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I've often thought about trying to get them to add a letterboxing merit badge. I agree with prior post - would have been nice if the badge had encompassed all geolocation forms! There can certainly be a tie in with map and compass for letterboxing - as well as hiking.

It's in this thread.

My three boxes have been replanted. The farm reopens for the pumpkin season tomorrow at 10:00. Check their sites for more information on the Sunflower Festival, Pumpkin Patch, and Fear the Woods. http://www.aboutyule.com/ and http://fearthewoods.com/ Thanks

If you do a tracker search, and choose "newest first", and "only open" trackers, it comes up with a list of current open trackers. Or are you looking for a postal ring?

I'm not reading you.

I just type what symbol I want: ° => °

I don't have the symbol on my keyboard to type? I know you know this but I can't figure out what you must mean.
Wait, when I sent my reply your message just changed the &deg to the degree symbol--so it's the & symbol that does it. When I tried &degree, however, it wouldn't work. I'm off to try &tilde and &umlaut.

Anyone can edit the help pages

I went to the wiki help page and can find nowhere that allows me to edit it?

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&umlaut

Well, that sure isn't what I had hoped.

And thank you for being my letterboxing spirit guide. And hiking guru. And friend. MUAH!

so it's the & symbol that does it.

That and the semicolon at the end. ° = ° Not "degree", just "deg". There's all sorts of useful symbols. You have to remember how they're abbreviated, but it's still a lot easier than remembering numbers! But they all start with a & and end with a ;.

Here are some others you can look through: http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_symbols.asp.

-- Ryan

On your home page activate the tracker widget. You set it for available postal trackers. They will show up as they become available. They often fill up really quickly.

Yes postals have gone through a revival in the last two years. Not sure how you are searching but I probably am signed up for 19 postal trackers. Some are winding down with others starting in the future. Once a tracker is full they are typically listed as closed even though they are active. It means they are closed to sign ups.

OK, I know there are some Douglas State Forest lovers in here. We're looking to plot out the boxes in the forest, and am looking for a map with the gate numbers on it. Anyone know where I could find one?

Also, are none of the trails blazed? The map I found on the DCR site isn't terribly helpful, as you can see.....

Any info would be greatly welcomed!
Thanks!
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... go to a vet supply or farm store and get the biggest hypodermic needle they have. It will work much better than a pointy piece of wire. (shiloh)

I have purchased wire knives from Stampeze in the past. (BBStacker)

What is the purpose/advantage of a wire knife?

Would grinding down and rounding off the backside of an X-acto 11 Knife?
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Ahhh, thanks! And right back at ya....MUAH!

I was really hoping to get out today and grab a single box to celebrate my 6th year of letterboxing. Didn't quite make it - but there's always tomorrow! And the day after that....

We'd love to have you join us! Rocklun and Southpaw visit UT.

I use your doc a lot, Arf, which is pretty sad, considering.

The DCR has been naming trails and putting up signs. Unfortunately, the map hasn't caught up to the newly named trails, which leads to some confusion. The ranger I asked (last year) didn't know when they'd come out with a new trail map.

Interesting! Hadn't seen that idea before. Dunno why it wouldn't work, but I suspect the effect would be somewhat different than a wire knife because you're still left with a long cutting edge here. If you cut the front of the X-acto #11 back to 1/8" away from the original back edge, it'd be closer to working the same as a wire knife. If you cut both the front and back down so what was left was a straight protrusion from the centerline of the handle out to a 1/8" cutting edge, that'd essentially be exactly what a wire knife is.

The odd thing is, I have a difficult time explaining the advantages of a wire knife myself -- and I invented the contraption. In theory, a dead stock X-Acto #11 should work just as well -- but it doesn't, at least not for me. Using a #11 feels like carving with a meat cleaver after I've been using my wire knife for a while.

When I devised the wire knife, I expected it to be a details-only tool, the cutter you drag outta the toolkit when you need to get the shine on that eye in the image just right. It came as a surprise to me that I use it for everything, even the long straight cuts along a rectangular border around an image. Just about the only thing I use a #11 for any more is slicing a big slab of rubber off a corner or a side.

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I'm new to letterboxing. From upstate ny

Welcome! I'm sure we'll run into each other one of these days.

YG

Congrats.

Cool! Where? I am near Binghamton.

The odd thing is, I have a difficult time explaining the advantages of a wire knife myself -- and I invented the contraption.

Think about it for a while. It will come to you out of the blue. Then you can tell us.

It came as a surprise to me that I use it for everything, even the long straight cuts along a rectangular border around an image.

I can't even get a straight line as straight as I want when I'm using a #11 blade. I use the straight edge to line up the point with the line by making the edge of the blade as close to parallel to the material as possible while still cutting. So, imaging the point in the material and very little distance between the cutting material and the edge of the blade. I line this up with the straight edge of the line I'm supposed to get but I still get some slight waviness. Am I just too picky, or can no one else carve as well as Kirbert?

I've seen an actual Kirbert stamp, not just the image, so I know I don't carve as well as he does. I've read his tutorials too. I just need more practice. I guess we all do.

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Welcome to the obsession!

Omg that's so much confetti. Thank youuu!