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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!

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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!!!!
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kitten without mittens

Chadams about the series idea just tell me where and when and I will do all 24 in one day...peace...

Papa phoenix

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

"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?)

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

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*

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