We go back Saturday from our week in the Adirondacks. A bit more rain
than we would have liked, but a few lovely days as well. The
distances to the forts were greater this year, and I only got a box
out at one. Frankly, William Henry is not nearly as interestingh a
place to visit as Ticonderoga or Crown Point: it is in the middle of
tacky Lake George, and it only a wooden recreation of the original
fort.
Anyway, you can access the clues of the NY and VT maps, or directly
at
http://www.sover.net/~tcooch/william.htm
I checked on the boxes at the other two forts and they are fine. Lone
Wolf has been the only one at Ticonderoga, and no one has yet
stamped the box at Crown Point.
Tom
The Orient Express
Braintree, VT
P15F70
"The game is afoot!"
New Leatherstocking Box
5 messages in this thread |
Started on 2000-07-24
New Leatherstocking Box
From: Tom Cooch (tcooch@sover.net) |
Date: 2000-07-24 05:30:03 UTC
Re: [LbNA] New Leatherstocking Box
From: Tom Cooch (tcooch@sover.net) |
Date: 2000-07-24 08:02:59 UTC
I'm not sure how close you got to the box, John. From what I remember
of our conversation last fall, it seemed you had done the math and I
suspected you were right there.
Anyway, here is a description of the method and the location:
Scroll down for spoiler....
When you add up all the Forwards, Rights, Lefts, and Abouts, relative
to your original bearing of 6 degrees, the Forwards and Backs cancel
out, and you have 166 paces in the Left Face orientation, i.e. 276
degrees.
Pacing this off from the flagpole takes you to the second stone
ledge on the parade ground, just before the ruins at the opposite
end. The box is in a cleft in the ledge, behind a small stone that
covers the cleft.
Tom
The Orient Express
Braintree, VT
P15F70
"The game is afoot!"
of our conversation last fall, it seemed you had done the math and I
suspected you were right there.
Anyway, here is a description of the method and the location:
Scroll down for spoiler....
When you add up all the Forwards, Rights, Lefts, and Abouts, relative
to your original bearing of 6 degrees, the Forwards and Backs cancel
out, and you have 166 paces in the Left Face orientation, i.e. 276
degrees.
Pacing this off from the flagpole takes you to the second stone
ledge on the parade ground, just before the ruins at the opposite
end. The box is in a cleft in the ledge, behind a small stone that
covers the cleft.
Tom
The Orient Express
Braintree, VT
P15F70
"The game is afoot!"
Re: [LbNA] New Leatherstocking Box
From: John De Wolf (jdewolf@mail.icrsurvey.com) |
Date: 2000-07-24 07:26:58 UTC-04:00
GREAT clue, Tom. Glad, but also somewhat sorry to hear you found your Crown Point box. (Let me know, off-list, if I was even close; by the time I get back up there, I'll have forgotten everything you tell me now :)) I really like this series you're putting together.
Welcome back!
Lone Wolf
>>> "Tom Cooch" 07/24 1:30 AM >>>
We go back Saturday from our week in the Adirondacks. A bit more rain
than we would have liked, but a few lovely days as well. The
distances to the forts were greater this year, and I only got a box
out at one. Frankly, William Henry is not nearly as interestingh a
place to visit as Ticonderoga or Crown Point: it is in the middle of
tacky Lake George, and it only a wooden recreation of the original
fort.
Anyway, you can access the clues of the NY and VT maps, or directly
at
http://www.sover.net/~tcooch/william.htm
I checked on the boxes at the other two forts and they are fine. Lone
Wolf has been the only one at Ticonderoga, and no one has yet
stamped the box at Crown Point.
Tom
The Orient Express
Braintree, VT
P15F70
"The game is afoot!"
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Old school buds here:
http://click.egroups.com/1/7081/4/_/12562/_/964431038/
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Welcome back!
Lone Wolf
>>> "Tom Cooch"
We go back Saturday from our week in the Adirondacks. A bit more rain
than we would have liked, but a few lovely days as well. The
distances to the forts were greater this year, and I only got a box
out at one. Frankly, William Henry is not nearly as interestingh a
place to visit as Ticonderoga or Crown Point: it is in the middle of
tacky Lake George, and it only a wooden recreation of the original
fort.
Anyway, you can access the clues of the NY and VT maps, or directly
at
http://www.sover.net/~tcooch/william.htm
I checked on the boxes at the other two forts and they are fine. Lone
Wolf has been the only one at Ticonderoga, and no one has yet
stamped the box at Crown Point.
Tom
The Orient Express
Braintree, VT
P15F70
"The game is afoot!"
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Old school buds here:
http://click.egroups.com/1/7081/4/_/12562/_/964431038/
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Re: New Leatherstocking Box
From: Jay Drew (drewclan@aol.com) |
Date: 2000-07-24 13:32:12 UTC
Tom, well done! I love the playful creativity, the sense of history,
and the literary allusion. Natty Bumpo! Let's see, we've got hobbits,
wizards, presidents, detectives, and now revolutionaries on the
character list. Who's next, Harry Potter? Maybe an astronaut at Cape
Canaveral?
Jay in too-nice-to-be-back-to-work CT
and the literary allusion. Natty Bumpo! Let's see, we've got hobbits,
wizards, presidents, detectives, and now revolutionaries on the
character list. Who's next, Harry Potter? Maybe an astronaut at Cape
Canaveral?
Jay in too-nice-to-be-back-to-work CT
Re: [LbNA] Re: New Leatherstocking Box
From: (enic@aol.com) |
Date: 2000-07-24 23:30:44 UTC-04:00
Actually Jay and everyone else, you can expect a 12 part series to come out
in the next few weeks!
The Ram
in the next few weeks!
The Ram