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...
Saturday, June 2, 2012
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.
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.
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.
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.)
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! :)
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.
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.
Saturday, September 17, 2011
Thomas Judd's Store Co.
Date Placed: September 17, 2011
Letterbox: Traditional
Carver: GreenJello
Planters: GreenJello and Teancum
Location: 62 West Tabernacle Street, St. George, Washington, Utah
Status: Active
Thomas Judd's Store, Purveyors of Mercantile & Fine Confections, has been around for several generations in St. George. It is right across the street from the Town Center, and is a fun place to stop and visit while you're in the downtown area.
What makes the Thomas Judd Store unique? You can find many different types of candy and bottled soda pop here. (When I placed this box, I made sure to buy a Huckleberry Soda. YUM.) They are also known for their famous breadsticks.
Hours of operation: Monday through Saturday, 10:00-5:30. Closed Sundays.
Directions: As you enjoy sipping your cold soda, take some time to enjoy all the wonderful antique decorations in the store. When you spy the Coca Cola bucket, you might want to check out what it holds. Please be discreet when retrieving and rehiding.
Notes: It seems that the decorations in the store change periodically, and that the box is no longer in the train coal car, nor the Coca Cola bucket anymore. The letterbox is a small black wooden box. The store isn't big, so finding it shouldn't be too much of an issue. If all else fails, ask the workers in the store-- the management is aware of the existence of the box, so maybe they can point you in the right direction.
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