Postcard Letterbox LbNA #75329
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Add Location| Owner: | Worlds Wolf
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| Plant date: | Feb 21, 2021 |
| Location: | Placitas Open Space |
| City: | Placitas |
| County: | Sandoval |
| State: | New Mexico |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Found by: | Not yet found! |
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| Last found: | N/A |
| Last edited: | Feb 23, 2021 |
This box celebrates letterboxing history and the world's first letterbox at Cranmere Pool in Dartmoor, England. Before the box contained a stamp for stamping into visitors' personal journals, it was a place where visitors could leave self-addressed postcards. The finders would write a letter to the previous finder about their adventures and maybe write something interesting, and then they put it in the mail. They would then leave a new self-addressed postcard for the next finder - hence the name "letterboxing."
To honor Cranmere pool, the theme of this letterbox is trading postcards. You can self-address a postcard and put a postage stamp on it if you would like to have the next finder write to you, or you may simply use the box as a place to trade postcards from your adventures or interesting places around the world.
If you take a postcard, please leave one in its place, so that there are always some in the box.
Additionally, this box celebrates the world's first Geocache-Letterbox hybrid, which was placed at this very same location on 1/15/2001 and lived until late 2018.
This box is cross-listed as a Geocache hybrid, number GC95Y2V. Please do not leave letterboxing hitchhikers in the box, so that they do not get mixed-up with geocache tradable items.
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DRIVING DIRECTIONS
This letterbox is located in the Placitas Open Space. The clue starts at the trailhead at the "West Access Gate." Directions and a map are located here.
Directions copied from this link:From I-25, take exit 242 to Placitas.
Go east on Hwy 165. Turn left onto Frontage Road for 1.5 miles.
Turn right onto Camino Manzano for 1.3 miles. Turn left onto Santa Ana Loop for 0.9 miles.
Turn left onto Cloud View Court.
Open gate at end of Cloud View Court. Please close gate behind you. Drive up the gravel road to the turn-around where you may
park.
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CLUE
**Requires compass**
From the parking area, take the path toward the northeast, which will merge onto an old service road. This is the Pipeline Trail. After about 0.4 miles you will reach a gate that enters the Open Space. If you pass a big yellow "229" along the way, you are on the right track. After another quarter mile, you will reach a junction with the Alta Vista Trail. Turn left (north) on Alta Vista Trail, walk 50 steps and stop. You should be standing in an arroyo. From here, take a compass bearing of 350 degrees, and there is a very faint, not-well-defined path that goes up a thin little ridgeline. Go up this little ridgeline 220 steps. There some rocks lining the path on the left and some junipers on the right. The last of these few junipers is where the box is.
The box is a metal ammo can under some rocks under the tree. The letterbox is in the inside container. Letterboxers, sign and stamp the letterboxing logbook; geocachers, sign and date the big yellow geocaching logbook.
You can also find the box via geocaching coordinates: N 35° 20.139 W 106° 28.466
Hike length: 1-2 miles
To honor Cranmere pool, the theme of this letterbox is trading postcards. You can self-address a postcard and put a postage stamp on it if you would like to have the next finder write to you, or you may simply use the box as a place to trade postcards from your adventures or interesting places around the world.
If you take a postcard, please leave one in its place, so that there are always some in the box.
Additionally, this box celebrates the world's first Geocache-Letterbox hybrid, which was placed at this very same location on 1/15/2001 and lived until late 2018.
This box is cross-listed as a Geocache hybrid, number GC95Y2V. Please do not leave letterboxing hitchhikers in the box, so that they do not get mixed-up with geocache tradable items.
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DRIVING DIRECTIONS
This letterbox is located in the Placitas Open Space. The clue starts at the trailhead at the "West Access Gate." Directions and a map are located here.
Directions copied from this link:From I-25, take exit 242 to Placitas.
Go east on Hwy 165. Turn left onto Frontage Road for 1.5 miles.
Turn right onto Camino Manzano for 1.3 miles. Turn left onto Santa Ana Loop for 0.9 miles.
Turn left onto Cloud View Court.
Open gate at end of Cloud View Court. Please close gate behind you. Drive up the gravel road to the turn-around where you may
park.
-------------------
CLUE
**Requires compass**
From the parking area, take the path toward the northeast, which will merge onto an old service road. This is the Pipeline Trail. After about 0.4 miles you will reach a gate that enters the Open Space. If you pass a big yellow "229" along the way, you are on the right track. After another quarter mile, you will reach a junction with the Alta Vista Trail. Turn left (north) on Alta Vista Trail, walk 50 steps and stop. You should be standing in an arroyo. From here, take a compass bearing of 350 degrees, and there is a very faint, not-well-defined path that goes up a thin little ridgeline. Go up this little ridgeline 220 steps. There some rocks lining the path on the left and some junipers on the right. The last of these few junipers is where the box is.
The box is a metal ammo can under some rocks under the tree. The letterbox is in the inside container. Letterboxers, sign and stamp the letterboxing logbook; geocachers, sign and date the big yellow geocaching logbook.
You can also find the box via geocaching coordinates: N 35° 20.139 W 106° 28.466
Hike length: 1-2 miles