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I will be journeying to New Jersey to visit a friend next week, and will be introducing her to letterboxing while I am there. We have selected a few boxes in the area to hunt down and have a...

Boxes 3 and 4 of the Hofma Park "Words in the Woods" series were placed yesterday. The hikes and clues for these two are little tougher than the first ones were, but both great adventures in a...

   jessie wrote: Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2002 06:19:10 -0700 (PDT)From: jessie Subject: CT - New HitchhikerTo: letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.comA new hitchhiker was planted today in Connecticut by Jessie and...

My son and I recently came accross this diverse group of happy hikers when searching for directions to the rocks on Haycock Mountain in Bucks County, PA  where I occasionally hiked when I was much...

This is my second letterbox and a stamp that i am really proud of. If you know the Beaverton area well this should be pretty easy, off not then i suggest you pull out a decent street map. If you...

Zebra Swallowtail Letterbox Placed: 08/31/02 C & O Canal, Paw Paw Tunnel, Western Maryland Nearest Town: Paw Paw, WV Difficulty: Intermediate The Zebra Swallowtail Letterbox Directions:

Two new Bike it or Hike it Letterboxes Planted 9-4-02 Housatonic Rail Trail North Letterbox    Monroe,CT; Fairfield county for clues...

The Happymapper is quite right about the Pace thing. Calibrating one's pace to feet or meters is a technique used in Orienteering all the time. All distances in Orienteering are given in true...

Touching on the issue of pace or step... Let me throw out the concept of 'pace count' from land navigation. The user calibrates their pace (one pace equals each time the same foot strikes the...

Y'know, the reason it's not okay to point out which stamps are cruddy is that people who make them may have put just as much effort into them as someone who is better at it and has nice ones just...

Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the letterbox-usa group. File : /CT Trail Maps/tarrywileMap.pdf Uploaded...

This weekend the Minstrel and Plundering Bunny, both active members of the Traveling Circus, hunted out and found the Coquille River Lighthouse letterbox. Sadly to say we did not run into the two...

The Gal Pals have planted a new Series of Letterboxes. Please follow the link to get the clues. Thanks ! Slow Camel    http://galpals.thither.org/herosjourney.html 

We got back today from a wonderful hike at Moose Hill. We found the first two letterboxes in great shape! (Boulders and Hobbs Hill), however the Moose Hill Letterbox (near the fire tower),...

The stamp quality is low on my list of desirability. Challenge - either clue or hike - and going to new locations are much more important to me. The first thing on my list is probably just using...

X marks the spot (aka X-Box) You can find clues here http://home.fuse.net/Docman/xmarksthespot.html Happy hunting Thanks Beagletroop@yahoo.com

I'm not sure what's going on here but there are several extremely interesting letterboxes in the Tacoma, WA area that are missing from the LBNA site. I recently located them (over the last 2...

Name: UFO Landing Site #3 Team: Red Leader from TeamJedi County: Clermont State: Ohio Closest Town: Amelia (Link to Clues) HTTP://Home.Fuse.Net/docman/ufo3.html Dave aka Coolwan My...

Hey Ladybug - We found your Scrabble Mystery Boxes on Labor Day. The first box is alive and kicking! The clues were very good and we did not have any trouble locating the box. You might want to...

My name: Archwoman Letterbox name: Effigy Mounds Letterbox Date places: August 26, 2002 Nearest town: Marquette, Iowa Effigy Mounds National Monument is open year 'round. The hike is 4 miles...

Still wondering if anyone has found this box.  I hunted and hunted (well, maybe not THAT hard) over Labor Day weekend with my Dad and didn't find anything that matched the clues.  Any hints will be...

If you are going from Seattle to Vancouver via I-5, you'll be passing through Bellingham about twenty miles south of the border. There is a series of letter boxes in Larabee Park, over on the water....

Subj: [LbNA] Digest Number 1020 The School Box (Mystery Box) Frederick County, Maryland August, 2002 Placed by twograysquirrels@aol.com Lavenia come back on board now. ...

Hello everyone, If there is going to be anyone in the Shenandoah Valley of VA this weekend I would like to recommend your attendance at the Shenandoah Vineyards Annual Harvest Festival. There is...

My husband and I are heading out on Sunday to look for our first letterbox. This is a new experience for us, but we are looking forward to it.   Our first trip will be to Sugarloaf Ridge...