Letterboxing USA - Yahoo Groups Archive

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July 2003

Weezil series 1-3 in Johnston, RI

Started by Stephanie (rubberchickengirl@yahoo.com) | 2 messages | First message: 2003-07-26 | Last message: 2003-07-26
Weezil Series 1-3 Placed by: stephanie Placement date: Jul 25 2003 State: Rhode Island County: Providence Nearest city: Johnston Number of boxes: 3 Clues This set of boxes begins the Weezil...

Valley Quest in the news

Started by Silent Doug (silentdoug@douglasgerlach.com) | 1 message | First message: 2003-07-26
Here's a news stories from July 23, 2003 about the Valley Quest program, "Valley Quest Game Teaches Local Lore," from WNNE TV in Lebanon,...

Tribute to the Woods Series, Fairfax, VA - Box 1 missing?

Started by EarlyBird (iamafink@yahoo.com) | 3 messages | First message: 2003-07-26 | Last message: 2003-07-27
Our little tribe is batting .750 for the day. We watched a noisy red shouldered hawk teaching her two chicks to hunt while on our way to Box 1, but their family was more successful than ours. We...

CA. Sit Rep

Started by sandymess (sandymess@yahoo.com) | 4 messages | First message: 2003-07-25 | Last message: 2003-07-26
I went out today for my first real LB find. I had my daughter and a grandson along. Have them all excited about LBing. We went first to the Thompson Creek Trail #1. Sorry to say this letterbox was...

Gatherings: Maine Event and MA

Started by phynstar (mmstilphen@aol.com) | 3 messages | First message: 2003-07-25 | Last message: 2003-07-25
At the gatherings we bring food, stories and of course stamps. What else goes on? Are new HH's sometimes launched? I know there is an event stamp to be gotten. Do we hunt stamps in the area?

3000 letterbox finds!

Started by wandaandpete (wandaandpete@yahoo.com) | 12 messages | First message: 2003-07-25 | Last message: 2003-07-26
Just had to say that I reached F3000 yesterday! Seems like just the other day (actually June 1st) that I was reaching F2500 at "Universal Language" in VA, and here it is, less than 2 months later,...

"Honor Liberty"

Started by wandaandpete (wandaandpete@yahoo.com) | 5 messages | First message: 2003-07-25 | Last message: 2003-07-25
To "Honor Liberty", someone may wish to visit "The Patriot" in Norwich, CT!

New Russ 'Hiker to be released this coming weekend

Started by markpepe (mjpepe1@comcast.net) | 1 message | First message: 2003-07-25
Hi: Sue & I will release "Russ 'Hiker" in honor of my brother-in-law Russ Pipeling who passed away unexpectedly on June 14. Look for the hitchhiker in a box near you! Mark Pepe P4 F185...

Letterboxing event - Huntley Meadows, VA

Started by justplaingeorge (justplaingeorge@yahoo.com) | 2 messages | First message: 2003-07-25 | Last message: 2003-07-25
Looks like the kids version of the letterboxing event at Huntley Meadows last year went well as the new Parktakes magazine is now listing one for adults! Here's the blurb: Letterboxing in...

attn san fran bay area boxers!

Started by cscm88 (cscm@toast.net) | 7 messages | First message: 2003-07-25 | Last message: 2003-07-28
Greetings! Rustypuff and I will be visiting Fremont, CA, from August 19 to 31, and we'd love to meet local boxers for exchanges and boxing. We have a wedding to attend on the 30th, and we will...

hitch hikers

Started by Esther (esther@middletennesseefamily.com) | 9 messages | First message: 2003-07-25 | Last message: 2004-05-16
Hi guys! On a recent trip to the Atlanta area, I picked up a couple hitchhikers. The plan was to letterbox one more day and I would drop the HH then, but the trip was cut short (sick kiddo) AND I...

Medal of Honor stamp

Started by Kerjin (kerjin@myndworx.com) | 5 messages | First message: 2003-07-24 | Last message: 2003-07-26
*This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) Pro* I wanted to share my reply with everyone concerning this type of stamp..... First and foremost, I am a disabled Veteran...

