What is letter boxing and how do you do it?

Question

Basicly what is Letterboxing?

Answer 1

LETTERBOXING is an intriguing pastime combining navigational skills and rubber stamp artistry in a charming "treasure hunt" style outdoor quest. A wide variety of adventures can be found to suit all ages and experience levels.

Here's the basic idea: Someone hides a waterproof box somewhere (in a beautiful, interesting, or remote location) containing at least a logbook and a carved rubber stamp, and perhaps other goodies. The hider then usually writes directions to the box (called "clues" or "the map"), which can be straightforward, cryptic, or any degree in between. Often the clues involve map coordinates or compass bearings from landmarks, but they don't have to. Selecting a location and writing the clues is one aspect of the art.

Once the clues are written, hunters in possession of the clues attempt to find the box. In addition to the clue and any maps or tools needed to solve it, the hunter should carry at least a pencil, his personal rubber stamp, an inkpad, and his personal logbook. When the hunter successfully deciphers the clue and finds the box, he stamps the logbook in the box with his personal stamp, and stamps his personal logbook with the box's stamp. The box's logbook keeps a record of all its visitors, and the hunters keep a record of all the boxes they have found, in their personal logbooks.

There is a NewBoxers Group on Yahoo where No question is a dumb question. It might help to join if you are interested.

Have Fun! ~-~

Answer 2

The term is used for several different things.

One is in video, a wide format, which, if shown on a regular TV screen, either leaves black at the top and bottom or the screen or gets Zoom'd so both edges of the picture are cut off.

Another is a questing game. The URL for the North American letterboxing Frequently Asked Questions:

Answer 3

Letterboxing is a fun sport. People hide stuff and you use clues to go and find it. It will have a rubber stamp that you use to mark a logbook that you carry, and you can carry a rubber stamp to mark theirs.

http://www.letterboxing.org is their site.

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