Name: Geocache: Letterboxing North America

Location: Near Cedarville, Greene County, Ohio

Difficulty 3 for letterboxers, 5 for first timers
terrain 2 (About a mile of walking at two locations)

Posted 17 November 2001

This is a hybrid letterbox/geocache where the purpose is introducing
geocachers to letterboxing.

Following are similar to the instructions given on the
www.geocaching.com website. Finding this letterbox will require a
GPS unit.

"This Geocache search will give you a taste of letterboxing. It
covers much of Greene County Ohio and is not for the faint of heart.
Patience Grasshopper

Enough already! Here are the instructions for the Geocache I expect
it will take most folks about a week to do this one. But don't give
up! The tasks and travel can be broken into several parts. And the
final cache location is an extraordinarily beautiful setting.

Overview: First thing you need to do is go to the
www.letterboxing.org website and learn a little about letterboxing.
The coordinates for finding this Geocache are in the log book of a
regular letterbox I have hidden just outside Beavercreek.

Detail: This is what you do
1. Get, buy, or make a personal stamp to leave an imprint in the
logbook of letterboxes. Making a stamp is really very easy (and
addicting,) but no one will fault you if you buy a stamp with a
picture that means something to you. You can also have a
commercially prepared stamp made. The idea is that the stamp
represents something special to you. While you are at it, get a log
book to carry with you and record the stamps found in letterboxes.

2. Follow the instructions in the letterboxing website to find
the recently placed Ankeney Wetlands letterbox. You will not need
your GPS to find this letterbox, but will need to count steps and use
a little deductive reasoning.

3. Go to the letterbox, stamp the log there with your stamp and
use the stamp there to stamp your letterboxing logbook. (Honor
system applies This is no fun unless you really do the above.)
Don't be too disappointed no toys at this box, just a stamp and log.

4. Get the GPS coordinates written on the inside of the cover of
the letterbox log.

5. Go to those GPS coordinates which are somewhere near
Cedarville.

The only hints you get for the Cedarville piece are:
- you need never go more than 50 feet off a path and
- when you arrive, you will find yourself in an enclosure about
the size of a garage or barn. Explore the base of the south wall.
You need only move three rocks.

Now for a little surprise The geocache in Cedarville is a
cache/letterbox hybrid like many of my caches. It contains toys for
boys and girls of all ages as well as a stamp and log book. The stamp
for this letterbox is a Letterboxing North America stamp I made.

Flyfisher P6F0