I have just recently learned about letterboxing. I have found it
fascinating and am anxious to get started. I was wondering if there
is a group of letterboxers in central PA who would be interested in
mentoring a newbie like myself. My husband has not found it as
interesting as I have so I am looking for others to start with before
I go out on my own. Any information would be helpful.
Thank you
Erin
--
Erin Hoover ATC
Assistant Athletic Trainer
Franklin & Marshall College
PO Box 3003
Lancaster, PA 17604
717-291-4104

Hello all... I just stumbled upon a site about this letterboxing
hobby and I'm really excited to start! I live in Illinois. Does
anyone have good links to Illinois clues? Marcia Lavery

Hi Tool Girl. Welcome =)

Use this link to find clues.

Good luck, and welcome to the list!

~ M ~


From: "TOOLgirl2"
Reply-To: letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com
To: letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [LbNA] newbie
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2002 21:04:41 -0000

Hello all... I just stumbled upon a site about this letterboxing
hobby and I'm really excited to start! I live in Illinois. Does
anyone have good links to Illinois clues? Marcia Lavery


































































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Hi Goattrails, Welcome aboard. I'm sure letterboxers in Idaho are
happy to have a new member who hides as well as seeks. Just a
reminder to all newbies: Remember when posting your clues to the talk
list to put the state abbreviation in the subject line. "New ID
letterbox..." for example. This will greatly help people who are
searching for new letterbox clues. I live in Massachusetts, and with
the number of posts entered on this site, to save time I would just
pass by any new listings that are not in my geographical area.
Seeing the state abbreviation in the subject line is a great time
saver.
Ginger

Hi,
I have posted my first 2 clues this week. I understand it takes some time
for them to get posted. Please tell me if I need to change anything I may be
doing incorrectly.
Thank you so much, goattrails


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Hi,

I am a new letterboxer or, rather, a pre-letterboxer as I have
neither placed nor found yet. So far, I'm just reading about it. I
want to thank Springchick for directing me to her "Getting Started"
page, the information presented answered just about all my
questions. Except---why is it against policy to place a letterbox in
a National Park? Letterboxing policy? US govt policy? Park Service
policy?
And, could someone tell me how to make contact with other
letterboxers in Summit County, Ohio?

Thanks, Katznstamper

Ah, a Katznstamper Kid! (Wow, did I just show my age!) National Parks have a policy against us planting letterboxers there. Other parks may well be free territory. Welcome to the hunt!

Dave
von der Insel
----- Original Message -----
From: Linda Taylor
To: letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 6:06 PM
Subject: [LbNA] newbie


Hi,

I am a new letterboxer or, rather, a pre-letterboxer as I have
neither placed nor found yet. So far, I'm just reading about it. I
want to thank Springchick for directing me to her "Getting Started"
page, the information presented answered just about all my
questions. Except---why is it against policy to place a letterbox in
a National Park? Letterboxing policy? US govt policy? Park Service
policy?
And, could someone tell me how to make contact with other
letterboxers in Summit County, Ohio?

Thanks, Katznstamper




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It's a govt policy no letterboxs


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im not in summitr county but i am in oho as is howling crow and paleo as they live down the street lol


Linda Taylor wrote:
Hi,

I am a new letterboxer or, rather, a pre-letterboxer as I have
neither placed nor found yet. So far, I'm just reading about it. I
want to thank Springchick for directing me to her "Getting Started"
page, the information presented answered just about all my
questions. Except---why is it against policy to place a letterbox in
a National Park? Letterboxing policy? US govt policy? Park Service
policy?
And, could someone tell me how to make contact with other
letterboxers in Summit County, Ohio?

Thanks, Katznstamper




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Ok im a newbie geocaching and would love to start letterboxing as well...... i am copying all the clues for the boxes in my city into a wordpad document and was don't see a place to "log" the find on the site am i missing something or is that not the way it is done with letterboxing?

On LbNA, when you have a list up from a search, do you see the little green flags to the right? Click on the green flag of the box that you've found, and you'll be able to log it.


Welcome!



