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July 1999

Montana Letterboxing

Started by Mark Sheehan (sheehan@montana.campuscwix.net) | 3 messages | First message: 1999-07-26 | Last message: 1999-07-27
Folks, After more than a year of procrastinating, and with more than a little help from my friends, I've finally put some letterboxes out in Montana. Here are the clues (below), plus some...

East Coast LB Gathering

Started by erik/susan davis (davisarc@wcvt.com) | 6 messages | First message: 1999-07-25 | Last message: 1999-10-09
Tom: Thanks for taking the lead in the autumn letterboxing gathering - We've got the date penciled in, and look forward to meeting some other letterboxers. And, with luck, adding a box or two in the...

Three more clues

Started by Dierdra Baumgart (fencing_lady@yahoo.com) | 3 messages | First message: 1999-07-25 | Last message: 1999-07-25
Dear Letterboxing Group, Yes I have placed three more letterboxes today. It was a baumy 90+ degrees outside, but I did it anyway. Now I am in my freezer of a house and wondering who is going to find...

Leatherstocking Boxes

Started by Greg Bradley (bradman@blitz-it.net) | 2 messages | First message: 1999-07-25 | Last message: 1999-07-26
-----Original Message----- From: Tom Cooch To: letterbox-usa@egroups.com Date: Sunday, July 25, 1999 11:23 AM Subject: [LbNA] Leatherstocking Boxes >Greetings all! > >Glad to have gotten away...

Montauk Lighthouse Box

Started by E. Bourne (edbees@rcn.com) | 6 messages | First message: 1999-07-24 | Last message: 1999-07-25
Hello everyone, Today the whole family drove out to Montauk Point State Park to hide another box. This one is a little more challenging than the other two (I hope)! The drive out there is great....

totally unrelated

Started by CLARK Cara D (cara.d.clark@co.multnomah.or.us) | 10 messages | First message: 1999-07-23 | Last message: 1999-07-27
Hey y'all adventurous Letterboxing folks! This is unrelated, hope that's ok... Have any of you been to Zion National Park in Utah, or very near there (Escalante, etc...)? Kevin and I are going in...

Connecticut Adventure

Started by E. Bourne (edbees@rcn.com) | 1 message | First message: 1999-07-23
Hello everyone, Well we finally got to search for Letterboxes! We just spent 3 days camping in Voluntown, CT and found 6 boxes. There was only one box that we couldn't find, the Narragansett...

three to place and one to find.

Started by Dierdra Baumgart (fencing_lady@yahoo.com) | 1 message | First message: 1999-07-23
Hello my wonderful letterboxing friends. This weekend, Sunday really, I am planning on placing three more letterboxes. One in between Algoma and Sturgeon Bay. Two in Green Bay. I am also going to...

Letterbox New Mexico (another one bites the dust)

Started by Dennis Williams (dwilliam@snu.edu) | 2 messages | First message: 1999-07-22 | Last message: 1999-07-22
Smokey Bear Letterbox (planted 2 July 1999) This is a moderately hard set of clues in that they don't give you much hint of the somewhat dramatic landscape change over the course of 24 km and...

Latest Letterboxes - P.S.

Started by (Letterboxr@aol.com) | 2 messages | First message: 1999-07-21 | Last message: 1999-07-21
P.S. -- I might also mention that I've added a link to one of Randy's Mapsurfer boxes that for all practical intents and purposes appears to be located somewhere in this solar system. For clues,...

Latest Letterboxes

Started by (Letterboxr@aol.com) | 2 messages | First message: 1999-07-21 | Last message: 1999-07-26
Congratulations to the sponsors of our latest additions to the Letterboxing North America maps. Links for clues to Dierdra's latest two Wisconsin letterboxes (one at Aztalan State Park, the other...

Lboxing news from CA

Started by Linda Aplin (linda@auc.com) | 1 message | First message: 1999-07-19
Hello, We had a very nice visit from John De Wolf this weekend. He came out to search for my Palo Alto letterboxes and smiled alot. Enviously, we got to see his book of found stamps--maybe I'll have...

Way to go!

