Maybe Don & Gwen's Paradise Lodge Letterbox in Oregon? Requires a two
day raft trip or a mega-one day hiking trek to reach it? Or perhaps
Green Tortuga's box in Africa? I'm presuming he put one on Mt
Kilimanjaro. Or a handful of Green Tortuga's Columbia River Gorge boxes
in Oregon? dvn2r ckr

--- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, "lnd_crzr"
wrote:
I personally covet the LBs that are 'harder' to get than the easier
ones. Any
thoughts/stories?

Lnd-Crzr
Fulton, MO

We don't really have the market on the longest boxes in Oregon do we? Come
on, there's got to be some 9+ mile hikes elsewhere in the country.

Maiden

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Subject: [LbNA] Re: How About Longest?


Maybe Don & Gwen's Paradise Lodge Letterbox in Oregon? Requires a two
day raft trip or a mega-one day hiking trek to reach it? Or perhaps
Green Tortuga's box in Africa? I'm presuming he put one on Mt
Kilimanjaro. Or a handful of Green Tortuga's Columbia River Gorge boxes
in Oregon? dvn2r ckr

--- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, "lnd_crzr"
wrote:
I personally covet the LBs that are 'harder' to get than the easier
ones. Any
thoughts/stories?

Lnd-Crzr
Fulton, MO




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I don't imagine anything I've hiked is anywhere close to the longest
letterbox hike, but we did 10 1/2 miles to get Pete and Wanda's box in Sarasota, FL.
So if that's our starting-off point, who's got one longer?

DebBee


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I just happened to think (not often though), last winter I hiked two miles from the parking lot in the snow to find a letterbox on the Appalachian Trail in CT, however, if you had started the hike at the end of the Appalachian Trail in Georgia, that would certainly qualify for a pretty long hike to a letterbox!
Puddle Splasher
Maribeth


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We don't really have the market on the longest boxes in Oregon do we? Come
on, there's got to be some 9+ mile hikes elsewhere in the country.

Maiden

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Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 2:39 PM
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Maybe Don & Gwen's Paradise Lodge Letterbox in Oregon? Requires a two
day raft trip or a mega-one day hiking trek to reach it? Or perhaps
Green Tortuga's box in Africa? I'm presuming he put one on Mt
Kilimanjaro. Or a handful of Green Tortuga's Columbia River Gorge boxes
in Oregon? dvn2r ckr

--- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, "lnd_crzr"
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ones. Any
thoughts/stories?

Lnd-Crzr
Fulton, MO




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I know there's one in Oklahoma in the Wichita Mountains that is about a 2
1/2 hour climb up a mountain - I think it's the one near Meers, OK. I haven't
gone there yet myself!


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...and when you do that one, I'll be your supply person along the trail.
I'll just meet you at various points, walk a day with you, and then return in
a few weeks and cdo it again. I'll also take your film to be developed along
the route. -- Viewfinder (the OTHER tx2chic)


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Just pick me in your little Miata and take me into town for a margarita and some chips and salsa, then I'll be ready to hike another day!
Puddle Splasher


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...and when you do that one, I'll be your supply person along the trail.
I'll just meet you at various points, walk a day with you, and then return in
a few weeks and cdo it again. I'll also take your film to be developed along
the route. -- Viewfinder (the OTHER tx2chic)


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I planted one at Lake Ekultna in Alaska - 10 miles round trip hike, probably doesn't top the mega one day hike though!

Donutz716

dvn2rckr wrote:
Maybe Don & Gwen's Paradise Lodge Letterbox in Oregon? Requires a two
day raft trip or a mega-one day hiking trek to reach it? Or perhaps
Green Tortuga's box in Africa? I'm presuming he put one on Mt
Kilimanjaro. Or a handful of Green Tortuga's Columbia River Gorge boxes
in Oregon? dvn2r ckr

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ones. Any
thoughts/stories?

Lnd-Crzr
Fulton, MO




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Lousiana's Rails to Trails is a six mile trek round trip, if the clues
are followed.

Boxdn

Certainly not the physically Longest, but it sure seemed that way when
I was hiking along with one child in the sling, one on my shoulders
and one in the jogger, and dragging the one more along on about a two
mile jaunt for one in the "Fool's Errand" series in Northern IL!

I can't wait til their legs grow just a little more.

