Wednesday, December 12, 2012

L'Chaim!

Date Placed: December 12, 2012
Letterbox: Traditional
Carver: boblovesmusic
Planters: GreenJello and Johnny Lingo
Location: I.J. & Jeanné Wagner Jewish Community Center, 2 North Medical Drive, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Status: Active

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ATTENTION!!! A new geocache has just been placed
less than 5 feet from this letterbox. It is absolutely
ESSENTIAL that you dig the bark out of the hole before
placing the box back in its spot, and COMPLETELY cover
the box with bark after rehiding so it is invisible to
those searching for the geocache. Thank you!
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I received this stamp for the Secret Santa 2012 swap from boblovesmusic who lives in North Grafton, Massachusetts. Thanks for sending this lovely stamp to our neck of the woods! :)

Dear GreenJello,

Happy Holidays to you and your family! This stamp I'm particularly proud of. First of all, it's probably the most complicated and difficult carve I've ever done, and it came out even better than I could have hoped for! Second, it relates to both my love of Star Trek and to my cultural and spiritual upbringing in Judaism. The famous Vulcan salute (Love Long and Prosper) you see on Star Trek was inspired by a traditional Jewish priestly blessing performed by a Kohanim. The gesture is supposed to look like the Hebrew letter Shin (ש). Leonard Nimoy was raised in a traditional Jewish home so he was exposed to this and thought it would make for a great "alien" salute. Pretty neat I think!

Anyways, I hope you enjoy it! And I hope you have a wonderful holiday season filled with celebration and happiness!

Directions: Find the street lamp on the north end of the parking lot. Walk 10 steps east. The box is hidden behind the second large retaining wall block in the concrete cubby hole, covered in bark.

12-12-12

Date Placed: December 12, 2012
Letterbox: Traditional
Carver: GreenJello
Planters: GreenJello and Johnny Lingo
Location: Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Status: Active

On the 12th day of Christmas, my true love hid for me...

Start at the parking lot at the intersection of 12th Avenue and the 12th letter of the alphabet. Find the trail. Go up the trail to the fence, where you will take half of 12 steps up the trail at 12 degrees to the intersection of trails. Go left 12 steps and spy a large rock under a bush to your right.

Saturday, November 24, 2012

Santa's Longest Night

Date Placed: November 24, 2012
Letterbox: Traditional
Carver: W S M and C
Planters: GreenJello and Johnny Lingo
Location: Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Status: Active

When you think about getting to work only one night a year, that sounds pretty sweet. You might say Santa has a great thing going. But there is much more to it than that. All of his supervisory duties year round, spying on everyone to make sure they're staying in line, dealing with the elf and reindeer unions, flooding toy factories at the north pole due to melting snow (the Greenhouse Effect, you know... global warming). He's really got it pretty rough. Then there's Christmas night.

It's a long night. Much longer than 24 hours. Consider the time zones, the rotation of the earth, the weight of the sleigh, the tolls and passports he's forced to produce. He could be up for days on end before it's all said and done.

Before a long stretch of nothing to eat but cocoa and cookies, Santa stopped in to grab a delicious crepe and a cup of the house chai. He was not disappointed! Just for fun, he left a present for people to find across from the restrooms on the shelf.

Only good little clue solvers get to find this during the jolliest season of the year! Once Santa begins his delivery service to the non-naughty on his list, the present will disappear!

Notes: Thanks to W S M and C from Colorado for letting Utah enjoy this traveling box for a season!

Sunday, September 16, 2012

Mythical Creatures

Date Placed: September 16, 2012
Letterbox: Traditional
Carvers: Various
Planters: GreenJello and Johnny Lingo
Location: Mill Creek Canyon, Salt Lake, Utah
Status: Active

Miss Alaineous couldn't believe her good fortune as she explored trails in lower Mill Creek Canyon. She was able to spot many amazing mythical creatures as she hiked around!

She stopped in the east end of the first pullout to the right after the stone pillars. It seemed a fitting way to start the day, finding a "theme" behind the rock that sat to the right of the utility pole.

Heading up Rattlesnake Gulch on the Pipeline Trail, she stopped briefly to look at the map of where she would be hiking. Not far from that point, she noticed a rocky outcropping to her right. Climbing up to the first flat section, she surveyed where she would head next. But wait... what was that she saw eastward down below the top tree? There seemed to be something hiding at the bottom of the stone V. After spying the Mermaid's Steed, she wondered where the Mermaid might be. She headed up to the second flat section, and was amazed by the view. Then a sound came from the north-northeast, where a lone boulder group sat. It appeared that the rocks almost dribbled down the hill toward where she stood, ending at a point. Ah! The Mermaid.

