We headed out today to do an Oregon Coast Quest – at the Wildwood Forest Trail on the north side of the lake. As far as the Quests go – this one has been the least exciting walk. The trail is basically a walk way that leads from some apartments to the lake. It is really muddy from over use with too much water – vandalism is apparent all over – even a large tree had been tried to be chopped down and caught on fire – and garbage thrown to the sides of the walk. Breath taking sadness.
However, as always, it was wonderful to walk through the woods with friends and the dog – the bird sounds, the forest sounds, the water sounds. It took us quite a while to find the quest – There are over 500 counted steps to the final prize – and who knows what size steps to take? But – we did find it. 🙂 Then we moved over to Regatta Park to look once more for the Quest Box that we couldn’t find there last month. This time Eagle Eye Nate found it – in a utility box like used for water companies. Our friend found a GeoCache container hanging in a tree while we were looking as well. We found a letterbox that I had the clues memorized – so – 4 Finds in all today. That should help my obsession a bit . . . .
Does anyone know what is growing on these trees?
I used to know the names of them, but I forgot. I have seen them painted on, carved, ink dyed. Beautiful. They were abundant during our walk very high into the trees.
Do you letterbox? Do you make your own stamps? We’d love to make better stamps, but are unable to get the rubber here in our small town. Maybe next time we go through Salem I’ll stop at Craft Warehouse or such. 🙂
Nate looking at Regatta Park – Jon Worn Out!
+Angie Wright
Pebblekeeper 
I am so intrigued by the idea of letterboxing and geocaching. I’ve got it in my mental to-do list for the fall.
We would love to go geocaching! We got a gps for Christmas but haven’t used it except for car traveling so far. This post has inspired me.
Looking forward to getting to know you from your blog and on the crew forum this year.
Tim from the Crew
I love your stamps! In fact I was going to take some pointers from you when you posted how to make them. I cheated and bought ours, but it’s not quite what I had in mind. We’ve enjoyed letterboxing and now I think we’d like to give geocaching a try. Thanks for linking up to FTF! Blessings!:)
We’ve enjoyed geocaching for years now, and letterboxing caught my interest around the same time I heard about geocaching – but there was almost nothing listed near us on the letterbox site. Didn’t know about the Atlas Quest site – I’ll have to hop over and check it out.
And I know just what you mean about how disruptive it is, trying to include kids who are not used to a homeschool lifestyle. During summer and holiday breaks, we have my niece while her mom is at work, and though we love her dearly, it can be such a huge distraction that it’s quite frustrating at times.
I so enjoyed doing this with Stanley in Bend…and was extremely disappointed when we moved and found out there is nothing going on in our area…I hope to start one here and maybe this will get the ball (or stamp :D) rolling!!
I have always wanted to go letterboxing. We bought a stamp and a notebook and everything…JUST NEED TO GO!!!!!
I just learned last year that there is a site called Atlas Quest. You can log on there for a MUCH better listing of boxes than just on Letterboxing.com. Atlas Quest has the user interface that allows you to report on missing clues/boxes – log on and tell when you’ve found one. We almost gave up letterboxing for going so many times without finding a box. The only times we have been skunked here in town is where it was obvious that the tides had taken a box away because they hid the box too close to the sea wall.
Go to , look for your city, – it even lets you plan a road trip, and it will mark out the letterboxes along the way. 🙂
I would really like to get into Letterboxing…I think connecting with others in this manner is very mysterious and stealth-like…