LBWNY’s Silver Screen
Saturday Box Clues
At long last, the boxes are HERE! There are three
basic areas to find all these boxes, one being the cross country ski loop near
Campsites 1-29, another along the creek path (beginning fairly near the shelter
and ending at the cross country ski loop, and the last being right near the
playground and shelter we’re at (#3). If you have the stamina, we recommend
doing these in the order you see them. If not (or you come back for these at a
later time), we’ve listed ways to get back to the shelter or the other box sets
in the park. Happy hunting!
Note: Unless otherwise
stated, all these boxes are permanent placements, so don’t worry if you can’t
get them all in one weekend…you’ve got the rest of your life (or until the muggles find them, whichever comes first!) The box
donators’ trailnames are listed in parentheses right
next to them, so be sure to thank these kind souls for providing you with this
summer’s entertainment.
James Dean, Princess Leia’s Buns and Rocky Horror Series (5 Boxes)
1. James Dean (Great Big Seabres)—Head over to the
slide closest to our shelter. Put your back to the ladder and look into the
underbrush. Two thin trees stand
in front of you, but look to the right at the bigger one on the hill with the
rocks under it. Climb in there and lift up the big flat rock at the base on the
left.
2.
Princess
Leia’s Buns (Wassamatta U)—Go back down and stand by the slide again. You should
see a swing set nearby. Go to it and stand with your back to the end of the swings
so that the slide is behind you and face another row of foliage. Look into this
foliage about 8 feet in for 3 thin trees, 2 of which are in front of a bigger
one. Look under rocks between the two thin and one bigger one to find out what Stormtroopers really dig!
3.
Rocky
Horror Picture Show (Mouse)—Walk along the edge of the foliage back toward
Shelter 3. Look for a large pile of cut logs for one with a red “LB” on it.
Look under that log for a cult classic
4.
Time
Warp (Mouse)—Head 22 steps along the foliage again (toward the
shelter, not the playground area) to the evergreen tree. Check under two rocks for another aspect of the Rocky Horror
phenomenon.
5.
Frankenfurter (Mouse)—Follow the
foliage again until you’re across from the shelter. In the woods now is a HUGE
tree with roots all gnarled down the back. Look around
back on the right side (if your back is to the shelter) in the roots for Rocky
Horror’s star…you’ll have to move some wood to find this one.
Getting
back to the shelter or other box series:
To
Shelter: Uh…turn around? J
To
Movie Genres: Read on to the next set of clues!
To
Science Fiction Double Feature, Jay & Silent Bob, The Black Knight & Searching For Bobby Fischer series: Go back to the
main road again near the shelter. Put the shelter to your back and face the
parking lot. You can either walk or drive along the main road to your left past
the main park building and the extra playground. A road leads up on the right
to the cross country ski trail and warming hut. Follow it to the end of the road
and park by the hut, then follow the clues for the
series below.
Movie Genre Series (17 boxes)
These
boxes were carved and planted by your hosts, The Sprite and the Highlander.
Start by walking toward the playground area of near Shelter #3. You’ll see a
clearing that opens up to the main road and passes Shelter #4. Follow this road
down toward the creek and you’ll see a tree on the right with an arrow on it,
designating a path. Hop on this to get started. You may ALSO want to check the
listing of “Other Boxes Within the Park” before going
too far on this path. After we planted this series, we noticed some other boxes
were in the same general area! Note: To
save time, all the boxes in this series are in orange pill bottle containers
with no logbook until the very last box. The last box is a Lock and Lock and
has the logbook for the whole series. Also, this series tends to meander along
the creek ridge area. Be mindful of the areas that are steeper and try to keep
away from them!
1.
Science
Fiction (The Sprite & the Highlander)—As you start the
path, you’ll see
a large rotted stump on the right that probably once was a double trunked tree
(or some strange forest alien!). About where the two trunks meet, move some
bark to find the Science Fiction stamp..
2.
Horror
(The Sprite & the Highlander)—Continue on the path past the orange
fencing into the wooded area. On the left about 10-15 steps off the path, the
ground raises into a very small hill. Start looking there for a half stump and
twisted roots. Look for the biggest tree in that area under some rocks in the
roots.
3.
Gangster
(The Sprite & the Highlander)—Continue on the path again and
you’ll enter a tall grass clearing. Most notable here is the fallen tree with
the arrows carved into it showing you which way you could go. Below the arrows
are some logs. Look along the edge of these logs closest to you under some
bark.
4.
Teen
(The Sprite & the Highlander)—Keep walking and the trees return to
shade you once again. From where the grass stops and the trees begin again,
take about 45 steps and look right again. The little hill/ridge is still there.