Started by CLARK Cara D (cara.d.clark@co.multnomah.or.us) | 8 messages | First message: 1999-07-19 | Last message: 2000-10-18
Wow! It seems that we are really getting alot of boxes out there to be found! The numbers just keep growing by the day. I went out on Saturday after work and found Mitch's Mt. Tabor box! That was...

Two new boxes in Green Bay, one to go.

Started by Dierdra Baumgart (fencing_lady@yahoo.com) | 2 messages | First message: 1999-07-19 | Last message: 1999-07-19
Dearest Letterboxing Friends/Family, I have just come back from a wonderful trip to Aztalan State Park/Rock Lake in Lake Mills. I have deposited a letterbox on the State Park. It was a person and a...

Bronson Creek clues!

Started by (MixtMedia@aol.com) | 1 message | First message: 1999-07-16
Thanks to Thom for sending me a copy of the clues, though I did have to beg and promise to name a child or pet after him ala Rumplestiltskin.... (maybe we could get a hedgehog :-) Very cool,...

Circle X update

Started by CLARK Cara D (cara.d.clark@co.multnomah.or.us) | 1 message | First message: 1999-07-16
Hey, those hummingbirds can just about give an oblivious person a heart attack. I once heard one suddenly near my ear and it was if the whole world was suddenly a really huge bee! Kevin and I are...

LbNA - Dartmoor Stamps

Started by Charles Marchant-White (charles@bcasol.co.uk) | 1 message | First message: 1999-07-16
Hi Guys We are due to holiday on Dartmoor week 7-14 August (total eclipse of sun week!). As usual we are looking forward to doing some letterboxing as well as going to the beach, to appease the...

updated maps

Started by (Letterboxr@aol.com) | 2 messages | First message: 1999-07-15 | Last message: 1999-07-15
FINALLY!!! With the help of Randy, Tom, and Thom, I think we've finally figured out what I was doing wrong regarding the link to the Costa Rica clues!!! Thanks, guys. Der Mad Stamper has learned...

Oregon box on Mt. Tabor

Started by (coughlin@ohsu.edu) | 1 message | First message: 1999-07-15
On Tuesday I road my bike up th extinct volcano all the way to the summit in search of the Mt. Tabor Letterbox. I found it after much fussing with my compass and tromping around in poison oak. ...

Letterboxing in Alaska....

Started by Thom Cheney (tcgrafx@imagina.com) | 3 messages | First message: 1999-07-14 | Last message: 1999-07-24
Stumbled off the plane at 6 AM this morning.... exhausted, dirty, smelly & immensely happy. Alaska is everything I thought it would be and more... First the letterboxing news... my brother-in-law...

Lahar letterbox on Washington's Mt. St. Helen's

Started by (coughlin@ohsu.edu) | 1 message | First message: 1999-07-14
KAAAABOOOOOM ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! (if this repeated I appoligize, I'm not sure how to post) This is one exciting and beautiful area. This new letterbox is high up in the Cascade Mountains or...

LAHAR Letterbox on Washington's Mount Saint Helen's

Started by Kevin Coughlin (coughlin@ohsu.edu) | 2 messages | First message: 1999-07-14 | Last message: 1999-07-14
KABOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is one exciting and beautiful area. The letterbox is high up in the Cascade Mountains; on the flanks of the lower 48's most active volcano. A lahar simply put is a mud or...

4 New Boxes in CA

Started by Linda Aplin (linda@auc.com) | 4 messages | First message: 1999-07-13 | Last message: 1999-07-14
I'm delighted to report that I've planted 4 new boxes in the SF Bay Area in honor of John De Wolf's upcoming visit. Proudly, I boast that there are now 7 letterboxes in Palo Alto. Here are the clues....

Portland Trip Report

Started by Wendy Gault (wendygault@earthlink.net) | 1 message | First message: 1999-07-13
Hi All, I am home safe and sound from my trip to Portland, and just to set the record straight, I had nothing to do with the very hot humid whether. I ventured off last Saturday morning to find...

2 Costa Rica letterboxes

Started by (dwilliam@snu.edu) | 9 messages | First message: 1999-07-13 | Last message: 1999-07-17
I know that Central America is not North America, but just in case anyone decides to make a trip to beautiful Costa Rica, you might pick up two stamps there. Both of them are at San Gerardo de Dota...