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Stickers, punches, dollar store stamps, or nothing, it doesn't really matter. The LBH cache type floundered and turned in to a puzzle/mystery cache for those who want another icon. I don't think Groundspeak understood the history and importance of a one-of-a-kind stamp when they introduced the category to try to persuade the letterboxers to join. That was the point, the unique stamps proved you found a particular box. In true letterboxing fashion as it began in Dartmoor England, when stamps were introduced, they custom made their rubberstamps. No one cares about creating a unique stamp to identify the cache/letterbox. Maybe a punch, like a sticker, or signing, can be an alternate method of logging, if that punch is unique enough to verify the find (if needed).īecause a happy face stamp from Michael's is so unique.Īnd that's why it's so ridiculous to have a separate LBH category, there's no point to it except as a way to get another icon. The cache can be logged without using the stamp.' 'The container for a Letterbox Hybrid must include a stamp, which stays with the geocache and may be used by letter-boxers to stamp their personal letter-boxing book. But I agree, on this site, there's nothing saying a 'punch' is a stamp replacement. If someone can find info saying a punch is the same as a stamp in any letterboxing site, I'd like to see a link to it. I have no desire to be included on a leader board as I dislike the competition that it implies and I suspect there isn't a way to opt-out if I happen to be in one of the parks and find a qualifying cache.

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Over in a CNY Geocachers FB group someone is frequently posting a 'leader board' indicating how many caches in the series various caches have found. I have not found any of the CNY Parks 'challenge' caches and do not intend to.

These sort of GeoTours have become somewhat common where one has to stamp a passport to get a coin, and stamps probably go missing more often than those in a Letterbox unless some sort of method of securing the stamp to the container is employed. Within days of the placement of these caches many of the stamps went missing (Took Stamp, Left Golfball). There is also a Central New Yorks Parks series where one can find 40 caches (there are 60-70 qualifying caches) in various parks in CNY and, using a stamp in the cache, stamp a 'passport' to obtain a geocoin. If you don't secure the stamp to the cache, someone will eventually think it's swag and steal it. They also plan to add support for more than one set of saved letterboxes.The container for a Letterbox Hybrid must include a stamp, which stays with the geocache and may be used by letter-boxers to stamp their personal letter-boxing book.

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The Clue Tracker authors do plan some improvements regarding this issue in the future, however, and will eventually allow offline clue reading for all clues. If you save a clue from Letterboxing North America, whether the clue text is saved locally or not depends on how the person entered the clue on LbNA. If you save a clue that is from Atlas Quest, Clue Tracker saves the clue text for offline use. Once you save several letterboxes, you can display all of them on one map. You can also save the letterbox by touching the backback. Once you choose a letterbox to find, touch the map to show where the box is located or to get directions to the box.

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You can search for boxes near your location, by address or zip code or by box name. I have since found a second one called Clue Tracker.Ĭlue Tracker will allow you to search for letterboxes through Atlas Quest or Letterboxing North America (LbNA), the two major letterboxing websites. I recently reviewed BoxFinder, an app for letterboxing clues. Letterboxing, however, the old fashioned analog version of geocaching, has usually been a pen-and-paper kind of activity. Geocaching tends to have quite a few electronic helpers, based on the fact that it's an electronic sport.

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