Letterboxing Northern California - Yahoo Groups Archive

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January 2004

Uvas Canyon

Started by funhog1 (funhog1@yahoo.com) | 2 messages | First message: 2004-01-27 | Last message: 2004-01-28
I had the pleasure of doing this hike on Saturday, a cool misty day. It had rained in the morning so everything was glistening and damp. After much searching through archives and other clues via...

Thanks for LA letterboxing suggestions

Started by samanark (samanark@yahoo.com) | 1 message | First message: 2004-01-24
I wanted to thank everyone who replied and emailed me about the LA area boxes. I wish that I had had more time to get ALL of them. I got 4 out of the 6 Halloween Series in Pasadena. One was missing...

On a "Mission"

Started by gwendontoo (foxsecurity@earthlink.net) | 3 messages | First message: 2004-01-21 | Last message: 2004-01-21
Wow! Sierra Sally is on a letterboxing rampage! She must be the most prolific placer so far this year. Keep it up, we love it. Don

Today's Boxing in S.F. Bay Area

Started by doublesaj12 (Doublesaj@aol.com) | 1 message | First message: 2004-01-20
Old Blue and I had a great overcast and misty day of boxing between Vacaville and San Francisco today. Went 13 for 13!! Nine of the boxes were Princess Lea's and they were wonderful. Finally hooked...

LA area letterboxing

Started by samanark (samanark@yahoo.com) | 6 messages | First message: 2004-01-20 | Last message: 2004-01-26
Hey there, I will be in LA on Thursday doing the letterboxing thing in the Whittier/Pasadena/Fullerton area. If you know of any letterboxes up there that are MUST HAVES let me know -Amanda from...

Santa Clara Mission

Started by sierrasally64 (Sierra64@aol.com) | 2 messages | First message: 2004-01-12 | Last message: 2004-01-12
I forgot to have this one announced. Placed by: Sierra Sally Placement date: Jan 7 2004 State: California County: Santa Clara Nearest city: Santa Clara Number of boxes: 1 Clues Founded in 1777...

Rupert is back! =)

Started by rscarpen (RiskyNil@pocketmail.com) | 3 messages | First message: 2004-01-12 | Last message: 2004-01-12
Just wanted to say that for all you guys disappointed about Rupert getting voted off Survivor--he'll be back in the next one! =) Strangely, I found the news on a Spanish website, but I'm sure...

Mountain Lion attacks

Started by samanark (samanark@yahoo.com) | 7 messages | First message: 2004-01-11 | Last message: 2004-01-13
I haven't read that much about the Mountain Lion attacks in California. Just heard about them second hand from some folks at work. I think the theory is that the fires have forced them out of their...

Jiggs-SoCal Visit

Started by gwendontoo (foxsecurity@earthlink.net) | 1 message | First message: 2004-01-10
Jiggs, I forgot about one other San Diego letterbox. If you go to the old site and click on the San Diego area you will find a listing for "Painted Rocks". This is an unclaimed box and the hike is...

Palo Alto boxes

Started by Lea Shangraw Fox (princesslea@alamedanet.net) | 2 messages | First message: 2004-01-05 | Last message: 2004-01-06
In one of those weird coincidences, 2 new letterboxes have been placed in the same Palo Alto park in the same week, by different people - another one just got uploaded today. And this after there...

SLO: Another Los Osos Oaks Update!

Started by rscarpen (RiskyNil@pocketmail.com) | 1 message | First message: 2004-01-05
Just to let everyone know, I repaired the damaged letterbox and they are all now back up and in action! =) http://www.geocities.com/rscarpen/Lb/US/CA Farewell! -- Ryan

Counting advice?

Started by Lea Shangraw Fox (princesslea@alamedanet.net) | 6 messages | First message: 2004-01-04 | Last message: 2004-01-06
I have a question on box statistics - I recently carved two stamps but Amanda planted them while she was on a trip in Virginia. I wrote the clues and I am the contact on the web page. Neither of...

