Eastern Montana(was- hand carved vs not)
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Started on 2004-12-11
Re: Eastern Montana(was- hand carved vs not)
From: gwendontoo (foxsecurity@earthlink.net) |
Date: 2004-12-11 18:50:55 UTC
> >
> > Is Eastern Montana going to have some boxes when you leave there?
> >
> >
> Nope. I don't know any boxers who might live in eastern Montana
to
> contact them.
>
> We believe in keeping track of our boxes from a maintenance
> standpoint. If someone should contact us that one of our boxes is
> possibly missing, or contact us to say that one of our boxes needs
> any sort of first aid, we want to have the boxes placed close
enough
> to be able to get out to it within a day or two. >
We believe in keeping up to date on our letterboxes also, but we do
plant letterboxes on our trips. Four were planted in southern
Montana and one (the best location of course) has gone missing. We
pulled the clues on that one, and the others remain viable. If an
area has little or no letterboxes a plant or two can give something
to an area and seed it. This gives a new letterboxer something to
find in that area, and something for those passing through. With
the "Contact the Placer" function, we get reports on most of our
letterboxes , and can keep them up to date.The only problem is that
if it goes missing you have to pull the clues. Since there were no
boxes in the area we planted ,without our letterboxes I'm not sure
if MT walker would have gotten hooked into letterboxing, and that
would be a loss for the game. Where do you have your letterboxes in
eastern Montana listed? I couldn't find them on LBNA.
Don
Re: [LbNA] Re: Eastern Montana(was- hand carved vs not)
From: (CountdownTo55@aol.com) |
Date: 2004-12-11 19:25:55 UTC-05:00
In a message dated 12/11/2004 12:52:44 PM Central Standard Time,
foxsecurity@earthlink.net writes:
Where do you have your letterboxes in
eastern Montana listed? I couldn't find them on LBNA.
We don't have any boxes in eastern Montana. I was merely explaining why we
don't have. For people that place boxes while they're on vacation in a
particular area, that's great, that's what works for them. It doesn't work for Keith
& I however, so we don't do it. We only place boxes either where we're
living at the moment, or in places we visit where local boxers have been willing to
adopt the boxes and maintain them. That's just what works best for us.
But by far the majority of our boxes have never been listed on the website.
Pippi.
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foxsecurity@earthlink.net writes:
Where do you have your letterboxes in
eastern Montana listed? I couldn't find them on LBNA.
We don't have any boxes in eastern Montana. I was merely explaining why we
don't have. For people that place boxes while they're on vacation in a
particular area, that's great, that's what works for them. It doesn't work for Keith
& I however, so we don't do it. We only place boxes either where we're
living at the moment, or in places we visit where local boxers have been willing to
adopt the boxes and maintain them. That's just what works best for us.
But by far the majority of our boxes have never been listed on the website.
Pippi.
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[LbNA] Re: Eastern Montana(was- hand carved vs not)
From: gwendontoo (foxsecurity@earthlink.net) |
Date: 2004-12-12 04:05:05 UTC
>
> But by far the majority of our boxes have never been listed on the
website.
Okay I'll bite, how the heck do folks find out about your
letterboxes? WOM? Are you selling a book of clues?
Don
Re: [LbNA] Re: Eastern Montana(was- hand carved vs not)
From: (CountdownTo55@aol.com) |
Date: 2004-12-11 23:23:16 UTC-05:00
In a message dated 12/11/2004 10:06:26 PM Central Standard Time,
foxsecurity@earthlink.net writes:
Okay I'll bite, how the heck do folks find out about your
letterboxes? WOM? Are you selling a book of clues?
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Strictly word of mouth -- telephone, email, letter, that sort of thing..
Pippi
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foxsecurity@earthlink.net writes:
Okay I'll bite, how the heck do folks find out about your
letterboxes? WOM? Are you selling a book of clues?
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
Strictly word of mouth -- telephone, email, letter, that sort of thing..
Pippi
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[LbNA] Re: Eastern Montana(was- hand carved vs not)
From: gwendontoo (foxsecurity@earthlink.net) |
Date: 2004-12-12 16:36:42 UTC
--- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, CountdownTo55@a... wrote:
> In a message dated 12/11/2004 10:06:26 PM Central Standard Time,
> foxsecurity@e... writes:
>
> Okay I'll bite, how the heck do folks find out about your
> letterboxes? WOM? Are you selling a book of clues?
>
> @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
>
> Strictly word of mouth -- telephone, email, letter, that sort of
thing..
