The Big Beech Stub LbNA #27912 (ARCHIVED)
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Dec 30, 2006 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Hanlon Creek Conservation Area, Guelph |
| County: | Ontario, CAN |
| State: | Ontario, Canada |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Planted by: | keldar5  |
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| Found by: | KittyCanuck |
| Last found: | Aug 8, 2009 |
| Status: | FFFFFF |
| Last edited: | Dec 30, 2006 |
Placed by valleyone
The Big Beech Stub is in the Hanlon Creek Conservation Area, along the main north-south trail heading south from Preservation Park.
The area can be approached from several trails, with entrances for the north-east quarter of the Hanlon Creek Conservation Area at the well known Preservation Park on Kortright Road, off Rodgers Rd., Southcreek Trail, Somerset Glen, and Terraview Cresc., the starting point for these instructions. Unfortunately, in a wet fall like 2006, one stretch of trail just south of this spot has been impassable for several months because of a flooded stream.
Park on the bottom end of Terraview, where you’ll see the trail entrance opposite #60. Walk straight SW on the gravel path, and follow it into the woods. The trail curves to the south and then southeast. You’ll see a cluster of groundwater monitoring wells where you enter the woods; from the largest and last of these walk about 150steps and you should be in the middle of a large raspberry patch. Watch for muddy patches along the way.
Walk 18 steps further SE on the trail, then turn right at a sharp angle to head back W then NW toward a grassy clearing. The cache is hanging in the dense multi-stemmed and heavily deer- browsed (no greenery below 6 feet) cedar tree behind the ‘big beech stub’. Watch for hawthorn thorns mingling in the cedar branches. If you’ve come to a bridge over a small stream, you’ve gone slightly too far
I walk the Hanlon Creek area daily, and I’m always amazed at the diversity of trees and habitats, from cedar swamp to open meadow. And some very big old trees too. This old beech must have been standing when the pioneers arrived, and crashed to the ground in recent years during a wind storm. Big old trees are my friendly giants in the forest.
A TH coffee on me for the FTF.
For you dedicated true letterboxes, please forgive me for geocaching my letterboxes as well, and using store-bought stamps. I've found a beautiful variety of nature stamps; hope you like them. For me the fun is the hunt and the hide.
The Big Beech Stub is in the Hanlon Creek Conservation Area, along the main north-south trail heading south from Preservation Park.
The area can be approached from several trails, with entrances for the north-east quarter of the Hanlon Creek Conservation Area at the well known Preservation Park on Kortright Road, off Rodgers Rd., Southcreek Trail, Somerset Glen, and Terraview Cresc., the starting point for these instructions. Unfortunately, in a wet fall like 2006, one stretch of trail just south of this spot has been impassable for several months because of a flooded stream.
Park on the bottom end of Terraview, where you’ll see the trail entrance opposite #60. Walk straight SW on the gravel path, and follow it into the woods. The trail curves to the south and then southeast. You’ll see a cluster of groundwater monitoring wells where you enter the woods; from the largest and last of these walk about 150steps and you should be in the middle of a large raspberry patch. Watch for muddy patches along the way.
Walk 18 steps further SE on the trail, then turn right at a sharp angle to head back W then NW toward a grassy clearing. The cache is hanging in the dense multi-stemmed and heavily deer- browsed (no greenery below 6 feet) cedar tree behind the ‘big beech stub’. Watch for hawthorn thorns mingling in the cedar branches. If you’ve come to a bridge over a small stream, you’ve gone slightly too far
I walk the Hanlon Creek area daily, and I’m always amazed at the diversity of trees and habitats, from cedar swamp to open meadow. And some very big old trees too. This old beech must have been standing when the pioneers arrived, and crashed to the ground in recent years during a wind storm. Big old trees are my friendly giants in the forest.
A TH coffee on me for the FTF.
For you dedicated true letterboxes, please forgive me for geocaching my letterboxes as well, and using store-bought stamps. I've found a beautiful variety of nature stamps; hope you like them. For me the fun is the hunt and the hide.