Letterboxing USA - Yahoo Groups Archive

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June 1999

Portland Plans

Started by (Letterboxr@aol.com) | 4 messages | First message: 1999-06-28 | Last message: 1999-06-29
Wendy writes: > WOW... I would very much like to meet you all (can't you postpone your trip > to Alaska?...Just kidding). I will be staying at the Lakeshore Motor Hotel > in Lake Oswego. I was...

A Newbie Message

Started by Wendy Gault (wendygault@earthlink.net) | 20 messages | First message: 1999-06-27 | Last message: 1999-06-28
Dear Mitch, Here's a newbie opinion about the new Newsletter Layout...Looks Great!! The only thing that I would like is the heading (which is very cool) to be a bit smaller in depth. I prefer...

Webring Letterbox Series

Started by Tom Cooch (tcooch@mail.sover.net) | 5 messages | First message: 1999-06-27 | Last message: 1999-06-27
Dear Randy, I just noticed your addition to Marty's Letterbox Ring this afternoon - the Letterbox Series site. Did you announce this while I was sleeping, or did you modestly let this go by...

Speaking of Volunteers...

Started by (Letterboxr@aol.com) | 1 message | First message: 1999-06-26
Just a reminder that a great way to help spread the word about letterboxing in your area is to volunteer to be a State Contact. At least one person has volunteered to accept inquiries for each of...

wanted: ideas, opinions and volunteers

Started by (Letterboxr@aol.com) | 7 messages | First message: 1999-06-26 | Last message: 1999-06-28
Dear Friends, I've recently heard from a lot of people who would like to see some sort of 'What's New' section added to the website. Something that would list newly placed letterboxes, and serve...

Portland Community College letterboxes

Started by (Letterboxr@aol.com) | 1 message | First message: 1999-06-24
Little more than a week after placing three letterboxes on campus at PCC, I have an interesting anecdote to share. I hid the third box of the series under a pile of large rocks that were sitting...

Hello

Started by Tom Cooch (tcooch@mail.sover.net) | 38 messages | First message: 1999-06-23 | Last message: 2009-04-27
Dear Ed, Welcome to the club. We east coasters will particularly await the appearance of a Long Island letterbox. You know, I'm just realizing that I've lived on the east coast for 50 years, in...

New PO Box - Deborah

Started by (MixtMedia@aol.com) | 1 message | First message: 1999-06-23
Some of you have my old PO box number ~ I have dropped that one, and this is the new: PO Box 8382 Madison, WI ...

The Letter

Started by (MixtMedia@aol.com) | 10 messages | First message: 1999-06-23 | Last message: 1999-06-24
So, this letter arrives in my mailbox last week.... the envelope full of notes and postal markings and yellow stickers. The return address is not one that I knew, and the letter came to my now...

Pictures on their way.

Started by Dierdra Baumgart (fencing_lady@yahoo.com) | 1 message | First message: 1999-06-23
Dear Der Mad Stamper. Thank you for the offer of scanning in my picture of the Chanticleer Guest House and the stamp image for my Sturgeon Bay, WI box. This very morning as I sit at my desk here...

Happy Fathers' Day

Started by Tom Cooch (tcooch@mail.sover.net) | 6 messages | First message: 1999-06-21 | Last message: 1999-06-23
Dear Erik & Susan and all, My son Peter and I decided to head out yesterday to look for the Valcour Island letterboxes. We were on the road by 9, caught the Grande Isle ferry to Plattsburg, and...

washington state letterbox

Started by (kyote@wolfenet.com) | 5 messages | First message: 1999-06-21 | Last message: 1999-06-21
my wife and i have just been introduced to letterboxing so please excuse the 'newbie' mistakes and possible assumptions that we may make. today, sunday 6/20 we placed what we assume is the first...

skunked in OR

Started by Thom Cheney (tcgrafx@imagina.com) | 3 messages | First message: 1999-06-20 | Last message: 1999-06-21
Bruised, battered, bleeding and bummed... the 4 "B's" of unsuccessful letterboxing... oh and I was sneezing too... Solved about 90% of Mitch's rebus... thought it might be enought to get close & we...

mapsurfer boxes #9, #10, and #11

Started by Randy Hall (randy@mapsurfer.com) | 3 messages | First message: 1999-06-20 | Last message: 2000-11-04
> I was wondering if anyone has tried bringing in folks to letterboxing > from orienteering I have placed a letterbox (Hickory "O" Run, #10) based on the permanent orienteering course in Hickory...