Continuing back on the trail, she soon came to a social trail on her right that lead up over a small embankment to open into a stone amphitheater. Once in the clearing, she noticed a tree on the north side that had interesting snake-like roots. She knew it would probably be best to be careful, as Medusa likes snakes. Further along the trail, a boulder on the left side appeared to be scorched black by the breath of the Fire Dragon. Good thing the tree next to it seemed to escape harm. She decided it was time for a water break, and stopped at a flat rock that was perfect for sitting. It was next to a rock that jutted into the trail. While she rested, she observed a Faun sitting up to her right, just behind the second large rock. After her break, she resumed her hike. A giant, majestic boulder was on her left. She climbed up to the top, and noticed a rock cluster to the southwest. There was a Griffin guarding the west end of the rocks. She skipped past the giant boulder in the pathway, and soon reached the dividing sentinel. To the left and up to the first switchback corner afforded incredible views; to the right and on the north end of the dividing presence, Pixies were known to hide under mossy boulders.

Miss Alaineous decided to start up the trailhead at the top of Church Fork next. She got lucky today (probably because she started so early) and nabbed one of the coveted parking spots at the top of the road at the beginning of the trailhead and didn't have to add on the extra walk from the main road. What luck! She started up the trail and crossed over the small stream (so pretty!). Soon, she had choices. She decided to head left first. At the Y, she took the left trail. Soon enough, a 6 foot size flat boulder was on her right. Curiously enough, it was shaped like South America. Even more curious was the Phoenix hiding under Chile. She continued on the trail, enjoying lovely views of the canyon, when she spied a Pegasus quietly waiting in the tree just up above the end of the metal curve.

Heading back to the Y, she wanted to take the other fork. Just before going down that part of the trail, she noticed a Fairy sprinkling magic dust around a large hollow tree on the right hand side of the trail. Continuing on up, she saw a group of large scattered boulders on her left. The large one closest to the trail had another even larger one right behind it. And behind that one was a cute Mischievous Dragon! She kept hiking up, and stopped to look at an amazing pine tree on her left with an interesting exposed root system. Just for fun, she began counting from the tree. 128...129...130 Oh, look! An almost hidden social trail on the right! She ducked under the branches to find a lovely small waterfall scene, with a small pool. So pretty! It was almost magical... wait! There was a Djinni sitting at the base of the tree. Magical, indeed!

With one last trail to explore in this area, she headed back down to the base of the Y and crossed the bridge to the left. Following the trail up and around, there was a well-traveled social trail to her right that lead to a rocky overlook of the canyon. A stately Sphinx was on the left, just where the rocky area began. She continued on, where some safety fencing started. At the top of the first set of fences, a lookout juniper tree stood. Gollum was nestled in its roots, surveying his precious view.

Desolation Trail seemed to call to her. She started up the path, and hiked for a bit. Not particularly far into her hike, she spied a large boulder on her left, almost like a lone watchman, right next to the trail. It seemed the perfect location for a Gryphon to be perched. Yes, there was one, nestled up in the tree behind the boulder. Continuing on the hike, she was grateful for some advice she had been given previously: "When life gets rocky, be sure to choose the right." Heading ever upward, she happened upon a most unusual site: it appeared that there were some trees growing right out of the rock that was jutting into the trail. It was difficult to see where the rock ended and the trees began. There was quite a lot of rock-- it stretched around. At the far end, there seemed to be a little "cave" up about seven or eight feet from the trail. She climbed up to take a closer look. Moving away some smaller rocks in the hole, a Cornish Pixie flew out! She started hiking again, up and up and up, until finally-- the overlook! Heading down the path to the rocky outcropping, she noticed to her left a darker grey rock with lots of orange lichen on it. It kind of stood out. She headed down behind it, and found the Dragon quietly surveying the valley below from the north end of the rock.

Burch Hollow was her next stop. She started up the Pipeline Trail in this section, and headed up Elbow Fork. This trail always reminded her of a snake, the way it curved around. Funny enough, as she rounded the first of the u-turn shaped "coils" in the trail, she saw a Sea Serpent hidden in the tree grouping on her right, next to the trail. At the third u-turn, she noticed a two-trunked tree off the trail to her right. A Chupacabra waited within. At the curve of the fourth u-turn, a Centaur stood quietly in the multi-tree grouping on her left. She rounded the sixth u-turn and a long, rounding rocky curve. As she continued, the trail finally started to descend slightly. Right before it started to ascend again, she saw a very large flat grey boulder off to her left, almost hidden in the clearing. Stopping there, she looked around the clearing. Heading back about 8 steps, she saw to her right a multi-trunked tree that reminded her of a many-headed Hydra.