Look for a tree with a main thigh sized trunk and 2-3 arm sized trunks coming
off it. There are rocks at the base hiding what you seek.
5.
Musical
(The Sprite & the Highlander)—Return again to the path and head to
quite near the edge, where you’ll be just about to come out into a HUGE
clearing. Look left again on the little hill for a tree that has a very green
mossy root sticking out like a curved arm along the ground (there should be
another tree with a big knob on it to the left if you’re in the right area). Go
to the mossy tree and look on the right side in the roots under some rocks.
At this point, you could put your back to the creek and head
left out of this clearing back to the shelter, or you could cross the clearing
uphill past the playground and Shelter #2. Keep the creek to your left and
you’ll eventually come upon more orange fencing and the entrance to the other side
of this path.
6.
Epic
(The Sprite & the Highlander)—From where the path
starts up again, take 30 steps and look to the right. You’ll see what we thought looked like white elephant
trunk roots on the hillside. Climb up to the 4 trunked tree (just above another
tree that curves upward for the sun) and move some rocks around.
7.
Thriller
(The Sprite & the Highlander)—Continue on the path and you’ll
start to hear a little waterfall to your right and (depending on how much sun
we get) a big puddle in your path. Go around this to where you can see a HUGE
stump on the hillside with its roots growing around a large rock. Climb up a
little to the rock itself a move a MUCH smaller rock to reveal your stamp
location.
8.
War
(The Sprite & the Highlander)—Follow the path again. It goes
around a bend to the right, but as you round this bend and come uphill, you’ll
see a path veering off to the lefts marked with a green and white Sprague Brook
sign. (Note: If you want to go back to the shelter at this point, go
STRAIGHT up the hill and follow the road to the RIGHT. You can do this at any
point from here on this path, since the path parallels the road.) Follow
this path now past 3 signs of this kind (including the first one you saw) and
look to the left. A 7 trunked tree has what you see in its fork under a rock.
9.
Action/Adventure
(The Sprite & the Highlander)—Stay on your current path and you’ll
end up cresting a hill as you enter an evergreen forest where you can see the
main park building through the trees on your right. Start looking on the left
for a 4+ trunked tree next to an evergreen. You’ll know you’re in the right
spot if you look to your right and see a tree with a Sprague Brook sign on the
opposite side of it. Check the 4 trunk for the stamp.
10. Comedy (The Sprite & the Highlander)—Continue on the
path past the pink ribboned tree with the Sprague
Brook sign on the back. From here, take 10 steps and look to the left. A tree
with a seam in the middle is here…move some bark in the seam to see something
funny.
11. Romance (The Sprite & the Highlander)—Keep going until you see another Sprague Brook sign on
the left (facing you this time). You’ll find a stump that has a bark tongue.
Lift the tongue to find a little Romance.
12. Dark Comedy (The Sprite & the
Highlander)—Follow the path out of the woods and cross the road
to the other part of this path. Once you reach it, go 40 steps up the path,
where it levels out a bit, then go into the foliage to
the right about 10 steps. There is a stump of a tree about arm’s thickness
sticking up out of the ground. It’s also
split a little. Move some rocks from the split to reveal the stamp. Take the
time to REALLY be sure this one is hidden properly when you’re done, since it’s
in a very precarious locale.
13. Courtroom/Detective (The Sprite & the
Highlander)—Follow this path up hill to the end just before the
road and look for the multitrunked tree on the left.
Check its fork for a little courtroom drama.
14. Fantasy (The Sprite & the Highlander)—Now cross the road (heading STRAIGHT, not downhill toward
the playground). Once you cross, go about 27 steps and look in the foliage on
the left for a tree that resembles a large tuning fork (or as K the Hunter said
while we hid these, “a pair of pants”). It’s leaning against another tree so
that it runs in between the two “legs”. Check the base of this tree.
15. Western (The Sprite & the Highlander)—Follow the road
to the next clearing in the foliage on the left, which leads down to the
camping loop below (you should be able to see the green sign for campsite #1
from here). Face that sign and to your right should be a tree on the right with
trunks pressed EXTREMELY close together. Go around the back of this tree and
look in the fork, where a rock covers this stamp.
16. The Heist (The Sprite & the
Highlander)—Now cross the road through the big field to where
the other foliage/tree line is. You should see another path designated by
orange tree markers and reflectors. Head 40 steps uphill on the path and look
to the left. A lone evergreen stands there with a 4 trunked maple. Check the
maple’s roots for The Heist.
17. Film Noir (The Sprite & the
Highlander)—Go back down to the road again and follow it up to
the rust colored Warming Hut for the cross country ski trail. Put the hut to
your back and backtrack along the foliage about 30 steps. You should see a multitrunked tree with rocks at the base. Move these for
the final box in the series..
