Letterboxing 101

 Lately, the boys have been having a good time with Letterboxing.   If you aren't familiar with it, it's basically the low tech version of geocaching. 


We get most of our clues from Atlas Quest.  It's great because you can run a search based on your location and you'll be able to see how much walking is involved, if there's a cost to it, etc.  You can also see when the box was last found. 

Basically, we print up the clues to the box we want to find.  Fill our backpack with our stamp, stamp pad, notebook, water bottle and some snacks.  Off we go.  Once we find the box, we use the stamp included in it to stamp our notebook and leave our stamp in the box with the date.  Once back home, we report back on Atlas Quest about whether we found the box or if there was any issue with it. 

The Computer is responsible for leading us.  He always gives us a quick rundown on what we are in for before we head out. 

Our first find of the day!  We spent over an hour trying to find the first of the three boxes, but since part of the trail was flooded out and another part had a tree down, a very large tree at that, we had to find the third clue and work our way back.

The Librarian has no fear and loves to climb inside the tree to retrieve the box.  After I've checked for spiders and other creepy crawlies.

 Taking care of all the stamping business.  We actually forgot our stamp on this day so we ended up drawing a picture in the letterbox's notebook.  You do whatever works.

Victory was ours! 

Well, we found two of the three letterboxes for the day after several back tracks and turn arounds.  The clues were excellent, but because of trail conditions it was a bit on the difficult side to find the right spots.  No the boys are hoping the weather will clear up soon so we can head out again.