Wow - seems like a bunch of us in the Rocky region joined AQ on the same day six years ago!!
Anniversaries:
AutumnsFolly, 6
JeLyBean, 6
RavenWolf, 6
y nought, 6

Here's to six great years (and then some) of pirates, pie, and boxing the rockies! :)

Happy cake day to you all, and thanks for hours of clue solving, plating, finding, hiking, and friendship.

a.

Three other people that I have been extremely privileged to share the game with.

From the slopes of Mt. Doom, to Super Confidential mountain climbing with my dog, thanks guys for playing!

~RW
Humbled to know such magnificent people

Those of you you don't know about the Yahoo! Rocky Mountain chat list probably won't "get" this. But hey, it's worth a smile all by itself.

Marmot video

And if you haven't stopped by the Yahoo! list and poked around in the "way-back" machine, I know for a fact that you're missing out on clues, hints or both...but not in the usual way..

Just saying.......

Oh and my Hot Springs in Glenwood Springs, CO gets few visitors, though it has a wonderful view of landmark topic of the box, and a very good chance of spotting real marmots on the way to the box.

pre
encouraging nibbling, though not "eating" logbooks...

I love me some whistle pigs. They don't stop at biscuits either. They'll happily chew through the brakelines in your truck on a hot day...

Kurious Jo is in Missoula, Mt for the weekend and we'll be meeting up with them tomorrow night at 7:30pm for dinner at the Montana Club. (Saturday the 17th)

Montana Club
4561 N Reserve
Missoula, Mt

If you want my number to reach me about it, please PM me and I'll give it out. Hope to see you there-- I would also love to meet up with any local boxers!

I've had two consecutive attempts in 12 months time, so have marked this letterbox's status as 'unknown.' I do not live in the area and cannot check on it. If someone does find it, or a previous finder is in the area and can check on it for me, please notify me of your discoveries so I can keep the status correct and current.

Thanks!
BL47

9/11/10 - Tomorrow
There will be a memorial at 10:30am at Washington Park with Holly's family. Please see the email from TaiChi & ChaiTea on the Rocky Mountain LB Yahoo Group about that.

Also - the following events have been posted on AQ to honor Holly.

9/25/10
"Happy Trails Preboxed" - Gather at the home of TaiChi & ChaiTea from Noon to 4pm for a potluck and a coming together of the local boxing community. Friends from out of town are welcome indeed. They'll be sharing Pre's letterboxing stuff, and coordinating the adoption of her planted letterboxes
http://www.atlasquest.com/showinfo.html?gEventId=1853

4/1/2011 - Holly's Birthday
"Preboxed Memorial Urban Plant Day" SharkBoy and LavaGirl have coordinated this virtual event. Sign up and plant a sneaky urban box in Holly's honor.
http://www.atlasquest.com/showinfo.html?gEventId=1854

More news as I have it,
Kat / Autumnsfolly

There's a new girl in town. Keep an eye out for The I-80 Gypsy heading your way.

Yikes ... I fell off the map, so to speak. My premium membership even expired (blast!) - but that's all fixed now. What's going on RM Letterboxers? What's the news?

Happy belated bdays to Dixie Peach and Esmerelda! I caught up with you on Facebook, but wanted to say hey here!

Kat / AF

Hey all,
It's been awhile, but I wanted to remind everyone about the virutal event: Pre Memorial Urban Plant event which is on Holly's birthday 4/1/11.

Sneaky urban boxes are just the thicket, but really anything that has to do with jesters, foolishness, wordplay, or anything that reminds you of Preboxed would be grand. She would love it if we would all just "play", right? Personally, I'm going with something snarky. :-P

http://www.atlasquest.com/showinfo.html?gEventId=1854

There's the signup for the virual event.
Kat / AF

If any of you other rocky mountain-ers are going to be in the area, we would love to see you!

Spring time! Time to get out there and hit the trails!

But before you do, come meet some of your fellow boxers.

http://www.atlasquest.com/showinfo.html?gEventId=2069

I will be doing a carving workshop, and TaiChi will be showing us how to make letterbox pouches, and giving some tips on encryption.

Lots of newbies in the area this year - sign up! I'm looking forward to meeting you!

~RW

Agreed! I do not know a good, cheap RV Park (although you should try camping at Chatfield State Park one time), but we are excited to get a new team in town! We have some great boxes around here!

I'm cross-posting this to the Rocky Mountains board in the event that someone can set sail for the Denver Metro area!

http://www.atlasquest.com/showinfo.html?gEventId=2185

Arrrrr!