To finish off her fun day, Miss Alaineous decided to stroll down the boardwalk next to the creek. There was a Unicorn in the elbow of a small section of boardwalk that branched off the main one, at the second set of stones leading to the stream from the faux falls. She then spotted a Hodag lurking beneath the boardwalk at the top of the black stone stairs at the end of her walk.

Carving Credits:

Many thanks to the awesome letterboxers across the country who carved for this series. Please be sure to leave a nice comment when logging your finds to let them know you appreciate their generosity!

Mythical Creatures: GreenJello
The Mermaid's Steed: Dancing Pecan
Mermaid: Slick Kitty
Medusa: Dizzy
Fire Dragon: Electric Medic
Faun: Hosmer's
Griffin: Red Paisley Quilter
Pixie Petals: GreenJello
Phoenix: Rowe-vers
Pegasus: Mosiac
Fairy Dust: Angel Kisses
Mischievous Dragon: roly-polies
The Djinni: GreenJello
Sphinx: Katie Lindsay
Gollum: SZSRocks
Heraldic Gryphon: Funny Mingo
Cornish Pixie: GreenJello
Dragon: Aiphid
Sea Serpent: brandicat
Chupacabra: SchmedlyO
Centaur: Red Cruz-sader
Hydra: Aiphid
Unicorn: tchr lady
Hodag: By Four If By Sea


Notes: There is a $3 per car fee when leaving Mill Creek Canyon. Bicycles are free. Dogs are welcome, and can go off-leash on odd-numbered days.

Saturday, September 1, 2012

Beaver Creek Nudist Ranch

Date Placed: September 1, 2012
Letterbox: Traditional
Carver: GreenJello
Planters: GreenJello and Johnny Lingo
Location: Nudist Road, Kamas, Summit, Utah
Status: Active

Wait, what??? There's a nudist ranch in Utah?!!!

Ok, not really. :) It's a long-standing joke, but it's worth getting a photo in front of at least once in your lifetime.

Directions: Driving up the Mirror Lake Highway, just outside the city limits of Kamas, take a right on Nudist Road (not quite 4 miles from the Chevron). Once you've had a fun laugh, find a second one under the tree to the right of the sign.

Hello From Rhode Island!

Date Placed: September 1, 2012
Letterbox: Traditional
Carver: RIclimber
Logbook: GreenJello
Planter: GreenJello and Johnny Lingo
Location: Road Island Diner, 981 West Weber Canyon Road, Oakley, Summit, Utah
Status: Active

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This is part of the "Hello From The United States!" series of boxes.
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The Road Island Diner is a fun trip back to the 40's, complete with jukebox music and servers with names you're used to seeing on great-grannies. :) Go for a visit... you won't be disappointed.

Directions: Starting from the knife and fork, look to the line of rocks at the edge of the parking lot. You are interested in the fifth one down from the end.

Notes: Please be ever so careful to replace the rock as you found it. Because this is a landscaped area at the edge of a parking lot, it can easily be found and discarded as trash. Make the rock look as natural in that place as it did when you arrived, please.

Saturday, June 30, 2012

Temple Square

Date Placed: June 30, 2012
Letterbox: Traditional
Carver: GreenJello
Planters: GreenJello
Location: Temple Square, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Status: Active

Temple Square is a ten acre complex located in the center of Salt Lake City, Utah, owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Contained within Temple Square proper are the Salt Lake Temple, Salt Lake Tabernacle, Salt Lake Assembly Hall, the Seagull Monument and two visitors' centers.

Attracting 3 million to 5 million visitors a year, Temple Square is the most popular tourist attraction in Utah, bringing in more visitors than the Grand Canyon or Yellowstone National Park, or any of Utah's National Parks.

During the month of December, Temple Square turns aglow, with hundreds of thousands of lights adorning every tree on the grounds.

Directions:

South Visitors Center: Find the cut-away temple. South of it is a small room "A Modern Prophet Speaks on Families". The east wall of the room has a picture hung on it-- look behind the lower left hand side of the frame. There you will find The Founder.

