Rating
Clues: Easy
Distance: just out of your car

Hopefully you've found Box #1 in Auburn. Return to the freeway and continue
east on Interstate 80 towards Truckee. Since this box can only be reached from
the exit when traveling west, you'll have to bear with us as we get you
there. Take the Emigrant Gap exit (eastbound). Go left at the stop sign then left
again to reenter the freeway, westbound. You'll see a "Vista Point 1/2 mile"
sign. Exit Vista Point. Park and find the Emigrant Gap Monument plaque and read
it. It tells of the hundreds of covered wagons that had to be lowered by ropes
to the floor of Bear Valley as people came west to make their fortune. In the
plaque, you will note that two different years appear in the text. Subtract
one from the other and divide this number b 5. Now, find the "blue star". From
the walkway in front of it, proceed west along the stone wall this many paces.
On the other side of the wall, under a rock, you will find the letterbox.

To continue on this letterbox series, you'll easily be able to reenter the
freeway by taking the Nyack Road exit and get back on Interstate 80, eastbound
again.

~~Doublesaj & Old Blue~~
P18 F57 X2 V5 A13 HH1


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