Thank you so much, Ais, for your sportsman-like trying for that
letterbox. Sounds like it's gone...
And special thanks for maintaining our other letterbox up there! It
was wonderful meeting you at Sleeping Giant.
Jay in CT
Odiorne Pt, Rye/Portsmouth, NH
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Started on 2002-05-10
Re: [LbNA] Odiorne Pt, Rye/Portsmouth, NH
From: Aisling D'Art (lists@aisling.net) |
Date: 2002-05-10 23:28:50 UTC-04:00
Hi,
Quick note, and I'll post more on Sunday.
I'll be at the Gathering in CT on Saturday.
Anyway... the letterbox near the curved bench at
Odiorne Point Seacoast Nature Ctr has gone missing. Or it may still be
there, but people have moved the rocks. They do that, scavenging for rocks
to create makeshift campfires with. I've tried four times to locate the
box, and frankly, it can't possibly be that hard to find. If I'm missing
the obvious, will someone please explain it? Otherwise, I think the box is
missing.
The letterbox up past the concrete bunker is still
there, but it got soaked when the snow melted. I've removed the soggy mess
that was once (and may yet be again) the notebook; I'll have it with me at the
Gathering if it belongs to anyone there. Otherwise, I'll dry it out and either
replace it in the box (doubt if it can be salvaged) or put a new notebook in the
box. If it's your notebook, holler and I'll cheerfully mail it to you when
it's dry. It appeared nearly full anyway.
I've added a letterbox myself, but this MAY be a
temporary location... I think it's a little too close to civilization, and I'll
move it to a more secluded spot when I replace the notebook in the other box, or
in about a week, whichever comes first.
I'll post the clues at my website, but until I move
the new box, here's where it is:
Follow the clues as if you're going to the Rye
Beach letterbox, which is the more hidden one at Odiorne Point Seacoast Nature
Ctr. When you reach the big concrete bunker (looks like a bridge, sort
of), face it as if you're going underneath it. On your left, there
are five boulders lining the path/road under the bunker. The second from
the path you arrived on is where the treasure is. Sit on the boulder with
your back to the path, and retie your shoelacings or something. Reach down
carefully and move the two small rocks (about the size of a shoe, each) and
underneath the boulder you're sitting on, you'll find the Seacoast #1
letterbox. Handcarved stamp inside.
Stamp discreetly and replace the box, hide it with
the two small rocks again, and then continue on the path to the Rye Beach
letterbox.
And, with environmental impact in mind, you do NOT
have to move any large boulders to reach the letterbox. It just happens
that there's a narrow opening on that side of the rock, where it doesn't quite
meet the ground. So, the only moving necessary will be the two smallish
rocks that hide the box from view.
This box should be easy to find, and if you go
around the hill with the stairs (at the start of the Rye Beach clues) accessing
the path from the road instead, there is almost no climbing necessary. In
other words, a very easy & gentle hike, maybe 1/2 mile in. (But, for
the views, I recommend the hill with the stairs.)
See many of you tomorrow!
Cheerfully,
Aisling D'Art
P1 F8 X-tomorrow!
Re: [LbNA] Odiorne Pt, Rye/Portsmouth, NH
From: Tate Tomis Dba Tomis Landscape Co (dba.tomis.landscape@snet.net) |
Date: 2002-05-18 22:30:32 UTC-04:00
We were there in the middle of March and found
it! However, it was our second try. Sue, Sara and Tate.
-----Original Message-----
From: Aisling D'Art <lists@aisling.net>
To: letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com <letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Friday, May 10, 2002 11:27 PM
Subject: Re: [LbNA] Odiorne Pt, Rye/Portsmouth, NH
From: Aisling D'Art <lists@aisling.net>
To: letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com <letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Friday, May 10, 2002 11:27 PM
Subject: Re: [LbNA] Odiorne Pt, Rye/Portsmouth, NH
Hi,
Quick note, and I'll post more on Sunday.
I'll be at the Gathering in CT on Saturday.
Anyway... the letterbox near the curved bench at
Odiorne Point Seacoast Nature Ctr has gone missing. Or it may still be
there, but people have moved the rocks. They do that, scavenging for rocks
to create makeshift campfires with. I've tried four times to locate the
box, and frankly, it can't possibly be that hard to find. If I'm missing
the obvious, will someone please explain it? Otherwise, I think the box is
missing.
The letterbox up past the concrete bunker is still
there, but it got soaked when the snow melted. I've removed the soggy mess
that was once (and may yet be again) the notebook; I'll have it with me at the
Gathering if it belongs to anyone there. Otherwise, I'll dry it out and either
replace it in the box (doubt if it can be salvaged) or put a new notebook in the
box. If it's your notebook, holler and I'll cheerfully mail it to you when
it's dry. It appeared nearly full anyway.
I've added a letterbox myself, but this MAY be a
temporary location... I think it's a little too close to civilization, and I'll
move it to a more secluded spot when I replace the notebook in the other box, or
in about a week, whichever comes first.
