| | MY LETTERBOXING ACTIVITIES |
Letterboxing is an international outdoor recreational activity. Basically, small boxes are hidden in the great outdoors, and clues to finding boxes located in North America are posted to the "Letterboxing North America" or "Atlas Quest: International Letterboxing" websites. The boxes contain a rubberstamp and a logbook.
Those trying to find the boxes have their own stamp and logbook. When the box is found, the finders stamp their logbook with the stamp from the box, and then stamp the logbook in the box with their personal stamp and write a brief message. The box is then hidden away again. The wonderful thing about letterboxing is that it takes you to places you may not otherwise visit!
Go to the Letterboxing North America or Atlas Quest: International Letterboxing websites for additional information. The book "The Letterboxer's Companion" gives a nice introduction to the activity.
My letterboxing trail name (nickname or handle) is "Azroadie".
The letterboxes are listed in chronological order by the date I found them:
| 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 |
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This is the signature stamp I use to stamp the logbooks in the letterboxes:
This is my old stamp (used from October 2003 to February 2006):
See the travel history for my hitchhikers:
I am offering an award for finding one of my letterboxes in each of Arizona's 15 counties. Go here for information, instructions, and application form:
| Arizona 15 Letterboxing Award |
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Letterboxing Southwest is a discussion group for letterboxing in the American Southwest, primarily Arizona and New Mexico. The group is intended for general communication and chit chat, sharing of stories, ideas, news, advice, carvings and clues related to letterboxing, particularly as it pertains to letterboxing in the southwestern US. You may elect to have the messages mailed to your personal e-mail account or read them on the website. Go here for the group's website and to join:
| Letterboxing Southwest Discussion Group |
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If you have a website wholly or partially about Letterboxing, you are invited to join the "Letterboxing Webring". Go here for information about this webring and to join it:
| Letterboxing Webring |
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If you have a website focusing on Letterboxing mainly in North America, you are invited to join the "Letterboxing North America WebRing". Go here for information about this webring and to join it:
| Letterboxing North America WebRing |
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If you have a website about Letterboxing, you are invited to join the "Top Letterboxing Sites". Go here for information about this "top sites" and to join it:
| Top Letterboxing Sites |
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The 6th Annual Tucson, Arizona, Letterboxers Gathering will take place on February 7, 2010, 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM. All letterboxers are invited. The event will be held at the Group Site in the Molino Basin Campground in the Coronado National Forest, on the Catalina Highway a little northeast of Tucson, Arizona. We are trying this location again and hope the weather will be better this time! New letterboxes will be placed for this event. Also, bring your own new boxes to plant. This is a large low mountainous area covered with grass and shrubs and dotted with oak & mesquite trees. Lunch will be a potluck. Burritos will be provided and participants are asked to bring other foods to add to the meal. Bring your own drinks. This is a great opportunity to meet new letterboxers, do some exchanges, obtain a few travelers, and of course find new letterboxes. There are dozens of letterboxes in the Tucson area and many in this Catalina Hwy.-Mt. Lemmon region to find before, during, and after the event. This event is being held at the same time as the Tucson Gem & Mineral Show -- the world's largest gem & mineral show! Please be aware that motel rooms, as well as rental cars, are very difficult to find and expensive. If you are having a problem locating a room, you might try to the east in Benson or north to Casa Grande or even Phoenix. Camping is available at the group site where the gathering is being held starting at 2:00 PM Saturday at no extra charge. This is at an elevation of 4,500 ft., so it may be fairly cool in the morning -- dress accordingly!
Directions: from I-10 take exit 275, drive north on Houghton Road to the Catalina Highway, and turn right. After passing the large Coronado National Forest entrance sign, continue for 5.7 miles. The campground is between mile markers 5 and 6 and you will make a left turn. The National Forest requires a $5.00 day use pass for this area of the National Forest. However, you do not need it if you are driving directly to the gathering and parking in the group site. If you want to make additional stops in the National Forest, you will need to obtain the pass.
There will be a special event stamp for this gathering.
The organizers would appreciate a $5 donation per car to help defray the cost ($110) of reserving the group area.
If any of you local people have some firewood, please bring it for the campfire ring.
If by chance the Catalina Highway is closed on the day of the gathering at the base of the mountains due to a snow storm at the top of the mountains, we will not be able to drive to the Molino Basin Campground Group Site. If that happens, the gathering will be moved to the nearby McDonald Park, 4100 North Harrison Road.
Campground website: http://www.fs.fed.us/r3/coronado/forest/recreation/camping/sites/molino.shtml
Here is a list of letterboxes that have already been placed in the Catalina Highway/Mt. Lemmon area:
A Little Something by the Manzinita
A Long Walk
AZ Trail #5
AZ Trail #6
Babad Do'ag
Crotchity Critter
5th @ Molino
From Australia to Arizona Letterbox
Geology 101 Series - Gneiss
Geology 101 Series - Granite
Geology 101 Series - Schist
I Want S'Mores!
Lame Duc Visits Arizona
Mt. Lemmon Aspen
New England Sugar Shack
Peek a Boo Bear
Plain Plane
Soldier Trail
Sonoran Desert Animals 2009 Series
Sycamore Reservoir Trail Series
The Appaloosa
The Rocking V
Things Are Not Always As They Appear
SOME USEFUL LINKS
Vote for my site at Top Letterboxing Sites
This page maintained by Jack D. Mount
azroadie66@cox.net
Last updated: February 5, 2010
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