Travelling log book/letterbox

[rtrezrsnhvn]

I consider our family to still be newbies in comparison to many of you, so forgive my ignorance as I ask this question, but I need clarification/help.

While we were away, I received some strange logs about people signing one of our cache logs twice because they found two logs. The boys and I made a run to the park tonight to see what was up and hidden next to (actually not so hidden) was a plastic bag with a homemade stamp and log book. The log has travelled from Ohio and I’m guessing it came to Oshkosh via EAA. It was dropped at a local cemetery and then a new cacher in town (9 found) must have taken it and then placed it with our cache (not in, but next to). I’ve been getting logs about a second log, so it prompted my search.

Is there a new trend for these travelling logs? I’ve looked on gc.com and can’t locate the owner. I think I’ll try the letterboxing site too.

It’s messing up my cache as finders are confused (me too.) No travel bug markings or trackables, just a notebook, stamp, and tissue for the stamp.

Any thoughts on how I should handle it? I was trying to find the owner to ask his/her thoughts on moving it forward, but can’t locate them so far. (The log and stamp are actually done quite nicely, but no markings for identification that make sense to me right now. One of the markings is H.H.???)

Any one else seen or experienced these?

Thanks,

Mrs. RT

[rtrezrsnhvn]

ok, found the answer to part of it… it’s a hitch hiker (letterboxing traveller). It’s not logged on the site though. so now what do I do with it?

[cheezehead]

I’d say pull it. There no contact info or any info. Maybe try to email the 9 yr old and ask him where he got it.

[cheezehead]

@rtrezrsnhvn wrote:

ok, found the answer to part of it… it’s a hitch hiker (letterboxing traveller). It’s not logged on the site though. so now what do I do with it?

Find another letter box and drop it in that. and not a GC-hybryd.

[rtrezrsnhvn]

It looks like there are a few letterboxes here in town and this finder picked it up from there and for some reason picked our cache to drop it. I’m not up for tracking down letterboxes in cemeteries right now. I just joined the lb site and there’s no record of the hitch hiker, but the cacher that left it visited the cemetery that is logged as the last lb.

Maybe I should contact her to see if she wants another chance to put it someplace else not gc related.

[Mister Greenthumb]

Letter Boxers have no guidelines for hiding their boxes nor do they seek permission. We have found several within a few feet of geocaches. I hid a cache on the IAT in winter and when a little of the snow melted geocachers found 2 letterboxes within a few feet of my cache. That’s how close together they place them. I’m in Waukesha County and we have to apply for permits for caches placed in County Parks. Letterboxers just go and place them. In one park where I have 10 hides a letterboxer sent me an e-mail and wanted to know where all of my caches were so she could keep her letterboxes at least 100′ from my caches. I’m not sure whatever transpired after I sent a copy of her e-mail to the county parks.

[Timberline Echoes]

Have you looked on http://atlasquest.com.

At the front of the log book there should be some info, either name of the hitchhiker or an addy for contacting the owner. Usually inside cover or fist page.
Hth,
TE

[rtrezrsnhvn]

@Timberline Echoes wrote:

Have you looked on http://atlasquest.com.

At the front of the log book there should be some info, either name of the hitchhiker or an addy for contacting the owner. Usually inside cover or fist page.
Hth,
TE

The cover had HH Too-Lips (the stamp is a tulip) with a name of the placer, but no address, other than a city in Ohio. The placer name is listed on the letterboxing site, but no record of the hh. I will look on atlasquest too.

Thanks for the info.

[rtrezrsnhvn]

Thanx TE – that is where the info is listed. I will contact the owner.

[rtrezrsnhvn]

So another example of how God reveals things in his own infinitely wise way… the atlasquest site helped me learn that there is a letterbox within the park I’m talking about. It’s not listed on LBNa (or I did not see it last night), but it comes up on Atlasquest. I’m doing a treasure hunt in that park with Scouts next week and probably would have had one stumble on it….

Thanks for the help!

[gotta run]

Yes, please just drop it in a regular letterbox from the atlasquest or letterboxing.org sites.

Not all hitchhikers are logged online. There is no tracking number like a bug. They pretty much just get released into the wild never to be seen again.

It’s always funny reading comments from geocachers disparaging letterboxers in these and other forums…you shoud hear what letterboxers have to say about geocachers in their forums! :wow:

On the Left Side of the Road...

[Mister Greenthumb]

@gotta run wrote:

Yes, please just drop it in a regular letterbox from the atlasquest or letterboxing.org sites.

Not all hitchhikers are logged online. There is no tracking number like a bug. They pretty much just get released into the wild never to be seen again.

It’s always funny reading comments from geocachers disparaging letterboxers in these and other forums…you shoud hear what letterboxers have to say about geocachers in their forums! :wow:

A letterboxer gave us her pathtag. It says “we don’t need no stinkin’ gps’s”

[gotta run]

Geocachers complain that letterboxers put their boxes on top of caches. Letterboxers complain that cachers put their caches on top of boxes. Maybe it’s just that neither group really looks for other stuff out there before they use a great spot!

And yes, letterboxers think that geocachers trample the woods, can’t find their way out of a paper bag without a GPSr, and place crappy caches every .1 mile, and steal stamps from letterboxes they find thinking that they are swag. The last one is unfortunately true.

One of the favorite things that some letterboxers like to do when they come across a geocache is to turn it into an unoffical letterbox by using a random piece of swag in the cache, inking it up, and stamping their book with it. I, of course, have never done this, although I hear that Hot Wheels tires make pretty cool stamp impressions when rolled across a page.

On the Left Side of the Road...

[rtrezrsnhvn]

@gotta run wrote:

Geocachers complain that letterboxers put their boxes on top of caches. Letterboxers complain that cachers put their caches on top of boxes. Maybe it’s just that neither group really looks for other stuff out there before they use a great spot!

And yes, letterboxers think that geocachers trample the woods, can’t find their way out of a paper bag without a GPSr, and place crappy caches every .1 mile, and steal stamps from letterboxes they find thinking that they are swag. The last one is unfortunately true.

One of the favorite things that some letterboxers like to do when they come across a geocache is to turn it into an unoffical letterbox by using a random piece of swag in the cache, inking it up, and stamping their book with it. I, of course, have never done this, although I hear that Hot Wheels tires make pretty cool stamp impressions when rolled across a page.

so the crafty side of me thinks this is cool, the mom in me would be pretty ticked if my 4 yr old had inky fingers from it……

[Timberline Echoes]

We are a cross breed and do both. No animosity for either group. Unless there is one who does not play nice in the sandbox.
TE

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