Letterboxing Comrades,
After Teaching my Cub scouts (Webelos level, for those of you
involved in scouting, 4th grade boys for non-scouters) some very
basic compassing skills (like how to take and follow a bearing and
navigating a compass game), I shall be taking them letterboxing to
some easily found letterboxes that I had visited a few weeks back
(Fish in Outer Space - Little Lehigh Parkway, Allentown, PA).
What I hope to do is to print off copies of the clues and guiding
them to the first couple of boxes (no direct instructions, just
helping to interpret the relatively easy clues), with an option for
the 3rd if parents and timing agree....
Anyway, I recently bought 6 cheapo rubber stamps from Wal-Mart
(earth, sun, moon, stars theme) that they can use as 'personal'
stamps rather than requiring that they use their own stamps (kind of
providing a path of least resistance). I expect that they shall keep
their stamps.
As I have been to these boxes before, would it be be bad form to
stamps myself in again? I had a pre-fab stamp before, but hope to
have a hand-carved one and a new moniker in time for our little hike.
What do me fellow boxers think?
Lightnin' Bug
RPBoehme at aol dot com
Taking Cub Scout Letterboxing Next Week
3 messages in this thread |
Started on 2004-05-07
Taking Cub Scout Letterboxing Next Week
From: rpboehme (rpboehme@yahoo.com) |
Date: 2004-05-07 00:15:18 UTC
Re: Taking Cub Scout Letterboxing Next Week
From: Steve and Heidi (stephenholyfield@sbcglobal.net) |
Date: 2004-05-07 05:55:29 UTC
We generally stamp in every visit just to log that we were there. May
want to add a note that you were guiding the scouts. Its nice to see
repeat finders and folks bringing others by our boxes (for those who
have placed them).
Usually we'll use our old personal stamps the 2nd time around, while
using the family stamp the first time through.
-Steve. Heidi. Madras.
--- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, "rpboehme"
wrote:
> Letterboxing Comrades,
>
> After Teaching my Cub scouts (Webelos level, for those of you
> involved in scouting, 4th grade boys for non-scouters) some very
> basic compassing skills (like how to take and follow a bearing and
> navigating a compass game), I shall be taking them letterboxing to
> some easily found letterboxes that I had visited a few weeks back
> (Fish in Outer Space - Little Lehigh Parkway, Allentown, PA).
>
> What I hope to do is to print off copies of the clues and guiding
> them to the first couple of boxes (no direct instructions, just
> helping to interpret the relatively easy clues), with an option for
> the 3rd if parents and timing agree....
>
> Anyway, I recently bought 6 cheapo rubber stamps from Wal-Mart
> (earth, sun, moon, stars theme) that they can use as 'personal'
> stamps rather than requiring that they use their own stamps (kind
of
> providing a path of least resistance). I expect that they shall
keep
> their stamps.
>
> As I have been to these boxes before, would it be be bad form to
> stamps myself in again? I had a pre-fab stamp before, but hope to
> have a hand-carved one and a new moniker in time for our little
hike.
>
> What do me fellow boxers think?
>
> Lightnin' Bug
> RPBoehme at aol dot com
want to add a note that you were guiding the scouts. Its nice to see
repeat finders and folks bringing others by our boxes (for those who
have placed them).
Usually we'll use our old personal stamps the 2nd time around, while
using the family stamp the first time through.
-Steve. Heidi. Madras.
--- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, "rpboehme"
wrote:
> Letterboxing Comrades,
>
> After Teaching my Cub scouts (Webelos level, for those of you
> involved in scouting, 4th grade boys for non-scouters) some very
> basic compassing skills (like how to take and follow a bearing and
> navigating a compass game), I shall be taking them letterboxing to
> some easily found letterboxes that I had visited a few weeks back
> (Fish in Outer Space - Little Lehigh Parkway, Allentown, PA).
>
> What I hope to do is to print off copies of the clues and guiding
> them to the first couple of boxes (no direct instructions, just
> helping to interpret the relatively easy clues), with an option for
> the 3rd if parents and timing agree....
>
> Anyway, I recently bought 6 cheapo rubber stamps from Wal-Mart
> (earth, sun, moon, stars theme) that they can use as 'personal'
> stamps rather than requiring that they use their own stamps (kind
of
> providing a path of least resistance). I expect that they shall
keep
> their stamps.
>
> As I have been to these boxes before, would it be be bad form to
> stamps myself in again? I had a pre-fab stamp before, but hope to
> have a hand-carved one and a new moniker in time for our little
hike.
>
> What do me fellow boxers think?
>
> Lightnin' Bug
> RPBoehme at aol dot com
RE: [LbNA] Taking Cub Scout Letterboxing Next Week
From: Pam Kleingers (pam@kleingers.net) |
Date: 2004-05-07 07:38:21 UTC-04:00
If they were my boxes, I world love to see your new stamp in them, with a
little note like "new name formerly known as Lightnin'BUg, along with
Weebelo Troop ####"
I like the stories.
Mama Stork
aka Pam in Cinci
>
> As I have been to these boxes before, would it be be bad form to
> stamps myself in again? I had a pre-fab stamp before, but hope to
> have a hand-carved one and a new moniker in time for our little hike.
>
> What do me fellow boxers think?
>
> Lightnin' Bug
> RPBoehme at aol dot com
>
>
>
>
little note like "new name formerly known as Lightnin'BUg, along with
Weebelo Troop ####"
I like the stories.
Mama Stork
aka Pam in Cinci
>
> As I have been to these boxes before, would it be be bad form to
> stamps myself in again? I had a pre-fab stamp before, but hope to
> have a hand-carved one and a new moniker in time for our little hike.
>
> What do me fellow boxers think?
>
> Lightnin' Bug
> RPBoehme at aol dot com
>
>
>
>