Letterboxing

We were recently turned on to Letterboxing by some friends. If you've never heard of Letterboxing I'll give you the basic run down... Letterboxing is like geocaching only with rubber stamps. You have your own stamp and notebook. You look up locations on letterboxing.org and go find said letterbox where you will usually find a rubber stamp and notebook. You put your stamp (name and date optional) in their notebook and their stamp in your notebook. The locations can be hard to find with a code to decipher or easy to find with number of paces to step or easily understood clues within a clever story.

This is the beginning of our letterbox diary...

Our first Letterboxing adventure was fun. It was a story about a turtle that went to find

a spot to sun himself and at the spot where the story ends was supposed to be a stamp.

The story was fun, the hunt was a great break from the car but try as we might we could not find the stamp.

This one was in Spokane Valley, Washington.

So we hoped for a better find on the next hunt which ended up being on our way home on the last day of the trip.

In Missoula, Montana, there is a Smokejumper's Training Base and Visitor's Center.

Our clues led us to

the corner of a replica of a look-out tower.

What will we find?

We put this stamp in our books....

(The one we found here was a hand carved stamp of the parachute and wings. Very cool!)

... and put our stamps in this book with a note that said, "Grandson of a 25 year vet of a Wildland Firefighter."

More letterboxing stories to come!