"A good day in the mountains!" is the last line of the clues for the Drew
clan's two Holyoke Range range letterboxes (in western Massachusetts), and
it's no lie! I set out on this sunny but slightly cool Saturday afternoon
with the modest hope of perhaps finding one of the two boxes; I left
feeling elated because I'd found both.

If you are anywhere near this part of the country, you owe it to yourself to
look for the Mount Norwottuck and Rattlesnake Knob boxes that the Drews have
hidden on the Metacomet Monadnock Trail on the Holyoke Range. Quite a bit
of steep climbing on rocky trails, but man, the views are worth it! This
was a stretch for me as a hiker, and sometimes along the way up I thought,
if these boxes are tricky to locate and I can't find them after all this
exertion, I will be so bummed! But, thankfully, the boxes don't require
membership in Mensa to find; in fact, they are the icing on the cake after
the treats of the hiking and the views.

I ambled downhill happily after locating the boxes, feeling this had been an
afternoon well spent. I swear the chickadees were singing songs of
congratulations.

Now, if you'll excuse me, a hot bath loaded with epsom salts awaits my tired
legs....

Bonnie
P6F5
Leverett, Mass.

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