WOW, Dennis!

Looks like you're trying to get us jumpstarted a bit! Beautiful carvings!
I've got to find a reason to get out to your part of the country to collect those (Before I do, I'll have to brush up on my "true bearings", or can you recommend a resource, preferably online, to help us all out?)
Nice to hear from you on the list also.

Lone Wolf,
WestChester, PA
P6F30X9

>>> "Dennis Williams" 03/30 8:35 AM >>>
Greetings all,

I have put together a number of new boxes and hidden several of them in the OKC, OK area. I have consolodated these on my web site. The address is

http://david.snu.edu/~dwilliam.fs/geog1113/okcboxes.htm

I've included some images of the handcarved stamps for several--since it appears that visitors, other than some of my students seeking extra points in my physical geography class, are few and far between.

Enjoy,

DW


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I agree with John - very nice carvings!

Bonnie
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> WOW, Dennis!
>
> Looks like you're trying to get us jumpstarted a bit! Beautiful carvings!
> I've got to find a reason to get out to your part of the country to collect those
(Before
I do, I'll have to brush up on my "true bearings", or can you recommend a
resource,
preferably online, to help us all out?)
> Nice to hear from you on the list also.
>
> Lone Wolf,
> WestChester, PA
> P6F30X9
>
> >>> "Dennis Williams" 03/30 8:35 AM >>>
> Greetings all,
>
> I have put together a number of new boxes and hidden several of them in the OKC, OK
area.
I have consolodated these on my web site. The address is
>
> http://david.snu.edu/~dwilliam.fs/geog1113/okcboxes.htm
>
> I've included some images of the handcarved stamps for several--since it appears that
visitors, other than some of my students seeking extra points in my physical
geography
class, are few and far between.
>
> Enjoy,
>
> DW
>
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> (Before I do, I'll have to brush up on my "true bearings", or can you
> recommend a resource, preferably online, to help us all out?)

The following web site can be used to calculate magnetic declination based
on location, altitude, and time. I'm not sure if it uses a database of
local anomolies or not as part of its calculation, nor am I sure that this
web site will help you find these boxes in particular or answer your
question. (This is a general resource that is nice to know about;
letterboxing ettiqute prevents further discussion on how to solve this
particular problem or generally how to solve other peoples' letterboxing
clues on the list :-)).

http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/seg/gmag/fldsnth1.pl

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Orienteer(R69.3) * Letterboxer(P22F100) * Globetrotter(T50S49C1138)
http://www.letterboxing.org/faq.html

I'm glad you noticed the statement about bearings as it may be misleading. Only the "116" boxes have true bearings in their clues. I set those up to facilitate my students learning navigation skills. The rest are magnetic.

I really liked the site that helps figure magnetic declination for an area. It was one I hadn't seen.

I think a decent web resource on how to adjust a compass for declination is:

http://www.cam.org/~gouletc/decl_faq.html

and about halfway down the following is a discussion

http://www.netside.com/~lcoble/dir9/land_nav.htm

Also, I appreciate the kind words about the carvings. They were fun to do.

DW