Difficulty: easy
Terrain: moderate
Date planted: 5/13/2003
Leo

Nestled in the wooded hills of Jackson County, Ohio is a quiet little
park administered by the Ohio Historical Society. It protects an
exposed slab of sandstone where ancient Native Americans carved what
are believed to be sacred symbols. (Interesting that nobody ever
thinks these things are just prehistoric graffiti huh?) It's a
lovely, quiet little place that most folks never are aware of or
think to go. Hidden somewhere in this wooded retreat is our friend
Leo. He's sort of a familiar face around here and if you follow the
clues carefully you can add him to your collection.
Go to the Leo Petroglyph State Memorial that is located about
4 miles off US Route #35 west of Jackson. The turn off US Route #35
is marked with brown and white directional signs and is about 4 5
miles from the city of Jackson. Just follow the signs to the quaint
little park that has a timber and stone shelter over the carvings.
You need to go to the picnic area at the far end of the parking area
from the carvings. There, you should find 3 truncated pyramids.
Stand by the eastern-most pyramid and take a bearing of 214 and walk
12 paces. (1 pace = 2 steps) You should be standing at the edge of
the woods near a small trail that leads down into the woods. Follow
the trail about 20 paces. Stop and look to the east. You should see
fair sized, badly decayed log lying in a roughly North South
direction about 4 paces off the trail and a couple of paces North of
the log see a large tree with an unusual bump at the bottom of the
south side of the trunk. You should find Leo hiding on the East side
of this tree under a couple of smaller dead branches lying against
the trunk. (Note: This is a microbox so please bring a stamp-pad and
pencil with you!) Please email us at bigguy_45640@yahoo.com and let
us know how he's doing if you find him.