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Boxing Rainout Mini-Meet (was Re: Longer Hike?)
Board: State: New York
Reply to: #54242 by FALLING LEAVES
Nov 30, 2006 9:06pm
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Quote this sounds like something we (cq,kwm and fl) would love to spent the day doing. can i ask where this woulod be......let's talk about it at the meet =-)


Hey! No socializing at my gathering! LOL Don't forget your boxes, folks! There's an HH hostel waiting for some new blood!

Oh, and as for the 24 box series, I like the idea...I'm more likely to do a long series if I know there'll be gratification in parts. I can't do long hikes for only one box. My mind and body go on strike. The Highlander was a postal worker for a while, so he can walk a much farther distance, but he has to have frequent sanity breaks, or he starts threatening wildlife with AK-47s and such...kind of embarrassing!

The (not lazy, just...zzzz) Sprite & the (went postal and all he got was this lousy t-shirt) Highlander
Boxing Rainout Mini-Meet (was Re: Longer Hike?)
Board: State: New York
Reply to: #54254 by Sprite and Highlander
Nov 30, 2006 9:12pm
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sorry ...we'll keep the socializing on the down low saturday. unless you want to made a gang invasion for this trailboxing?

new blood is on it's way!!!!! ;-p
Boxing Rainout Mini-Meet (was Re: Longer Hike?)
Board: State: New York
Reply to: #54256 by FALLING LEAVES
Nov 30, 2006 9:17pm
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Quote sorry ...we'll keep the socializing on the down low saturday. unless you want to made a gang invasion for this trailboxing?

new blood is on it's way!!!!! ;-p


No BLEEDING in my house, either! LOL

You KNOW I'm kidding, right? Bring all the talk and new ideas you want...wouldn't be a real WNY meet without the easy banter of friends.

Which reminds me...we GOTTA get Team Dakota out here! I wonder if they know what's up?
Re: Longer Hike?
Board: State: New York
Reply to: #54182 by chadams
Dec 1, 2006 4:52am
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yes yes please. we like long hikes.
the very first lbing i did was a slight hike with two non-lbers who love hiking, tehy throughly enjoyed it and would love to do it again. fl and myself also just went out to get cq's ctrl-alt-dlt boxes, quite a hike, we got lost on our way out (which made it more so- but we saw deer!)
in the end we loved it and were only complaining about how one of the boxes we had to take home because it was so wet (now in cq's possession)

so yes-please plant

phoenix-we'll give you a run for your money to be the first finders :)

kwm
Boxing Rainout Mini-Meet (was Re: Longer Hike?)
Board: State: New York
Reply to: #54254 by Sprite and Highlander
Dec 1, 2006 4:54am
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Quote Oh, and as for the 24 box series, I like the idea...I'm more likely to do a long series if I know there'll be gratification in parts. I can't do long hikes for only one box. My mind and body go on strike. The Highlander was a postal worker for a while, so he can walk a much farther distance, but he has to have frequent sanity breaks, or he starts threatening wildlife with AK-47s and such...kind of embarrassing!

ha ha hide wild-life hide!

Quote Hey! No socializing at my gathering! LOL Don't forget your boxes, folks! There's an HH hostel waiting for some new blood!

hey i have been waiting to give hh and hopefully you will enjoy it.....but i like to meet people, socializing with lbers= good, socializing with muggles= gggaaaaaa run away!!!!
:)
kitten without mittens
Re: Longer Hike?
Board: State: New York
Reply to: #54182 by chadams
Dec 1, 2006 7:03am
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Chadams about the series idea just tell me where and when and I will do all 24 in one day...peace...

Papa phoenix
Re: Longer Hike?
Board: State: New York
Reply to: #54182 by chadams
Dec 3, 2006 4:36pm
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I like the idea of a longer hike with a number of boxes along it. But personally, and this is just me, 24 boxes seems like an awful lot. I mean, if you imagine spending 10 minutes for each box in finding the box, stamping in, reading the logbook and re-hiding it well, that's already 4 hours and that's without any hiking! I think you could cut the number of boxes in half and still have an awesome series that people would definitely come out for.

-Mama Bear
Every Box in Buffalo (was Re: Longer Hike?)
Board: State: New York
Reply to: #54225 by Ninja Rob
Dec 4, 2006 7:14am
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"It wasn't long ago that finding every box in the Buffalo area was a reasonable goal for me. Now, it's not even a consideration."

Hey! There was a time I could boast I *had* every letterbox between Rochester NY and Erie PA... both of them!
--- Dagonell the Pirate (Now's where did my walker get to again?)
Re: Longer Hike?
Board: State: New York
Reply to: #54182 by chadams
Dec 4, 2006 7:23am
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This past summer I posted a 10-box series along the Chautauqua Rails to Trails. It takes me 3 hours just to do a maintenance check and I know where the boxes are and which parking spaces are closest. Someone hunting the boxes has to devote all day to finding the complete run. Keep that in mind. You'll get fewer boxers, but more dedicated ones (me for example!)

By the way, if anyone wants to tackle my series while he's planting his, it's here.
http://www.atlasquest.com/lboxes/showboxinfo.html?gBoxId=15679
No one has yet earned the First Finder's Certificate by finding all of the boxes.
In fact, two of them are still virgin!
-- Dagonell
Every Box in Buffalo
Board: State: New York
Reply to: #54898 by Dagonell
Dec 4, 2006 7:42am
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I know I know. When I think of back in the day when I looked and there were only 3 boxes in all of upstate NY so I figured this hobby "wasn't worth it." LOL Back then, I had no inkling that I could change my own destiny by planting my own and more would follow!

LW *who has kicked herself ever since for this..because now Jay Drew has retired that early Onondaga County Library box*
Re: Every Box in Buffalo
Board: State: New York
Reply to: #54908 by Lock Wench
Dec 4, 2006 8:06am
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LW *who has kicked herself ever since for this..because now Jay Drew has retired that early Onondaga County Library box*

I made an attempt at that one. Never did solve it.
But this means, they're looking for someone to *plant* a box for them, right? :D :D :D
-- Dagonell