Getting
back to the shelter or other box series:
To
the Shelter or James Dean, Princess Leia’s Buns and
Rocky Horror series: Head straight down the hill in front of you and get
on the road at the bottom heading to the left. This will head all the way back
to the shelter after about 15 minutes. You can also do this from the road you
came in on (the road by the warming hut, just be sure when it dead ends, you
turn left onto the main road.
To
Science Fiction Double Feature, Jay & Silent Bob, The Black Knight & Searching For Bobby Fischer series: Go back to the
main road again and turn left so that you go past the Warming Hut. From there,
follow the directions for the series.
Science Fiction Double Feature, Jay
& Silent Bob, and The Black Knight Series (13
boxes)
These
boxes are all along the cross country and bike paths near the warming hut.
Begin by finding the warming hut. From Shelter #3 at your back, turn left and
follow the road (walk or drive) past the main park building and the
extra playground on the right until you see the road leading to the warming
hut. You turn up this road and drive until it deadends.
Park at the hut, then start on the cross country path.
Before you go very far, you’ll see a path leading to the left down through the
field toward a tree line hiding the creek ridge beyond. This is where these clues begin (Note: All these boxes have their own
logbooks and are in either Lock and Lock boxes or
small brightly colored plastic bowls. Because these can be seen easily,
remember to rehide better than you found!):
1.
When
Worlds Collide (Mouse)—As you start the
path, you’ll see a large tree with half a dead limb on the left and a log on
the ground. Check the roots of the tree around the back.
2.
The
Day The Earth Stood Still (Mouse)—Continue on the
path past dead tree, then count 30 steps. You should see a mossy rock on the
left. Go about 15 steps down the hill on the left and look to your right for a
big flat rock against a tree. Move this for the stamp.
3.
Invisible
Man (Mouse)—Continue on the path again and you’ll see a big dead
log on the left leaning up against an improbably thin live tree. Check behind
the log under a flat rock near the roots and this thin tree to expose the
Invisible Man.
4.
King
Kong (Mouse)—Keep walking and you’ll see the path
meets up with the main crosscountry path. Get on that
path now keep heading STRAIGHT on the path into the woods (not along side them
where you’d stay at the edge of the field) . You
should see an arrow on the first tree to the left. Look at the back of this
tree in the roots.
5.
Day
of the Triffids (Mouse)—Walk further in
and stop at the stump below the tree with the big circle where a limb must have
been. Look to the left oat the thigh sized tree with the bark peeling off if.
Below is a huge perfect curl of bark hiding this stamp.
6.
Tarantula
(Mouse)—Back on the path until you see a big
tree with RC carved on it on your left. 10 steps from this you should look to
your right. A tree with a small stump is there and behind it, a group of 3
trees together. Look in a hole about waist height for this spider.
7.
Jay
(Mouse)—Continue on the path to the next arrow on the left. Look into the woods
on the left and you’ll see a HUGE splinter stump. Go around to the right side
of this stump and move some hunks of bark near the top of the stump for Jay.
8.
Silent
Bob (Mouse)—Don’t move from this spot. Silent Bob is
in this same stump, about waist height, below Jay.
9.
The
Black Knight Body (Wassamatta U)—Get back on the
main path and keep heading the same direction (left if the stump is at your
back). Keep walking until the path reaches a “t”. Go a little further forward
toward the park limit sign and look in the crook of the 4 trunked tree on the right.
10. The Black Knight Left Arm (Wassamatta U)—Back track to the “t” in the path.
With the park limit sign at your back, take the “t” to the left. You’ll pass
where the path merges with another path, then a park arrow before you should
start looking for a 6-7 trunked tree on the left. Look in the trunk on the left
side.
11. The Black Knight Right Arm (Wassamatta U)—Keep going on the path again and
you’ll walk past a 4 ½ trunked tree with peeled bark on your right. Close to
here on the path ahead to the left is a bunch of small cut logs near some small
trees. Look at the base of the trees between them and the logs.
12. The Black Knight Left Leg(Wassamatta U)—Follow the path again to the next
arrow on the left. To the left in the woods is a long fallen tree with old
roots. Look under this tree
near its middle.
13. The Black Knight Right Leg (Wassamatta U)—Continue on the path to the next
arrow, then look for the stump on the left with the rock at the base. Move the
rock.
Getting
back to the shelter or other box series:
To
the Searching for Bobby Fischer series: Simply need to backtrack up the path you just
came down (staying to your left at the merges) until you reach the “T”
in the path again. From here, go STRAIGHT and start with clue #1.