North Visitors Center: Find The Christus. Exit the rotunda through the east door. Just up the ramp to your right is a room "God's Plan for His Family". Please look through the crack in the doors to see if a light is on, and then listen before entering to make sure there isn't a tour group inside at that moment. Be ready to stamp and go-- helpful missionaries will most likely poke their heads in if you're there too long. (Have a good excuse ready, like "I just wanted to find a quiet place to think for a minute" or similar works quite well.) In the first section you enter, look for the hidden dark grey rock in the crevice amidst the orange ones in the southeast section. There you will find Jesus Christ. Carefully return the stamp to its hiding spot so it blends in and hides in the shadow.

Notes: Only The Founder contains a logbook. I cannot stress enough that you be as discreet as possible while retrieving these. The grounds at Temple Square are meticulously maintained, and both of these boxes will be noticed if you do not replace them EXACTLY where found. Because of this, do NOT allow your children to be the ones to find the boxes! Adults, please take charge.

Best of the Bakeries: Mrs. Backer's Pastry Shop

Date Placed: June 30, 2012
Letterbox: Traditional
Carver: GreenJello
Planters: GreenJello
Location: 434 East South Temple, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Status: Active

Be prepared to taste the most incredible buttercream frosting of your life. Not only is it tasty, it's what they DO with it that is the amazing thing. You will find the prettiest cupcakes and cakes at this shop. I have never seen floral frosting work like this anywhere but here. Simply beautiful. Besides frosting, they are well-known for their gingerbread and also the Raspberry Cream Cheese Tarts (which are these little delights one customer affectionately refers to as 'crack cookies').

Directions: In the southeast corner of the parking lot, there are 5 trees growing fairly close together. At the base of one of those trees, between the tree and the small cement wall, is a SPOR.

Friday, June 29, 2012

A Lifetime Of Love

Date Placed: June 28, 2012
Letterbox: Traditional
Carver: GreenJello
Planters: GreenJello
Location: 400 East 400 North, Springville, Utah, Utah
Status: Active

Not much of a bench
But it is a seat
So please feel free
To rest your feet

Notes: This box is dedicated to the amazing boxing duo, PhotoGram and Desert Grandpa. They're the oldest boxing couple I know of, and recently celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary! :)

Sunday, June 24, 2012

It's A Small World After All

Date Placed: June 24, 2012
Letterbox: Traditional
Carver: GreenJello
Planters: GreenJello
Location: Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Status: Active

WTC. Front porch, southwest corner. Take a seat and face City Creek. Look down from where you're sitting, to the river rocks below. The corner is really interesting.

Saturday, June 23, 2012

Brigham Young's Residences

Date Placed: June 23, 2012
Letterbox: Traditional
Carver: GreenJello
Planters: GreenJello and Teancum
Location: 100 E. South Temple, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Status: Active

The Beehive House is one of the two official residences of Brigham Young, an early leader of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormons). The Beehive House gets its name from the Beehive sculpture atop the house. It was designed by Young's brother-in-law and architect of the Salt Lake Temple, Truman O. Angell, who later designed Young's other residence, the Lion House.

The Beehive house was constructed in 1854, two years before the Lion House. The Lion House is adjacent to the Beehive House, and both homes are one block east of the Salt Lake Temple and Temple Square on the street South Temple in Salt Lake City, Utah. It is constructed of adobe and sandstone.

Young was a polygamist, and the Beehive House was designed to accommodate him and his wives and his children by them. As Young's family grew, the Lion House was built to accommodate them and became his official residence after its construction.

The Beehive House is connected by a suite of rooms to the The Lion House. This suite included Young's offices and his private bedroom where he died in 1877.

Directions: After admiring the beautiful gardens of the Beehive House, you can find a stamp on the west side of the house, near the connector area, under the window sill. Continue wandering west, and turn right between the Lion House and the Church Administration Building. You will start walking towards the Lion House Pantry, but will stop to sit at the first bench on your right. In the middle of the window sill, underneath, is another stamp.

Notes: These are STAMP ONLY letterboxes.

City Creek Center: Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend

Date Placed: June 23, 2012
Letterbox: Traditional
Carver: GreenJello
Planters: GreenJello
Location: City Creek Center, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Status: Active

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Notes: This is a stamp only box. Please do NOT hunt this box on a Sunday when City Creek Center is closed! The security folks would be all over you in 1.3 seconds. They patrol this area frequently, so plan on bringing a big bag, extra children, strollers, ANYTHING that helps to block the view when you retrieve this.

