Hello, I am a newbie. My daughter and I found our first 3 boxes in
Guelph, Ontario last week. We are going to go after another one in
Elora, Ontario, but the placement date is 1969. I'm not sure if this
is an error or a joke. The box is listed as "unclaimed", so I can't
contact the placer to know if the box is still active. Is there a
protocol in place for this, or do I just take the plunge and have a
nice hike?
Nana
letterboxing in Ontario
2 messages in this thread |
Started on 2003-09-01
letterboxing in Ontario
From: julia_macneil (juliamacneil@rogers.com) |
Date: 2003-09-01 00:11:41 UTC
Re: [LbNA] letterboxing in Ontario
From: Silent Doug (silentdoug@douglasgerlach.com) |
Date: 2003-09-01 00:14:19 UTC-04:00
julia_macneil wrote:
>We are going to go after another one in
>Elora, Ontario, but the placement date is 1969. I'm not sure if this
>is an error or a joke. The box is listed as "unclaimed", so I can't
>contact the placer to know if the box is still active. Is there a
>protocol in place for this, or do I just take the plunge and have a
>nice hike?
If the date that the box was planted is unknown, it shows up as 1969 in the
database. Besides contacting the owner (if possible), the only other thing
you can do is search the messages of this list on the Yahoo groups site,
and see if there have been any reports about that particular box. Searching
is slow, and Yahoo only searches the newest messages first, so you need to
keep clicking "Previous" (or is it "Next"?) to run the search on
progressively older messages.
Otherwise, hope to have a nice hike and maybe you'll get lucky and find a
letterbox along the way!
Doug
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Silent Doug, P32 F173 X06
silentdoug@douglasgerlach.com
http://www.letterboxing.info
>We are going to go after another one in
>Elora, Ontario, but the placement date is 1969. I'm not sure if this
>is an error or a joke. The box is listed as "unclaimed", so I can't
>contact the placer to know if the box is still active. Is there a
>protocol in place for this, or do I just take the plunge and have a
>nice hike?
If the date that the box was planted is unknown, it shows up as 1969 in the
database. Besides contacting the owner (if possible), the only other thing
you can do is search the messages of this list on the Yahoo groups site,
and see if there have been any reports about that particular box. Searching
is slow, and Yahoo only searches the newest messages first, so you need to
keep clicking "Previous" (or is it "Next"?) to run the search on
progressively older messages.
Otherwise, hope to have a nice hike and maybe you'll get lucky and find a
letterbox along the way!
Doug
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Silent Doug, P32 F173 X06
silentdoug@douglasgerlach.com
http://www.letterboxing.info