last found: | Jan 21, 2024 |
| Status: | FFFOF |
| Last edited: | Jun 29, 2017 |
Love Letter
This box is dedicated to someone who
is of kind heart and of generous nature.
He can terminate wires and he can make a mean cup of coffee as well as roast up the beans.
He is a master of invention, a self-starter and an apiarist (honeybee keeper).
He has an adventurous spirit and, though hesitant, will
still go with you on a trip to Morocco during Ramadan.
His interior decorating sense is impeccable and he has a keen interest in politics and knows how to pilot an aircraft. He is an intense perfectionist and a talented photographer.
He is a loving dad and is very loved himself.
You may walk by him downtown!
You may see him drive by you on the street!
You may see him here!
This is one of his favorite places to go.
*Warning: you should have hiking shoes and be careful-steep descent, not easy footing and don't attempt in flip-flops!
Not a far hike at all, but steep and requires some dexterity.
Head East on 178 out of Bakersfield, towards the mouth of the canyon.
You are headed to what used to be the trail head for Jar Hill,
a hike that is now permanently closed as it was on private property (unless you have special permission from the owner ;) )
There is a YouTube video of the Jar Trail hike if you’d like to see what it was like: https://youtu.be/1YaUl2T_O8A
There are many legal hikes in the Kern Canyon and our favorites are in Exploring the Southern Sierra: West Side by JC Jenkins and Ruby Johnson Jenkins (excerpt below).
To find the Love Letter Letterbox, You should park at the mouth of the canyon on the north side. Drive off the left side of the road before entering the canyon by the wooden Kern Canyon Hydroelectric Project sign.
“Several points of interest can be observed at the mouth of the canyon. The scarp of the Kern Gorge fault reveals itself to the trained eye. Contact between the bedrock of the Sierra and soils of the San Joaquin can be seen here. Also, here you see the Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) power plant, built in 1912 with a capacity of six megawatts per hour. One megawatt of power supplies enough energy to light 1000 homes. The plant’s 2.0-mile aqueduct tunnels through the mountain on the north side of the river. The running ledge high above the river supported the aqueduct prior to the tunnel system."
Head NorthEast from the sign towards a large granite rock. At this rock, turn and head downhill directly towards river to the barbed wire fence. Be careful!
There is an opening in the barbed wire. Go through this opening and you will see a beautiful view of the river. Climb down towards the river over a couple of boulders straight ahead. Look to your left and you will see on the impressive rock to your left with striations and a horizontal gap. Behind the rocks there, including some asphalt, will be the box. After stamping in the notebook and taking your impression of the Love Letter stamp, carefully replace box and the rocks covering it.
You are very near the mouth of the canyon- just inside the canyon you immediately pass at road level to the right a tunnel that was cut along a quartz vein in search of gold.
Happy Valentine's Day now and always.
*Again, steep terrain and,as one family noted, do not allow your kids to run ahead. Use caution and wear hiking shoes or sneakers, no flipflops.
Hike length: 0.1 miles
This box is dedicated to someone who
is of kind heart and of generous nature.
He can terminate wires and he can make a mean cup of coffee as well as roast up the beans.
He is a master of invention, a self-starter and an apiarist (honeybee keeper).
He has an adventurous spirit and, though hesitant, will
still go with you on a trip to Morocco during Ramadan.
His interior decorating sense is impeccable and he has a keen interest in politics and knows how to pilot an aircraft. He is an intense perfectionist and a talented photographer.
He is a loving dad and is very loved himself.
You may walk by him downtown!
You may see him drive by you on the street!
You may see him here!
This is one of his favorite places to go.
*Warning: you should have hiking shoes and be careful-steep descent, not easy footing and don't attempt in flip-flops!
Not a far hike at all, but steep and requires some dexterity.
Head East on 178 out of Bakersfield, towards the mouth of the canyon.
You are headed to what used to be the trail head for Jar Hill,
a hike that is now permanently closed as it was on private property (unless you have special permission from the owner ;) )
There is a YouTube video of the Jar Trail hike if you’d like to see what it was like: https://youtu.be/1YaUl2T_O8A
There are many legal hikes in the Kern Canyon and our favorites are in Exploring the Southern Sierra: West Side by JC Jenkins and Ruby Johnson Jenkins (excerpt below).
To find the Love Letter Letterbox, You should park at the mouth of the canyon on the north side. Drive off the left side of the road before entering the canyon by the wooden Kern Canyon Hydroelectric Project sign.
“Several points of interest can be observed at the mouth of the canyon. The scarp of the Kern Gorge fault reveals itself to the trained eye. Contact between the bedrock of the Sierra and soils of the San Joaquin can be seen here. Also, here you see the Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) power plant, built in 1912 with a capacity of six megawatts per hour. One megawatt of power supplies enough energy to light 1000 homes. The plant’s 2.0-mile aqueduct tunnels through the mountain on the north side of the river. The running ledge high above the river supported the aqueduct prior to the tunnel system."
Head NorthEast from the sign towards a large granite rock. At this rock, turn and head downhill directly towards river to the barbed wire fence. Be careful!
There is an opening in the barbed wire. Go through this opening and you will see a beautiful view of the river. Climb down towards the river over a couple of boulders straight ahead. Look to your left and you will see on the impressive rock to your left with striations and a horizontal gap. Behind the rocks there, including some asphalt, will be the box. After stamping in the notebook and taking your impression of the Love Letter stamp, carefully replace box and the rocks covering it.
You are very near the mouth of the canyon- just inside the canyon you immediately pass at road level to the right a tunnel that was cut along a quartz vein in search of gold.
Happy Valentine's Day now and always.
*Again, steep terrain and,as one family noted, do not allow your kids to run ahead. Use caution and wear hiking shoes or sneakers, no flipflops.
Hike length: 0.1 miles