I found my first letterbox yesterday and wanted to ask a few questions about
letterboxing in Oregon and Washington. My main interest is if there are
other resources for the pacific NW. I have asked around at a few local
outdoor stores (GI Joes and REI) but they all seemed a little confused by
the whole concept. Was I asking the wrong person or is letterboxing a small
time thing out here?
Lillis Long
www.lillislong.net
"Some days its hard to keep purple in the lines"
Found my first box! (OR)
7 messages in this thread |
Started on 2002-01-01
Found my first box! (OR)
From: Lillis Long (lrlongx@nrst.net) |
Date: 2002-01-01 16:15:49 UTC-08:00
Re: [LbNA] Found my first box! (OR)
From: (paisleyorca@webtv.net) |
Date: 2002-01-01 19:15:06 UTC-08:00
Hi Lillis!
Which box did you find first? To get more clues go to
www.letterboxing.org and then click on the big red book, then click on
the state you want the clues for, then what section of the state, etc.,
etc. You'll get the idea once you get into the clues section. Also,
you can check the "What's New" section of the web sight for more
recently-placed letterboxes. The Talk List Archives have letterboxes
sometimes that have been placed, but may not have gotten into the
aforementioned categories. We have great webmasters that take very good
care of us with this hobby.
There are a bunch of letterboxes now in Oregon and Washington so you
won't be deprived if you want to get out there and find them! The past
year a number of new and interesting people in the Pacific NW have
jumped on the letterboxing bandwagon and it's been terrific!
Please feel free to ask any questions. Letterboxing is really fun!!!
Best regards,
Amanda Briles
The Paisley Orca
Which box did you find first? To get more clues go to
www.letterboxing.org and then click on the big red book, then click on
the state you want the clues for, then what section of the state, etc.,
etc. You'll get the idea once you get into the clues section. Also,
you can check the "What's New" section of the web sight for more
recently-placed letterboxes. The Talk List Archives have letterboxes
sometimes that have been placed, but may not have gotten into the
aforementioned categories. We have great webmasters that take very good
care of us with this hobby.
There are a bunch of letterboxes now in Oregon and Washington so you
won't be deprived if you want to get out there and find them! The past
year a number of new and interesting people in the Pacific NW have
jumped on the letterboxing bandwagon and it's been terrific!
Please feel free to ask any questions. Letterboxing is really fun!!!
Best regards,
Amanda Briles
The Paisley Orca
RE: [LbNA] Found my first box! (OR)
From: Lillis Long (lrlongx@nrst.net) |
Date: 2002-01-02 09:22:19 UTC-08:00
I guess i should reply to thel ist since my first response only got sent to
Amanda. My first find was Pooch Place, founded by derMadStamper. Its an
intriguing little box, very easy if you know the area.
I found out about letterboxing due to my roomates GPS actually. He got one
for his birthday and so we started Geocaching. Tabor and Ryan seem intent on
the geochaching idea, but it just seems to easy or somthing to me. There
isnt a lot of challenge to it. The geocaching web site had a link to
Letterboxing.org and so on and so forth. Today im either going to take a jab
at the PCC Rock creek boxes or the Twins. It will most likely be the twins
unless i somehow can figure out the last question in "the test"
Lillis
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From: paisleyorca@webtv.net [mailto:paisleyorca@webtv.net]
Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2002 7:15 PM
To: letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com; lrlongx@nrst.net
Subject: Re: [LbNA] Found my first box! (OR)
Hi Lillis!
Which box did you find first? To get more clues go to
www.letterboxing.org and then click on the big red book, then click on
the state you want the clues for, then what section of the state, etc.,
etc. You'll get the idea once you get into the clues section. Also,
you can check the "What's New" section of the web sight for more
recently-placed letterboxes. The Talk List Archives have letterboxes
sometimes that have been placed, but may not have gotten into the
aforementioned categories. We have great webmasters that take very good
care of us with this hobby.
There are a bunch of letterboxes now in Oregon and Washington so you
won't be deprived if you want to get out there and find them! The past
year a number of new and interesting people in the Pacific NW have
jumped on the letterboxing bandwagon and it's been terrific!
Please feel free to ask any questions. Letterboxing is really fun!!!
Best regards,
Amanda Briles
The Paisley Orca
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Amanda. My first find was Pooch Place, founded by derMadStamper. Its an
intriguing little box, very easy if you know the area.
I found out about letterboxing due to my roomates GPS actually. He got one
for his birthday and so we started Geocaching. Tabor and Ryan seem intent on
the geochaching idea, but it just seems to easy or somthing to me. There
isnt a lot of challenge to it. The geocaching web site had a link to
Letterboxing.org and so on and so forth. Today im either going to take a jab
at the PCC Rock creek boxes or the Twins. It will most likely be the twins
unless i somehow can figure out the last question in "the test"
Lillis
-----Original Message-----
From: paisleyorca@webtv.net [mailto:paisleyorca@webtv.net]
Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2002 7:15 PM
To: letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com; lrlongx@nrst.net
Subject: Re: [LbNA] Found my first box! (OR)
Hi Lillis!
