What is Letterboxing?
Letterboxing is an outdoor hobby that combines elements of orienteering, art and puzzle solving. Letterboxers hide small, weatherproof boxes in publicly-accessible places (like parks) and distribute clues to finding the box in printed catalogs, on one of several web sites, or by word of mouth. Individual letterboxes usually contain a logbook and a rubber stamp. Finders make an imprint of the letterbox's stamp on their personal logbook, and leave an impression of their personal stamp on the letterbox's logbook — as proof of having found the box. Many letterboxers keep careful track of their "find count". *Wikipedia*
How to add LB clues to Ipod
I saw this on a thread on atlasquest.com, now I cant seem to find it to check the users name to give him credit. sorry. I finally got this to work on my ipod and now I have 3 clues that are in the same park. Its a great deversion, when you're looking for a box you can stop to read your clue and it looks like you are changing you music on your ipod!!
1. Highlight and copy the clue you want to save.
2. Paste it into textedit, or another word program that can save things in the plain text format(.txt). Save it in the text format. (on a Mac, in textedit, this is under the 'Format' heading, and says, 'make Plain text')
3. Name the file with the town and name of the letterbox.
4. Make sure your iPod is on Manually 'Manage Songs & Playlists' mode. Plug your iPod into your computer. From the 'summary' tab, select "Enable disk use" or "Manually manage songs and playlists"
5. Drag this file into the 'Notes' folder of your iPod.
6. Now it's available on your iPod on the trail! (in the Extras catagory, under Notes)
Berry Picking
DB (who my daughter has renamed Boi Boi since she cant say dough boy) K and I were invited to go pick berries with some friends. the walk up was tough, uphill the whole way. my 23 month old K walked most of it on her own and DB rode in her pouch.
Once we got to the berries DB wanted out to explore and collect berries. He found some good blueberries and is planning to make us blueberry pancakes tomorrow morning!
No letterboxing today but we got some friends interested in it and we are all going out on Friday.
K really seems to like Boi Boi. She ran around with him until she fell over and DB got a little dirty but he just got up and dusted himself off. He enjoys playing with K too. tomorrow we are going over to have DB's grandpa help us with his red backpack. We may even go LBing on wednesday before we meet with everyone on Friday. OH we also noticed a new letterbox here in Alaska. It's over in the Potters Marsh area. we may have to call in the Letterboxing Mommas for this one. I dont like driving out there, especially not alone.
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