843. Some Grills Would Like to Get Back in the Pink, Too!
A few old grills available for viewing along the pink trail at Pulaski Park in Chepachet, RI

A couple of these stamps are recycled from the Grills Preserve in Hopkinton, RI, where they were hidden for quite a few years and were meant to be found using a turning grill decoder of just the right size. However, after getting a letter from the Westerly Land Trust stating that they didn’t want letterboxes at their Grills Preserve property in Westerly, we decided to remove them anyway just to be safe, even though these boxes were not even planted in Westerly at all!

So, now these stamps (except for RIClimber’s “Bear Grylls”, which we transplanted to a grilling area near Bear, Delaware) get to spend some time over in the other corner of our state, with the addition of another grill, appropriately named “Pink Webber”, which we adopted for transplanting from sewsewbizzy’s stamp collection last fall!

To find these grills now on Pulaski’s pink ski trail, start from the far left side of the parking lot that is at the end of the first paved road to the right after entering the park. (Same directions as for our “Getting RI Letterboxing Back in the Pink” series) From the grill there next to the picnic tables, take the path gently downhill towards the left (about 27 steps @ 345* ) to the large pink slightly tilted triangle on a tree that quite obviously marks the pink bunny XC ski loop. Thence another 40 steps on the trail should get you to where there is a 1-2’ rock about 15-20’ off trail to the right. Take about 20 steps off trail passing the rock on your right to reach an old grill with a nice new grill carved by Tall Dave glued on the back of a stone tucked under the NW corner where two rock slabs of the former fireplace meet.

Continue down the pink trail curving right , where there is another old grill visible just off trail to the right. When you see a somewhat secluded picnic table ahead on the right, go about 30 steps right on a smaller side trail to another old grill off on the right. Buried behind the far SW side of the mossy boulder that makes up the backside of this grill is where we left Mim’s depiction of another type of grilling - with personal memories of a long ago trip behind what used to be called the “Iron Curtain” just as we get ready for another such trip now in much easier traveling times!

After returning to the main trail, passing the picnic table on your right and noting the large parking lot off to the left, turn right now with four XC ski triangle markers - pink, red, green and yellow. Bear right going slightly uphill with another batch of all four colors along the woodchip path, then take a sharper right where red used to go straight. This is still the pink loop, as you will soon see when red, green and yellow head off left and pink goes gently downhill right. From this junction, go right about 50 steps to a pink blazed tree on the left, then another 20 steps or so to some mossy rocks on the left, then off trail left to another old grill with sewsewbizzy’s “Pink Webber” tucked under duff on the south side of the grill’s rock backdrop.

To complete the pink bunny loop, simply curve left with the pink triangles a couple of times, turn right near the top of the hill and see your car waiting for you just up ahead! Not much of a ski loop or a letterboxing adventure perhaps, but at least it’s something that folks can go out and do most any time in the spirit of the traditional American-style letterboxing (i.e. non-time-limited , non-egg-hunt-stamp-oriented ) that that we so love and so hope that others will try to help keep alive, too!

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