WOW, Randy!

How do you do it? I'm still planning my next box (in my head), and here you are sowign them like seeds in the wind. It'a good thing you enjoy planting boxes; I'mnot keeping my end of the bargain (unspoken) am I? Don't despair... It is somewhat of a Catch-22 though: I love hunting the boxes, and you have so many within my reach (???), the litle free time I have is spend hunting rather than seeding.

I'll just have to take a week off in Spetember and just spent the time letterboxing. BTW, I'm really close to finding VF#6. AH!!!!

You do great work Randy, and I consider myself extremely fortunate to be reside within letterboxing distance of you.

Gratefully,

Lone Wolf
West Chester, PA

>>> Randy Hall 08/21 8:09 PM >>>
I understand that Merlin has been vanquished, so I guess
its as good a time as any to throw some more challenges
out there. This time, its the series of hard boxes in
Valley Forge park, which get progressively harder, testing
many facets of the letterboxer's mental and physical skills,
while exploring beautiful trails, woods, history and all
that stuff.

I don't anticipate that the whole series could be bagged
in one trip to the park, but I guess thats the whole idea,
to get people outside.

This series is now complete as I look for other adventures
(in the harder than Merlin arena, I suppose). The series
can be accessed from our maps, from my clue index at
http://www.mapsurfer.com/boxes/index.html, or clues for boxes
I have not previously announced can be individually located at:

http://www.mapsurfer.com/boxes/box16.html
http://www.mapsurfer.com/boxes/box17.html

Happy hunting :-)

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

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> How do you do it? I'm still planning my next box (in my head),
> and here you are sowign them like seeds in the wind.

I spend alot of time outside, and have gotten in the habit of bringing
my letterboxing kit along when I do. Since I'm outside anyway the
letterboxing doesn't really take up much extra time. I go to
Valley Forge every day at lunch to trail run or walk around just
because its so much more beautiful than the inside of an office
building, so these letterboxes could be called "lunch boxes" :-)

> It is somewhat of a Catch-22 though: I love hunting the boxes,
> and you have so many within my reach (???), the litle free time
> I have is spend hunting rather than seeding.

Well, for the growth of the hobby and getting it off the ground, it
probably makes more sense to spend time hiding rather than hunting
in the beginning (assuming you have the choice), especially when my boxes
have possibly a rather narrow appeal. Diversity in clues and locations
probably is a good thing. That way, when the diversity as brought more
people in, you hopefully sit back and hunt most of the time. Also, my
stamps are not that good so I am really appealing to the treasure
hunter/hiker and not the artist/collector (if I'm appealing to
anyone :-)).

> You do great work Randy,

Thanks. Just find the time to get outdoors, whether letterboxing or
not :-) I'm in semi retirement on the hiding side for now (after
going well past my goal of 12 for the year); I'm going to wait until
things develop more, and possibly concentrate on Armchair Treasure
Hunting sort of stuff (although I may get a chance to put some in
some western states next month). Since my clues are not Y2K compliant
and will probably not work when the world ends, I will wait 'till next
year to set new goals ;-)

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Randy "the mapsurfer"
Orienteer * Letterboxer * Globetrotter
http://www.letterboxing.org/faq.html