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Re: LBXX & LBXXV
Board: Event News and Planning
Reply to: #967613 by PI Joe
Oct 31, 2018 12:01pm
Exactly!!!!!
Just kidding. The poll is open to all and progressing nicely.....Alaska, really.......Rhode Island has a better chance than you!
PS - Vote early and vote often!!!!! Bribes will be accepted, as it shows your dedication to hosting this easy to put on event!
The Letterboxing Renegades
On vacations at our annual Renegade Retreat, so clues will be slow in
coming for a week or two!
Just kidding. The poll is open to all and progressing nicely.....Alaska, really.......Rhode Island has a better chance than you!
PS - Vote early and vote often!!!!! Bribes will be accepted, as it shows your dedication to hosting this easy to put on event!
The Letterboxing Renegades
On vacations at our annual Renegade Retreat, so clues will be slow in
coming for a week or two!
Re: LBXX & LBXXV
Board: Event News and Planning
Reply to: #967625 by Renegades
Oct 31, 2018 12:34pm
Oh come on, who doesn't enjoy a 3-4 day drive from the Canadian border to Anchorage to spend a weekend then drive back?!?
I hope we are at least ahead of North Dakota since we actually have more boxes here. And letterboxers too I suspect.
Re: LLBean Event
Board: Event News and Planning
Reply to: #967576 by Happy Daze
Oct 31, 2018 12:47pm
Don't forget the foot or two of fresh snow to hide white pouches in!
Re: Hanky Panky Hotline
Board: Letterbox Chatter
Reply to: #967535 by Hanky Panky Patrol
Oct 31, 2018 1:32pm
I resemble this remark!
In National Parks
Board: Letterbox Chatter
Oct 31, 2018 2:13pm
According to "The Letterboxer's Companion" by Randy Hall, letterboxes are against regulations to placed in National Parks. Yet, I have found them there and wonder if actually, I should ignore them if they are not legally supposed to be there. What do others say?
Re: Winter
Board: State: Alaska
Reply to: #967608 by Eidolon
Oct 31, 2018 2:25pm
I like that idea
Re: Winter
Board: State: Alaska
Reply to: #967618 by Trailhead Tessie
Oct 31, 2018 2:26pm
Micro spikes are those like yack tracks and such?
Exchanges
Board: Suggestion Box
Oct 31, 2018 2:57pm
Any way to see how many exchanges you have? The way it's lised now is a little bulky and hard to find someone in there. I wish you could look them up like you do with the find people page and there be a button to click to add them.... just a thought Ü
Re: Happy Cake Day christmas6
Board: Look at Me! Look At You!
Reply to: #967602 by Pitt Mom
Oct 31, 2018 3:24pm
Many happy returns of the day!
Re: Exchanges
Board: Suggestion Box
Reply to: #967643 by Warble and Crewel
Oct 31, 2018 3:41pm
Look at your profile for this: PFX Count
Across (the row) from this X= exchanges total number
Across (the row) from this X= exchanges total number
Re: Happy Cake Day christmas6
Board: Look at Me! Look At You!
Reply to: #967602 by Pitt Mom
Oct 31, 2018 4:33pm
Happy, happy day! You are a blessing to the LB community!
Re: In National Parks
Board: Letterbox Chatter
Reply to: #967637 by butterfly jane
Oct 31, 2018 4:33pm
I have heard that also. I am interested to see if anyone else has input. Good question!
Re: LLBean Event
Board: Event News and Planning
Reply to: #967628 by RIclimber
Oct 31, 2018 4:45pm
Re: In National Parks
Board: Letterbox Chatter
Reply to: #967637 by butterfly jane
Oct 31, 2018 5:05pm
When Randy wrote that book in 2004 that was true. Now there are policies that can allow for them to be planted.
Re: In National Parks
Board: Letterbox Chatter
Reply to: #967651 by Eidolon
Oct 31, 2018 5:27pm
Do you (or anyone) know what the polices are?
Letterboxers Christmas
Board: State: Maine
Oct 31, 2018 5:31pm
So we have received all but one stamp for our series we are doing. They are all stamped up and almost ready to plant.
Raffle items are still needed. The raffle scratch ticket basket is done with about $100 worth of scratch tickets.
Please signup for food so we have enough for everyone. There will be plenty of stamps to stamp up inside and outside of the event.
Remember items for toys for tots are new unwrapped items.
Event stamps are welcome as well.
We will also do an ornament swap if you are interested in that, just wrap the ornament.
Raffle items are still needed. The raffle scratch ticket basket is done with about $100 worth of scratch tickets.
Please signup for food so we have enough for everyone. There will be plenty of stamps to stamp up inside and outside of the event.
Remember items for toys for tots are new unwrapped items.
Event stamps are welcome as well.
We will also do an ornament swap if you are interested in that, just wrap the ornament.
