"Austin Anteater" Letterbox
Austin, Texas Travis County Central Texas Hills Region
Date of Placement: 3/21/03
Difficulty: Easy
Total Distance to letterbox: 1/2 mile (one way)
Placed by Baby Bear
The "Austin Anteater" letterbox is located near the "Box of Ants"
letterbox. You will need to use the ten clues for that box first,
then continue on to the Anteater.
Directions:
Use "Box of Ants" clues. I did not what to ruin it for this other
box. Took me awhile to figure out. Good luck.
To the letterbox:
New Texas LB - Central TX Hills Region - "Austin Anteater"
2 messages in this thread |
Started on 2003-03-24
New Texas LB - Central TX Hills Region - "Austin Anteater"
From: babybearlb2002 (babybearlb2002@yahoo.com) |
Date: 2003-03-24 13:55:10 UTC
Re: New Texas LB - Central TX Hills Region - "Austin Anteater"
From: Drew Mattke (justdrew@satori3.com) |
Date: 2003-04-04 17:00:16 UTC
Greetings from the Mattke Family!
Eager to add stamps to our collection, we've managed to find and
stamp Babybear's recent Austin area additions. They are all in good
shape, though it's not certain how well a couple of the containers
will fare over time (we suspect they may need to be upgraded to
something more durable after a year or so in the elements).
We had a blast finding them- especially "Poison Ivy". We know this
location very well (we were the first to find Eoghan's O-ring series
in the same park). As we came up to the familiar orienteering marker
in the clue, there was a middle-aged couple poking around the marker
and scoping the rocks behind it.
We were sure we had come just minutes too late to be the first
letterboxers to claim it. They were acting a little oddly and by the
time we approached the marker with our dogs barking (the literal four-
legged variety, not our feet) I decided to ask the couple
enigmatically if the were "looking for poison ivy".
They said they were not (and I'm sure assumed *we* were the strange
ones to ask such a stupid question) and carried on with their
conversation to eachother making it clear they wanted nothing to do
with this crazy party of four humans nor their two barking dogs,
rucksacks and water bottles.
We moved down the path to wait for them to find and stamp the box- we
were sure they were, in fact, looking for poison ivy, the letterbox.
A few minutes later we ventured back to the location and soon found
the box at a spot directly under the previous visitors' feet. Opening
the logbook, we fully expected to see other stamps ahead of ours, but
it was blank- we were the first to mark it.
I guess it's fun to be the first to stamp a box, but of course, you
miss out on seeing all the stamps of those who came before you. We're
hoping that as letterboxing picks up in Central Texas, we'll be less
and less likely to be the first to these boxes.
Certainly, that's a good thing. We were wondering how the rest of the
letterboxers on the list felt about being first to a box... big deal
or slight disappointment?
Happy hunting! More Mattke Family boxes coming soon- it's going to be
a busy 2003...
- the Mattke Family
http://mattkefamily.com
Eager to add stamps to our collection, we've managed to find and
stamp Babybear's recent Austin area additions. They are all in good
shape, though it's not certain how well a couple of the containers
will fare over time (we suspect they may need to be upgraded to
something more durable after a year or so in the elements).
We had a blast finding them- especially "Poison Ivy". We know this
location very well (we were the first to find Eoghan's O-ring series
in the same park). As we came up to the familiar orienteering marker
in the clue, there was a middle-aged couple poking around the marker
and scoping the rocks behind it.
We were sure we had come just minutes too late to be the first
letterboxers to claim it. They were acting a little oddly and by the
time we approached the marker with our dogs barking (the literal four-
legged variety, not our feet) I decided to ask the couple
enigmatically if the were "looking for poison ivy".
They said they were not (and I'm sure assumed *we* were the strange
ones to ask such a stupid question) and carried on with their
conversation to eachother making it clear they wanted nothing to do
with this crazy party of four humans nor their two barking dogs,
rucksacks and water bottles.
We moved down the path to wait for them to find and stamp the box- we
were sure they were, in fact, looking for poison ivy, the letterbox.
A few minutes later we ventured back to the location and soon found
the box at a spot directly under the previous visitors' feet. Opening
the logbook, we fully expected to see other stamps ahead of ours, but
it was blank- we were the first to mark it.
I guess it's fun to be the first to stamp a box, but of course, you
miss out on seeing all the stamps of those who came before you. We're
hoping that as letterboxing picks up in Central Texas, we'll be less
and less likely to be the first to these boxes.
Certainly, that's a good thing. We were wondering how the rest of the
letterboxers on the list felt about being first to a box... big deal
or slight disappointment?
Happy hunting! More Mattke Family boxes coming soon- it's going to be
a busy 2003...
- the Mattke Family
http://mattkefamily.com