Letterboxing USA - Yahoo Groups Archive

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July 2001

New Letterboxer - found my first

Started by David (dcassidy@together.net) | 5 messages | First message: 2001-07-16 | Last message: 2001-07-16
[LbNA] New Letterboxer - found my first Hi all - I've been lurking on the list for a few weeks and finally had a chance to find my first letterbox yesterday, so I thought it was time to...

Clues and GPS

Started by Eric Mings (elm@letterboxing.com) | 5 messages | First message: 2001-07-16 | Last message: 2001-07-17
With all the recent discussion about clues I thought I would give my 2c about the GPS. Personally I like GPS clues and will probably include them with all my boxes in the future. However, I will...

Writing clues

Started by Mountain Scorpia (mountainscorpia@hotmail.com) | 1 message | First message: 2001-07-16
This morning, an 11-year old son-of-friends and I planted my first box in the Joyce ("I think that I shall never see, A poem lovely as a tree...") Kilmer Memorial Forest. I never meant to write...

Map Surfer's observations

Started by Jay Chamberlain (ae4mk@1bigred.com) | 1 message | First message: 2001-07-15
MapSurfer    udaman...........   Jay C.

New Virginia Mystery box

Started by Jay Chamberlain (ae4mk@1bigred.com) | 1 message | First message: 2001-07-15
I couldn't help myself. After finding 3 of 4 of Ladybug's Scrabble Mystery boxes, I dropped one off on the way back to the car. You got to find her's...

OR - The Steens Mountain

Started by (paisleyorca@webtv.net) | 3 messages | First message: 2001-07-15 | Last message: 2001-07-15
Hi All! John and I spent the weekend camping down in Southeastern Oregon in the Steens Mountain area. It was his first time there and I was so glad to take him. It's such a remarkable place. I...

How do you plant? was: Re: [LbNA] Just some tips and observations

Started by Ann Kingman (amkingman@hotmail.com) | 2 messages | First message: 2001-07-15 | Last message: 2001-07-15
Thank you Richard, this was great information... I would like information from the list on how you go about planting your letterboxes..mainly, how and when do you write your clues? Do you...

N.J. Box-New

Started by joie christensen (see_joy29@hotmail.com) | 1 message | First message: 2001-07-15
Cooper Mill Chester, New Jersey Morris County Rated:Moderate>4 mile circuit hike> An outstanding location!! Planted 7-15-01 Directions:From North>Rt.80 to Rt.206 S. to Rt.513 W. in Chester.

Welton Falls and Maple Seed

Started by fred lorch (lonemasswolf@covad.net) | 1 message | First message: 2001-07-15
Spent some time in NH this weekend and while we were there we went searching for the Welton Falls and the Mapleseed Letterboxes. If anyone has found the Welton Falls Letterbox recently,...

Letterbox/Geocache hybrid Clues & Coordinates: "Iced Tea 1"

Started by Don Buchan (malak@pobox.com) | 1 message | First message: 2001-07-15
Walk through the old quarry -- good place for a dog run -- follow one of the trails up into the woods and down to the water. This involves a few hundred feet of woods. Continue to the west until...

Saturday in the Park

Started by (axtowner@aol.com) | 1 message | First message: 2001-07-15
Greetings, all -- After a too-long hiatus from letterboxing these last several weeks, I made up for my "down time" this past Saturday and headed out to Tolland (CT), taking advantage of a...

Whats in You Pack - A Compiled List - Thanks to All

Started by Bill&Val/LBCentral (Bill@LetterboxingCentral.com) | 1 message | First message: 2001-07-16
Thanks to all of you who contributed to this list and those who kept it light with some good humor. I offer this list as a compiled effort which actually comes from all of you and will be very useful...

The first Letterboxing Central Pooch Patch goes to .....

Started by Bill&Val/LBCentral (Bill@LetterboxingCentral.com) | 1 message | First message: 2001-07-15
MAX - Who is a seven month old Golden Retreiver is the winner of our first ever drawing for the Letterboxing Central Pooch Patch. You can see Max on our PAWS page - Just click PAW 10. Way to go MAX...

