F2P2?2 Bonnie and Der Mad

3 messages in this thread | Started on 1999-08-07

[LbNA] F2P2?2 Bonnie and Der Mad

From: Greg Bradley (bradman@blitz-it.net) | Date: 1999-08-07 11:39:34 UTC-05:00

I like your coding after your name Bonnie. I can't wait until some creative person comes out with the found "10" letterboxes stamps patch that we can where proudly sewed on our jacket. Anyone given that a thought? I know you have to order that in bulk to get a reasonably price.

Any way our family just got back from Der Mad Stamper territory and found some stamps. Not to leave out Kevin and Cara, my Ginny and daughter Andrea found Mt. St. Helen's first stamp. Unfortunately, my son Kyle and myself didn't that day as we were ascending the South side of Mt. St. Helens to the "Summit". And along the way up that monster .....drum roll please.......he and I planted the 2nd and 3rd Mt. St. Helens letterbox stamps. So my score for that trip was F2P2 and overall F2P7. The clues for those two stamps will follow in another email.

So I found two but couldn't find three letterboxes by the Der Mad Stamper. Mitch did I dream it or was the Mt. Tabor stamp already missing before I arrived last week? Either way we are glad we where lured to that beautiful park on top of a extinct volcano in the middle of Portland, Oregan. Ginny lays over as a flight attendant in Clackamus lots and she will walk it soon. The northwest blows our mind as it is our current "points of discovery" destination.

Moreover Mitch, we never found the "Multnomah Falls" or "Wahkeena Falls Letterbox"(es). The Multnomah Falls clues 125 degrees from the falls and those five tree clues didn't seem enough to pinpoint even closely where we could start as I walked a straight line from the falls almost throught the gift shop to the railroad tracks and waist deep into the Columbia River. :))

I never saw any trees that looked like that. A second compass bearing would have helped. So as Austin Powers says, "Throw me a frigin Bone" please, ha!

The Wahkeena Falls letter box is either missing or we just blew it. Looking for that one walking up the path from the falls to the "resting place" and then ahead to a "charred tree trunk" we proceeded to tear up a nice hillside and moss looking under trunks of trees. We abandoned the search for the above reason and checked bearings from the path. Seemed the 40 degrees bearing of the "charred tree trunk" put the place to the right of the path or up the hill whereas "resting place and tower in the water at 220 and 333 respectively" placed it below the path or downhill? I will try that one again but I am stratching my head. Nevertheless an absolute beautiful God recreated place that I hope all will visit and we will go after that "Triple Falls" stamp next time. Thanks Mitch for guiding us there!

Regards,

Greg

[LbNA] Re: F2P2?2 Bonnie and Der Mad

From: CLARK Cara D (cara.d.clark@co.multnomah.or.us) | Date: 1999-08-09 09:12:22 UTC-07:00

Greg, I'm glad your family found the box that Kevin hid and added more to
the St. Helen's area! Now we'll have to go back soon and find the others!
The Mt. Tabor letterbox is a tricky one. I believe it's still there...I
found it right off, but didn't think it could be the right spot, or that
maybe the box was gone...I went looking all over the place, and then decided
that the box HAD to be in the first place that I looked. Ta Dah! I now have
a lovely little stamp to show for my efforts.
I hid my first letterbox this weekend at a very beautifull spot on Mt.
Neahkahnie off of hwy 101 on the Oregon Coast. I didn't have a compass with
me, so the clue won't really be too hard .As soon as I write the clue and
scan my stamp (I carved it in the early a.m. while looking up at the
mountain from the beach...very peacefull and foggy), then I will put it on
the clues page.
Cara F5P1

-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Bradley [mailto:bradman@blitz-it.net]
Sent: Saturday, August 07, 1999 9:40 AM
To: Letterbox usa
Subject: [LbNA] F2P2?2 Bonnie and Der Mad

My Ginny and daughter Andrea found Mt. St. Helen's first stamp.
Unfortunately, my son Kyle and myself didn't that day as we were ascending
the South side of Mt. St. Helens to the "Summit". And along the way up that
monster .....drum roll please.......he and I planted the 2nd and 3rd Mt. St.
Helens letterbox stamps. So my score for that trip was F2P2 and overall
F2P7. The clues for those two stamps will follow in another email.

So I found two but couldn't find three letterboxes by the Der Mad Stamper.
Mitch did I dream it or was the Mt. Tabor stamp already missing before I
arrived last week? Either way we are glad we where lured to that beautiful
park on top of a extinct volcano in the middle of Portland, Oregan. Ginny
lays over as a flight attendant in Clackamus lots and she will walk it
soon. The northwest blows our mind as it is our current "points of
discovery" destination.

[LbNA] Re: F2P2?2 Bonnie and Der Mad

From: Greg Bradley (bradman@blitz-it.net) | Date: 1999-08-09 17:58:35 UTC-05:00

-----Original Message-----
From: CLARK Cara D
To: 'letterbox-usa@egroups.com'
Date: Monday, August 09, 1999 11:53 AM
Subject: [LbNA] Re: F2P2?2 Bonnie and Der Mad

Greg, I'm glad your family found the box that Kevin hid and added more to
the St. Helen's area! Now we'll have to go back soon and find the others!
The Mt. Tabor letterbox is a tricky one. I believe it's still there...I
found it right off, but didn't think it could be the right spot, or that
maybe the box was gone...I went looking all over the place, and then decided
that the box HAD to be in the first place that I looked. Ta Dah! I now have
a lovely little stamp to show for my efforts.
I hid my first letterbox this weekend at a very beautifull spot on Mt.
Neahkahnie off of hwy 101 on the Oregon Coast. I didn't have a compass with
me, so the clue won't really be too hard .As soon as I write the clue and
scan my stamp (I carved it in the early a.m. while looking up at the
mountain from the beach...very peacefull and foggy), then I will put it on
the clues page.
Cara F5P1

-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Bradley [mailto:bradman@blitz-it.net]
Sent: Saturday, August 07, 1999 9:40 AM
To: Letterbox usa
Subject: [LbNA] F2P2?2 Bonnie and Der Mad

My Ginny and daughter Andrea found Mt. St. Helen's first stamp.
Unfortunately, my son Kyle and myself didn't that day as we were ascending
the South side of Mt. St. Helens to the "Summit". And along the way up that
monster .....drum roll please.......he and I planted the 2nd and 3rd Mt. St.
Helens letterbox stamps. So my score for that trip was F2P2 and overall
F2P7. The clues for those two stamps will follow in another email.

So I found two but couldn't find three letterboxes by the Der Mad Stamper.
Mitch did I dream it or was the Mt. Tabor stamp already missing before I
arrived last week? Either way we are glad we where lured to that beautiful
park on top of a extinct volcano in the middle of Portland, Oregan. Ginny
lays over as a flight attendant in Clackamus lots and she will walk it
soon. The northwest blows our mind as it is our current "points of
discovery" destination.

Hi Cara,

Thanks for writing back and giving us another letterbox to pursue! Ginny
didn't get to do the Mt. St. Helens hike to the summit due to a foot injury
while training for that hike. I promised her and we will do it in 2000.

re- the Mt Tabor LB, the clue pointed directly to a large tree, by a lamp
post and with a good size whole and perfect place to hide one. It wasn't
more that 5 feet from that street. Please tell me I was in the wrong place?
The compass reading was checked once, twice and three times.

I am going to look your new letterbox up in the atlas now to see "where" it
is.

Best regards,

Greg

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