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The goal?

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[L-USA] The goal?

From: robert Boon (rob-bev.Boon@ukgateway.net) | Date: 1999-06-07 08:18:40 UTC+01:00
Regarding the 'goal' of letterboxing, I thought I'd share with you the reasons I love the hobby. First it gets me onto Dartmoor and secondly, finding a letterbox that someone else has hidden especially for me to find is still a thrill even though I'm approaching 2000 boxes.
I guess it's only the number of boxes we have over here that makes the real difference between the US and UK letterboxers.  I know that wherever I go on the Moor, I'll find something, but I try to aim for the more remote ones which are less easy to find.  We have a whole variety of boxes and clues.  Staright forward clues with a 6 figure grid reference and bearings off landmarks, clues with a 4 figure reference and bearings, clues with no grid reference but bearings, and then, the hardest, just a few bearings or cryptic clue.  Of course there are also thousands which have been put out with no clues at all.  So there's something for eveyone.
Anyway, as far as I'm concerned letterboxing gives me a reason to get on Dartmoor.
 
Rob

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