Re: LBXX & LBXXV
Board: Event News and Planning
Reply to: #967625 by Renegades
Oct 31, 2018 5:35pm
Don't blame the Alaskans for that one. After an Alaskan wrote that L&B wouldn't happen in Alaska, I suggested having an event in Alaska (in August) and see who comes.
Re: LBXX & LBXXV
Board: Event News and Planning
Reply to: #967627 by Eidolon
Oct 31, 2018 5:37pm
Are you saying that there are no letterboxes to find in between? Where are the Canadians to refute that?
Re: In National Parks
Board: Letterbox Chatter
Reply to: #967652 by Oberon_Kenobi
Oct 31, 2018 5:44pm
Start here.
"Because of the diversity of GPSRA and the variations in the way they are (or can be) managed, the Service does not have a policy explicitly allowing or prohibiting any of these activities."
I stopped reading at that point since that answers the question that people always ask.
"Because of the diversity of GPSRA and the variations in the way they are (or can be) managed, the Service does not have a policy explicitly allowing or prohibiting any of these activities."
I stopped reading at that point since that answers the question that people always ask.
Re: Exchanges
Board: Suggestion Box
Reply to: #967643 by Warble and Crewel
Oct 31, 2018 6:31pm
You can also go to your logbook then click the little down arrow in the box under Action on the top left. Select Exchanges and you'll get a numbered list of all your exchanges that you can sort alphabetically, by newest, or by oldest. I hope I'm in your list. :)
Re: Live & Breathe
Board: State: Ohio
Reply to: #967622 by Sits N Knits
Oct 31, 2018 6:34pm
It definitely would be. I don't know how many active letterboxers are in that area, though.
Re: LBXX & LBXXV
Board: Event News and Planning
Reply to: #967655 by Oberon_Kenobi
Oct 31, 2018 6:36pm
Eh?
Re: In National Parks
Board: Letterbox Chatter
Reply to: #967656 by Eidolon
Oct 31, 2018 6:50pm
Hate i didnt know this in June! Went from Alabama to Wyoming & through a lot of National Parks & Forests.
Oh well, ready for next year!
Oh well, ready for next year!
Re: In National Parks
Board: Letterbox Chatter
Reply to: #967656 by Eidolon
Oct 31, 2018 7:32pm
From the NPS link:
So the answer to the OP seems to be no, don’t automatically assume a letterbox in a National Forest is placed illegally.
So the answer to the OP seems to be no, don’t automatically assume a letterbox in a National Forest is placed illegally.
Re: Announcing: POWER PLANT challenge
Board: State: North Carolina
Reply to: #967623 by Penguin_Girl22
Oct 31, 2018 8:38pm
I'm in!
Re: In National Parks
Board: Letterbox Chatter
Reply to: #967663 by DarkZen and Evil Cow Pie
Oct 31, 2018 8:53pm
Actually this link and your quote only applies to National Parks. Department of the Interior.
National Forests are Department of Agriculture which has never had a ban.
But essentially it is like many other state and local parks, whether the box is allowed is officially up to the park manager, if you choose to ask them.
Re: In National Parks
Board: Letterbox Chatter
Reply to: #967637 by butterfly jane
Oct 31, 2018 10:06pm
As a general rule in my travels is I do not plant on NP property, though as some of you who have found my NP themed boxes they may be right over the boundary line (Zion, Bryce, Capitol reef, fossil butte) and some of those you have to drive through he NP to get to non-NP public land. I have found a few boxes on NP property but I doubt they were placed there with permission. Only one in CO, was at the visitor center and you had to ask a ranger. As eidolon said, you would need permission from the park manager otherwise.
I did not find this to be the same in Canada parks though.
I did not find this to be the same in Canada parks though.
Boxing suggestions Twin Cities
Board: State: Minnesota
Oct 31, 2018 10:17pm
I will be in Minneapolis in November. Looking for advice on good stamps in the area and closeby in Wisconsin. Any advice will be appreciated. IrishRef
Re: Happy Cake Day christmas6
Board: Look at Me! Look At You!
Reply to: #967648 by aMAZEing adventure frog
Oct 31, 2018 10:35pm
Happy cake day
Re: Exchanges
Board: Suggestion Box
Reply to: #967643 by Warble and Crewel
Oct 31, 2018 11:04pm
Besides all of the other good advice people suggested, I'd like to also answer this part of your question:
If you do look someone up with the 'find people' page and look at their profile, you'll find the "Add as Exchange" button near the top of the page, just under their name. You can also tell at a glance if you've done an exchange with someone already because if you have, it'll show an icon of a cup of coffee next to their name. (If you already exchanged with someone, you won't see a button to "add" an exchange--you already did the exchange!)
Happy trails!
-- Ryan
If you do look someone up with the 'find people' page and look at their profile, you'll find the "Add as Exchange" button near the top of the page, just under their name. You can also tell at a glance if you've done an exchange with someone already because if you have, it'll show an icon of a cup of coffee next to their name. (If you already exchanged with someone, you won't see a button to "add" an exchange--you already did the exchange!)
Happy trails!
-- Ryan