What is Letterboxing?
Letterboxing is an intriguing pastime combining artistic ability with "treasure-hunts" in parks, forests, and cities around the world. Participants seek out hidden letterboxes by cracking codes and following clues. The prize: a miniature piece of art known as a rubber stamp—usually a unique, hand-carved creation.
Letterboxers stamp their discoveries in a personal journal, then use their own rubber stamp, called a signature stamp, by stamping it into the logbook found with the letterbox, perhaps writing a note about the weather or their adventures in finding the letterbox.
Atlas Quest started as a set of tools for letterboxers, but has grown into a community of letterboxers. Pull up a chair, meet new friends, and dig into letterboxing.
Newest Updates!
The first Letterboxing Convention is right around the corner! Take some classes on carving, meet friends from around the country, buy some patches, or participate in any number of other activities.
New privacy options are available in your preferences. Now you can keep any page of your online logbook private, as well as hide the finds and attempts on individual boxes you own.
Geocities has announced that they're closing up shop. If you host your clues or other important data on Geocities, you'll want to move them elsewhere at some point. As I write this, they haven't announced a specific day that the website will be closed—just a vague 'later this summer,' but if you depend on it, you'll want to start making alternative plans sooner rather than later.
Customize your menubars! Have you ever wanted links for your favorite searches on the menubars? Perhaps links to LbNA? Or links to Facebook or Yahoo. Whatever links you want, you can now customize the AQ menubar to suit your needs!
For a more complete list of tweaks and updates, check out What's New on AQ?
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