663. Wanda's Wanda-rings: PA Trails
A short stroll in the Delaware State Forest of eastern PA to represent the many hundreds of miles I backpacked on long-distance trails throughout the Keystone State

Once again I had a difficult time deciding which trail to use for planting this box with its cool stamp carved by lightnin' bug of PA actually depicting in small format a great many of those I backpacked years ago, from the Loyalsock to the Laurel Highlands. I ended up opting for a spot on one of the loop systems in eastern PA called the Thunder Swamp Trail, with over 50 miles-worth of various types of trails in this easily accessible but largely unboxed area. (also remembering a rather sexist comment once made about me in Backpacker magazine when some male writer implied that I was "complaining" about the spiders on this particular trail when I was actually reveling in having them and the trails all to myself - just another example of how so many things I write or say seem to get misunderstood or twisted, but that's a whole other story…)

Anyway, to find this box, take route 402 about 13 miles south from exit 30 off I-84, or about 10 miles north from its junction with business 209 near Marshalls Creek to a southwest turn onto Snow Hill Road. Just over 2 miles down this side road find a sizable parking lot on the north side of the road. Just a few steps further west down the road from the parking is a diagonal crossing of the orange-blazed Thunder Swamp Trail. Walk north on it about 200 steps to a point just past two trees that are larger than most. Then go left off trail about 14 steps to the west side of a triple-layer rock group with a tilted middle layer. When facing the trail from the west side of this formation, look under the lower right corner of the tilted layer behind a trap door and under a few flat stones, and please replace the box carefully as found.

(More extensive info on my backpacking background can be found at Wanda's Wanda-rings)

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