I recently received an email from a geocacher who had signed into a
letterbox I placed this summer. He asked if I minded if he mentioned
the box on the geocache website. Has anyone out there had an experience
that would indicate that this is a bad/good idea? Funhog
geocachers
3 messages in this thread |
Started on 2001-10-13
geocachers
From: (funhog@pacifier.com) |
Date: 2001-10-13 04:10:20 UTC
Re: [LbNA] geocachers
From: Scott H Redd (redd@interbug.com) |
Date: 2001-10-12 23:37:25 UTC-05:00
Hi Funhog:
I'd say, "go for it" with certain conditions.
I'm a seasoned Geocacher trying to get Letterboxing going in my area. I've
placed about five geocaches in the Omaha area, two of which are also
letterboxes. I'm hoping that the dual listing (listed on both
letterboxing.org and geocaching.com) will pique the interest of some other
geocachers.
My idea is that geocaching appeals to the "geek nature" of people, while
letterboxing appeals to the "artistic nature." I'm attracted to each for
similar and different reasons.
I think as long as you (or the geocacher acting on your behalf) make sure
that the listing on the geocaching.com web site states that the site is a
letterbox and that there is no "stash" in the cache, and that a logbook and
stamp is all that will be found, you will be fine. You might even win some
converts. :)
With any new letterbox/geocaches sites, you could even include a stash, as
well as a stamp. The seeker could either trade stash items or swap stamp
images, or even both. You'd get the best of both worlds.
On my letterboxing page (http://interbug.com/letterboxing), I give
traditional letterboxing clues to my letterboxes. On the geocaching.com
site, my letterbox/geocache listings omit the clues, so as not to give away
the location (they have to use the geographic coordinates for that). On
both places I link to the other, giving the seeker a choice as to which
manner he might seek the box.
It's been a couple of weeks since I placed these new letterboxes, and
neither a geocacher nor letterboxer has informed me of its discovery. I
may check up on them next week to see of someone found them but didn't
email me or log the finds on the web site.
Regards...
Scott
redd@interbug.com
http://interbug.com/pigeon
At 04:10 AM 10/13/01 +0000, you wrote:
>I recently received an email from a geocacher who had signed into a
>letterbox I placed this summer. He asked if I minded if he mentioned
>the box on the geocache website. Has anyone out there had an experience
>that would indicate that this is a bad/good idea? Funhog
>
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I'd say, "go for it" with certain conditions.
I'm a seasoned Geocacher trying to get Letterboxing going in my area. I've
placed about five geocaches in the Omaha area, two of which are also
letterboxes. I'm hoping that the dual listing (listed on both
letterboxing.org and geocaching.com) will pique the interest of some other
geocachers.
My idea is that geocaching appeals to the "geek nature" of people, while
letterboxing appeals to the "artistic nature." I'm attracted to each for
similar and different reasons.
I think as long as you (or the geocacher acting on your behalf) make sure
that the listing on the geocaching.com web site states that the site is a
letterbox and that there is no "stash" in the cache, and that a logbook and
stamp is all that will be found, you will be fine. You might even win some
converts. :)
With any new letterbox/geocaches sites, you could even include a stash, as
well as a stamp. The seeker could either trade stash items or swap stamp
images, or even both. You'd get the best of both worlds.
On my letterboxing page (http://interbug.com/letterboxing), I give
traditional letterboxing clues to my letterboxes. On the geocaching.com
site, my letterbox/geocache listings omit the clues, so as not to give away
the location (they have to use the geographic coordinates for that). On
both places I link to the other, giving the seeker a choice as to which
manner he might seek the box.
It's been a couple of weeks since I placed these new letterboxes, and
neither a geocacher nor letterboxer has informed me of its discovery. I
may check up on them next week to see of someone found them but didn't
email me or log the finds on the web site.
Regards...
Scott
redd@interbug.com
http://interbug.com/pigeon
At 04:10 AM 10/13/01 +0000, you wrote:
>I recently received an email from a geocacher who had signed into a
>letterbox I placed this summer. He asked if I minded if he mentioned
>the box on the geocache website. Has anyone out there had an experience
>that would indicate that this is a bad/good idea? Funhog
>
>
>
>To unsubscribe: mailto:letterbox-usa-unsubscribe@egroups.com
>List info, archives, etc: http://www.letterboxing.org/list.html
>
>
>Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [LbNA] geocachers
From: Scott H Redd (redd@interbug.com) |
Date: 2001-10-14 22:23:44 UTC-05:00
This is the point of my message, too, but I wanted to add that I still
think there's many occasions to have a stash-only geocache (with no stamp)
in the event that the terrain or theme is not suitable for letterbox
clues. Conversely, I could also see when a letterbox-only site would be
more appropriate when you've got something extra special or mysterious
you'd want to reserve for letterboxing.
For standard geocaching/letterboxing, I will probably continue to combine
mine and list them on both sites. My area (Omaha, Nebraska) doesn't have
any other letterboxes, and geocaches, too, are not as plentiful as in other
areas.
Regards...
Scott
redd@interbug.com
http://interbug.com/pigeon
At 10:52 PM 10/14/01 -0400, you wrote:
> So Yes I think its a good thing to combine and mix.
>
>Sherri
>
>Phx Az.
think there's many occasions to have a stash-only geocache (with no stamp)
in the event that the terrain or theme is not suitable for letterbox
clues. Conversely, I could also see when a letterbox-only site would be
more appropriate when you've got something extra special or mysterious
you'd want to reserve for letterboxing.
For standard geocaching/letterboxing, I will probably continue to combine
mine and list them on both sites. My area (Omaha, Nebraska) doesn't have
any other letterboxes, and geocaches, too, are not as plentiful as in other
areas.
Regards...
Scott
redd@interbug.com
http://interbug.com/pigeon
At 10:52 PM 10/14/01 -0400, you wrote:
> So Yes I think its a good thing to combine and mix.
>
>Sherri
>
>Phx Az.