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For those who may be interested, I went out today to confirm the status of a few of my older boxes in the Portland, Oregon area... some of which had been reported missing. I am delighted to report...

Took the opportunity to get outside on this sunny but blustery day and plant two new letterboxes. The Mother-Daughter letterboxes are a joint effort between my daughter, Alicia, and myself. They...

Clear Day Enclosed are the clues for the first of a series of Mystery Wolf Letterboxes. I plan to hide a box in each state that will be located in a site that has some reference to the wolf....

I've added another letterbox to my homepage. http://hometown.aol.com/yukonwells/myhomepage/index.html It's located (near) Medicine Park, Oklahoma (in the Wichita Mountain Wildlife Refuge). ...

Medallions--now THAT would be **way cool**!!! Would they be made from metal, like stamped aluminum or steel, or copper tooled? Leather? Plastic? (yecch). I do like the idea alot!! -Valerie

With the enormous amount of snow in December (24+ inches) and the thaw we had yesterday (54 degrees), the Huron River flooded its banks and I fear that two of my boxes (River Bend and Jabberwocky)...

Wow Jolly G Man. I think that is a neat idea. I'd love to see a photo or graphic of one. I can't get into the poll for some reason today otherwise I wouldn't have voted. I think it would be...

The Jolly G-man was the one who posted the latest poll. One of my to many hobbies is making hiking staffs and canes. I have a collection of medallions on my own staff from all over, Boy...

As everyone has noted, the Webmaster have been making major changes in "our" site. While you are out there, surfing to locate your next letterboxing conquest, keep an eye out for any broken...

Hi, Something amiss there, I think. You apparently can't vote for one of each pair, which seems to have been the intent. Maybe I should have voted twice, then ? ...

I've started a poll to determine if there's enough interest in a Mid-Atlantic Letterboxing get together. Letterboxers from VA, WV, MD, DC, DE, NJ, PA...and any others who'd be interested, please...

Hi, all: For those of you who haven't sent in your order form and payment for LbNA logo patches and decals, please do so in the next 10 days (Feb 20th). Thanks. -Valerie

At long last I've compiled the latest on letterboxes in Wisconsin. Quite a few are missing and will need to be replaced in the spring, but anything not noted here as missing or moved is still out...

Just a note as I was paging thru our beautiful new site I noted some county designations are off. Mansfield/Mansfield Center/Storrs are all one in the same and are in Tolland County. Suffield is in...

--- In letterbox-usa@y..., Thom Cheney wrote: > on 2/8/01 4:11 PM, boxdn@y... at boxdn@y... wrote: > > I think it is as simple as making a cuttable patch with the > > numbers one thru zero and a...

Sorry for the pun but I thought of something while reading everyones ideas. I think it is as simple as making a cuttable patch with the numbers one thru zero and a letter (p,f,x) example: 1 2 3 ...

OK, so we're all anxiously waiting to hear in the coming days or weeks about the **possible** Oregon gathering in late April. I'm just guessing, but it sounds like Tualatin Hills Nature Park in...

In a message dated 2/8/01 7:49:24 AM Pacific Standard Time, glassreed@yahoo.com writes: VALERIE: There are alot of good ideas floating around about the merit badges and more good ideas come into...

Well said, Valerie.  A lot of viewpoints are being aired, so let's give it time for an informed concensus to develop.  Personally, I'm not into displaying my "boxes achieved", but will be...

Oh, I hope this doesn't make me TOO unpopular: There are alot of good ideas floating around about the merit badges and more good ideas come into the discussion every day. Even though Kay has...

--- In letterbox-usa@y..., cstearns@n... wrote: > Thanks Kay for considering the kids in your denominations. I think > increments of 25 at the lower end are important. We are trying to >...

All you have to do to get to my www.1bigred.com   clues is add /users    in front of the /jayc  in any of the addresses.....  This will at least get you to my clues until I can fix...

Please note that my ISP informed be this afternoon that they have had to change the URL for my web pages. This means that I will have to go back in and change all  tha LbNA state pages with...

HI again, I get the point on the 75 being a little useless. But I'm thinking from the point of view of the kids that are in the sport. 75 would be abig deal to them. By the time they get past...

The merit badges offered will be F (for found), P (for planted), X (for exchanged) The denominations will be 10 , 25, 50, 75, 100, Before now, I haven't considered above 100. What...