Are you fed up with letterboxing and geocaching? Would you just like
to go for a walk outdoors and see some great scenery and forget about
all this hoopla??
Well, perhaps you ought to check out ecoscavenger.com
This is a brand new hobby and you can get in on the ground floor. You
can be part of this new and exciting alternative to all this mess
that is letterboxing and geocaching.
Go, check it out, maybe it is really what you are looking for...
http://www.ecoscavenger.com/
-Amanda from Seattle
Who might be posting a new ecoscavenge for the Seattle area soon
EcoScavenger
5 messages in this thread |
Started on 2003-06-22
EcoScavenger
From: samanark (samanark@yahoo.com) |
Date: 2003-06-22 20:05:57 UTC
Re: [LbNA] EcoScavenger
From: (Gurudybaker@aol.com) |
Date: 2003-06-22 18:41:18 UTC-04:00
Is there anything on ecoscavenger in Long Island, New York?
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Re: EcoScavenger
From: acahilly@prodigy.net (acahilly@prodigy.net) |
Date: 2003-06-23 02:16:31 UTC
This looks like what the geo-cachers have in their "virtual"
geocaches. Just a nice place to go and something to look for to
prove you were there.
geocaches. Just a nice place to go and something to look for to
prove you were there.
Re: [LbNA] EcoScavenger
From: (LilBLTBX@aol.com) |
Date: 2003-06-23 08:19:48 UTC-04:00
Hi Amanda,
We can certainly appreciate the sentiments. It was just a few months after
we started last year (I just realized today would be our one year anniversary)
that we wrote saying we thought things were getting out of hand as far as the
placing of way too many boxes in not enough space. We believed then as we
even more so do now, that this preoccupation with "numbers" was cheapening the
activity. We got into letterboxing because we enjoy the outdoors and thought
this "scavenger hunt" type of activity would be a lot of fun. It's lost much of
its appeal over time. We feel that many of our efforts at planting
interesting series in nice locations have been wasted. It seems that many of our boxes
(and other people's as well, we have noticed) that require someone to hike
more than a couple of miles receive very little attention. We have also noticed
that oftentimes we will place one or two boxes within a reasonable distance
in a new area (we generally don't like to plant in areas that already have
boxes) then soon after someone else will go out there and put six or something in
the same or less amount of space. In addition, we find it amusing the way
people carry on about the "dangers" (poison ivy, snakes, trails with trees across
them) of planting anywhere, it seems, more remote than an in town park.
Letterboxing is, after all, an outdoor activity, although by many of the
"complaints" that we've seen written on the talk site, it would seem that many
participants have more in common with stamp collectors than hikers or outdoors people.
Well, quite enough said. I don't know if we'll get involved in the
EcoScavenging as we don't need to be a part of an organized activity to enjoy the
outdoors but I do think it's a great idea and hope that it catches on with those
that do. We will probably just plant the few remaining boxes that we had
planned and then not do anymore. I'm sure that we will gradually lose interest in
finding them as well; we already have to a degree. So, take care.
LB
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We can certainly appreciate the sentiments. It was just a few months after
we started last year (I just realized today would be our one year anniversary)
that we wrote saying we thought things were getting out of hand as far as the
placing of way too many boxes in not enough space. We believed then as we
even more so do now, that this preoccupation with "numbers" was cheapening the
activity. We got into letterboxing because we enjoy the outdoors and thought
this "scavenger hunt" type of activity would be a lot of fun. It's lost much of
its appeal over time. We feel that many of our efforts at planting
interesting series in nice locations have been wasted. It seems that many of our boxes
(and other people's as well, we have noticed) that require someone to hike
more than a couple of miles receive very little attention. We have also noticed
that oftentimes we will place one or two boxes within a reasonable distance
in a new area (we generally don't like to plant in areas that already have
boxes) then soon after someone else will go out there and put six or something in
the same or less amount of space. In addition, we find it amusing the way
people carry on about the "dangers" (poison ivy, snakes, trails with trees across
them) of planting anywhere, it seems, more remote than an in town park.
Letterboxing is, after all, an outdoor activity, although by many of the
"complaints" that we've seen written on the talk site, it would seem that many
participants have more in common with stamp collectors than hikers or outdoors people.
Well, quite enough said. I don't know if we'll get involved in the
EcoScavenging as we don't need to be a part of an organized activity to enjoy the
outdoors but I do think it's a great idea and hope that it catches on with those
that do. We will probably just plant the few remaining boxes that we had
planned and then not do anymore. I'm sure that we will gradually lose interest in
finding them as well; we already have to a degree. So, take care.
LB
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Re: EcoScavenger
From: Shell (shellrm@hotmail.com) |
Date: 2003-06-23 18:47:39 UTC
How cool! I'm from Seattle, are there any for Washington state yet?
Shell in WA,USA
--- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, "samanark"
wrote:
> Are you fed up with letterboxing and geocaching? Would you just
like
> to go for a walk outdoors and see some great scenery and forget
about
> all this hoopla??
> Well, perhaps you ought to check out ecoscavenger.com
> This is a brand new hobby and you can get in on the ground floor.
You
> can be part of this new and exciting alternative to all this mess
> that is letterboxing and geocaching.
>
> Go, check it out, maybe it is really what you are looking for...
>
> http://www.ecoscavenger.com/
>
> -Amanda from Seattle
> Who might be posting a new ecoscavenge for the Seattle area soon
Shell in WA,USA
--- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, "samanark"
wrote:
> Are you fed up with letterboxing and geocaching? Would you just
like
> to go for a walk outdoors and see some great scenery and forget
about
> all this hoopla??
> Well, perhaps you ought to check out ecoscavenger.com
> This is a brand new hobby and you can get in on the ground floor.
You
> can be part of this new and exciting alternative to all this mess
> that is letterboxing and geocaching.
>
> Go, check it out, maybe it is really what you are looking for...
>
> http://www.ecoscavenger.com/
>
> -Amanda from Seattle
> Who might be posting a new ecoscavenge for the Seattle area soon