I got this email today:


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>>>>Hello, today we went to find your letterbox but came up empty
handed.We don't understand your clues, not that there bad, we just
don't get it.What is W 9 and LX0020 or S59W is this Military talk.We
went over the bridge and looked around a fallen down mill on the
right, then crossed the street and looked by the river, but we can't
seem to find the right 17 foot drop with the 5 foot ledge.We even
looked up by the RR tracks.I showed the clues to a couple of
Letterboxing friends of mine and they didn't understand them
either.Could you give us a bigger hint as to where to look, we must
be close? I,m sorry but we just don't know what those numbers
mean.Signed clueless lol.<<<<
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I feel very bad that!!

I don't feel bad about the LX0020 or W 9 clues. What I do feel bad
about the S59W. It should have been S59E. It's a typo--I hit the
wrong key when I type the clue. I didn't even catch when
proofreading. Since I botched that up, I will, this one time, divulge
the other numbers. S59E is the bearing South 59 degrees East. You can
figure out how to change a true bearing into a magnetic azimuth. W 9
is the old name for National Geodetic Survey marker LX0020. Go to
http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/ and type in the PID (permanent
Identification) LX0020 under datasheets. The datasheet will contains
the 70-year history of LX0020 plus plenty of clues to the start place
for Baltic Mills Letterbox. When you are standing on LX0020 you are
literally a stone's though away from the letterbox.

I apologize for the mix up earlier. I made the clue very orienteering
heavy cause everybody argues over the definition of pace. I have a
half dozen letterboxes going out in the next couple of weeks, they
will all start from a NGS PID station (LX0019 for example). I like
them because they are permanent engraved cemented mounted monuments
with documented histories. I also like them because if you don't what
a standard pace is or if you insist on using paces to markd distances
instead of feet or meters, then you probably don't what a PID
monument/Survey Marker is. This will be the only time I explain where
to find that data. I wanted to make amends for the earlier typo and I
don't want to spoil the chase for anyone else. This message will
serve as an internet letterbox to really fair and for the really
curious.

Thanks and sorry about that!!!

longhunter




--- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, "longhuntersletterbox"
wrote:
> New Letterbox at Baltic Mill. Look at the letterboxing.org website.
> New London County in SE Connecticut. First person who finds please
> drop me an email. Its my first box and I kind of nervous about it.
I
> hope I hide it right and the clue works.
>
> Thanks
> LH

--- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, "longhuntersletterbox" wrote:
> I got this email today:
>
>
> ______________________________________________________________
>
> >>>>Hello, today we went to find your letterbox but came up empty
> handed.We don't understand your clues, not that there bad, we just
> don't get it.What is W 9 and LX0020 or S59W is this Military talk.We
> went over the bridge and looked around a fallen down mill on the
> right, then crossed the street and looked by the river, but we can't
> seem to find the right 17 foot drop with the 5 foot ledge.We even
> looked up by the RR tracks.I showed the clues to a couple of
> Letterboxing friends of mine and they didn't understand them
> either.Could you give us a bigger hint as to where to look, we must
> be close? I,m sorry but we just don't know what those numbers
> mean.Signed clueless lol.<<<<
> ___________________________________________________________________
>
> I feel very bad that!!
>
> I don't feel bad about the LX0020 or W 9 clues. What I do feel bad
> about the S59W. It should have been S59E. It's a typo--I hit the
> wrong key when I type the clue. I didn't even catch when
> proofreading. Since I botched that up, I will, this one time, divulge
> the other numbers. S59E is the bearing South 59 degrees East. You can
> figure out how to change a true bearing into a magnetic azimuth. W 9
> is the old name for National Geodetic Survey marker LX0020. Go to
> http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/ and type in the PID (permanent
> Identification) LX0020 under datasheets. The datasheet will contains
> the 70-year history of LX0020 plus plenty of clues to the start place
> for Baltic Mills Letterbox. When you are standing on LX0020 you are
> literally a stone's though away from the letterbox.
>
> I apologize for the mix up earlier. I made the clue very orienteering
> heavy cause everybody argues over the definition of pace. I have a
> half dozen letterboxes going out in the next couple of weeks, they
> will all start from a NGS PID station (LX0019 for example). I like
> them because they are permanent engraved cemented mounted monuments
> with documented histories. I also like them because if you don't what
> a standard pace is or if you insist on using paces to markd distances
> instead of feet or meters, then you probably don't what a PID
> monument/Survey Marker is. This will be the only time I explain where
> to find that data. I wanted to make amends for the earlier typo and I
> don't want to spoil the chase for anyone else. This message will
> serve as an internet letterbox to really fair and for the really
> curious.
>
> Thanks and sorry about that!!!
>
> longhunter
>
>
>
>
> --- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, "longhuntersletterbox"
> wrote:
> > New Letterbox at Baltic Mill. Look at the letterboxing.org website.
> > New London County in SE Connecticut. First person who finds please
> > drop me an email. Its my first box and I kind of nervous about it.
> I
> > hope I hide it right and the clue works.
> >
> > Thanks
> > LH

>Wow thats different,we never done letterboxes like that before.Thanks we'll have to try it out.