Letterboxing USA - Yahoo Groups Archive

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October 2000

New Letterbox in Uxbridge MA - Bonsai

Started by Jeremy Disch (jdisch@emerald.tufts.edu) | 1 message | First message: 2000-10-24
A new addition to our collection of letterboxes in MA. This one in Uxbridge, MA. http://www.whiteblazes.com/lbna/bonsai.html A Single Letterbox is located in the Blackstone River Valley. This...

Alabama Letterbox

Started by Dennis Williams (dwilliam@snu.edu) | 1 message | First message: 2000-10-24
Yes I did put a box in Alabama along the Little Cahaba River. I never did write up the clues though. I'll dig out my field notebook from that era and try to write up some clues so we can get it on...

York River State Park Letterboxes

Started by Mark & Mary Ann (mmagnant@erols.com) | 1 message | First message: 2000-10-23
Hello!     One of Squirrel's York River State Park boxes was visited by a WHOM (Whole Herd Of Magnants) over the weekend.  What a nice park! After last weekend I decided to take away my...

New box in West Hartford, CT

Started by (WCOCrules@aol.com) | 2 messages | First message: 2000-10-24 | Last message: 2000-10-25
I am calling this box the "Phoenix Tree" box because it is hidden inside a tree that rose from it's own ashes(so to speak). Years ago, this tree fell over, pulling some of it's roots out of the...

New Mexico Letterboxes

Started by Dennis Williams (dwilliam@snu.edu) | 2 messages | First message: 2000-10-23 | Last message: 2000-10-23
Hey folks, Fleeting may be an apt descriptor, but busy is better. Actually I hid two letterboxes in New Mexico. Smokey Bear was first, then last year, while teaching a traveling class I hid the...

Randy's distance ?

Started by (cstearns@neca.com) | 1 message | First message: 2000-10-23
Hi Randy I use the time method pretty well . I have several road routes I have timed and done the distance with my car. So if you know you walk a 20 minute mile 15 minutes down the trail should be...

A question of distance

Started by (axtowner@aol.com) | 4 messages | First message: 2000-10-22 | Last message: 2000-10-24
Greetings, all. I'm pleased to report that I found my fifth and sixth letterboxes on Sunday afternoon, at Gay City State Park in Hebron, CT. That Drewclan is surely a crafty bunch...they make the...

My input on Pace vs. Step

Started by Bruce Farmer (bruce_farmer@hotmail.com) | 4 messages | First message: 2000-10-22 | Last message: 2000-10-23
The discussion and polling on step vs. pace has been very interesting, but I hope this doesn't mean we intend to agree as a group that a pace is the same thing a step. My old scout leaders will be...

New MA Boxes (Watch Out, Connecticut!)

Started by Bonita Sennott (bsennott@crocker.com) | 2 messages | First message: 2000-10-21 | Last message: 2000-10-23
My sister Betsey has been busy planting more boxes in Massachusetts. The clues are here: Hancock Hill Letterbox http://www.crocker.com/~bsennott/hancock.html Praying Woman of the Charles Letterbox...

LBoxing in NM

Started by Linda Aplin (linda@auc.com) | 1 message | First message: 2000-10-21
Kay, If you log onto the letterbox.org page, you will see that one letterbox is hidden in New Mexico. This was hidden by someone (who was that fleeting figure???) who was visiting your beautiful...

To anyone palnning on letterboxing in IL

Started by (mohmers@aol.com) | 1 message | First message: 2000-10-21
Passing this note on: PSS: The Parent / teacher store in Collinsville on Main Street is going out of business...up to 50% off. No guarantee they will be open past Oct 30. They have lots of...

Aaargh!

Started by (mfitton@snet.net) | 1 message | First message: 2000-10-21
Why do you lose the screen and go back to the previous page when you use your backspace key trying to send a message from the webste, like I'm doing now? I mean, I was afraid to go back and correct...

