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packeen ghost LbNA #8322

Owner:Adoptable
Plant date:May 22, 2004
Location:
City:Canton
County:Norfolk
State:Massachusetts
Boxes:1
Found by: SB
Last found:May 26, 2004
Status:F
Last edited:May 22, 2004
THIS LETTERBOX HAS BEEN REMOVED FOR REPAIRS DUE TO THE VERY WET WINTER WE HAVE HAD, IT WILL BE REPLACED SOON. 3/17/05



This is a fairly simple walk that should probably take about an hour and a half or so. You will be venturing through a swamp and a very wet meadow so it would be smart to bring some very strong bug spray as there are many mosquitos.


At the intersection of Brush Hill Road and Neponset Valley Parkway in the Blue Hills Reservation there is a small parking lot across the street from a soccer field.
Park here and get out.
To the left of the parking lot is a trail that is marked with a stone pillar that reads "FOWL MEADOW", this is the start of your journey.
Walk over the small boardwalk and head to Burma Road. Follow Burma Road over a bridge and all the way to the 4-way intersection marked "6005".
Here you will take a left and head over the bridge into the swamp. (After a rainstorm this are can get pretty muddy as it is in the middle of a swamp)
Follow this path straight until you come to an intersection with a small group of trees in the median. Take a right here.
Follow this path.
Just after you cross over the stream you will find another intersection.
Go right here.
You will pass a fallen tree trunk that makes an "O" on your left and a still-standing hollowed out trunk on your right.
On your left after these two hollow trucks you will come to a tree marked "6105".
Continue on the same path you are on (DO NOT TAKE THIS RIGHT).
Just past "6105" on your left you will see a small "canyon".
Across the path from the "canyon" is a tree with 3 trunks about 10-15 feet from the path.
Go to this tree.
Facing the tree with the path at your back you will see a rapidly decaying tree stump to your right.
In this stump is where the Packeen Ghost resides.
When replacing the letterbox be careful as the stump is extremely fragile.