Thursday, June 21, 2012

Best of the Bakeries: Beyond Glaze

Date Placed: June 21, 2012
Letterbox: Traditional
Carver: GreenJello
Planters: GreenJello
Location: 177 West 12300 South, Draper, Salt Lake, Utah
Status: Active

If you want to see and taste the most awesome doughnuts ever, give Beyond Glaze a visit. Their gourmet doughnuts are absolutely amazing, and well worth trying. The claim-to-fame doughnut? A maple bacon one. Stop in and try one for yourself!

Directions: Sit on the comfy leather couch to enjoy your doughnut. Scootch over to the right and reach up the inside part of the front couch leg to find a small box magnetically attached to a metal brace.

Sunday, June 3, 2012

City Creek Center: Winter Olympics

Date Placed: June 3, 2012
Letterbox: Traditional
Carver: GreenJello
Planters: GreenJello and Teancum
Location: City Creek Center, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Status: Active

So many neat things to find in City Creek Center! :)

Directions: South of the fountain, find Ice Spirit. You want to follow the right-hand end of Parallel Arc that points to a large L-shaped rock. Move the smaller flat rock away from the corner.

Notes: Please please PLEASE be very stealthy finding this box! There are very friendly security folks who are ever helpful. Bring a camera, a book, a journal....anything that can be used as a ready excuse. Rehide EXTREMELY well so others can have fun finding this box! IMPORTANT: the flat rock MUST be pushed back in place as far under the big rock as possible. The flat rock sits directly on the box, so don't fill in the area with smaller rocks and make it impossible to slide the flat rock back in place.

Saturday, June 2, 2012

Best of the Bakeries: Sweet Tooth Fairy

Date Placed: June 2, 2012
Letterbox: Traditional
Carver: GreenJello
Planters: GreenJello
Location: 1334 Foothill Drive, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Status: Active

Sweet Tooth Fairy has a lovely selection of gourmet cupcakes and other delectable desserts. One of their specialties are what they call "cake bites"-- I particularly like the lemon or the mint ones. Sweet Tooth Fairy is famous for having won Food Network's "Cupcake Wars" in the spring of 2012. Stop in for something to appease your sweet tooth!

Directions: Across from the bakery is the parking garage. Head to the entrance of the garage that is by the stairs. HUSYD FT GMVGEU KDU PGEELU KFIU ZX KDU VKSGHYSVU XZH S PSCMUKGY IZO.

Notes: The first box only lasted 4 days before going missing. Since googling the name of the establishment puts this clue on the first page, I am ciphering part of the clue for safety reasons.

Best of the Bakeries: Mini's Cupcakes

Date Placed: June 2, 2012
Letterbox: Traditional
Carver: GreenJello
Planters: GreenJello
Location: 1751 S. 1100 E., Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Status: Active

Of course I had to plant a box at Utah's very first gourmet cupcake bakery. Mini's has some amazing little cupcakes made from fresh, local ingredients. They also use applesauce as one of their sweeteners in the cupcakes! If you show up for lunch, they also offer some very tasty box lunches.

Directions: The white retaining wall to the south of the building has some regularly spaced holes. One of those holes doesn't look quite like the others...

Sunday, May 20, 2012

Eagle Gate

Date Placed: May 20, 2012
Letterbox: Traditional
Carver: GreenJello
Planters: GreenJello and Teancum
Location: State Street and South Temple, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Status: Active

The Eagle Gate monument is a historical monument seventy-six feet across, situated at the intersection of State Street at South Temple, adjacent to Temple Square.

The monument was erected in 1859 and commemorates the entrance to Brigham Young's property at the mouth of City Creek Canyon. It was originally topped by a wooden eagle, refurbished several times, and eventually replaced by the current 4,000-pound bronze eagle that has a wingspan of 20 feet.

The first Eagle Gate was remodeled and enlarged with new stone piers and wider inverted arches in the early 1890s. Due to the widening of State Street in the early 1960s, the prior monument was removed and replaced with a much wider and larger third generation Eagle Gate. The monument is one of Salt Lake City's most well known pioneer landmarks, and its current design is one of Salt Lake City's best standing examples of Mid-Century Modern design.

Directions: As you are brushing up on the history of Eagle Gate, you may want to look under the left hand side.

Notes: This is a replacement box! The first one went missing very soon after being planted. Stealth is essential! Please be sure to replace the box back in the corner (felt/magnet side on the bottom, lid on top) so it won't fall and be thrown away.

