That was awesome! Thank you for the morning laugh!

Florida Sunsets

Like Eidolon said, Excel just doesn't do cells with hyperlinks and other content together.

But, you can use Word to add that to Excel, outlined here. It takes some work to make it look like it belongs, so it may not be worth it. You'll probably be better off entering the text in a new cell.

I rarely post here, although I always follow the scout board...this is a really good topic and how you go about that letterboxing activity can have a distinct impact on how letterboxers and scouts (who I think are very similar in natures) co-exist.

First of all, BALOO is Basic Adult Leader Outdoor Orientation training. Before a pack can go camping, they must have a BALOO-trained person. My pack has 7. The training covers safety, cooking, equipment, how to do a good campfire program, campout planning, and goes over council guidelines for camping (every council has the authority to make local requirements more stringent than national standards, so be sure you know your council rules, and as someone said, turn in that tour permit!). If done properly, BALOO training is a ton of fun and one of the most informative trainings you will ever go to. My husband is the district BALOO trainer and I'm on staff for it, and I'm also a Cubmaster that camps her pack alot. Not only do I encourage leaders to go to BALOO, but I encourage parents who are new to camping to go to because of all the material it covers that would be helpful to new campers.

As far as letterboxing with scouts, I've done it at a pack level and I've done it at a district level. In the pack (and actually, in my son's den when he was younger), we did it on a campout first and then took it further. Someone recently asked me privately about how I did it, and this is what I wrote to her:

I began working with Cub Scouts and letterboxing before the GS High Tech Hide and Seek was on the streets. I started when they were 7 and hid some boxes for them to find on a campout. There were four boxes and they went out in parent/boy pairs. My daughter (then 16) and I pre-hid the boxes, then we roamed as they searched in case anyone had problems. Rather than stamps, we used stickers, and they signed the books instead of stamping in. The key was to teach them navigation skills. They loved it! At the next campout several months later, I let them help me hide a box and then we wrote the clues together (let me tell you - it is an education to write clues with a group of 8 year olds!). We did this on every outing we went on that year. That was also the year they learned about knife safety and became eligible to use knives at CS events. The next year they were Webelos - 9 year olds - and I taught them to carve stamps as part of their Artist activity badge. It was about that time that I planted a series especially for Cub Scouts, so we went out and found that series. (It was also about that time that girls in my area started hearing about Hi Tech H&S, and I set up a GS series.) I also turned the boys loose with clues to some of my boxes and invited them to find them on their own with their families, or sometimes when I had a few of them along with me we went and found them together. By then, I knew they understood the gist of the game and knew the important things about being responsible letterboxers, so (with permission from the placers) I took them out and we found some live letterboxes that weren't by me. At that point, some of the boys took off on their own and others dropped it because it wasn't their thing. I let the boys dictate how much involvement they had, and if they were interested they knew they could come to me for more information, and when they did that, I gave them the websites and maybe showed them how to use the websites, then turned them loose. Two of the boys are avid letterboxers, two others would be if they could go more.

I firmly believe that because of the slow deliberate way I introduced them to letterboxing, they learned to be excellent letterboxers and they developed outstanding scouting and outdoor skills.

We also did a letterboxing event at a district campout (150 boys and their dads). Letterboxers, scouters, and I all carved some 200 stamps and let the boys pick a signature stamp for themselves and their dad from the ones we carved. They were given clues and logbook pages first thing in the morning so they could start looking for boxes, and they actually made the logbook in Arts and Crafts, learned how to use a compass in a Compass class, and in my class I gave them history of letterboxing, tips and tricks, and gave them free time to go out to find letterboxes. I had planted 14 boxes, handed out clues to 13, and if they found all 13 they came back to me for the clues (verbal only) to the 14th. It was a great event and whenever the boys see me they call me the letterbox lady. After that event was over, I took the boxes back up and am in the process of replanting them in the wild, with the boys' log entries at the back of the logbooks so that letterboxers can see what we did, but I'm planting them in the surrounding counties outside of my district so that the boys who participated and are now trying their hands at letterboxing don't have to find the same boxes again.

So - that's my .02,

BarefootLucy
"It's not about footwear, it's about philosophy"

American History. DOn't get me wrong, I love American History, but in hgh school I had the worst teacher. He spent more time flirting with all the girls in class than actually teaching anything.

Florida Sunsets

I might also mention that the boys should have their whittling chips before using carving tools or other sharp instruments. That could become a liability issue...

ME, ME!!!

Looks like it could be a nice addition to letterboxing, or help point you to places to place letterboxes. Especially if you are one of those boxers who are all about the journey. :)

http://www.waymarking.com/

Enjoy!
Liz

Come and get it! The new box of the month is here. Special guest: Teacup-all the way from snowy Maine!

Box On!

I have cells that are hyperlinked BUT I can't hyperlink individual words in a specific cell. That is what I was trying to do. Thanks! Mtn. Wizard

I realize there is a big problem with coffin size here.

I think it could be Hurley. He seems like he is going to betray everyone and tell more than he should, hence the no-shows at the wake. It seems he doesn't really know anyone besides the Losties (at least people who are visible to everyone.) I don't know, I thought of it watching the finale a few days ago and it's been bugging me. I hope I'm wrong.

The Ground Hog is poised to look for his shadow. Will there be an early spring or six more weeks of winter? Will the Ground Hog even live to see his shadow?

Stop by and see for yourself, thru the end of Feb!

