Goodmorning! Having discovered Letterboxing over the weekend courtsey of
the Washington Post, my friends and I, 'The Usual Suspects' have found
several of the Maryland boxes, and have planted 2 new boxes:
'The Shire'
The Usual Suspects, 7.14.02
Montgomery County, Maryland
near Comus and Barnesville, MD
PARENTAL ADVISORY: Poem on notebook cover is "PG-13"; implied adult themes.
Stamp is "G" rated.
Directions: same as "Tuscarora" except I've lived in Barnesville my whole
life and never heard of a town called "Tuscarora".
North on 270. Get off at the exit for 'Comus, Sugarloaf Mountain'. Follow
Old Hundred road into Comus; Right onto Comus, which leads to the Sugarloaf
parking lot. Squirel's directions are better. Drive up to the West View.
Park your car at the West View, lower
Skirt the rock wall, it's not a trail, it's "other"
Now round the circle, widdershins
1969, turn off, tune in.
wind your way up, pass the stairs,
through the crack; there's blueberries there.
Along a ledge, and to the bend
you'll see a view and an eagle's head
and on your right there is a tree
Red Oak, I think, but don't ask me.
Behind the tree's a doggie's paw
now stick your hand into it's maw
Here is your prize, the one you seek
with poem written, not for the meek.
'The Blair Letterboxing Project'
The Usual Suspects, 7.14.02
Black Hills Regional Park, Maryland
nearest... oh... Clarksburg or Germantown, MD? Montgomery County.
Enter park, Pass visitors center, Right on Picnic Lane (1st entrance), Park
in lot on right.
You take the highland,
someone else can take the low,
along the pav'ed path you'll go.
Past hollowed stump and "V" type tree
Then in a while, a "natural" path you'll see
On your left, by another "V" tree
careful on the slope - it's slippery.
Now down you follow a farmhouse wall
and 'Mind the Gap' - this game's British, afterall.
On a tree, the Blair Witch's mark
Feel lucky you're not here in the dark
Turn a quarter, like a sundial,
'sacred' to the egyptians, on the nile
What, can't find it? Well, ofcourse it's unseen:
it's buried under something green.