letterboxer, but there is a big difference in the two. I would much rather
letterbox, as geocaching seems almost like cheating. I do it because of the
lack of boxes within reach. I have come across too many missing or flooded
letterboxes to think that increased traffic from those that can't or won't
follow letterbox clues would help the matter. Keep them separate. I don't
have any gripe with planting caches near letterboxes, say within a half mile
or so, but I don't want people to be able to cross reference and/or publish
Lat/Lon coordinates for letterboxes. Let them be hard to find! That's the
fun...finding a box not found for a year or so, intact, dry, and hard won. I
have a friend that went back three times attempting to find the same
letterbox and was thrilled to finally succeed. How awful it would be to
have the temptation or ability to look it up on the geocaching site and
simply walk to it, head down looking at a readout, instead of at the natural
beauty of the area. There's room for both sports, but they're different.
Bob
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Subject: [LbNA] geocachers
> 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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