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: an image from 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!
There's a new search option in town! It's called the Rectangle Search, and allows you to specify a retangular area that should be searched for letterboxes. The search takes two locations which mark two opposite corners of the rectangular area that should be included in the search. For instance, you could run a search between San Luis Obispo and San Jose, CA. San Luis would mark the southeast corner of the rectangle, while San Jose would mark the northwest corner, and the search returns all letterboxes within those coordinates.
The Stamp Exchange is now open! If you have a stamp or two that you need someone to plant or want to request a stamp for your own use, post the details in the stamp exchange. Or just look through the stamp requests and offers that others have made.
Read all about the newest box 'type' availabe—reserved! You can't list boxes before their plant date, but you can reserve a space for the listing by listing a 'reserved' box. You can work on the clues, practice listing boxes, or whatever the case may be, and when the box is planted and ready to make live—you convert into the type it really is. Reserved Help
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.
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!
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