The Domedreamers' Christmas Card 2024 LbNA #77196 (ARCHIVED)
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Add Location| Owner: | The Domedreamers
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| Plant date: | Dec 24, 2024 |
| Location: | Porter Reservoir |
| City: | Manchester |
| County: | Hartford |
| State: | Connecticut |
| Boxes: | 2 |
| Found by: | quiltjoy (2) |
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| Last found: | Jan 5, 2025 |
| Status: | FFFFr |
| Last edited: | Dec 24, 2024 |
Merry Christmas from The Domedreamers! ’Tis the season for our Christmas Card letterboxes. Continuing our tradition, we have hidden a series of letterboxes with the stamps we used to make our Christmas cards this year. The boxes will be available starting on Christmas Eve, and will be in place until Epiphany. (please do not contact us in July and tell us that they are missing).
We’re in a new location again this year, and it’s lovely. This year the boxes (there are two, with one logbook in the second box) are at on the Porter Reservoir trails on Ferguson Street in Manchester. I don’t know the distance, but it took us half an hour to find places to hide the boxes, and you will definitely want to spend a little more time walking here–we finished our hiding trip with a little extra walk. If you look online you can find a map of the trails, and there is supposed to be a 2.6 mile loop, with additional trails. Except for a couple of short uphills it’s a very easy walk.
Okay, now for the clues!
Park in the Porter Reservoir Access area on Ferguson Road–if you come from Porter St. it will be on the right shortly after you turn onto Ferguson. Walk past the gate onto the trail, and after you’ve walked up a short rise there will be a side trail leading off to the right into a clearing for the power lines. You’ll come to a little intersection where there’s a narrow bridge off to the right, but you’re going to go left, back into the woods. Just after reentering the woods you will see a rock jutting into the path on the right, and just off the trail there’s a tree that is leaning away from you, with a rock at its base. The first box is in a space at the base of the tree/under the rock, hidden from view by another small rock.
Return to the trail and continue on the way you were going, with a stream traveling along with you on the right. Another trail will join you from the left, and then the trail widens. You’ll enter an avenue of pines with some interesting split boulders on your right. If it’s not covered in snow (it is winter, after all) you’ll see a small manhole in the middle of the path (I wish I could tell you what is marked on it, but my notes on this are illegible). Another trail will converge from the left, but you'll keep going straight. The path crosses the stream, and then you will come to an open area with some sort of power box; take a left turn and keep on going on the paved path.
Cross the stream again, and as you do, there will be a pretty, little bridge upstream to your right. When you come to a wide 4-way intersection go straight; there’s a pink trail blaze on the left side of the trail. Go up a hill, and where the path levels off go off the trail to the right, past a boulder and through a doorway of trees. Ahead of you will be a huge fallen log; the letterbox is in the log on the end to the right, the broken-off end.
After you’ve stamped in there are more trails to explore, but my suggestion is to return to the trail and go back the way you came, and turn left when you come to the 4-way intersection. This will take you up the path to the pretty, little bridge, and around the reservoir, which is a beautiful walk. If you’re lucky, and there’s still snow on the ground (or more snow, even better), you will have a gorgeous view. And this year, if you go on Christmas Day you may run into the Domedreamers.
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL, AND TO ALL A GOOD HIKE!!!!
We’re in a new location again this year, and it’s lovely. This year the boxes (there are two, with one logbook in the second box) are at on the Porter Reservoir trails on Ferguson Street in Manchester. I don’t know the distance, but it took us half an hour to find places to hide the boxes, and you will definitely want to spend a little more time walking here–we finished our hiding trip with a little extra walk. If you look online you can find a map of the trails, and there is supposed to be a 2.6 mile loop, with additional trails. Except for a couple of short uphills it’s a very easy walk.
Okay, now for the clues!
Park in the Porter Reservoir Access area on Ferguson Road–if you come from Porter St. it will be on the right shortly after you turn onto Ferguson. Walk past the gate onto the trail, and after you’ve walked up a short rise there will be a side trail leading off to the right into a clearing for the power lines. You’ll come to a little intersection where there’s a narrow bridge off to the right, but you’re going to go left, back into the woods. Just after reentering the woods you will see a rock jutting into the path on the right, and just off the trail there’s a tree that is leaning away from you, with a rock at its base. The first box is in a space at the base of the tree/under the rock, hidden from view by another small rock.
Return to the trail and continue on the way you were going, with a stream traveling along with you on the right. Another trail will join you from the left, and then the trail widens. You’ll enter an avenue of pines with some interesting split boulders on your right. If it’s not covered in snow (it is winter, after all) you’ll see a small manhole in the middle of the path (I wish I could tell you what is marked on it, but my notes on this are illegible). Another trail will converge from the left, but you'll keep going straight. The path crosses the stream, and then you will come to an open area with some sort of power box; take a left turn and keep on going on the paved path.
Cross the stream again, and as you do, there will be a pretty, little bridge upstream to your right. When you come to a wide 4-way intersection go straight; there’s a pink trail blaze on the left side of the trail. Go up a hill, and where the path levels off go off the trail to the right, past a boulder and through a doorway of trees. Ahead of you will be a huge fallen log; the letterbox is in the log on the end to the right, the broken-off end.
After you’ve stamped in there are more trails to explore, but my suggestion is to return to the trail and go back the way you came, and turn left when you come to the 4-way intersection. This will take you up the path to the pretty, little bridge, and around the reservoir, which is a beautiful walk. If you’re lucky, and there’s still snow on the ground (or more snow, even better), you will have a gorgeous view. And this year, if you go on Christmas Day you may run into the Domedreamers.
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL, AND TO ALL A GOOD HIKE!!!!