I can’t believe are already at our final week, which begins tomorrow. From Monday to Sunday (12/25–12/31), find as many of these items as you can while out on your walk, run, or hike.
Trail sign or marker
Santa hat (Merry Christmas!)
Corn (Happy Kwanzaa!)
Box (Happy Boxing Day!)–what’s the biggest box you can find?
Once you find your item, take a selfie or picture and post it on this thread. Remember, for every selfie or picture of one of these items that you post, you get one point. The runner(s) with the most points will be entered into the swag drawing at the end of the event. And, while five might seem to be the high score, I as the omnipotent race director get to award extra points based on particularly creative or artistic photos, or those that get lots of “likes” here on the Forum. Sucking up to the race director doesn’t hurt either. (I like cookies! Specifically chocolate chip and snickerdoodle, for those who have asked…)
Merry Christmas to all! @amy-dawson and I went scavenging after opening gifts, and you would not believe how much CORN is all over Trumansburg. It’s crazy! First we found a can of corn on our friend Tom’s porch, conveniently under his BELL decorations.
Check out these BOXES of liquor in a shop window. Boxes of margarita mix were also in the window, but the wooden boxes were squarely behind ANOTHER CAN OF CORN.
Lastly, we went to one of the two trailheads in the village, the Habitat Trail. The other is Smith Woods, but we chose this one because – you guessed it – someone told us there was a can of corn sitting on top of it. SO FESTIVE.
CORN was a bit of a challenge, there doesn’t seem to be as much of it around Forest Home as there is in Trumansburg @amy-dawson and @scottpdawson , but The Cornell “Crops of the World” garden came through for me:
What I really loved about this challenge was that it encouraged us to really examine our surroundings as we run!
And on the last leg of my run I ran over this manhole!
And I had to turn around because it took a moment for my to process it …“wait was that a ?!”
Can’t argue the bell in this one! And this was the only manhole around there with this logo amusing odds of finding a bell in the oddest of places looking forward to the next challenge
I thought I’d find a trail sign by the pond in Spencer, but it had been taken down. There was a ton of corn (maybe literally) spilled on a nearby road, though.
…probably by the farmer who had harvested this field
And by the store were these 2 huge boxes with propane. I should’ve gotten in the picture because they were as tall as me, but you know I’m not good at selfies.
So I did my run later in the week in Ithaca, where I knew there’d be a trail sign
And last, a home made “trail sign” I won in a race. It’s a sign that says trail I figured.
I throw myself on your benevolence. I wanted to finish out the scavenger hunt but physically it was not possible to go out and walk around especially w the snow here in Wisconsin. Thanks for all the fun. I enjoy searching for the items and having a quest in the dog days of winter. Happy New Year!
I thought the box would be tough to find as well, and first I found the crab traps, which my mother insisted were boxes, but I wanted something better. It wasn’t long before I started seeing a ton of boxed presents as holiday decorations.
I picked up a nice thin fabric Santa hat at a Christmas 5K a few years ago. So I put it on and threw a bell in my pocket before I went out to run today:
I was starting from and mostly staying in downtown Ithaca so I knew the corn would be tough. On my way to the Waterfront Trail I checked out many dead gardens. No corn. I checked out the banners and photo ads outside of Wegmans. No corn. So I ran on in from Meadow St and just grabbed a picture with the corn for sale!!
Not a scavenger item but I crossed back over the inlet on this new bridge that leads from Cherry Street to the path parallel to Floral Ave. The bridge may or may not be open officially (there are barricades nearby but they had been pushed to the side or taken down). Despite that I saw several others cross, nice option for getting to the inlet from Meadow St:
Finally I looked around very carefully for boxes on the way home but there were none to be seen (that wouldn’t have required rummaging through someone else’s trash). But, my porch does boast this lovely Styrofoam cooler courtesy the CSA distributors. A box for boxes:
And I was hoping to get in to the church to take a picture of the bells, but some poorly-timed river-bank-bursting meant that we had to leave the village a day early, so here is the bell tower of the church, and I promise it has real-life bells in it:
Week six, and the final week of the scavenger hunt had 11 participants, will all of you finding every item on the list. You are listed below. Since everyone found all the items, I decided to make everyone the race director’s pick. Meaning, anyone who participated in the hunt, and either found all five items for at least one week, or was the race director’s pick for a week, receives an additional drawing for one of the grand prizes.
here is my doorBell 
but it’s kinda difficult to see.
to process it 
looking forward to the next challenge 