Which box did you find first? To get more clues go to
www.letterboxing.org and then click on the big red book, then click on
the state you want the clues for, then what section of the state, etc.,
etc. You'll get the idea once you get into the clues section. Also,
you can check the "What's New" section of the web sight for more
recently-placed letterboxes. The Talk List Archives have letterboxes
sometimes that have been placed, but may not have gotten into the
aforementioned categories. We have great webmasters that take very good
care of us with this hobby.
There are a bunch of letterboxes now in Oregon and Washington so you
won't be deprived if you want to get out there and find them! The past
year a number of new and interesting people in the Pacific NW have
jumped on the letterboxing bandwagon and it's been terrific!
Please feel free to ask any questions. Letterboxing is really fun!!!
Best regards,
Amanda Briles
The Paisley Orca
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Re: [LbNA] Found my first box! (OR)
From: funhog1 (funhog@pacifier.com) |
Date: 2002-01-02 17:33:45 UTC
Looking forward to seeing your stamp in the books...and signing into
your first box! Funhog
your first box! Funhog
Re: [LbNA] Found my first box! (OR)
From: rscarpen (RiskyNil@hotmail.com) |
Date: 2002-01-02 18:39:44 UTC
Welcome to the world of letterboxing! =) There's quite a large
number of them in the Portland area compared to most parts of the
country, although there's still not enough of them if you ask me. ;o)
Hey, I have it under good authority that a few letterboxers will be
out hunting for the elusive Blue Lake box
(http://members.aol.com/letterboxr/usa/bluelake.htm) in the Portland
area on the 8th. Many of us have tried and failed at this box, and
under the theory that six or seven heads are better than one, they'll
be a bunch of us running amoke and looking suspicious while looking
for the box. Perhaps you can drop by and help, too! =)
> I found out about letterboxing due to my roomates GPS actually.
Letterboxing is more virsitile than geocaching anyhow. There are
letterboxes (not geocaches, but real, honest-to-goodness
letterboxes!) that require the use of a GPS. The Brown's Camp
letterbox is a good example
(http://www.letterboxing.org/or/brncamp1.htm). So we can
use "geocaching" clues, but they can't use "letterboxing" clues. So
we've got them beat. =)
> Tabor and Ryan seem intent on the geochaching idea
I'd just like to point out to everyone that I'm not the Ryan in this
statement--just in case some of you thought I was into geocaching.
=) I don't even have a GPS! (Which is probably one reason I've
never tried looking for that Brown's Camp letterbox.)
-- Ryan
number of them in the Portland area compared to most parts of the
country, although there's still not enough of them if you ask me. ;o)
Hey, I have it under good authority that a few letterboxers will be
out hunting for the elusive Blue Lake box
(http://members.aol.com/letterboxr/usa/bluelake.htm) in the Portland
area on the 8th. Many of us have tried and failed at this box, and
under the theory that six or seven heads are better than one, they'll
be a bunch of us running amoke and looking suspicious while looking
for the box. Perhaps you can drop by and help, too! =)
> I found out about letterboxing due to my roomates GPS actually.
Letterboxing is more virsitile than geocaching anyhow. There are
letterboxes (not geocaches, but real, honest-to-goodness
letterboxes!) that require the use of a GPS. The Brown's Camp
letterbox is a good example
(http://www.letterboxing.org/or/brncamp1.htm). So we can
use "geocaching" clues, but they can't use "letterboxing" clues. So
we've got them beat. =)
> Tabor and Ryan seem intent on the geochaching idea
I'd just like to point out to everyone that I'm not the Ryan in this
statement--just in case some of you thought I was into geocaching.
=) I don't even have a GPS! (Which is probably one reason I've
never tried looking for that Brown's Camp letterbox.)
-- Ryan
RE: [LbNA] Found my first box! (OR)
From: Lillis Long (lillis@pdxmax.com) |
Date: 2002-01-02 11:02:36 UTC-08:00
****************
> Tabor and Ryan seem intent on the geochaching idea
I'd just like to point out to everyone that I'm not the Ryan in this
statement--just in case some of you thought I was into geocaching.
=) I don't even have a GPS! (Which is probably one reason I've
never tried looking for that Brown's Camp letterbox.)
****************
Ryan is my room mate from highschool. After graduating the three of us
decided to room together since we were the only ones in our class not
leaving portland for college. That and tabor and I were going to room
together anyways. No im kinda curiouse about the blue lake box....What makes
it so difficult?
Lillis
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Re: [LbNA] Found my first box! (OR)
From: funhog1 (funhog@pacifier.com) |
Date: 2002-01-02 19:23:02 UTC
> ****************
No im kinda curiouse about the blue lake box....What makes
> it so difficult?
Come along and find out...Heh, Heh, Heh! Funhog
No im kinda curiouse about the blue lake box....What makes
> it so difficult?
Come along and find out...Heh, Heh, Heh! Funhog