The first is your basic hitch hiker, and this time, I'm not even saying
where it started (since to give the area would give its location away
completely). But it's out there now... :)

The second is a physical box place:

NAME: MOUNT SI TRAILS
Placed by: eliza b/moderngypsy
date: 6-9-02
Location: MT. SI
Closest City: North Bend, WA (just outside of Seattle on I-90)
County: King.

Mount Si is one of the easier, more hospitable of the Northern Cascades
to climb. If you're really motivated, getting to the Haystack at the
top is only about four miles...granted, it's four miles of some trails
that seem to be darn near vertical...but it's got some of the most
incredible views to be found. The summit is another two miles from the
haystack, but it's advisable to go that far only with some
mountaineering experience under your belt.

To get to Mt. Si from Seattle: Take the i-90 East, through Issiquah to
exit #31 (approximately an hour from downtown). Follow the Mt. Si Road
through town to where you cross the river, and veer right. In about 2
1/2 miles, there will be a mostly hidden 175-car parking lot on your
right. Turn in, park, and find the trailhead. (Don't be fooled by the
small, 30-car lot only a mile from the bridge -- it's a new trail and
is, for our purposes, the wrong one.)

The trailhead is straight ahead from the water pump (to clean your shoes
after descent -- the trails are very muddy right now.), and has a sign
closing it to foot traffic only. After a few hundred yards, on your
right is a sign that marks the Mount Si Trail, 4 mi. Turn, and follow
the trail.

Keep following the trail for close to two miles and nearly two thousand
feet gained, past a gorgeous rocky overlook and a place to sit and rest.
At the fork where you can follow either the Mt. Si Trail or the Creek,
continue on the Si trail.

Once through the Snag Flats, an interpretive center/wooden walkway will
appear as the path veers slightly to the left. Stop at the first
informational sign and read about the great fire of 1910, then turn
slightly to your left. There will be three large, cut logs just behind
the sign, parallel to the path. One is standoffish and is apart from
the others, and two of them are touching.

Behind these two, in the joint where the two "overlap", next to a small
sapling and a white rock, under some bark -- the letterbox waits.

Two more boxes in the Si series are coming soon.

*happy mountainclimber dance*
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