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Your email address, however, is how you reset your password if you forget it, so you might get yourself locked out of your account if you provide a fake one then forget it (or your password).

Sorry for the inconvenience!

Letterboxing is an intriguing “treasure hunt” style outdoor activity. Letterboxers hide small, weatherproof boxes in publicly-accessible places (like parks) and post clues to finding the box online on one of several Web sites. However, clues to finding some of the most highly-sought boxes are passed around by word of mouth.

There are about 60,000 active letterboxes listed on LbNA alone. Individual letterboxes usually contain a log book, an often hand-carved rubber stamp and occasionally contain an ink pad. Finders make an imprint of the letterbox’s stamp on their personal log book, and leave an imprint of their personal stamp on the letterbox’s logbook.

1. Between the Bay and the Gulf Bradenton Beach, FL
2. GS Brownies Troop 62212 cromwell, CT
3. TMB11 - Texans Finish Day Chamonix, INT
4. TMB10 - Ladder View Day Chamonix, INT
5. TMB9 - Swiss Cheese Day Tre Le Champ, INT
6. TMB8 - Variant Day Tre Le Champ, INT
7. TMB7 - Cow Bell Day Champex Lac, INT
8. TMB6 - Hungry Day Courmayeur, INT
9. TMB5 - Beer Day Courmayeur, INT
10. TMB4 - Marmot Day Courmayeur, INT
11. TMB3 - High Pass Day Les Contamines, INT
12. TMB2 - Suspension Day Les Houches, INT

More new letterboxes

1. Worldwide Maine- Mexico ???, ME
2. Luv Letters Morris, CT
3. Hans Litchfield, CT
4. Rainbow of White's Woods- updated Litchfield, CT (2/4)
5. Connecticut Yankee Litchfield, CT
6. Mjolnir Hebron, CT
7. Buck Fever Hebron, CT
8. Golden Block Brewery Silverton, CO
9. Worldwide Maine- Peru Peru, ME
10. Muffler Man Letterbox ???, ME
11. Snowshoe Thompson Kirkwood, CA
12. Fishing the West Fork Sorensens, CA (2/3)

Before rushing out and planting your first letterbox, find 10 or 20 so you have lots of ideas on how it’s done. [by halfencer]