Hey David --

I just went looking for that box a couple months ago when visiting my significant other in West Linn -- I didn't find it, boy were we stumped... but then again I am not a local that knows my way around OR (yet) -- I am headed back up that way in a couple of months. Was wondering if you would just tell me where it was??

Thanks
pandora aka "pandy"
100**100D
----- Original Message -----
From: The Forest People
To: letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com ; LbPNW
Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2003 1:41 PM
Subject: [LbNA] OR: West Linn Mystery Box


I went and checked on our West Linn Mystery Box today and discovered
that for the second time in four months, the box is missing. This time
it will not be replaced, so webmaster, please remove it from the listing.

I guess that this was just too exposed a location. Too bad, I really
liked the clue.

David,
of the Forest People



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In a message dated 4/20/03 8:26:10 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
hispandora@phlsystems.com writes:


> Was wondering if you would just tell me where it was??
>
>

I would like to know this as well! We went looking for it a couple of times,
and I think we figured out where it was, but it was raining really hard so we
decided not to go search for it with a 2yo in tow. It was one of those boxes
that we figured we'd get around to "someday". Guess we waited too long. At
least our hitchhiker got to visit it! LOL

Leenie


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Ultimately, this box was a drive by & an awesome stamp, too!
Literally, a 'drive up to it' box--once you figured out where it
was. We found it's location on our first attempt and even the
chiseled out hole in the sand where it was hidden, but alas no box.
Then, version 2.0 was released and we went to nab it as soon as we
could (even though we live about 150 miles away). I was a little
apprehensive about the hiding spot because it really seemed
vulnerable. I sort of had that 'don't want to leave my young'
behind feeling when we went to leave the area after stamping in. We
hid it as well and inconspicuously as we could but I think the area
is just too exposed.

While there, I was trying to find other possible hiding spots that
might work--since the clues are so cool. There was an interesting
tree a few paces to the Northwest of the hiding spot that might have
worked. Perhaps 'at the egrets feet where the rivers meet, the base
of the tree to the Northweet' might work... ;) I also thought a
camouflaged 'tree ornament' microbox might survive there or even
a 'submerged' box. If anything, a microbox would probably fare much
better in that location given the exposed nature of the area. My
experience, however, has been that once a letterbox goes missing in
one location and is replaced--it often goes missing again. I wonder
if it's sometimes the same person returning to the spot to see what
they might find during their next visit? That's why I often change
the hiding spot slightly when I replant the boxes of mine that go
missing. To keep the box-nickers on their toes, at least...

So sad to have to farewell a great letterbox... :(

Hang in there!

dvn2r ckr

--long distance OR letterboxer from WA ;)

Hey David - I guess we should have checked the talk pages. we went
hunting for it last week! we'd sure like to know where it was too to
see if we were on target! Thanks - what a bummer!

-- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, "pandora{HIB}"
wrote:
> Hey David --
>
> I just went looking for that box a couple months ago when visiting
my significant other in West Linn -- I didn't find it, boy were we
stumped... but then again I am not a local that knows my way around
OR (yet) -- I am headed back up that way in a couple of months. Was
wondering if you would just tell me where it was??
>
> Thanks
> pandora aka "pandy"
> 100**100D
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: The Forest People
> To: letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com ; LbPNW
> Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2003 1:41 PM
> Subject: [LbNA] OR: West Linn Mystery Box
>
>
> I went and checked on our West Linn Mystery Box today and
discovered
> that for the second time in four months, the box is missing.
This time
> it will not be replaced, so webmaster, please remove it from the
listing.
>
> I guess that this was just too exposed a location. Too bad, I
really
> liked the clue.
>
> David,
> of the Forest People
>
>
>
> Yahoo! Groups Sponsor
>
>
>
> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of
Service.
>
>
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