Feel Sorry Traditional Geocache
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Feel Sorry Cache, aka “Check out the Lawn Furniture”
Please do not move any rocks in this area. No rocks were moved to conceal this cache.
This is a scenic area, well worth exploring, with or without a Geocache. While exploring the scenic area near the Indian Run trail, I found a stonewall. As you walk from the summit area across the stonewall the ground is sprouting rocks for as far as the eye can see. That stonewall indicates that in the 1700s or 1800s someone was trying to farm this area. I really have to feel sorry for the poor farmer who built this wall on the rocky hillside. This area has to be some of the worst farmland I have ever seen. Looking over this land it makes a lot of sense that it is no longer farmed.
Looking South and West from the Indian Hill Trail there are some nice views when the leaves are down. This area can be reached from Thanksgiving Forest parking (always free) or from the parking areas within Great Brook Farm State Park itself (parking fee from mid-April to December 1st). Your choice of parking depends on what other caches you are doing, and the time of year. Trail maps are almost always available at the Hart Barn parking area on Lowell Road, and near the Ice Cream stand.
If you are hiking in from Thanksgiving Forest Parking, follow the water to the natural gas pipeline; you will see a stone wall cross the Indian Hill trail shortly after you leave the Natural Gas Pipeline right-of-way (at sign Private..). If you follow that stonewall west to a large erratic (boulder), once used as part of the wall; you will find the cache under/behind the chaise lounge. Please do not move any rocks in this area. The cache is under a thin slab of rock, and is not really in the wall itself. Coming from the opposite direction you will find the wall as you descend, at 120 degrees magnetic, from the trails’ high point (intersection 33 on the map).
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