Box Status Report

Started by Lea Shangraw Fox (princesslea@alamedanet.net) | 2 messages | First message: 2004-01-04 | Last message: 2004-01-06
I've been meaning to do an update of the boxing I managed to squeeze in during the holidays. I did finally get over the 200 mark, with a lot of help for the Googled group down in San Luis Obispo. ...

SLO: Los Osos Oaks Update!

Started by rscarpen (RiskyNil@pocketmail.com) | 1 message | First message: 2004-01-01
I headed out this afternoon to replace a couple of missing boxes from my Los Osos Oaks boxes. (The Oak Tree and Butterfly boxes were missing.) At long last, I have replaced the two boxes! So if...

December 2003

April 24th Kernville Letterbox Gathering

Started by trentlaudes (trentlaudes@excite.com) | 13 messages | First message: 2003-12-30 | Last message: 2004-01-02
Don & Gwen, or Gwen & Don (I always think I'm saying it the wrong way; what is your preference?), Per your SoCal Letterboxing post: if you're sponsoring a letterbox gathering in Kernville on...

Shasta area boxes

Started by samanark (samanark@yahoo.com) | 2 messages | First message: 2003-12-26 | Last message: 2003-12-26
Ryan and I were able to stop at two letterboxes on our drive from Seattle to San Francisco the other day...we got the Dammed Shasta letterbox and Queen City Shasta letterbox. Both were in great...

Northern California talk list!

Started by rscarpen (RiskyNil@pocketmail.com) | 1 message | First message: 2003-12-25
Today I've updated the talk list web address from LbCA to LbNCA, so if your links aren't working, that'll be why. =) I *think* I've gotten everything changed correctly, but please let me know if...

Earthquake box....

Started by rscarpen (RiskyNil@pocketmail.com) | 3 messages | First message: 2003-12-25 | Last message: 2003-12-28
The Loma Prieta letterbox is SOOO interesting, and I'd love to create a similar one for this new quake. I don't know if the epicenter is located on publicly accessible land, but even if it's not,...

Look at That Big Rock! (SF)

Started by Lea Shangraw Fox (princesslea@alamedanet.net) | 1 message | First message: 2003-12-19
Amanda was in town today to help me celebrate my last final of the semester (yay!) so we decided to try and get this new letterbox in San Francisco. The climb was a little more than we bargained...

Introducing the Northern California board....

Started by rscarpen (RiskyNil@pocketmail.com) | 5 messages | First message: 2003-12-16 | Last message: 2003-12-27
Since no new votes have come in about the poll for the last week or so, I've officially ended the poll about what to do with this board. Most voters preferred turning this into a Northern...

SF Bay Trail Letterboxes

Started by coyotl_clan (c._latrans@comcast.net) | 4 messages | First message: 2003-12-14 | Last message: 2003-12-16
" The San Francisco Bay Trail is a 400+ mile shared-use path that will one day allow continuous travel around the Bay. " I would like to propose a group project to create a series of Letterboxes...

Unknown Place - Northern California

Started by Lea Shangraw Fox (princesslea@alamedanet.net) | 5 messages | First message: 2003-12-13 | Last message: 2003-12-28
I found this mystery box today and was surprised that I was the first one there (I think it was planted during the summer??) The building shown in the clue is quite an interesting spot! There...

Combining

Started by gwendontoo (foxsecurity@earthlink.net) | 1 message | First message: 2003-12-10
I'm going to post this on both California Talk Lists which tends to point out the problem. Since the chit chat traffic on either one or both of the lists is not impacted it makes some sense (at least...

Da poll, da poll....

Started by rscarpen (RiskyNil@pocketmail.com) | 4 messages | First message: 2003-12-03 | Last message: 2003-12-04
Okay, I just looked at the results so far and out of nine votes, two of you actually voted for doing "Nothing, I like the conflicts with the overlapping terrority"--are these votes for real? ...

COMBINING

Started by gwendontoo (foxsecurity@earthlink.net) | 12 messages | First message: 2003-12-03 | Last message: 2003-12-11
Since we have a few letterboxes in other parts of California, I voted to combine the two. Gwen is off taking care of our #2 grandson and when she returns our vote may change. I think right now the...