I'll post the clues at my website, but until I move
the new box, here's where it is:
Follow the clues as if you're going to the Rye
Beach letterbox, which is the more hidden one at Odiorne Point Seacoast Nature
Ctr. When you reach the big concrete bunker (looks like a bridge, sort
of), face it as if you're going underneath it. On your left, there
are five boulders lining the path/road under the bunker. The second from
the path you arrived on is where the treasure is. Sit on the boulder with
your back to the path, and retie your shoelacings or something. Reach down
carefully and move the two small rocks (about the size of a shoe, each) and
underneath the boulder you're sitting on, you'll find the Seacoast #1
letterbox. Handcarved stamp inside.
Stamp discreetly and replace the box, hide it with
the two small rocks again, and then continue on the path to the Rye Beach
letterbox.
And, with environmental impact in mind, you do NOT
have to move any large boulders to reach the letterbox. It just happens
that there's a narrow opening on that side of the rock, where it doesn't quite
meet the ground. So, the only moving necessary will be the two smallish
rocks that hide the box from view.
This box should be easy to find, and if you go
around the hill with the stairs (at the start of the Rye Beach clues) accessing
the path from the road instead, there is almost no climbing necessary. In
other words, a very easy & gentle hike, maybe 1/2 mile in. (But, for
the views, I recommend the hill with the stairs.)
See many of you tomorrow!
Cheerfully,
Aisling D'Art
P1 F8 X-tomorrow!
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Re: [LbNA] Odiorne Pt, Rye/Portsmouth, NH
From: Nisa (teapot@teapot.mv.com) |
Date: 2002-05-19 06:21:00 UTC-04:00
We couldn't find it on our first and only try so far, but I know that others
just before and just after us found it without a problem. We also
planted another letterbox there, but a year later we have yet to post the
clues. We want to make sure it's still there (and get another chance
at finding the one by the curved bench) before posting the clues.
N.
Tate Tomis Dba Tomis Landscape Co wrote:
We were there in the middle of March and found it! However, it was our second try. Sue, Sara and Tate.-----Original Message-----
From: Aisling D'Art <lists@aisling.net>
To: letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com <letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Friday, May 10, 2002 11:27 PM
Subject: Re: [LbNA] Odiorne Pt, Rye/Portsmouth, NH
Hi, Quick note, and I'll post more on Sunday. I'll be at the Gathering in CT on Saturday. Anyway... the letterbox near the curved bench at Odiorne Point Seacoast Nature Ctr has gone missing. Or it may still be there, but people have moved the rocks. They do that, scavenging for rocks to create makeshift campfires with. I've tried four times to locate the box, and frankly, it can't possibly be that hard to find. If I'm missing the obvious, will someone please explain it? Otherwise, I think the box is missing.
Re: [LbNA] Odiorne Pt, Rye/Portsmouth, NH
From: Aisling D'Art (lists@aisling.net) |
Date: 2002-05-19 21:41:53 UTC-04:00
Hi,
I made yet another try at locating that letterbox
by the curved bench at Odiorne. (Hope springs eternal.) If there's
more than one curved bench, will someone explain to me where it is, in words of
one syllable or less? The only bench I know of is a favorite picnic
spot, nicely overgrown and yes, on the map it's in line with the four gun
whatchamacallits. So, in six tries and having turned over more rocks than
I like to, I'm about to give up on that letterbox. (And, believe me, "give up"
is not usually in my vocabulary! *grin*)
If the letterbox really is there, congratulations
to whomever planted it. You've not only evaded the kids who go there to
drink & build fires, but I'm baffled as well! *grin*
While there, I did replace the logbook in the
Seacoast/Rye Beach box at Odiorne, and put everything in fresh ziplock bags for
protection from the elements. The box itself is cracked, so on my next
visit I'll replace it with an identical (but new) Rubbermaid container.
If anyone's going to that box, please pick up a
couple of fist-sized rocks as you climb the trail. In a ziplock bag, the
box isn't so concealed as it was before, when two rocks could cover it
nicely. Two more rocks added by the next visitor should keep it safely
hidden. I couldn't find any loose rocks to add today, in the immediate
vicinity of the letterbox.
I'm leaving my Seacoast #1 box at the second rock
from the path (going to the Seacoast/Rye Beach letterbox at Odiorne), on the
left as you face that first concrete bunker (or bridge, if that's how you think
of it). And I planted a second box today, Seacoast #2 (for lack of a more
clever name) at the Urban Forestry Ctr in Portsmouth. I'll post clues to
both in the next day or so.
Also, if you're letterboxing around the Portsmouth
area, we've launched into poison ivy season. With the exception of the
short trek to the curved bench, if you're hiking at coastal NH, wear
long pants or tallllll socks!
It was a gorgeous day for letterboxing (after SNOW
yesterday!), and I'm sore & tired from a great day of hiking. Does
everyone/anyone else seem to hike about three times as far, trying to plant a
letterbox as trying to find one? I must have done the two-mile loop of the
Urban Forestry trails three times before I found a hiding place that I liked.
*chuckle*
Cheerfully exhausted,
Aisling
Re: [LbNA] Odiorne Pt, Rye/Portsmouth, NH
From: drewclan11 (drewclan@aol.com) |
Date: 2002-05-20 21:50:47 UTC