Letterboxing Northern California - Yahoo Groups Archive

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February 2005

ho do I?

Started by Michelle (bootzoocrew@yahoo.com) | 3 messages | First message: 2005-02-05 | Last message: 2005-02-06
HI everyone I just wanted to know how I go about posting a web page or whatever it is if I plan on planting a box? Is there somewhere special I need to go to get started? Jeff and I have been...

Handmade books

Started by jceg5540 (greendoc@sonic.net) | 1 message | First message: 2005-02-04
I think Alien Explorers are the best book makers. but I have been refining my technique and find if I make them assembly line style I can do it much faster. That is, I take some good quality acid...

Mendocino boxing

Started by (tonkona@aol.com) | 4 messages | First message: 2005-02-03 | Last message: 2005-02-04
I'm rather new to this Northern California group. Can anyone recommend letterboxes in the Mendocino/Fort Bragg area? I have a friend who is new to boxing who will be up there soon. He just got...

Where else do you find clues?

Started by Stephanie Cottrell Bryant (mortaine@gmail.com) | 5 messages | First message: 2005-02-02 | Last message: 2005-02-04
Aside from letterboxing.org, where else do you find clues for Letterboxes? --Stephanie

A virtual letterbook to check out

Started by jceg5540 (greendoc@sonic.net) | 1 message | First message: 2005-02-01
Greetings, While doing some research for a library letterbook for my son's school library (Thanks Blackbird for giving me the idea!) I stumbled onto this virtual letter book in Randolph, VT. I...

Log books

Started by Michelle (bootzoocrew@yahoo.com) | 2 messages | First message: 2005-02-01 | Last message: 2005-02-01
Just was curiuos: sometime back I read a post from Dog Scouts Troop about log Book Binding with a link. Did any one out there check this page out? Did any one out there try any of these ideas...

January 2005

awol again

Started by kel gennert (arttrekker2go@yahoo.com) | 1 message | First message: 2005-01-31
Hi everyone, I took the day and went down to the Sac area. The following boxes are alive and well (and have seen a lot of traffic in January!): Bucky's Feathered Friend--nice visit to the river,...

The four seasons

Started by jceg5540 (greendoc@sonic.net) | 1 message | First message: 2005-01-31
Got four more planted...the four seasons...another kid friendly/shor hike hunt. http://www.letterboxing.org/BoxView.asp?boxnum=13282&boxname=The% 20Four%20Seasons Mim

4 new boxes at coast

Started by jceg5540 (greendoc@sonic.net) | 1 message | First message: 2005-01-31
What a beautiful day for letterboxing! Took my visitng in-laws for drive along Hwy 1 since it was so beautiful today! Of course I had a hidden agenda of planting 4 new boxes. Some of the nicest...

Hitchhikers travelling out of Country

Started by (bonedoc@bakinaction.com) | 1 message | First message: 2005-01-26
My new hitchhiker, The Travelling Tortoise, caught a ride with The Messenger to Canada yesterday. He found another one in that box named, All Those That Wander Are Not Lost. He gave it a free ticket...

Armed Robbery company

Started by jceg5540 (greendoc@sonic.net) | 2 messages | First message: 2005-01-26 | Last message: 2005-01-26
Dear Don and Gwen, I would be honored to join such distinguished company...actually Black Bart got me thinking about this possibility...but the gunman I am hoping to profile is...

A traveling box for Old Sac

Started by jceg5540 (greendoc@sonic.net) | 5 messages | First message: 2005-01-26 | Last message: 2005-01-28
This is just a heads up, that hopefully will spark some more creative ideas out there. Since it may not be possible for me to scout Old Sac in advance for a good hiding place(although I would...

Gold Rush Romp

Started by Sally (Sierra64@aol.com) | 6 messages | First message: 2005-01-25 | Last message: 2005-04-25
Mark your calendars! Gold Rush Romp Gold Rush Romp committee is hard at work making arrangements for the gathering. Here's some of the details April 30th 10:00 am to 4pm Old Sacramento - Front...

