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there may be difficulty with snoozing snakes...
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Reply to: #21085 by Celtic Quinn
Apr 28, 2006 7:20pm
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Quote The mental picture of a snake snoozing on a letterbox made me chuckle out loud....too funny.
Z


Teehee...yeah, for me too, until i thought about what i'd do if i were a snake and some letterboxer came along and disturbed my sleep...
probably the same thing I do already.
*half-bite* "Hissssss! Go away! Five more minutes."

-CQ


Y'all think I'm kidding? Take a close look at Archimedes Screw's profile:
http://www.atlasquest.com/people/profile.html?gMemberId=1168

I had nothing, I repeat nothing, to do with that particular reptile!

Lisassssssssssscenic
Re: there may be difficulty with snoozing snakes...
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Reply to: #21125 by lisascenic
Apr 28, 2006 7:27pm
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While scouting for the clues to "a turtle tale", right in our path was an injured squirrel. He/she did not want to be bugged. Did a scurry right between our legs. Didnt know we could jump that high.
As to Archemedes and the snake... you should see some of the hiding spots used by them. Snakes are the least of your worries...LOL. I swear they used a chipmunk hole for one.

just Teasing Arch, you know we love you and your boxes, after all we found every one of them!
Eye
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Reply to: #21076 by Green Tortuga
Apr 28, 2006 9:01pm
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Quote too subjective. One person might think a simple cryptogram is easy while another person may think it's the most diabolical thing on the planet created by the devil himself. I might think a five-mile, flat hike is easy, but someone else might think it was terribly hard.

Agreed 110%.
folks might want to consder trying to give some info in clues to hint at the type o find and difficulty...but too subjective to have a field for it at AQ unless there was a field for every aspect (clues, hike etc) and that's just too much...and not really needed.

dixiekin
Re: there may be difficulty with snoozing snakes...
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Reply to: #21125 by lisascenic
May 1, 2006 7:54am
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Quote The mental picture of a snake snoozing on a letterbox made me chuckle out loud....too funny.
Z


Teehee...yeah, for me too, until i thought about what i'd do if i were a snake and some letterboxer came along and disturbed my sleep...
probably the same thing I do already.
*half-bite* "Hissssss! Go away! Five more minutes."

-CQ


Y'all think I'm kidding? Take a close look at Archimedes Screw's profile:
http://www.atlasquest.com/people/profile.html?gMemberId=1168

I had nothing, I repeat nothing, to do with that particular reptile!

Lisassssssssssscenic


Yes, being a Cape Codder, the largest snakes I have run into are garter snakes. So I fearlessly pick up the rock and see several reptilian coils. I quickly dropped the rock and immediately thought, "oh, I hope I didn't hurt him."

Sadly, we kept poking around for the box for quite some time trying to not further disturb the snake.
Re: Difficulty rating
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Reply to: #21057 by Mn8X
May 1, 2006 2:50pm
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I put this together this rating tool a couple of years ago, based on the system used by geocachers (modified to suit letterboxing), but it never really got any traction:
http://www.letterboxing.info/rating/

I think most people find such ratings too subjective to be useful, even when there are quantifiable criteria.

SD