Busy Box Sites

From: egda3432 (egda3432@netzero.net) | Date: 2001-10-22 17:37:30 UTC-04:00

After finding the "Barrel of Monkeys" letterbox Alan wrote...>it must have taken at least 20
minutes for the trail to be sufficiently clear of other hikers before I could
put the box back undetected! Anyone else have a similar experience elsewhere
in letterboxing country?<

Alan, try the Southeast Lighthouse on Block Island in the summer. With all the tourist traffic, this box has got to be one of the most walked by sites around. If anybody has a box that is more difficult to rehide after finding due to traffic I'd like to know. We actually thought we would have to cause a diversion to get peoples attention away from the hiding spot. My girlfriend was not so willing though.(lol)

Elmer

Sarah

Allison

Kyle

P10F79X46E2

Re: [LbNA] Busy Box Sites

From: Melissa Harvey (kiwi-1@snet.net) | Date: 2001-10-22 21:27:07 UTC-04:00

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From: egda3432 <egda3432@netzero.net>
To: letterbox-usa@yahoo.com <letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Monday, October 22, 2001 5:22 PM
Subject: [LbNA] Busy Box Sites

After finding the "Barrel of Monkeys" letterbox Alan wrote...>it must have taken at least 20
minutes for the trail to be sufficiently clear of other hikers before I could
put the box back undetected! Anyone else have a similar experience elsewhere
in letterboxing country?<

Alan, try the Southeast Lighthouse on Block Island in the summer. With all the tourist traffic, this box has got to be one of the most walked by sites around. If anybody has a box that is more difficult to rehide after finding due to traffic I'd like to know.

Another tough one to retrieve and rehide was Salty Brine in Rhode Island. We went in early April thinking we would be all set as far as having not too many people around, but we were wrong. Luckily we had Max to use as a decoy! We played ball with him for a few minutes, then "accidentally" threw his ball under the deck where the box was hiding. I slid it way over, under the ramp toward our car where we picked it up casually and went back to the Jeep to stamp in. We waited a little while, but there were still a lot of people, so we used Max and his ball to toss it back under, then pretended to get the ball and replaced it so that it was well hidden. Definitely one of the hardest to get without being seen!

Melissa

Re: Busy Box Sites

From: (TeamWeems@aol.com) | Date: 2001-10-24 00:47:35 UTC

--- In letterbox-usa@y..., "egda3432" wrote:
> After finding the "Barrel of Monkeys" letterbox Alan wrote...>it
must have taken at least 20
> minutes for the trail to be sufficiently clear of other hikers
before I could
> put the box back undetected! Anyone else have a similar experience
elsewhere
> in letterboxing country?<
>

So sorry you had a hard time re-planting the "Barrel of Monkeys".
When we planted the boxes the week before, we had no problem with the
trail being busy. I think that this past weekend, with the weather
so nice and it being peak folliage, brought out every hiker in the
state! I don't think this box will always be that difficult to get
to. We're glad you enjoyed the stamps, they were fun to create.

Team Weems

Re: [LbNA] Re: Busy Box Sites

From: stephen torrey (storrey@dnamail.com) | Date: 2001-10-23 21:11:51 UTC-04:00

We too are sorry to have made it so difficult to replace the Southeast Light
letterbox at Block Island, but there just weren't many places to go with it.
We planted it on a foggy day and had no problem ourselves, but on a sunny
weekend day in the summer it is really hopping there. We did manage to get
back to check it and were pleased that people had successfully stamped in
and returned it to its place. The other two we placed on Block are much
less traveled. Ann & Kathryn

Re: [LbNA] Re: Busy Box Sites

From: egda3432 (egda3432@netzero.net) | Date: 2001-10-23 21:56:23 UTC-04:00

Ann & Kathryn

I'm not complaining at all. It most definitely adds to the "sleuth factor"
that must be employed when looking for and ultimately replacing the box. I
liked Dan and Melissa's ball and dog routine. It's easy to rehide when
nobody is near. It takes some ingenuity to replace with a crowd around.

Any more stories out there?

Elmer
Sarah
Allison
Kyle
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Subject: Re: [LbNA] Re: Busy Box Sites

> We too are sorry to have made it so difficult to replace the Southeast
Light
> letterbox at Block Island, but there just weren't many places to go with
it.
> We planted it on a foggy day and had no problem ourselves, but on a sunny
> weekend day in the summer it is really hopping there. We did manage to
get
> back to check it and were pleased that people had successfully stamped in
> and returned it to its place. The other two we placed on Block are much
> less traveled. Ann & Kathryn
>
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Re: [LbNA] Busy Box Sites

From: Karen Thomsen (thomsen_k@yahoo.com) | Date: 2001-10-31 11:07:07 UTC-08:00

I had a similar experience when attempting the Drews' Sound View series (somewhere in CT). There was a group of picnickers very close to the first box of the series. It was earlier this summer, so the area was very crowded with beach-goers. But I was very determined that I wanted to do that series. So, after considering what to do, I walked right up to where the box was (fortunately, I knew exactly where it was without having to search around) and plopped myself down on the ground as though I had chosen that rather unlikely spot for a rest. Then I opened up my backpack and took everything out and spread it all around, so that when I did discreetly pull out the letterbox it would look like just another thing that had come out of my backpack. I'm sure the picnickers didn't have any idea what I was doing -- although they did give me some funny looks, as I was rather close to their barbecue!

Karen in CT
P8 F81

Melissa Harvey <kiwi-1@snet.net> wrote:

-----Original Message-----
From: egda3432 <egda3432@netzero.net>
To: letterbox-usa@yahoo.com <letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Monday, October 22, 2001 5:22 PM
Subject: [LbNA] Busy Box Sites

After finding the "Barrel of Monkeys" letterbox Alan wrote...>it must have taken at least 20
minutes for the trail to be sufficiently clear of other hikers before I could
put the box back undetected! Anyone else have a similar experience elsewhere
in letterboxing country?<

Alan, try the Southeast Lighthouse on Block Island in the summer. With all the tourist traffic, this box has got to be one of the most walked by sites around. If anybody has a box that is more difficult to rehide after finding due to traffic I'd like to know.

Another tough one to retrieve and rehide was Salty Brine in Rhode Island. We went in early April thinking we would be all set as far as having not too many people around, but we were wrong. Luckily we had Max to use as a decoy! We played ball with him for a few minutes, then "accidentally" threw his ball under the deck where the box was hiding. I slid it way over, under the ramp toward our car where we picked it up casually and went back to the Jeep to stamp in. We waited a little while, but there were still a lot of people, so we used Max and his ball to toss it back under, then pretended to get the ball and replaced it so that it was well hidden. Definitely one of the hardest to get without being seen!

Melissa

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