BROWN EYES GOES LETTERBOXING: Tweeter's 1st LB in Alaska

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)

Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Tweeter's 1st LB in Alaska

what a great day. we sent out the Travelling Mama postal. I hate the post office! I remember why every time I end up standing in line for over half an hour for something that takes 3 mins to do.
Since we were next to the library we dicided to get the 2 letterboxes in there.

Tweeter helped K with the puzzles in the kids play area. Then we showed him a cool HUGE map of Alaska. We may letterbox some more tomorrow after The Champion get out of school. I have to buy a compass. Maybe grandma will go with us next time. Hope this rain stops. All I ask is please dont snow before I get the rest of the anchorage boxes.

1 comment:

midlandtrailblazer said...: wow, already worried about snow? i can't imagine. most times it's February before we worry about snow. Tweeter looks like he's having a blast!; August 23, 2007 at 5:31 AM