Letterboxing Northern California - Yahoo Groups Archive

Dammed Shasta Letterbox is no more! I guess this hobby is getting TOO popular (never thought I'd ever say that in a million years!!!). Unfortunately vandals, treasure hunters or stamp poachers...

Grumpy and I made our third try today to find the Natomas Oaks Microbox. We finally located it and happily stamped our logbook. The paper strip in the Natomas canister is now FULL! We had such...

This is Princess Lea reporting from the road from Quechee VT. I have been here for about 10 days so if you have written to me directly and I have not responded - that's why! Internet access has...

Found Holy Canoli Batman, by accident. knew we were in the area but not right on top of it. First finders-got a nice little wind up penguin for our effort(?). Check out the clues-pretty...

We found the box hidden in Nisene Marks state park yesterday; we had to pay the $6 "day use" fee to get in. In looking at the letterboxes we're considering looking for next weekend, there are a...

Grumpy and I celebrated a granddaughter's 1st birthday Saturday, and located a geocache/letterbox hybrid in Alameda's Neptune Beach area. Sunday we celebrated Grumpy's Mother's 83rd birthday and...

Does anyone know if Princess Lea replanted the Egypt Game letterboxes in San Jose, after completion of the renovations at the site? Contemplating a trip there, if there are any boxes to be...

Grumpy recently retired and moved with Grinch from New Hampshire to Lodi, Ca. We have been letterboxing for three weeks, in hopes of spending time outdoors, keeping fit, and enjoying the hunt for...

Really! http://story.news.yahoo.com/news? tmpl=story&cid=583&e=8&u=/nm/20040813/od_nm/crime_jellybelly_dc I think Princess Lea needs to update her box with a stamp of a guy robbing the Jelly Belly...

Friday the 13th seems a perfect day for celebrating the birth of a great letterboxer! Have a great one, Lea!! ~~Doublesaj & Old Blue~~

Ryan, You're website has inspired me. How about a box in Monkey's Eyebrow, TX? Looneyville, TX or Jot'Em Down, TX? What is it about Tesas and place names (They also gave us EGypt, Paris, Happy...

Hey all - I haven't been able to get into www.letterboxing.org for the past couple of days. I don't know if it's just been down on at the times I've been trying or if it's been down the whole...

Last night I was telling my husband about a great organization called Opertion Gratitude that organizes care packages and personal letters for soldiers overseas. After seeing Farenheit 911 I was...

Iron Bear and Pandora, I am sending condolences for all your mishaps. YOu certainly deserve an A+ for perserverance! Perhaps I am tempting fate to even read the clues for the LEmoy Snicket...

Dear Fellow Letterboxers , This is a tale of misery, and bad luck, if you are looking for someone to share their happy letterboxing experiences, stop reading now, do not read any farther, because...

I was driving by and wanted to check to see if anyone had logged in to this box yet and I could not find it. This is box #2 of the Hwy 101 Necklace series. That makes two of the 8 boxes I have...

After hearing all the hype about the Lemony Snicket box I finally went searching for the clues to print out and stew over but I can't seem to find them. Are they not on the LBNA site? Tara ---...

A friendly reminder for those who plan on hunting down the underwater letterbox, "The Hunt for the Temple of Neptune of the Lost City of Atlantis"... Please take a little extra care to help keep...

Had a blast yesterday finding the 3 box "mystery" series "Survivor Pearl Islands". Found 2 and 3 first and almost gave up, but during a water break (HOT!!out there) just happened to look over and...

Wow! A very hot day of boxing. Hot, but productive. The Letterboxspector family, with Special K, went after four boxes. Having heard of the trouble finding the "Wide Window" box by Lemony Snicket we...

Anyone know of any driveby boxes along the 5 freeway between northern and southern california? My sister's getting married on the 15th, and we're driving down to Orange County for the...

Are we going to post the Golden Gate Gathering Group photo on this group's photo page? Does anybody not want it posted? Sierra Sally

OMG!! This box has driven us CRAZY for 2 years!! It was the 2nd box we ever looked for and we've hunted for it at least 4 times! Oh, I don't know if I can wait until the weekend--we might have to...

The Old Auburn Letterbox is back. Actually technically this is the Old Old Auburn Letterbox It was placed in 2000 was there until 2002 when a City Maint. Worker picked it up It was returned to me a...

Is there a place to find more clues than just on letterboxing.org? Not that that wont keep me busy forever.