learned a few things during the last week:
1. A box placed in the winter may be covered with lots of green
leaves and harder to find in the summer.
2. Those leaves may be on vines with redish stems and grouped in 3s.
(poison ivy)
3. The trails of Ohio are filled with cobwebs and spiders that like
to crawl up the back of my neck here in late August.
4. 90 degrees and 90 percent humidity puts a damper of how far I can
run through the woods to and from letterboxes. (And a 2 liter bottle
of diet coke does not last a full afternoon.)
4. Having a colocated geocache/letterbox is a mixed blessing.
Here are the numbers of letterboxing visitors to several of my boxes:
Leave Only Footprints: 4 in 11 months
Adena Mound: 3 in 10 months
Hooked on Phonics (Shavian clue) 0 in 8 months, though I
corresponded with one seeker.
Lost Fishie (Ohio Mystery) 1 in 7 months
Eagle Pass (Geocache/Letterbox) 18 letterboxers among 41 total
visitors in 11 months
Narrows and NarrowsII (Geocache/Letterbox) Logbook and stamp taken
from cache. One letterboxer left their stamp on a piece of paper
since the log was taken. 4 geocachers wrote their name on the piece
of paper.. The internet shows 57 visitors to this letterbox/cache.
Geocache LBNA - a geocache where you need a clue from a letterbox to
find the geocache - 7 letterboxers
... Geocaching may open the letterbox to new finders, but
increases the vapor pressure of the stamp.