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)
Pink stuff
sooooo I'm pretty new to letterboxing and very new to stamp carving. I have carved 8 stamps. all desent enough to be considered stamps. I havent really messed on up so bad it could not be saved. I turned a pair of eyes into pretty cool mountains with northern lights. I started with these great SUPER cheap white erasers I found at joanns. 2 erasers for $.25!!! no joke! at that price they would be great if not to carve at least as erasers. I bought $1 worth. so I had 8 erasers to work with. 1 became my sig stamp. 3 became boxes I planted. 1 the champion made into his sig stamp. 1/2 of one I send to a friend carved with her initials. 1/2 became DB's stamp. 1 became my personal traveler and 1 I'm not quite happy with yet. I have carved 2 stamps using the pink stuff. once I decide I could spend the money on it. I carved a veggie tales character for the VT PLB ring going out in sept. it was my first real stamp. It lookd great! and it wasnt hard. so proud of myself. today I carved an awesome bear for the postcard exchange ring. (alaska= bears) I have decide I love the pink stuff! and as long as I make it last the price ain't that bad. its so much easier to carve. the white erasers are too soft and small. I think I cant do great things when using the pink stuff.
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