REHIDE THE DAMN BOXES

I went letterboxing in upstate New York this weekend past with Tamsyn. We did Sahalie's Cranial Pursuit series in Oakwood Cemetery in Troy. Great series! And of course I was happy to be roaming around in an interesting old cemetery on a dreary day. Somehow cemeteries are more fun on dark and gloomy days. Yes, cemeteries are fun. And I'd like to think the residents appreciate the visitors that appear from time to time to punctuate their lonely hours with some lively talk and laughter.

After lunch at Dinosaur BBQ in Troy we went to the Dwaas Kill Nature Preserve in Clifton Park to do a lovely series named after the park. It consisted of five wonderfully carved images that you put together to form one image. Though this is a nature preserve, you can tell from the garbage that has been dumped that people obviously come there for reasons other than hiking.

The second box location was about twenty-five feet from an abandoned car and right beside the trail. I thought it was a bad choice for a location since other garbage lying around meant that people obviously hung around there. That being said, it was missing. But we found the third box completely exposed so it's not hard to see why number two went missing. We were especially disappointed since this meant that part of the whole image was not going to be there.

Granted that it was a poor choice for the hiding place, but it didn't help that whoever was there last obviously wasn't that concerned with making sure all the boxes were well hidden.

Like the title of this post says, REHIDE THE DAMN BOXES.