Flying ~J~

We have a 5-box series planted on a 9-mile hike in southern Wisconsin. No
big elevation gains here though, just rolling glacial hills. We're looking
forward to some more challenging hikes & boxes next week in SE Pennsylvania
and at the end of August to tackle those Oregon trails/boxes.

Thanks to all of those planters that hide boxes on longer/strenuous hikes!
It is good to have options...

Wisconsin Hiker

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We don't really have the market on the longest boxes in Oregon do we? Come
on, there's got to be some 9+ mile hikes elsewhere in the country.

Maiden

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From: letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com [mailto:letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com]
On Behalf Of dvn2rckr
Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 2:39 PM
To: letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [LbNA] Re: How About Longest?


Maybe Don & Gwen's Paradise Lodge Letterbox in Oregon? Requires a two
day raft trip or a mega-one day hiking trek to reach it? Or perhaps
Green Tortuga's box in Africa? I'm presuming he put one on Mt
Kilimanjaro. Or a handful of Green Tortuga's Columbia River Gorge boxes
in Oregon? dvn2r ckr

--- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, "lnd_crzr"
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ones. Any
thoughts/stories?

Lnd-Crzr
Fulton, MO




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I placed one called The Grenadiers that requires a 16 mile round trip
hike. The letterbox is at 13,800 feet and requires 4000 feet of
elevation gain. I spent three nights on the trail to place it, but
there are some mutant trail-runner types that do that trip in a day.

Those Columbia River Gorge hikes in Oregon are on my dream list.

y-nought


>
> --- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, "lnd_crzr"
> wrote:
> I personally covet the LBs that are 'harder' to get than the easier
> ones. Any
> thoughts/stories?
>
> Lnd-Crzr
> Fulton, MO
>

> Maybe Don & Gwen's Paradise Lodge Letterbox in Oregon? Requires a two
> day raft trip or a mega-one day hiking trek to reach it?

Yeah, that's the longest hike I've ever done for a letterbox. =) Had
blister remenats on my feet for a month afterwards!

> Or perhaps Green Tortuga's box in Africa? I'm presuming he put one
> on Mt Kilimanjaro.

Nawww, they might be some of the most "remote" boxes out there, but
they're practically drive-bys if you happen to be in Zimbabwe already. =)

> Or a handful of Green Tortuga's Columbia River Gorge boxes
> in Oregon?

I think some of the ones I planted on the Appalachian Trail require
longer hikes and one of them--so far as I know--has only been found
once by someone who had to backpack into the site. But I'm not really
sure what the "shortest hike in" is, seeing as I came from Georgia. I
know there are closer trailheads than that, but I really have no idea
how far a "local" would have to travel to get the boxes in question. =)

-- Ryan

Just for kicks--and because I can--I did a search on Atlas Quest for
the boxes that have the longest trail length entered. Take it with a
grain of salt, though--several of them might be typos, or perhaps
there's a shortcut the planters didn't want you to know about, etc,
etc. It's not scientific in any stretch of the imagination:

The LONGEST listed hike required to get a letterbox, as listed on
Atlas Quest belongs to Laurett's Sunday Drive at 35 miles. (I kind of
suspect that's 35 miles of driving, though, not hiking, given the name
of the box.)

#2: Dry Bones: A build a skeleton series (26 miles)
#3: The Cowboy Always Gets His Girl (20 miles)
#4: The Grenadiers (16 miles)
#5: The Cockroach (15 miles)
#6: Squaw Valley to Sugarbowl PCT Series (15 miles)
#7: Cheoah Bald (12.5 miles)
#8: The Little Choo-Choo That Could (12 miles)
#9 (tie): Mount Wrightson (10 miles)
#9 (tie): Mount Tallac (10 miles)

Happy trails! =)

-- Ryan

--- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, "rscarpen"
wrote:
> > Maybe Don & Gwen's Paradise Lodge Letterbox in Oregon? Requires a
two
> > day raft trip or a mega-one day hiking trek to reach it?
>
> Yeah, that's the longest hike I've ever done for a letterbox. =) Had
> blister remenats on my feet for a month afterwards!
>
Well we do list some options on other methods to get to those two
boxes:Jet Boat up river from Gold Beach, Raft or Kayak down from Grave
Creek, Small plane into their grass field(once they shoo the bears
off). We frankly never expected a hiker to be the first to nab them.


Don

I'm currently carving a series of stamps that will be placed along
Chautauqua County's (Western NY) Rails to Trails... 30 miles from
start to finish.
-- Dagonell the Pirate