Six Towers of the Plant Estate Challenge Mystery Cache
Six Towers of the Plant Estate Challenge
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The above coordinates are bogus, they are for the Crows Nest tower before Plant built his castle You must visit or place caches near 6 former tower sites to complete this challenge
Thomas Plant built a series of carriage roads and six lookout towers on his estate.
(visit link)
The state of NH officially used Mt Shaw as a fire lookout but apparently actually used whichever tower gave the best view of a smoke. The unattributed photo in the 1915-16 biennial forestry report is apparently one of Turtle Back taken by Plant's photographer George Wesley Perry.The towers are gone now so you can't visit them but four of the six have maintained trails by LRCT, and Mountain View has an obvious woods road which is not an official trail. The true Faraway (some maps incorrectly show it in the location of Mountain View) can be reached by an overgrown carriage road or a short bushwhack from the viewpoint. But for this cache you need not visit the actual summits, but only must find or place a cache within .2 miles of each of the tower sites as follows:
Mt Roberts - N 43 45.377' W 71 19.557'
Mountain View - N 43 45.693' W 71 18.694'
Faraway Mtn - N 43 45.400' W 71 18.649'
Turtle Back - N 43 43.769' W 71 17.744'
Mt Shaw - N 43 44.629' W 71 16.444'
Black Snout - N 43 44.164' W 71 16.361'
You may sign the final cache as you go by but don't log it online as a find until you have the other 6.
As to the actual coordinates on this cache, there is no puzzle - just try 43 44.521 -71 18.875
FTF: Team Bullis
Additional Hints
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