Patch and Decal reminder

Started by (mohmers@aol.com) | 2 messages | First message: 2000-10-21 | Last message: 2000-10-24
Just a friendly reminder ..... I haven't received as many orders of patches and decals through the snail mail as I did over the email. If you are still planning to send an order please do so. ...

All Smiles in Illinois

Started by (mohmers@aol.com) | 1 message | First message: 2000-10-21
Please add this letterbox to the BikeMan Box series in Ilinois. S.W.I.A.A.L.B. BikeMan..Box Thanks, Mohmers

They're not stamps

Started by Space (Judi@SpaceFamily.net) | 2 messages | First message: 2000-10-20 | Last message: 2000-10-23
Since learning to carve rubber stamps (thanks to letterboxing), doing pumpkins just got a lot more interesting. I used the lino carvers to gouge part way through the pumpkin, and created a great jack...

Burr Hitch-hiker

Started by Tom Cooch (tcooch@sover.net) | 3 messages | First message: 2000-10-20 | Last message: 2000-10-21
Eric, Great to hear of your journey up here. In case you have another day and a chance to read mail before you leave the area, I can tell you that you want to use the old Maine Junction - 0.5...

LA California area letterboxers

Started by (twograysquirrels@aol.com) | 2 messages | First message: 2000-10-20 | Last message: 2000-10-20
To all you so Californian's I be in the Claremont, LA area over Christmas holiday. I hope you have lots hidden for me to find. I'll also be hiding some. Find one, hide one, that's my...

Yeah!!!

Started by (twograysquirrels@aol.com) | 1 message | First message: 2000-10-20
Way to go Mad Piper! I thought that trail might lead to some interesting spots but didn't have time to persue it. I will definately be back down. I appreciate looking for a box in a park that...

every state by end of 2000

Started by (cstearns@neca.com) | 3 messages | First message: 2000-10-20 | Last message: 2000-10-21
I had a great idea today. I am going to a convention and every state should be represented there. I made a packet asking for them to hide a box or pass the packet to someone who will. I included...

Yet another VA box -- Leesylvania

Started by (mad_piper@ireland.com) | 2 messages | First message: 2000-10-19 | Last message: 2000-10-20
Howdy! Squirrel's Leesylvania boxes now have some company. I finally put my first box together and just had to place it in Leesylvania; it's such a great park. More to come. Enjoy! -Mad...

Stellaluna Hitchhiker

Started by Melissa Harvey (kiwi-1@snet.net) | 2 messages | First message: 2000-10-18 | Last message: 2000-10-18
Dan & I have sent a new hitchhiker out into the woods.  In the spirit of Halloween, Stellaluna the fruit bat, was left somewhere in Southern CT this afternoon.  When Stellaluna was a baby,...

WV letterbox clues

Started by (twograysquirrels@aol.com) | 1 message | First message: 2000-10-18
Seneca Rocks Box Seneca Rocks, West Virginia October 14, 2000 Easy, Pets on leash ok, bathrooms available Squirrel twograysquirrels@aol.com This is a great place to do some rock climbing. After...

Black Sheep Hitch hiker

Started by Carolyn Stearns (cstearns@neca.com) | 1 message | First message: 2000-10-18
Here is a new one the Black Sheep of the Family ready to graze from box to box. It started today at Just For Kicks. If you find a black sheep take it on to the next box, it is sponsored by...

Shelter Falls Park, Mansfield , Ct. "Just For Kicks" and "Shelter Falls"

Started by Carolyn Stearns (cstearns@neca.com) | 1 message | First message: 2000-10-18
Rating: Moderate   Time 1 1/2 - 2 hours for both   Some rocky terrain   Sponsor : Cock-A-Doodle-Moo 4-H Club      To find Shelter Falls Park, Mansfield  take rte 44 between  rte 32 and rte 195...

New boxes in West Virginia and New Series

Started by (twograysquirrels@aol.com) | 1 message | First message: 2000-10-18
Pinto Anticline Letterbox Part of the Fossil series Pinto, Maryland Easy, dogs allowed, no bathrooms October 13, 2000 twograysquirrels@aol.com