BROWN EYES GOES LETTERBOXING: new letterboxes in anchorage and more carving

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)

Friday, September 14, 2007

new letterboxes in anchorage and more carving

well first of all I'm so excited that there are 2 new letterboxes listed on the AQ site. both say that they have not been found yet but I'm guessing they have been just havent been logged. there is 3 LB in Anchorage I need to find but they're a good little drive out. these 2 new one are close in town. one I"m almost positive we will find tomorrow. the other I need to do a bit more research before heading out. It'll probably be rainy tomorrow but we're going anyway. Time too bundle up!!! Both my new buddy's have been claimed and will go out as soon as I get their stamps and log books done. I bought some pink stuff today and carved my "My favorite holiday: Feliz Navidad" PLBR stamp. not quite happy with it yet. the carving is ok but I am having a hard time inking it with crayolas. I think I may have to buy some good markers. I'll mess with it some more tomorrow. I have the log book done, cuz I bought it, at Joann's. I have a few ideas for some rings I want to start and a few stamps I want to carve. oh so much to do!!!!

1 comment:

midlandtrailblazer said...: ah yes, so much to do! i was shopping yesterday and found two new sheep stamps, a wonderful set of ink pads, and two blocks of pink stuff. woo hoo! i'm back in the carving business....; September 14, 2007 at 4:07 AM