Letterboxing USA - Yahoo Groups Archive

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September 2000

"Pine For You", Moss Sanctuary, Mansfield, Ct.

Started by Carolyn Stearns (cstearns@neca.com) | 1 message | First message: 2000-09-24
In the Storrs section of Mansfield on rte 195 turn onto rte 275 at the Mansfield Town Hall. Immediatley turn into the driveway of the Graduate apartments opposite the town hall. Follow to the...

More Letterboxing in Kansas

Started by (Letterboxr@aol.com) | 4 messages | First message: 2000-09-23 | Last message: 2000-09-25
Der Mad Stamper and his trusty sidekick Littlefoot have been adventuring in the land of sunshine again. Here's a progress report: The Waconda Lake letterbox in Mitchell County has been replaced. It...

bounce test

Started by Jay (ae4mk@1bigred.com) | 1 message | First message: 2000-09-23
bounce test

Letterboxing North America Web Ring!!

Started by Ruthann aka Mirkwood (mirkwood3@aol.com) | 1 message | First message: 2000-09-22
Hi, all! The Letterboxing North America Web Ring is up and running, and is a replacement for the previous Web Ring, which Marty maintained. I have had only about 20-percent of the sites from the...

Appalachian Trail letterboxes?

Started by Christopher Van Loon (vanloonc@yahoo.com) | 2 messages | First message: 2000-09-22 | Last message: 2000-09-22
My wife and I will be designing a web page for a local woman who will be hiking the Appalachian Trail next year, to raise awareness and money for Lyme Disease research. In learning more about the...

First Kentucky Letterbox

Started by (twograysquirrels@aol.com) | 2 messages | First message: 2000-09-22 | Last message: 2000-09-23
Please post these clues and note that this is the first letterbox placed in Kentucky so please post it on the State First web site as well. Thanks, Squirrel Kentucky First Letterbox clues Red...

Dangers of Hitchhiking

Started by Jay Drew (drewclan@aol.com) | 4 messages | First message: 2000-09-22 | Last message: 2000-09-29
(Or, Firebolt's wild ride) One of the problems for innocent hitchhikers is that they never know what whacko will pull over and pick them up. I mean, picture a chilling Woody Harrelson in Natural...

Home is Where the Heart Is , Hitchiker boundary="---

Started by Tom Cooch (tcooch@sover.net) | 1 message | First message: 2000-09-21
Caroline, Since you give the location of the hh box, I assume that it had already been found. Could you tell me who found it and when? Thanks, Tom > Home is Where the Heart Is is a hitchiker...

steps for hitchiker boxes

Started by Tom Cooch (tcooch@sover.net) | 4 messages | First message: 2000-09-21 | Last message: 2000-09-21
I don't think it matters really, Squirrel. I'm hoping to get the info one way or another. When I hear that a hh box has been found, I'll fill in the ??? for the previous location, and put up the...

Topographical map server

Started by Tom Cooch (tcooch@sover.net) | 4 messages | First message: 2000-09-21 | Last message: 2000-09-21
Chris, IMO, you get to count the hithchhker for your F's, but not for your P's, unless you're the one who created it. Tom The Orient Express Braintree, VT P17F91 "The game is afoot!"

A busy night

Started by Melissa Harvey (kiwi-1@snet.net) | 3 messages | First message: 2000-09-20 | Last message: 2000-09-21
Hello all, We had a very busy letterboxing night tonight! We intended on going out to find one box, The Ram's new one called The Books. We had many surprises. We first stopped by to peak in the...

Damn Yankee First to Solve Virginia Mystery Box

Started by (Btrplc2b@aol.com) | 1 message | First message: 2000-09-21
Having lived in Richmond for almost 20 years, surrounded by Civil War history, it took letterboxing and Jay's great mystery to spark an interest in the Civil War. A trip to the library and a...

Montana letterbox update + in-book and on-box messages

Started by Mark Sheehan (sheehan@alumni.indiana.edu) | 1 message | First message: 2000-09-20
Folks, The talk about on-box and in-book messages reminds me to update anyone out there who is interested about the Hyalite Canyon series of Montana letterboxes. Numbers 1, 3, 4, and 5 are still...