:-)
≥Kit Kat≤
in CT

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From: "Kim"
To: letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, January 16, 2010 12:57:15 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: [LbNA] newbie






Ok im a newbie geocaching and would love to start letterboxing as well...... i am copying all the clues for the boxes in my city into a wordpad document and was don't see a place to "log" the find on the site am i missing something or is that not the way it is done with letterboxing?




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if you register your name on LBNA you can click the right button nex to the
box to log your find, but as far as I know there is no way to see all your
finds together on a single page.
if you log them on atlasquest,you will be able to see boxes registered with
AQ unless you become a premium member($35/yr) and then you can track all
your finds, even non aq boxes.

fleetwood7

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 1:41 PM, wrote:

>
>
> On LbNA, when you have a list up from a search, do you see the little green
> flags to the right? Click on the green flag of the box that you've found,
> and you'll be able to log it.
>
> Welcome!
>
> :-)
> ≥Kit Kat≤
> in CT
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kim" >
> To: letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Saturday, January 16, 2010 12:57:15 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: [LbNA] newbie
>
> Ok im a newbie geocaching and would love to start letterboxing as
> well...... i am copying all the clues for the boxes in my city into a
> wordpad document and was don't see a place to "log" the find on the site am
> i missing something or is that not the way it is done with letterboxing?
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>
>


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There is a problem with copying all the clues into a wordpad document the clues may change, and your wordpad document wont be automatically updated. ALWAYS double-check the on-line clues before you head out for a particular letterbox, or the box you seek may not be where you look.

Thunder Cobra
MTCobra
East Central Illinois







On Jan 15, 2010, at 11:57 PM, Kim wrote:

> Ok im a newbie geocaching and would love to start letterboxing as well...... i am copying all the clues for the boxes in my city into a wordpad document and was don't see a place to "log" the find on the site am i missing something or is that not the way it is done with letterboxing?
>
>



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Hi Kim,

Both letterboxing.org and atlasquest.com allow you to do that. On letterboxing.org
, click on the green flag. After entering the date you found the
letterbox, you'll have an opportunity to send a private note to the
clue owner ("Contact the Placer"). On atlasquest.com, each clue page
has a Record Find button and there is a Record Find option under the
Letterbox menu. When recording a find on AQ, you have the option a
leaving a private or public message. The public message option is most
like the geocaching.com logging option.

BTW, you might want to join the Newboxers group: newboxers. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/newboxers/

Happy Hunting,
Choi

On Jan 16, 2010, at 12:57 AM, Kim wrote:

> Ok im a newbie geocaching and would love to start letterboxing as
> well...... i am copying all the clues for the boxes in my city into
> a wordpad document and was don't see a place to "log" the find on
> the site am i missing something or is that not the way it is done
> with letterboxing?



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As has been said, both sites allow you to "log" finds. However, you must be signed on to either site to use this function.

pre

*On LbNA, when you have a list up from a search, do you see the little green flags to the right? Click on the green flag of the box that you've found, and you'll be able to log it.

* (I) don't see a place to "log" the find on the site am i missing something or is that not the way it is done with letterboxing?

Hi-
I'm new to the site and new to letterboxing. I'm a girl scout leader, and our troop is going to try letterboxing at one of our Girl Scout camps.

I do know that one of our local parks has letterboxes on the trail, and i thought that would be great for my daughter & i to do ourselves.. Can anyone give me pointers as to what supplies we should have with us?

Thanks

Check out the info links, tutorials and other bits of info posted at these locations.

Don

Letterboxing.org:
http://www.letterboxing.org/faq/faq.html

Silent Doug's site:
http://www.letterboxing.info/
Doug probably has the best info site on Hitchhikers and links to regional chatlists.

AtlasQuest:
http://www.atlasquest.com/
Ryan has a link set up "Code of Conduct" that is really good for all
boxers to read

newboxers' group:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/newboxers/
Where there is no dumb question, and is "the" place for many
newletterboxers.


--- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, "Mary Ann" wrote:
>
> Hi-
> I'm new to the site and new to letterboxing. I'm a girl scout leader, and our troop is going to try letterboxing at one of our Girl Scout camps.
>
> I do know that one of our local parks has letterboxes on the trail, and i thought that would be great for my daughter & i to do ourselves.. Can anyone give me pointers as to what supplies we should have with us?
>
> Thanks
>