Monterey Fiasco

From: Matthew Sparks (makaalasparks@hotmail.com) | Date: 2005-02-23 08:59:25 UTC-08:00

So off we go to Monterey for a Fun weekend
I was careful to pack all the local clues--- although reading them
I wasn't sure I would be able to solve them on such short notice.
anyway I was'nt sure how much time we would have for actually letterboxing
Well with the rain pouring down nobody wanted to go hiking-
opting for museums, aquariums, shopping, and restaraunts
So I left my stamps and journal at the hotel.
We go down to Fisherman's wharf and I pretty much
run into one of the main clues for one of the boxes I had no idea where to
start.
(sigh) - message to self keep letterbox knapsack with me at all times...
oh well next time I'm down that way I'll be able to get that one real
easy!!!

On the brighter side, We stopped at Mission San Juan Bautista and had a
great time
getting that Stamp. - Cool Placement, I don't think there is a stamp closer
to the San Andreas Fault than that one. as a matter of fact, when you reach
for the letterbox, your standing on the North American Plate, and the box
sits on the Pacific Plate.

Now that I am back I will finish the stamp for the letterboxing book and get
that circulatiing
Everybody who emailed me asking to be on the list will get the box/book in
turn, I will send out confirmation emails that I got your addresses.

Matt
Maltedfalcon

Re: [LbNCA] Monterey Fiasco

From: Stephanie Bryant (mortaine@gmail.com) | Date: 2005-02-23 09:24:04 UTC-08:00

Cool! Glad you had a good time!

There's also a letterbox in Santa Cruz that sits on the San Andreas
faultline on the epicenter of the 1987 quake. But I'm not sure if it's
one different plates.

--Stephanie

On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 08:59:25 -0800, Matthew Sparks
wrote:
> On the brighter side, We stopped at Mission San Juan Bautista and had a
> great time
> getting that Stamp. - Cool Placement, I don't think there is a stamp closer
> to the San Andreas Fault than that one. as a matter of fact, when you reach
> for the letterbox, your standing on the North American Plate, and the box
> sits on the Pacific Plate.

--
Stephanie Bryant
mortaine@gmail.com
http://www.mortaine.com

Re: Monterey Fiasco

From: rscarpen (letterboxing@atlasquest.com) | Date: 2005-02-23 19:31:14 UTC

> There's also a letterbox in Santa Cruz that sits on the San Andreas
> faultline on the epicenter of the 1987 quake. But I'm not sure if
> it's one different plates.

On all those maps we see in school, the plates look like clearly
distinct entities like it was a political boundry. You'd be pretty
hard pressed to draw a line directly in the dirt and say, "This is the
ABC plate and this is the XYZ plate." Places where I've stood on a
fault line, the best I could do is say, "This side is the ABC plate,
that side is the XYZ plate, and the fault line is the 20 feet between
the two."

But then, there are also many fault lines that are completely on a
single plate. For instance, if you visit downtown Hollister, you can
see a fault line running right through town. It's not often you can
actually SEE a fault line. And in truth, it's not so much the fault
line you see but rather the damage it causes running along that line
that's visible.

One of my classes went out to Hollister on a geology fieldtrip. =)
Lots of fun running around the neighborhoods following the fault
lines. Sidewalks would have kinks in them where they shifted due to
the fault. Houses built on this line were slowly being torn in two,
and many of the doors had to be specially cut to fit into the sheered
doorways.

I tell you, if that doesn't deserve a letterbox, nothing does! =)
It's a creeping fault, though, and continues to move year after year.

Anyhow.... happy trails!

-- Ryan