A Day Off Geocaching and Letterboxing

I played hooky today as I really need a mental health day. So what did I do I went geocaching and letterboxing maintenance. I hiked into Fish Brook Pond today in Fort Ann New York and had a wonderful time. I found two Geocaches, Are We There Yet? GC17MND and A Little light at Bumps GC1786V on the way to way up, but I did run into a multi-cache that I could not find the first part of. O well the day was too nice and I am up here all the time so I will try again.

A while ago I stumbled upon some old topographic maps that are online and you can pint sections of them right off the net. Some were from the 20’s, 50’ and etc. When I was looking at the 20’s map I noticed that there was a building at Bumps Pond, but when I looked at the 50’s map, that building was gone. I being the nerd that I am, figured out the coordinates and went to see if I could find the remains of the building and voila I found a chimney within 75 feet of my GPS coordinate, and of course someone had placed a Geocache in that area. I thought that it could have been a secret find, but it seems that the fire place is a favorite camping spot.

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Chimney at Bumps Pond Just off the trail


There are some interesting sites on the way to Fish Brook, the small kind that are interesting to look at but hard to describe. Like an old beaver pond, a stream flowing along a cliff face and etc. There are a lot of these along this route.

Some differnt sites

I went to Fish Brook to replace my Rubbermaid letterbox container with a Snapware container that will be more weather proof as the Fish Brook Letterbox LbNA #: 24673 is remote and not visited often. In fact to date it only has had one visitor in two years.

When I hiked out I when to my Inman Pond Letterbox LbNA #: 23911 and replaced the container with a lock and lock. I was surprised to find that the box has had a few visitors. One thing about the trail to Inman Pond was there are a few trees down across the trails. Not blocking access, but the DEC trail crews need to do some work in there.

All an all I really had a nice day.