NC New Mountain Box

Started by Mountain Scorpia (mountainscorpia@hotmail.com) | 1 message | First message: 2001-07-15
I have planted my first letterbox near the Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest in Graham County, NC. The Forest is about 14 miles from Robbinsville, the nearest town. (Robbinsville is about 2 hours west...

Hitchhiker question

Started by cowpost (cowpost@email.msn.com) | 14 messages | First message: 2001-07-15 | Last message: 2007-05-09
If I wanted to place a hitchhiker in an established box, what do I put with it? Does it go in a separate box or in the box that's already there? What kind of note goes with it? Etc? Thanks....

Just some tips and observations

Started by Richard W. Gretzinger (contact@richgretz.com) | 12 messages | First message: 2001-07-15 | Last message: 2001-12-11
Hello, My girl friend and I are relatively new to this sport/pastime. I have a very extensive mapping and orienteering background in the eastern United states. I grew up in Bucks County, PA and...

Washington/Oregon letterboxes

Started by Manx (batbrat@qwest.net) | 1 message | First message: 2001-07-15
We just took a road trip through Washington, Oregon, Wyoming, and Idaho. We brought clues to a handful of letterboxes in the area, hoping to get as many as we could on our trip. Unfortunately, we...

Clues finished for 2 somerset county NJ letterboxes.

Started by Todd W. Lane (tlane@phoenix.Princeton.EDU) | 1 message | First message: 2001-07-15
The clues to the Sourland Preserve letterboxes 1 & 2 are now complete and posted on our website: http://members.tripod.com/lane.t/grid1.html Todd and Pam

?????

Started by joie christensen (see_joy29@hotmail.com) | 5 messages | First message: 2001-07-15 | Last message: 2001-07-15
Has anyone or anyone you know ever stamped into the Liberty State Park letterbox? (It's a New Jersey box) Thanks! See Joy _________________________________________________________________ Get your...

5 new AK letterboxes

Started by (AK4X4ing@aol.com) | 2 messages | First message: 2001-07-15 | Last message: 2001-07-16
Since I am sure youa re all hurriedly planning your Alaskan vacation, I wanted to make sure there were plenty of boxes to greet you upon arrival.   Here are clues to the first 5.  :o) Thunderbird...

Quahog Hitchhiker

Started by (greene.mary@warwickschools.org) | 1 message | First message: 2001-07-15
Hello, all,   Today I created a hitchhiker box called "Quahog from Narragansett Bay."  It is my hopes that it travels far and wide and gets to see the world, as shellfish generally spend...

Geocaching and Letterboxing embraced by outdoor retailers

Started by Eric J. Eurto (enicltrbxr@netzero.net) | 1 message | First message: 2001-07-14
I read an interesting article in a magazine called Outdoor Retailer. This is a magazine for the people who run and work in the outdoor retail market (such as myself). The front cover of the...

New WA Boxes - Snoqualmie Falls Series

Started by (Mischief_wa@hotmail.com) | 9 messages | First message: 2001-07-15 | Last message: 2001-07-22
Snoqualmie Falls Letterbox Series Placed by ~ Mischief ~ on 7-14-01 Location - Snoqualmie Falls State - Washington County - King Town - Snoqualmie Clues Easy. Straight forward directions. Trek...

4-H event date

Started by (cstearns@neca.com) | 1 message | First message: 2001-07-15
Pardon ,my mind must have needed more caffiene this a.m. The Tolland County 4-H Fair is Aug. 10,11,12 2001 at Tolland Agricultural Center Rte 30 Vernon, Ct. This is where the winter event was...

New NJ mystery box, via Name that Tune!

Started by Kimberly Mako (MartianShark@msn.com) | 2 messages | First message: 2001-07-14 | Last message: 2001-07-14
    ----- Original Message ----- From: Kimberly Mako Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2001 12:39 PM To: LetterboxingUSA Subject: New NJ mystery box, via Name that Tune!   Today I hid another NJ mystery box,...