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)
meeting Lbers is fun!
Oh what fun! I got to meet some letterboxers today!! I met Nana C and the seedlings AKA The Seeker. Got lots of new exchanges in my logbook and learned some new things. It was just fun to meet others who like this hobby as much as I do. The buddies also got new exchanges in their log books. they were busy when we took the pic. Everyone thought Mugsy was really cute!! Austin thought Tweeter was cool. Yep, a grand old time for everyone.
Shout Out to Nana C and the Seedlings!!
I also got a little tutorial on Geocaching. my husband and I have decide to try our hand at geocaching. Hubs ordered our first GPS online today. We got a Garmin Etrax Vista HCX.
pretty good deal on it too. my geocaching trail name is Brown Eyes in Alaska (guess there is already a Brown Eyes out in the geocaching world.) my husband is dlb. I cant wait to recieve it and go find out first cach!!
Got a new postal in the mail today. the Mystery PLB by Happy Gemini. I cant figure it out so I may have to pass on the price. oh well. neat stamps.
I got this pic from deniserows.
Shout Out to deniserows in Kodiak Ak!!its my rock (I named it Little Brother) from the XYIENCE XENERGY LB I planted. I'm going out tomorrow to check it out and find out whats with the Rhino on the box. I didnt leave it there and according to people that have logged their finds of my box its been there for over a month. go fig.
What a wonderful day!! I also got to spend some time with my hubs , he was off of work today.
Box On!! (a cajear)
1 comment:
hmm, very interesting. a Lb mystery....
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