First time Failure

Started by David Lilly (lilly@tranplaneng.com) | 1 message | First message: 2000-09-20
Good day   Well I finally had a chance to make it down to Oregon and try may hand at letterboxing.  I started with Blue Lake as it appeared to be an easy box to star with.  It seemed as if a...

On box and in book messages for passerbys.

Started by Jeremy Disch (jdisch@emerald.tufts.edu) | 9 messages | First message: 2000-09-20 | Last message: 2000-09-24
As I am currently putting together a replacement box I have come to a standstill as to how to deter losing it again. As I am a scientist and not an English Ph.D. I have come up with a little writers...

Mountains

Started by Matthew Sparks (makaalasparks@hotmail.com) | 3 messages | First message: 2000-09-19 | Last message: 2000-09-20
What do I consider a mountain? hmmm Well my house sits at 2040 feet ASL So that's just a hill... I think the highest pass here in CA is 9000ish feet Sonoma Pass. It's right next to Mt Sonoma which is...

Aix Sponsa Letterboxes

Started by Bruce Farmer (bruce_farmer@hotmail.com) | 1 message | First message: 2000-09-19
Anyone seen the Aix Sponsa letterboxes lately? I went looking for them last week and came up empty. Maybe I just need to brush up on my tree...

Solitude

Started by Jeremy Disch (jdisch@emerald.tufts.edu) | 2 messages | First message: 2000-09-18 | Last message: 2000-09-20
We just got a report of the solitude letterbox, which may be missing. We will check it out this upcoming weekend. And I guess I will be carving a stamp first thing in the morning. This is quite a...

letterbox class

Started by Tom Cooch (tcooch@sover.net) | 3 messages | First message: 2000-09-18 | Last message: 2000-09-19
If I undertand you, Thom, I don't think this is anything for which you need to ask permission! Tom > > I wanted to post a formal request for permission to refer the LbNA > website in my L'boxing...

"New" to me

Started by Jay Drew (drewclan@aol.com) | 2 messages | First message: 2000-09-18 | Last message: 2000-09-18
John the Lone Wolf Belgian dropped me a note with a couple of letterbox series that he discovered while surfing "letterboxing" in his favorite search engine. I was flabbergasted to learn there are...

New Virginia Mystery clues posted

Started by Jay Chamberlain (ae4mk@1bigred.com) | 1 message | First message: 2000-09-18
Have at it and enjoy. I have posted the clues for my new Virginia mystery box (Bartholomew Jones).   www.1bigred.com/jayc/letterbox/mystery1.txt   The box was placed 14 September.   Jay C.

Boston poaching

Started by Jay Drew (drewclan@aol.com) | 2 messages | First message: 2000-09-17 | Last message: 2000-09-17
Jeremy & Greta, we LOVED the Blue Hills Letterbox! Hope you don't mind us crowding in, but that is the kind of place that could be home to a lot of letterboxes. It's easy to get to, fun to hike,...

A Virginia Mystery box coming to a town near you...maybe

Started by Jay (ae4mk@1bigred.com) | 1 message | First message: 2000-09-16
It's planted and the clues will be coming soon.     Jay C. The Jolly G-Man

Trolley Car (new in CT, en anglaise)

Started by Jay Drew (drewclan@aol.com) | 1 message | First message: 2000-09-17
Trolley Car A pair of letterboxes on a town-sponsored masterpiece overlooking the incredible Thimble Islands in Branford, CT. This hike covers an easy shoreside 1.5 miles with a small climb and an...

Trail of the Leatherman- Turkey Mt. Hike- Yorktown Heights, NY

Started by (MebaneJane@aol.com) | 1 message | First message: 2000-09-16
In the late 1800s there lived a mysterious hermit known as the Leatherman. He wandered through Westchester and Putnam Counties and journied to Connecticut as well. Living in caves and clothed in...