New Series

Started by pinecone444 (cnelson@rdschool.org) | 1 message | First message: 2005-01-25
I placed a new 5 box series at Redwood Regional Park on Saturday..."Who Goes There?" Combine it with Fairy Ring and the 2 Alien boxes for 8 total...but who's counting? Blackbird

Re etc

Started by Pete (jiggs111@earthlink.net) | 2 messages | First message: 2005-01-24 | Last message: 2005-01-25
Hi to all our LB pals from up here in the Great White North! To add our 2 cents worth - we found our first box on 3 Aug 03 (Don and Gwen's Dam Raccoon in Oroville) and picked up F100 at Chowder's...

Finds for Sunday Jan- 24th

Started by Michelle (bootzoocrew@yahoo.com) | 1 message | First message: 2005-01-24
Hi everyone. Jeff and I set a record..... 7 boxes today out of 9. Found Brine Country Word to the Wise Birds 1 and 2 Bodega Bay Lachryma Montis Didn't get Message to Garcia (our 3rd time) (I...

Boxing in CT

Started by carolehada (akacejay@comcast.net) | 4 messages | First message: 2005-01-22 | Last message: 2005-01-23
In LbNCA@yahoogroups.com, kel gennert wrote: > Well, I guess I'm just gonna have to plan a trip to Connecticut, then. Carole will probably want to go with me! :-) aT, I'd love to "box" with you...

Can anyone top this?

Started by (Doublesaj@aol.com) | 14 messages | First message: 2005-01-21 | Last message: 2005-02-03
ArtTrekker has found 100 boxes in 4 months of letterboxing. That's certainly impressive (but also maybe compulsive and obsessive)! LOL We wonder if anyone can anyone top this? ~~Doublesaj & Old...

Atlanta report

Started by kel gennert (arttrekker2go@yahoo.com) | 1 message | First message: 2005-01-20
Hi everyone! (and Mom, and Mark in Georgia, so I don't have to repeat myself) Whew! I'm home now & recovering from a long travel day yesterday. At the end of our layover in Denver, we headed to the...

Statistics

Started by Lea Shangraw Fox (princesslea@alamedanet.net) | 2 messages | First message: 2005-01-20 | Last message: 2005-01-20
Thanks Ryan for providing that link to Silent Doug's explanation page. Thought I'd mention that everyone does this their own way, and I don't use exactly the same system that Doug describes. For...

what do these abreviations mean?

Started by (bonedoc@bakinaction.com) | 3 messages | First message: 2005-01-19 | Last message: 2005-01-20
Hi All, In Doublesaj and Old Blue's posting they signed off with: ~~Doublesaj & Old Blue~~ P50 F 331 X73 V17 HH 29 So if P means placed boxes and F means found boxes (is that really 331????) and HH...

F-100! But you're a Newbie!!

Started by (Doublesaj@aol.com) | 2 messages | First message: 2005-01-20 | Last message: 2005-01-20
ArtTrekker: You're a wonder, you are! F100 all ready!! Outstanding. We were up at Tahoe last weekend but my Cuz said you were out of town. We hoped for an exchange. May have to wait until the Gold...

Only 50%

Started by Wascally Wabbit (csmonty13@yahoo.com) | 5 messages | First message: 2005-01-20 | Last message: 2005-01-21
On way into SF yesterday tried to get GGBridge box, but couldnt look very long/well w/ranger truck parked nearby & incredible winds too! (maybe tomorrow)...but while up north today I cut outta work...

Letterbox in a slick glossy!

Started by jceg5540 (greendoc@sonic.net) | 2 messages | First message: 2005-01-19 | Last message: 2005-01-20
While perusing the latest Sunset MAgazine I turned the page to see a photo of I place I recognized. There is a letterbox hidden within feet of where the photo was taken! It is an article...

My Boxing Day

Started by jceg5540 (greendoc@sonic.net) | 4 messages | First message: 2005-01-18 | Last message: 2005-01-18
After getting up early to do laundry, dishes, garbage, bury the dead chicken (boo hoo, Boco...our bantam cochin died yesterday) and various onerous chores, I treated myself to a day of boxing with...