Saturday, May 12, 2012

Best of the Bakeries: Vosen's Bread Paradise

Date Placed: May 12, 2012
Letterbox: Traditional
Carver: GreenJello
Planters: GreenJello
Location: 249 West 200 South, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Status: Active

European-style bread, pastries, imported candy and other items... Vosen's has what you're looking for in an authentic German bakery. I love their breads, the apple pastries, the raspberry berliners... aw, heck. I just love anything they make! Fantastic little bakery (and I do mean little... you'll see when you go!) with a BIG taste.

Directions: Look to the west side of the porch steps.

Sunday, May 6, 2012

Best of the Bakeries: Elizabeth's Bakery & Tea Shop

Date Placed: May 6, 2012
Letterbox: Traditional
Carver: GreenJello
Planters: GreenJello and Teancum
Location: 439 East 900 South, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Status: Active

Have you ever had a scone? I mean, an honest-to-goodness English scone? We're not talking about those deep-fried ...things... you can get. Elizabeth's Bakery has the most amazing scones you've tasted, I bet. (I personally love the cranberry-orange ones!) Not only are the scones to die for, so is pretty much about everything else they make. Don't forget to get the lemon curd for your scone!

Directions: Park and walk towards the road. There's a cute little stone bench there that has something interesting underneath on the southwest inside part of one of the legs. Please rehide completely with the little rocks and make it look as natural as possible.

Saturday, May 5, 2012

City Creek Center: Salt Lake City

Date Placed: May 5, 2012
Letterbox: Traditional
Carver: GreenJello
Planters: GreenJello and Teancum
Location: City Creek Center, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Status: Active

Standing before the directory on Social Hall Avenue, follow the mule deer tracks back to where it appears the deer took a drink of water. Ooh! Shiny penny!

Notes: This is a stamp only "box", for obvious reasons. (I might also suggest bringing a towel or paper towels along.) Please do NOT hunt this box on a Sunday when City Creek Center is closed! The security folks would be all over you in 1.3 seconds. Please have a ready story if you get approached by security (I dropped something, lost something, checking out the different plants living in City Creek, I thought I saw a bunch of fish, etc.)

Sunday, April 15, 2012

Haiku

Date Placed: April 15, 2012
Letterbox: Traditional
Carver: GreenJello
Planters: GreenJello and Teancum
Location: Ha'iku, Maui, Hawaii
Status: Active

giggle hill; saipan
trail at twenty leads through trees
twenty steps, look left


Notes: This is just one single box planted. If the logbook doesn't have my stamp in it showing I planted it, you found part of a multi-stage geocache. Keep looking! :)

Sunday, April 8, 2012

Best of the Bakeries: Gourmandise

Date Placed: April 8, 2012
Letterbox: Traditional
Carver: GreenJello
Planters: GreenJello and Teancum
Location: 250 South 300 East, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Status: Active

Looking for European breads and pastries? Gourmandise is your place! Mouth-watering and award winning desserts await your pleasure. My favorite is the non-assuming "Almond Horn" cookie. Yummmmmm..... Be sure to take home a loaf of artisan bread on your way out.

Directions: Look under the juniper to the north side of the sign.

Sunday, March 4, 2012

Kolob Arch


Date Placed: March 4, 2012
Letterbox: Traditional
Carver: GreenJello
Planters: GreenJello
Location: 3752 E. Kolob Canyon Road, New Harmony, Washington, Utah
Status: Active

Most folks have visited Zion National Park (proper). There is a lesser-known section of the park, Kolob Canyons, that is accessed from a different location than the rest of the Park. A lovely drive awaits you, just off the freeway. It's well worth the time to take a detour.

Directions: From I-15, take exit 40 to the Kolob Canyons Visitors Center parking lot. Where the sidewalk ends, look to the side of the very large red sandstone rock. Please rehide with the grey, flat rock on top (that has a fossil imprint!).

Sunday, February 12, 2012

Ornithology


Date Placed: February 12, 2012
Letterbox: Traditional
Carver: GreenJello
Planters: GreenJello and Teancum
Location: Virgin, Washington, Utah
Status: Active

Oscillating over obtaining oversize ova? Observing oodles of ornithic objects?

Opposite ovoids, observe orderly organized ossified ore outbye. Onward on opportunity; obviate oncoming operating objects!!! Octet opposite occident; oeillade old oak obelisk. Obligatory objects occlude outline offering.