I have two opportunities here.
At a "Volunteer Retreat", a weeknd camping event for adult leaders, I'll
have the opportunity to teach both "eraser carving" and "fun foam
construction" to make stamps (as a neat craft), and have the group wander
around our mountain camp (following posted clues) to find a bunch of
letterboxes I plan to carve.
In a proposed "Advanced Troop Camper" class, I'll have a similar opportunity
(probably without caving) to introduce letterboxing in the Long Beach area
to a group of leaders. (It'll be "sold" to them as something fun they can do
on a hike with their troops.) For this, I'd like to create a dummy box and
plant it the night before the event, then let them find it in groups. I
think I want to do it this way because there are several "real" letterboxes
in the area we'd be using, and I don't want to have bunches of people
"finding" a real box in public.
With luck, we'll create a bunch of new letterboxers in Long Beach!
"Bob-Baloo"
Introducing Letterboxing to Girl Scouts, Long Beach CA area
3 messages in this thread |
Started on 2003-08-07
Re: Introducing Letterboxing to Girl Scouts, Long Beach CA area
From: Robert Prager (pragerr@alumni.princeton.edu) |
Date: 2003-08-07 20:35:13 UTC-07:00
Re: Introducing Letterboxing to Girl Scouts, Long Beach CA area
From: trentlaudes (trentlaudes@excite.com) |
Date: 2003-08-09 02:59:56 UTC
Bless you Bob-Baloo,
We SoCal letterboxers lag so behind those Central Coasters.
--Buzzard
--- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, "Robert Prager"
wrote:
> I have two opportunities here.
>
> At a "Volunteer Retreat", a weeknd camping event for adult leaders,
I'll
> have the opportunity to teach both "eraser carving" and "fun foam
> construction" to make stamps (as a neat craft), and have the group
wander
> around our mountain camp (following posted clues) to find a bunch of
> letterboxes I plan to carve.
>
> In a proposed "Advanced Troop Camper" class, I'll have a similar
opportunity
> (probably without caving) to introduce letterboxing in the Long
Beach area
> to a group of leaders. (It'll be "sold" to them as something fun
they can do
> on a hike with their troops.) For this, I'd like to create a dummy
box and
> plant it the night before the event, then let them find it in
groups. I
> think I want to do it this way because there are several "real"
letterboxes
> in the area we'd be using, and I don't want to have bunches of
people
> "finding" a real box in public.
>
> With luck, we'll create a bunch of new letterboxers in Long Beach!
>
> "Bob-Baloo"
We SoCal letterboxers lag so behind those Central Coasters.
--Buzzard
--- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, "Robert Prager"
wrote:
> I have two opportunities here.
>
> At a "Volunteer Retreat", a weeknd camping event for adult leaders,
I'll
> have the opportunity to teach both "eraser carving" and "fun foam
> construction" to make stamps (as a neat craft), and have the group
wander
> around our mountain camp (following posted clues) to find a bunch of
> letterboxes I plan to carve.
>
> In a proposed "Advanced Troop Camper" class, I'll have a similar
opportunity
> (probably without caving) to introduce letterboxing in the Long
Beach area
> to a group of leaders. (It'll be "sold" to them as something fun
they can do
> on a hike with their troops.) For this, I'd like to create a dummy
box and
> plant it the night before the event, then let them find it in
groups. I
> think I want to do it this way because there are several "real"
letterboxes
> in the area we'd be using, and I don't want to have bunches of
people
> "finding" a real box in public.
>
> With luck, we'll create a bunch of new letterboxers in Long Beach!
>
> "Bob-Baloo"
Re: Introducing Letterboxing to Girl Scouts, Long Beach CA area
From: trentlaudes (trentlaudes@excite.com) |
Date: 2003-08-09 14:38:23 UTC
Bless you Bob-Baloo,
We SoCal letterboxers lag so behind those Central Coasters.
--Buzzard
--- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, "Robert Prager"
wrote:
> I have two opportunities here.
>
> At a "Volunteer Retreat", a weeknd camping event for adult leaders,
I'll
> have the opportunity to teach both "eraser carving" and "fun foam
> construction" to make stamps (as a neat craft), and have the group
wander
> around our mountain camp (following posted clues) to find a bunch of
> letterboxes I plan to carve.
>
> In a proposed "Advanced Troop Camper" class, I'll have a similar
opportunity
> (probably without caving) to introduce letterboxing in the Long
Beach area
> to a group of leaders. (It'll be "sold" to them as something fun
they can do
> on a hike with their troops.) For this, I'd like to create a dummy
box and
> plant it the night before the event, then let them find it in
groups. I
> think I want to do it this way because there are several "real"
letterboxes
> in the area we'd be using, and I don't want to have bunches of
people
> "finding" a real box in public.
>
> With luck, we'll create a bunch of new letterboxers in Long Beach!
>
> "Bob-Baloo"
We SoCal letterboxers lag so behind those Central Coasters.
--Buzzard
--- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, "Robert Prager"
wrote:
> I have two opportunities here.
>
> At a "Volunteer Retreat", a weeknd camping event for adult leaders,
I'll
> have the opportunity to teach both "eraser carving" and "fun foam
> construction" to make stamps (as a neat craft), and have the group
wander
> around our mountain camp (following posted clues) to find a bunch of
> letterboxes I plan to carve.
>
> In a proposed "Advanced Troop Camper" class, I'll have a similar
opportunity
> (probably without caving) to introduce letterboxing in the Long
Beach area
> to a group of leaders. (It'll be "sold" to them as something fun
they can do
> on a hike with their troops.) For this, I'd like to create a dummy
box and
> plant it the night before the event, then let them find it in
groups. I
> think I want to do it this way because there are several "real"
letterboxes
> in the area we'd be using, and I don't want to have bunches of
people
> "finding" a real box in public.
>
> With luck, we'll create a bunch of new letterboxers in Long Beach!
>
> "Bob-Baloo"