To
the Shelter or any of the other series EXCEPT the Searching for Bobby Fischer
series: You can back track as mentioned above and take the path to the LEFT at
the “t” or continue on the path you’re on. Eventually, this path opens out
again onto the field where you can head downhill to your car at the warming
hut. Once there, then follow the road to the main road and turn left. This will
lead you back past the main building to Shelter #3, where all the other series
begin.
Searching For Bobby Fischer Series (6
boxes)
These
boxes are also all along the cross country and bike paths, but begin further in
the woods. If you were already on the previous clues for the Sci-Fi Double
Feature, the Black Knight & Jay & Silent Bob,
skip reading this and go right to clue #1. If you’re just coming up to this
series, follow the cross country path straight up into the woods until you find
the “t” and the “Park Limit” sign. Turn left on the first path,
that forms the “t” not the second by the limit sign. (Note: All these boxes have their own
logbooks and are in small brightly colored plastic bowls. Because these can be
seen easily, remember to rehide better than you found!):
1.
Searching
For Bobby Fischer: Rook (Mouse)—Find the first path arrow on the
right, then look left. You’ll see a double trunked
tree with a broken split (not sure why this description fit at the time, but
that’s what I wrote down!). Look in the crook of this tree.
2.
Searching
For Bobby Fischer: Pawn (Mouse)—Continue on the path to the next
path arrow on the right and look left again. You should see a tree with 4
trunks, two big and two little. Look under rocks at its base.
3.
Searching
For Bobby Fischer: King (Mouse)—Follow the path again until you find
the next arrow on the LEFT (this should be near the culvert that goes under the
path). Look in the woods to the right and down a little slope, you show see
some huge, flat blocks of cement stacked on each other. Walk over to these and
look up under the edge of the top one. This is angled a bit, so you might
really need to get down low to see this.
4.
Searching
For Bobby Fischer: Queen (Mouse)—Return to the path and you’ll see a
smaller bike path to your left that goes over a little bridge. Follow this
until you see a massive set of exposed roots on the right. This was too messy a
hide, so we chose to go with the crook of the tree on the LEFT instead!
5.
Searching
For Bobby Fischer: Knight (Mouse)—Walk some more until you pass UNDER
a broken tree archway. Check the split in the trunk of this archway (you’ll
have to move some wood to see it).
6.
Searching
For Bobby Fischer: Bishop (Mouse)—Continue on the path again. On your
left before you curve down to go to the bridge, there’s a HUGE 4 ½ trunked tree
w/deadfall around it. Look in the back of this tree in the crook for the final
box in the series.
Getting
back to the shelter or other box series:
To
the Shelter or any of the other series: Follow this path
back out to where it meets up with the original main path you were on. You head
right back down to the warming hut, then follow the road to the main road and
turn left. This will lead you back past the main building to Shelter #3, where
all the other series begin.
Other Boxes Within
The Park (4 boxes)
These
boxes are all along the road to Campsites 31-122, the road toward the left of
Shelter 3. They were hidden by other boxers, so some may overlap a little with
the series’ that we planted for the event (the Movie Genres series starts right
near the first 3 boxes on this list):
1.
Riolu: Gotta Catchem All (King of Hyrule)— Enter the park from
2.
King
of the Kongo Beat (Cheese)— Enter
the park from
3.
Journey
to Jaws Jr. (Sharkboy)— Enter
the park from
4.
Chuck
Norris Went Camping… (It’s Not So Bad)— After entering the park from
Personal Travelers, Traveling Event
Stamps & Other Boxes
Personal Travelers: A personal traveler (or PT for short) is just a
personal letterbox that folks bring with them. It’s a great way to meet your
fellow boxers and to pick up another stamp on the way. Most people usually have
something special you have to say or do to get it, so be sure to check the
people listed on the event page at Atlas Quest (or here for the night event) and see if they have something you need to say or do
to get the stamp. For example, to get
one of ours (the Sprite & the Highlander), you only have to find one of us
and say “You DO know what Sprite is made of, don’t you?”!
Traveling Event Stamps: These are stamps that go from gathering to gathering
to get stamped into, so tons of people all over the
à
Triple Dog Dare
by Wassamatta U
à
“The
Four Seasons Traveling Event Stamp Series” - a traveling event stamp by The
Sprite & the Highlander
à
WNY Blue Ribbon
Event Stamp – earned for doing specific things by The Sprite & the
Highlander
Year Round Local Boxes:
The closest boxes (ones within 5-6 miles) are listed
here. However, be sure to check Atlas
Quest or LBNA (
à
A Series About Beer!—Genny by Chadams
à
The Lil Wishing Well by Chadams
à
The Haunted Forestry! by Szuchie
à
Save Our Planet Series by Sunny Girl and Hazel Horse
Mystery Boxes: Check Western NY region on the LBNA
site
or New
York Mystery boxes at AQ for these! Remember, this is only a
list of the