Thanks, lady!

~RW

Hi y'all,

If you have previously printed out the clues for "Carl Schurz" in Boulder, it's time to look at them again. I went back and found the sweet spot I wanted for that box -- no habitat erosion, much less traffic, and a beautiful view.

Happy trails!

QuickBrownFox and I will be in Denver to be with his family for Christmas.

We will be in town Dec. 19 - 25.

Is anybody around and not too busy sometime during Dec 19-22 to get together to meet and exchange?

Thanks!!

KuKu

Hey Kuku,
I live about 45 minutes from Denver. I'll be around and I'd love to see you again. :-)

Oh, hApPy DaNcE!!

I would love to see you again, too! And you could meet QuickBrownFox, a convert to letterboxing.

KuKu

Alaska hsm,

I also posted on the Rocky Mountain Region board and plans are percolating.

Have you seen those postings?

KuKu

I've posted in the "State: Colorado" board as well. It will be great to meet Colorado letterboxers, though I know that Christmas is a crazy time of year.

Quick Brown Fox.

I have a stamp of the state flower of South Dakota, with the word "South Dakota" below it on a ribbon. I was hoping to have it planted in South Dakota. If there's anyone out that way who'd be interested in planting it, please AQ mail me. Thanks!

We're a rather motley Welcome Wagon to be sure, but it seems like there are a LOT of new folks in our Colorado letterboxing community! New to the area, new to the hobby, it doesn't matter. We want to meet YOU!!! Inspired by the gracious Puppy Luv, who hosted a Summer Bash geared toward some "newbies" in her area, this event is geared not only to newbies, but to oldies who have transplanted themselves to our fair state.

Come, meet, exchange, trade stories, stamps, and create community!

We'll be meeting at our "old standby" the REI Flagship store in downtown Denver. There's a Starbucks inside that is a great place to gather, and several parks with letterboxes just a short walk away. Let's meet, grab a coffee, swap stamps, and get to know one another (or see friends we just dont see often enough!).

Event stamps are in the works ... and maybe even some fun surprises. Stay tuned! Here's the event - please say you'll come! :)
http://www.atlasquest.com/showinfo.html?gEventId=2953

Have you signed up yet?
http://www.atlasquest.com/showinfo.html?gEventId=3153

because OMG-its-a-car-rally-with-letterboxing!

Seriously folks.

Boxing. Car Rally. Denver.
Points. Prizes. Teams. Merry-making.
Fun will be had by all.

Boxes are being planted for the event.
Carvings by Angel and Demon, Ravenwolf, and Aljan Sundance. (you'll want these stamps, folks)

Plotting has occured.
Spots have been scouted.
Michief has been made.
Are you in??

Remember, this promises to be a super-cool, made of awesome-sauce with woo-hoo on top, your friends'll be jealous, event!
Hope to see you all there!

oh and p.s. event time and location have been updated!

Sounds truly AWESOME!
But I'll still be laid up recuperating with a new knee. Looking forward to the 2ND Annual Denver Road Rally in 2015 - when I will leave all of you in the dust.
Have a wonderful time!

BL47

and of course I totally forgot to say that the deadline to sign up for this awesome event is July 5th!!

Deadline to sign up for the 2014 Denver Car Rally: A Decade of Fun is Saturday, July 5th!

For those that have already signed up, please check the event page for details. Teams are encouraged to come up with AQ-themed, or #10-themed team names.

http://www.atlasquest.com/showinfo.html?gEventId=3153

Looks like so much fun! Won't be in town in time though.... :(

As we are both letterboxers (primarily) and geocachers, there was a list of new "letterboxing" hybrids listed on geocaching.com. Since we were in the area looking for letterboxes, we decided we would also find these new hybrid boxes which had a cute series starting with "A is for...". Imagine our disappointment when what we found was a magic marker type stamp with a letter cut into the top. There was not even a hint of having to put any thought into this. Just drop a magic marker in a box, mark the coordinates and that was that. If there are any other letterboxers out there that also geocache and think, Wow, what a great series, this is not it. The only thing we can think about is that this particular geocacher is only in it for the numbers and he didn't have any numbers in the letterboxing hybrid column and this was his way of getting more numbers. I have posted in the logs for these geocaches the message: "Letter + Box ╪ letterbox. (pls. refer to atlasquest.com)." So unless you need to go out for a walk anyway, I personally wouldn't waste my time on this.

Thank you for the heads up. I was going to go look for a few of them, but won't waste my time now.

FRH