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08/17/2011 at 1:08 pm #1951872
I’ve never really understood the animosity either, although it seems to be one-way. These days, 90% of geocachers are completely unaware of LBing until they stumble on their first one.
08/17/2011 at 9:06 pm #1951873The animosity comes from geocahers coming across letterboxes near caches, taking the stamp and swapping in a McD toy. By and large this does not happen in the other direction because letterboxing does not involve taking stuff from boxes.
On the Left Side of the Road...08/18/2011 at 1:30 am #1951874@gotta run wrote:
The animosity comes from geocahers coming across letterboxes near caches, taking the stamp and swapping in a McD toy. By and large this does not happen in the other direction because letterboxing does not involve taking stuff from boxes.
I like the stamps. I just wish I’d remember to pack paper along so I can have a stamp imprint when I stumble across them in the field!!
Are there guidelines in place for putting out a letterbox or is it all free reign? I noticed UWGB has quite a few of them (5), yet caches aren’t allowed there….just curious.
What is a cacher/letterboxer owner to do if one is on top of the other or in very close proximity? Curious minds want to know!
08/18/2011 at 1:07 pm #1951875@AstroD-Team wrote:
Are there guidelines in place for putting out a letterbox or is it all free reign? I noticed UWGB has quite a few of them (5), yet caches aren’t allowed there….just curious.
What is a cacher/letterboxer owner to do if one is on top of the other or in very close proximity? Curious minds want to know!
UWGB asked us to archive caches in their Arboretum around 4 years ago. As I recall, they stumbled across a box (probably from a volunteer trail) and decided the world was ending because of a geocache. One more instance where taking time to get permission could have prevented a larger problem. It should be noted that we now have a geocaching policy in the UW Madison Arboretum, so maybe we can get them to adopt a similar policy there. Any locals willing to take the lead on this? I will be glad to help out with providing other policies and answering questions, etc., but I think we need a local face involved. (Note that there is no review policy for letterboxes on any of the sites.)
If there were a letterbox right on top of my geocache, I would move mine, if possible. The worst case I have encountered was “Two Ponds” in Johnson Creek. The letterbox was touching the geocache, essentially serving as camo. There is another case on the Glacial Drumlin trail (I don’t want to say which cache) where one is at the top of a steep embankment, while the other is at the bottom. Actual distance (not counting altitude) is around 20 feet.
08/18/2011 at 1:25 pm #1951876@AstroD-Team wrote:
@gotta run wrote:
The animosity comes from geocahers coming across letterboxes near caches, taking the stamp and swapping in a McD toy. By and large this does not happen in the other direction because letterboxing does not involve taking stuff from boxes.
I like the stamps. I just wish I’d remember to pack paper along so I can have a stamp imprint when I stumble across them in the field!!
Are there guidelines in place for putting out a letterbox or is it all free reign? I noticed UWGB has quite a few of them (5), yet caches aren’t allowed there….just curious.
What is a cacher/letterboxer owner to do if one is on top of the other or in very close proximity? Curious minds want to know!
After joining the atlasquest site, it looks like placement is just more commonsense vs. rules to follow. They do say you should seek permission and obey municipality guidelines, but there’s no enforcing group or reviewing group to see if this happens from what I can see in the introductory info. The original letterboxing site doesn’t even reference getting permission. It tells you how to make a letterbox, but not how to properly plant one.
In the case I started with, I did email the owner and the original cacher that placed it. Neither responded so far. My sons and I went to the park again yesterday for a picnic and playground time and found the letterbox so we know where it is. I will probably go back and place the log in it now that I know where it is. Was thinking of getting a stamp done and making our own logbook to keep in our gc bag. I’ve got at least one more shot to use it at Roche A Cri …..
I have learned alot this week!
08/18/2011 at 1:26 pm #1951877We Archived our “South Park-Under Old Glory” nano, since a letterbox was placed in the base of the flagpole. Kept getting strange and conflicting logs!
That may be the same park that started this thread, since RtrezrsNHvn adopted ours there.Oh, well… 😕
08/18/2011 at 1:32 pm #1951878@JimandLinda wrote:
We Archived our “South Park-Under Old Glory” nano, since a letterbox was placed in the base of the flagpole. Kept getting strange and conflicting logs!
That may be the same park that started this thread, since RtrezrsNHvn adopted ours there.Oh, well… 😕
Jim – I didn’t see another listed on the atlasquest site. I found another one in the park (closer to BakRdz’s Hornswaggled.).
and the conflicting logs on Under Cover is EXACTLY why I pulled the log book.
I think that park is ripe for letterboxes as it’s so big, but with the gc rules every corner is covered and one in the middle to stick with the .1 rule.
08/18/2011 at 11:07 pm #1951879@JimandLinda wrote:
We Archived our “South Park-Under Old Glory” nano, since a letterbox was placed in the base of the flagpole. Kept getting strange and conflicting logs!
That may be the same park that started this thread, since RtrezrsNHvn adopted ours there.Oh, well… 😕
I remember Duck and I finding the letterbox and realizing the size desription did not match the one on the cache page. Found the nano cache right after. 😀 Having dealt with one on top of another, I can see where it can be confusing and animosity can creep in.
08/19/2011 at 2:43 am #1951880There’s a cache in fish creek in door county that’s right next to a letterbox. At least it was when I found both the cache and the letterbox. It’s the only actual letterbox I ever found.
08/19/2011 at 3:28 am #1951881The last time I talked to UWGB I got nowhere.
The letterboxes there date to a class project from the early 1990s.
On the Left Side of the Road...08/19/2011 at 3:30 am #1951882@-cheeto- wrote:
There’s a cache in fish creek in door county that’s right next to a letterbox. At least it was when I found both the cache and the letterbox. It’s the only actual letterbox I ever found.
Sunset park? I think the LB is AWOL now.
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