STATE: PA
COUNTY: LAWRENCE
CITY: NEW CASTLE
Placed by: Sam, the lone letterboxer (sirochman@dplus.net)
Located: McConnells Mill State Park

Letterbox #3: ALPHA PASS
Placed: April 6, 2003
Difficulty: Easy, good for kids and novices. Remember, I do this myself (or with kids) and dont climb trees or ford streams for fun!
Time Estimate: Round Trip from Alpha Pass Trail Head to Eckert Bridge is about a mile and a half of relatively easy hiking. Factor in the time to look for letterboxes and you figure it out.
Clues:
- Start at the Alpha pass trail head
- Go to the bottom the steps. Follow the BLUE marked trail.
- Watch for a GIANT rock formation that looks like a natural bridge / underpass on your left. You could walk underneath it from the path.
- From the mouth of the underpass, look 330* (degrees) for a DoubleTree about 40 feet downhill.
- Standing on the roots on the EAST side of the DoubleTree, turn 45* (degrees) and walk under the fallen tree and around the large jutting rock.
- On the NE side of the large jutting rock, note the dead, but upright tree trunk on top of the rock.
- The box is hidden near the roots on the SE side of this dead tree.

Continue South on Alpha Pass to find #4 Snake