What is Hat Day?? I’ve never heard of it 😊

On Hat Day, non-premium members have a chance to record unlisted finds (like boxes that might only be listed on LBNA).

It’s not predicable and not always on the same day, so you have to watch for the theme with all the hats.

Many thanks to Trail Fairy and all the carvers for Mythology and Folklore Galore. We enjoyed reconnecting as well as exchanging with folks new to gatherings. The group thank you for carvers was a great idea.

Also called The King, this Card represents authority, structure, and order.

Will you seek?

I'll be there in June and am bringing LnL's(small), mesh cammo hanging bags, and cammo covered pouches, along with a few small magnetic boxes. Not sure what planting situations I'll encounter, so I'm trying to be ready for anything!

Ohhh that’s good to know. I am not a premium member so I will have to remember that. Thank you 😊

There's a help page about that. =)

-- Ryan

For me it's "Don't try to force the location to match the clues". >:-)

Do you foresee a plane ticket in my future to de aur stat?

4eyes
Stuck in MI

Same here. Although, you seem to be a step ahead. I just have a rough idea, which really isn't much.

I’m baskically the same. I just was curious if anyone had any unique high snow outdoor ideas

I believe I know exactly where this first "card" is located, but it's about 3,000 miles away! Is there a way to continue? Or has my journey ended?

I thought the same thing..... I was hoping to participate "virtually" and was interpreting clues online and visualizing a tarot card and meanings....

Very well said! I have/had a series of 3 planted at Cedar Grove. I noticed it's been marked impossible. Oh well.

Letterbooks are my favorite!! Do you want to make new and/or have any olde letterbooks ready to be passed along for new shelf-life? I'd be very excited to collaborate on letterbook plants in libraries the greater boston area.

Thanks all for the help! It was a problem with my I phone and I was able to correct the saved password now.

People are dying in Iran, and Hegseth is talking like a teen on a ‘Call of Duty’ bender.
Yvonne Abraham from the Boston Globe

pretty much sums up the trump administration.

nothing to smile about here.

Maybe there will be more to come hopefully? Still super fun though.

Well, she HAS rătăcit from oceanul to oceanul for many years...

Hoping she'll plant in Michigan, din iad în paradis.

The Pink Dragon and I made a girls' weekend of it and recovered all that we could find in all New Bern cemeteries. I have marked all we couldn't find as missing. We left a public message on all we recovered. TPD has them all and owners should contact her for return arrangements.

While pulling boxes yesterday, a delightful woman named Helen approached us and asked if we were letterboxers. She works with an organization that helps preserve these historic places and also gives tours within the cemetery. She showed us the grave that started it all. She informed us that organizations like hers are spending thousands of dollars to repair not only graves, but the brick and stone walls in these cemeteries. She personally had no issues with LBs in bushes and trees. However, since these were most often covered with bricks, we recovered those as well, returning the bricks to the nearby walls or graves.

Helen was very impressed by the extensive history included in these particular clues. Then she shared how much fun she and her husband had finding over 60 stamps the previous day. She had seen us poking around from her kitchen window and invited us back to her beautiful home where she had all of the stamps in a bucket. She was hoping to find a way to get them back to the owners.

Before leaving to look for any remaining LBs, she gave us bottles of water and told us to come back to her home if we needed a restroom.

Truly, Helen is a hero for saving all those stamps. She enjoyed it some much, she will likely continue to hunt. I said her trail name should be The Rescuer.

TPD and I have her name and address and plan to send her a thank you notes with some LB love. If anyone would like to do the same, you can PM me for her info.

Great job!! And props to Helen also for sure!

Thank you both so much for recovering the boxes.

What is a letterbook? I tried looking in the FAQs and there was some stuff about virtual, but it looks like no one has contributed to that board for over 10 years! I would love to know more! I am intrigued!

Thx for the question. Pasting from AQ's glossary: "letterbook: a letterbox hidden inside of a hollowed-out book, usually planted in libraries or bookstores." We have a handful around here, and they're such fun! Folks can get to them in all sorts of weathery-weather.

To make it a search, people sometimes make a game of it with scavenger hunt-style clues to reveal the call number. Other times librarians keep the box behind the desk and you only have to ask for it. I am finding that librarians are willing to add the call number of the letterbook into their catalog as a non-circulating item. This helps them keep track of what it is, and it prevents the letterbook from accidentally being discarded with rotating staff.

This is my first letterbook plant [Box #382871] With thanks to Arf!'s excellent recycled letterbook and fantastic carving skills.

I'll be in Alaska end of August, so am excited to see a few folks going before me.

I'm hoping to plant a box or two myself. Will be mainly in the touristy areas so thinking placement could get tricky

How neat!! Our local library (Benbrook) has a huge makerspace and is very engaged with members so I bet they’d like to do that! The bigger ones in Ft. Worth are a bit stricter but they do have a few who keep hidden ATCs at the circulation desk for trades so I bet they’d like a letterbook too!

I was looking for ways to tell librarians about letterboxing, and I came across this 2012 book in a Google Books Search: Librarian's Guide to Passive Programming: Easy and Affordable Activities for All Ages by Emily T. Wichman. Also on Goodreads and Amazon. I'm sure there's more out there.

Zoinks! Like how how many cards are in a deck anyway man?

There are 21 listed in the drop down:

The Magician
The Popess
The Emperess
The Emperor
The Pope
The Lovers
The Chariot
Strength
The Hermit
Wheel of Fortune
Justice
The Hanged Man
Death
Temperance
The Devil
The Tower
The Star
The Moon
The Sun
Judgement
The World