>
> Pippi
Just curious, how would a letterboxer know how or where to ask for
clues? and in what area? We have some WOM clues also but post so
many, most folks know the areas we plant in.
As far as the finding aspect, do you only look for letterboxes in
the same manner,and not look for the letterboxes that are posted?
Don
Don
Re: [LbNA] Re: Eastern Montana(was- hand carved vs not)
From: (CountdownTo55@aol.com) |
Date: 2004-12-12 15:16:35 UTC-05:00
In a message dated 12/12/2004 10:40:24 AM Central Standard Time,
foxsecurity@earthlink.net writes:
Just curious, how would a letterboxer know how or where to ask for
clues? and in what area? We have some WOM clues also but post so
many, most folks know the areas we plant in.
As far as the finding aspect, do you only look for letterboxes in
the same manner,and not look for the letterboxes that are posted?
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
The manner of word of mouth depends on the letterbox. For some of them, we
have posted the areas they're at on the letterboxing.org website with a note
for folks to contact us if they qualify. Others, we give out to people as we
happen to meet them "in real life." Keith & I box at some very crazy hours in
some very crazy weather, so we figure if other folks are out there too and
come across us, they should get some clues to some extra boxes. :-) And some of
the boxes, we give the clues out to friends who come into town from other
areas who are looking to do some boxing.
No, we have no problem with looking for letterboxes that have posted clues,
because we ourselves have placed plenty of letterboxes in our area with posted
clues for others to find at the website. If you do a search at
letterboxing.org under my trail name (Pippi), you'll see the type of variety of boxes we
like to place.
Since coming to this area this past summer, we've placed a total of 24 boxes
that have been posted on letterboxing.org. 6 of them were Limited Engagement
boxes, only meant to be in place for 3 or 4 weeks. Two of those, the
Thanksgiving 2004 boxes, were word-of-mouth boxes as far as receiving the clues. The
Scarecrow Festival 2004 boxes had the clues posted and the Christmas 2004
boxes currently have the clues posted.
Of the other 18 placed, one at the site right now is a word-of-mouth box. And
two (the two we placed this morning), require a question to be answered
about the local history of the area where the boxes are hidden in order to receive
the clues.
But by doing a "search for boxes" at the site and then scrolling down to
Pippi in "pick a placer", it's not at all difficult to see what area we're in.
Pippi
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foxsecurity@earthlink.net writes:
Just curious, how would a letterboxer know how or where to ask for
clues? and in what area? We have some WOM clues also but post so
many, most folks know the areas we plant in.
As far as the finding aspect, do you only look for letterboxes in
the same manner,and not look for the letterboxes that are posted?
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
The manner of word of mouth depends on the letterbox. For some of them, we
have posted the areas they're at on the letterboxing.org website with a note
for folks to contact us if they qualify. Others, we give out to people as we
happen to meet them "in real life." Keith & I box at some very crazy hours in
some very crazy weather, so we figure if other folks are out there too and
come across us, they should get some clues to some extra boxes. :-) And some of
the boxes, we give the clues out to friends who come into town from other
areas who are looking to do some boxing.
No, we have no problem with looking for letterboxes that have posted clues,
because we ourselves have placed plenty of letterboxes in our area with posted
clues for others to find at the website. If you do a search at
letterboxing.org under my trail name (Pippi), you'll see the type of variety of boxes we
like to place.
Since coming to this area this past summer, we've placed a total of 24 boxes
that have been posted on letterboxing.org. 6 of them were Limited Engagement
boxes, only meant to be in place for 3 or 4 weeks. Two of those, the
Thanksgiving 2004 boxes, were word-of-mouth boxes as far as receiving the clues. The
Scarecrow Festival 2004 boxes had the clues posted and the Christmas 2004
boxes currently have the clues posted.
Of the other 18 placed, one at the site right now is a word-of-mouth box. And
two (the two we placed this morning), require a question to be answered
about the local history of the area where the boxes are hidden in order to receive
the clues.
But by doing a "search for boxes" at the site and then scrolling down to
Pippi in "pick a placer", it's not at all difficult to see what area we're in.
Pippi
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[LbNA] Re: Eastern Montana(was- hand carved vs not)
From: gwendontoo (foxsecurity@earthlink.net) |
Date: 2004-12-12 20:44:25 UTC
>
> But by doing a "search for boxes" at the site and then scrolling
down to
> Pippi in "pick a placer", it's not at all difficult to see what
area we're in.
>
> Pippi
Thanks Pippi, we're not planing on traveling to your location any
time in the near future, but I'll give you a toot if we do.
Don