Connfederate, Shady Lady and Jack of All Blades

English my sophomore year. I loves English as a whole but my teacher that semester thought she was a medieval goddess and that was tough to take. She was very strict and when we had to stand up in front of the class and recite ALL of "to be or not to be" without pausing in an incorrect place or skipping or mispronouncing a word or without perfect fluidity we were instantly marked down a grade. NOBODY passed that "test" not even our class valedictorian! Most of us knew we were going to get an F anyway so we didn't even bother to learn it all. The rest of the semester in that class went the same way...I did manage to pass it though : )
I did love gym....if you played a school sport you didn't have to take gym and you got an automatic A for that semester. Easy enough, I did indoor track, outdoor track and badminton all through high school so I never had to take gym...just health class.

I agree--I can see lots of potential for locating great places for boxes--I did a quick area search and discovered lots of cool places that I had no idea were just down the street! One house that I drive by nearly everyday was a station on the Underground Railroad!

THanks for the link!

Mama Stork, who hopes to have a few boxes planted soon as the weather dries out and warms up!

I had a tracker going for a ring that I was doing. My stamp came home and I prematurely retired the tracker so I could list it as a single. Now there was one lone stamp flying around that just made it to me as its last stop before I send it to the owner. Can I unretire the tracker so I can log it as found? Did I make it so no one else on the list could see the tracker anymore?

Help please??

crazyolis

What is/was your least favorite class in Middle/high school?

Driver's Ed. Not because of the subject, but because of the teacher. I went to a smaller school which didn't carry the course, so we had to go to one of the larger high schools. The teacher was completely creepy. I was really impressed by the fact that the guys in the class recognized it and worked it out so that one of them would always be with us when we had to do our driving time with the teacher. They always walked us out to our cars when the class was done and made sure none of the girls was last to leave.
Most kids are excited about Driver's Ed because it means they finally get their license. We were glad to get our licenses too, but also glad to get away from Mr. Sullivan.

S

When you retire a tracker, it will not show up in anyone's logbooks anymore. But you can unretire it. Just use the Simple Search at the top of the page to find the tracker and change the status. You can also still log that one box as found from the box listing.

S

There is also many letterboxing patches, I am getting my den one of them after our next letterboxing treck!
~littlmoon

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Come and get it! The new box of the month is here. Special guest: Teacup-all the way from snowy Maine!

So...Teacup is wather weary of crossing borders, but she will allow her box to do so. Kind of funny...


Ray
Happydaze

Someone posted not too long ago about sending a package (empty box) postage paid so that the receiver could put relinquish any PLBs they were holding hostage

Does this sound familiar? Does anyone know how it works?

Pasta Mom

I loved my high school gym class! It was very educational.

During ping-pong I learned how to hit moving targets. (Our gymnasium had a balcony. The ping-pong tables were set up up there. While half the class was playing ping-pong the other half was on the main floor playing basketball. We got really good at hitting people in the head with the ping-pong balls.)

During tennis I honed my skills at hitting moving targets yet again. (A well timed lob over the fence would stop traffic every time!)

During golf I learned how to make a fire during a rain storm. (It helps if you have a couple boyscouts in your group.) And I learned to never accept golf cart rides from little old ladies.
(They seem to be a bad judge of how far away swollen creeks are which result in having to make a very acute angle to cross the little wooden bridge!)

During archery I learned how to immobilize a person from the waist up using only a jean jacket. (You gotta love all those buttons on the wrists and around the waist!)

And all of this was learned without the help of a teacher! Go figure...

I have some of this dark grey stuff called Softoleum. It's very soft, and I think it would be great for a kid to learn to carve on. One of the neat things about it is that it has a thin dark skin, so you can see exactly where you've carved vs where you haven't.

It's not great for getting fine detail, and it needs to be conditioned with permanent marker to get a good impression, but my son (8) uses it with considerable success. It's also really cheap and comes in a big 12x12 sheet.

I would recommend using a gouge with it rather than a knife.

Here's a link:
http://www.enasco.com/artsandcrafts/Printmaking/Block+Printing/Nasco+&%238220%3BSoftoleum&%238221%3B/

I just recently found a box that had directions starting from a waymark in a sculputure garden. Today, I am putting together a box to start from another waymark.

Magical Music Man

oooooooh well thats a twist i did not look at. What to think ! Hurry thursday please.............................
Alice

Ah, school memories ...

I loved all my classes except the science courses. Absolutely rotten, incompetent teachers throughout high school. And I hated Speech class.

We had fun playing tricks on the less-than-observant teachers. Our algebra teacher would have about a dozen equations written on the blackboards around the room before every class. On numerous occasions we would slyly change a minus-sign to a plus-sign, and square the variables and numbers. It was fun to see the teacher scratch his head a few times to see where he made the math error, and then realize that the original equation wasn't written accurately.

Lightnin Bug is all into waymarking these days. He has the website listed on his AQ profile. It was fun to look at his waymarking profile& see a few places I know from going boxing up there! ;-)

Sheba

Thank You!! I have been going nuts trying to figure that out!

TONS of snow here -- wow. Got to love the lake effect!

There are many, many hotels in Grand Rapids... and at least 3 of them are close by the museum.

Call the museum -- they would be happy to point you in the right direction.

If you do it through a UPS store, then you will only get charged the return shipping if the person actually mails the box.
If you can, try to estimate (from their logbook) how many PLBs they might have in their possession. That should help you figure out the size of the box to send. Get your mailing and return addresses ready and then the clerk at the UPS store should be able to help you with the rest.
Just remember to keep the tone of any note you send kind and non-accusing. Otherwise, you will not likely see any of the packages again.

Good luck!
S

Oh, but I think that's a brilliant idea! And just think what curious posts you might inspire.

Senior year biology was bad because I had to dissect a cat. I cried the whole week in class.