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FourWinds F
FourWinds Oct 3, 2005 07:18:00
Replying to Lubin

I believe letterboxing is slightly different or at least it's supposed to be. The original idea of letterboxing was to find a container and post your calling card.

With non-virtual geo caches the idea if to find a tupperware box (or old army ammo box or similar) full of tat, take one piece of said tat and leave a piece a piece yourself for someone else to take. There is also a book there to say when you found the cache, what you took and what you left. Some items are marked so that people take them to another cache and report on a web site where they took it. Folks then like to watch their item move around the world.

Now many call leaving a plastic box full of tat in the countryside geo caching. Many call it littering.

M Mr Hamhead
Mr Hamhead Oct 3, 2005 09:24:16
Replying to FourWinds

I went letter boxing once........

.....spoilt a good walk!

Never seen a geocache but the letterboxes tend to be small tupperware boxes with a notepad and a rubber stamp in. You stamp the note pad with your stamp and stamp your note pad with the stamp in the box...what fun!

They tend to hide them under rocks or in cracks...and after a while you know where to find them.

Despite my feelings about spending all day walking around a square mile of moor sticking your hand in damp crevises, the "hobby" does teach people map reading skills..and gets them outside away from the TV.

But surely there's more to life.....

:0)

Mr H