Shieling Forest box

Started by (teapot@teapot.mv.com) | 2 messages | First message: 1999-06-19 | Last message: 1999-06-20
Hi! Today my hub, Eric, and I battled the mosquitoes and other man-eating insects and went to check on the status of our Shieling Forest letterbox and we found 5 individual entries in there! ...

crossover sport converts?

Started by (kpschroe@erols.com) | 1 message | First message: 1999-06-18
Hi all...I'm the newbie here, but I was wondering if anyone has tried bringing in folks to letterboxing from orienteering and/or volksmarching? One of the clues I saw on the site was posted by an...

Becky's Cross Country Letterboxes

Started by Charles (charles@bcasol.co.uk) | 2 messages | First message: 1999-06-16 | Last message: 1999-06-16
You could call it "Howards Way". For US participants this is a silly UK joke - "Howards Way" was an old UK TV program. Charles ----- Original Message ----- From: Graham Howard To: Sent:...

today's adventure

Started by Tom Cooch (tcooch@mail.sover.net) | 3 messages | First message: 1999-06-14 | Last message: 1999-06-17
Dear Mitch, Thank you for sharing your day with us - it sounds absolutely ideal. This is not the first time I've said I wished I lived on the west coast. (I did spend four years at Berkeley long...

Pulpit Rock: Safe & Sound

Started by (jdewolf@mail.icrsurvey.com) | 2 messages | First message: 1999-06-13 | Last message: 1999-06-14
Took Rexy, Letterboxing Cat, and 2 newbies up to Pulpit Rock this Saturday. What a beautiful day for a little hike up the hills! Thanks Marty! Your box is in great shape! Lone Wolf West Chester,...

letterboxing info sheet

Started by (Letterboxr@aol.com) | 1 message | First message: 1999-06-13
Hi, all... Just a note to let you know that I've added my letterboxing info sheet to Marty's letterboxing web ring. I hope you can all get some use out of it. The web ring is proving to be a...

50Y2K

Started by jjp (exposto1@airmail.net) | 2 messages | First message: 1999-06-13 | Last message: 1999-06-14
Hi Becky-- No Utah boxes just yet, but if I manage it this summer (which I am hoping to do with the help of my brother and sister-in-law in Utah) I'll be sure to post clues. The box will probably...

new letterboxer

Started by Karla B. Schroeder (kpschroe@erols.com) | 3 messages | First message: 1999-06-12 | Last message: 1999-06-13
Greetings from your group's newest member! I live in Northern Virginia and I'm curious to find out about boxes near me apart from those shown on the web page's maps--are there more than the one...

The Short Way to Welton Falls

Started by Tom Cooch (tcooch@mail.sover.net) | 1 message | First message: 1999-06-12
Dear Danielle and all, After last month's enjoyable but unsuccessful trip to Welton Falls, I was eager to pay another visit to that lovely site. Instead of hiking over Mt. Cardigan, I drove the...

for der mad stamper....

Started by Dierdra Baumgart (fencing_lady@yahoo.com) | 4 messages | First message: 1999-06-11 | Last message: 1999-06-11
Dear Mad Stamper, I just check my letter box with my friend Steve, and he noticed that the clue should read, " a stone circle" instead of "two rocks." could you please make the correction? Thanks. ...

celebration day

Started by (Letterboxr@aol.com) | 10 messages | First message: 1999-06-10 | Last message: 1999-06-11
Greetings, Letterboxing Friends! Today has been a very good day for Der Mad Stamper! For those of you who haven't already been burdened with every detail of my life, let me just explain that after...