Letterboxing

My favorite hobby these days is Letterboxing.  Basically, it's an outdoor treasure hunt.  It started in England a long time ago, and has just gotten popular here in the states.  People plant letterboxes anywhere outdoors, and the clues are posted on the internet.  The best resource for finding clues is the LbNA website.  You go to the website, print out the clues, and go to the location (state park, nature preserve, etc.)  You bring a compass, a map of the area, the clues, your logbook, and a stamp.  When you find the letterbox, it also has a logbook and a stamp.  You use your own stamp to mark the letterbox's logbook, and put the letterbox's stamp in your own logbook.  So, you trade stamps.  Store-bought stamps are okay, but making your own stamps is more fun.  That's it!

This is my signature stamp:

I hunted for other people's letterboxes for about two months before I decided to try planting them myself.  I planted my first letterboxes on 31 December 2001.  

I also planted a hitchhiker, The Sockeye Salmon.  

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