I have come across geocaches that way. It is a bonus.
--- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, Pamela Smith
wrote:
>
> It is fun. It's happened to me, but just once. I was out
following
> clues for a series and as I was sitting and stamping into one of
> them, something made me look around. Spotted a certain tree and I
> still don't know what made me look, but yup, there was a box
hidden
> in its base. I still haven't found it listed anywhere online.......
>
> I like to think that on some subconscious level, my brain
identified
> something - a stick out of place or some such - that only a
> letterboxer would recognize as a possible hiding place for
> Tupperware, but that's probably flattering myself. :-)
>
> Take care, all
> pezpam
>
>
> On Nov 27, 2006, at 8:16 AM, xxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > But I've never just come across either a letterbox or a
geocache
> > purely by
> > accident. That would be fun. The Clues That Came Down From
the
> > Heavens.
>
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>

Searching for an elusive box, travelling one of my favorite trails,
Black Swan decided he had to water the flora. Doing my my wifely
duty I watched the trail, ready to break out into song if I spotted
another hiker. (Our code song to alert one another a hiker is coming
is "She'll be coming around the mountain")While he was emptying the
Turbo coffee from Dunkin' Somethin', I spied a beautiful spot to
hide a letterbox. I started mentally writing the clues in my head...

Better jiggle that little rock to see if a letterbox could be placed
there! Well it certainly would not-because another one was there!
Swan came back to find what I had discovered. "What do you pull them
out your b@## or what?" A friend suggested we should use the Swan as
a "divining rod" to discover boxes!

You may not always get what you want, but sometimes you get what you
need.....

--- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, Pamela Smith
wrote:
>
> It is fun. It's happened to me, but just once. I was out
following
> clues for a series and as I was sitting and stamping into one of
> them, something made me look around. Spotted a certain tree and I
> still don't know what made me look, but yup, there was a box
hidden
> in its base. I still haven't found it listed anywhere online.......
>
> I like to think that on some subconscious level, my brain
identified
> something - a stick out of place or some such - that only a
> letterboxer would recognize as a possible hiding place for
> Tupperware, but that's probably flattering myself. :-)
>
> Take care, all
> pezpam
>
>
> On Nov 27, 2006, at 8:16 AM, xxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > But I've never just come across either a letterbox or a
geocache
> > purely by
> > accident. That would be fun. The Clues That Came Down From
the
> > Heavens.
>
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>

That is hysterical...and you wrote it up so entertainingly as well!
Thanks!
--- mstoeff61 wrote:

> Searching for an elusive box, travelling one of my favorite trails,
> Black Swan decided he had to water the flora. Doing my my wifely
> duty I watched the trail, ready to break out into song if I spotted
> another hiker. (Our code song to alert one another a hiker is coming
> is "She'll be coming around the mountain")While he was emptying the
> Turbo coffee from Dunkin' Somethin', I spied a beautiful spot to
> hide a letterbox. I started mentally writing the clues in my head...
>
> Better jiggle that little rock to see if a letterbox could be placed
> there! Well it certainly would not-because another one was there!
> Swan came back to find what I had discovered. "What do you pull them
> out your b@## or what?" A friend suggested we should use the Swan as
> a "divining rod" to discover boxes!
>
> You may not always get what you want, but sometimes you get what you
> need.....


"Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself." -- Mark Twain





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On 11/27/06, Roze wrote:
>
> That is hysterical...and you wrote it up so entertainingly as well!
> Thanks!
> --- mstoeff61 wrote:
>
> > Searching for an elusive box, travelling one of my favorite trails,
> > Black Swan decided he had to water the flora. Doing my my wifely
> > duty I watched the trail, ready to break out into song if I spotted
> > another hiker. (Our code song to alert one another a hiker is coming
> > is "She'll be coming around the mountain")While he was emptying the
> > Turbo coffee from Dunkin' Somethin', I spied a beautiful spot to
> > hide a letterbox. I started mentally writing the clues in my head...
> >
> > Better jiggle that little rock to see if a letterbox could be placed
> > there! Well it certainly would not-because another one was there!
> > Swan came back to find what I had discovered. "What do you pull them
> > out your b@## or what?" A friend suggested we should use the Swan as
> > a "divining rod" to discover boxes!
> >
> > You may not always get what you want, but sometimes you get what you
> > need.....
>

We were up on the mountain the other day, got to the major landmark
for the box and started casting around. The WD pointed over at a pile
of rocks and said "I bet it's in there." But I followed the clues in
the opposite direction and after a bit of time found the box at the
base of a fallen tree.

Of course, when we got back and looked at letterboxing.org we found
the clues for the other box on that part of the mountain - the one
under the pile of rocks.