FPP box, NoVA (condition; possibly very minor but vague clues); new to list

Started by Arielle K. Masters (arielle@imstumped.com) | 2 messages | First message: 2003-07-24 | Last message: 2003-07-25
Report on our one box thus far and an intro, since I'm new to the list... My kids and I started with the FPP (Frying Pan Park) box, nearest our home in NoVA, one day this June. We brought two...

mansfield CT caution

Started by Small Bear (summerlove23@hotmail.com) | 4 messages | First message: 2003-07-25 | Last message: 2003-07-25
Just a caution to all those boxers who frequent mansfield. There has been a raccoon spotted near and around Bicentennial pond, which is off of Clover Mill Rd, during the day recently. I work at the...

TX & LA letterboxes

Started by Cindy Harland (harland@pnx.com) | 1 message | First message: 2003-07-24
Hello, I have planted Box 1 and Box 2 of the State Welcome Series that I am working on. They are: Texas Welcome and Louisiana Welcome. Both on IH-10, at the Texas-Louisiana border. I also relocated...

Looking for Bear's Angel Hitch Hiker

Started by pandora{HIB} (hispandora@phlsystems.com) | 2 messages | First message: 2003-07-24 | Last message: 2003-07-25
Hello everyone -- I was wondering if anyone could tell me where Bear's Angel Hitch Hiker is now traveling about? The Hitch Hiker orginiated in Solvange California and was last reported to be...

book

Started by Randy Hall (randy@mapsurfer.com) | 10 messages | First message: 2003-07-24 | Last message: 2003-07-26
I've just completed a book on letterboxing, a project I started last fall. It will be available shortly. Its part history, part how-to, tips, and instruction, part documentation of the current...

Recent Finds - Norwich, CT

Started by Steve and Heidi (stephenholyfield@sbcglobal.net) | 5 messages | First message: 2003-07-24 | Last message: 2003-07-25
I've had a couple of nice and interesting trips with one of the locals in Norwich this week.....here's the scoop: Indian and the Fountain - All in tact, nice walk! Code 1 - Nice job Patrick and...

So Long HH and 500th box

Started by fjkrieg (fjkrieg@yahoo.com) | 1 message | First message: 2003-07-24
I can only aspire to such numbers...and would have to leave the state most likely to accomplish it! Congratulations on box 500! BobCat Crew

Putnam Fitness Trail Ct.

Started by Dan (danzad_99@yahoo.com) | 1 message | First message: 2003-07-24
The first 3 boxes on this trail are missing. We decided to pull the other 2 boxes and cancel this letterbox series off the Letterboxing web site. Just wanted people to know if they were planning...

Watch House Letterbox

Started by lizard612002 (lizard612002@yahoo.com) | 2 messages | First message: 2003-07-24 | Last message: 2003-07-25
I have made two exaustive searches for the Watch House box and had decided it was probably gone. Now I am gonna have to try again! Last visit, I met a HUGE racoon up there. Maybe I can get...

Footprints HH

Started by needeeps2002 (needeeps@webtv.net) | 10 messages | First message: 2003-07-24 | Last message: 2003-08-04
Hi everyone, I just wanted to write in and thank Teach and Preach and Nappy Kitty and Little Piggy for the fantastic hitch hiker that they made for me because of my injured foot. It lifted my...

RI; I'm Hooked

Started by (dmartin361@cox.net) | 5 messages | First message: 2003-07-24 | Last message: 2003-07-28
It's been 4 months since I found out about letterboxing and this week proves I'm hooked on this new sport. I've been out 3 of the past 4 nights hunting letterboxing and for the past week carving new...

Patrick & Amy

Started by (Mae62202@AOL.com) | 1 message | First message: 2003-07-24
Congratulations to you both, The Lion & Sanddollar !!! The Engraver & Corrina [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

sit. reps. for DE and OH boxes

Started by crappiefishergirl (jdstoeck@fgi.net) | 1 message | First message: 2003-07-24
ok, I posted my sit rep for "along the way" box (Spring Chick) last week, but for some reason my post did not take...so: I found the "along the way" box placed by Spring Chick in Deleware. the box...