Letterboxes

[Wandering_Man]

I'm heading home this weekend to Guelph for the holidays and I hope to do a little bit of caching while I'm down there. One thing I noticed was that there is a TON of letterbox caches around my dads place. What I'm wondering is do I need to have a stamp in order to do these (or any other specialty items)? Or can I simply treat them like a standard cache and just sign the log in pen?

I'm defering to all you NWOG experts on the subject. 

[ChrisDom]

You should bring a stamp (you can make one out of an eraser) and a pad of paper to collect the stamp in the cache.
I'm sure if you don't stamp the cache pad that you can still claim the cache.

[hunter-killer]

There are letter box caches and letter box hybrid caches, 2 different animals. Letter box caches require a stamp, and can only be logged through letterboxing.com. They are not visible on geocaching.com. There is one we discovered near the Poohmas water north water south cache but could not log it through geocaching.com. Letter box hybrid  caches on the other hand are viewable on both letterboxing.com and geocaching.com and can be claimed as a find for us who do not letterbox.  Sign the log, claim the find ,but if you own or make a stamp then by all means use it.

[Wandering_Man]

Thanks guys. These ones are letterbox hybrids so I guess that means I will have no problem logging them as finds on GC.com. Should give me lots to do if I find some free time while I'm home.

[Mechman]

I am wondering if anyone out there has been letterboxing in a while?  We took the kids to Terry Fox to get that one, and found it pretty easily, but we were the first stamps in the new book that was replaces in June of last year!!!  We found Shroom & DNF's (where ya been guy...long time no see!!) next, and since we had more time went down to the marina to get the 1st one in the series of 4, but couldn't find it.  Anyone seen that one?

How do we report a missing letterbox???

Mech

[shroomAzoom]

On the letterboxing.org site, if you go to a particular letterbox listing, you can contact the hider/owner there. I'd guess that's the only way to report a missing letterbox. It seems that letterboxing is much more of a grassroots and owner-operated kind of pursuit.

[Hunters-5]

Happened to notice this article today in The Star - going mainstream!

http://www.thestar.com/article/837630--letterboxing-a-different-type-of-treasure-hunt

[Juicepig]

you don't HAVE to stamp yourself in with a custom stamp.

My stamp broke long ago, so with letterboxes I just draw a picture in the log book