Sometimes the log is so small I can't fit my (not large) stamp on it. I am disappointed when I find them and all they are is a plastic box with a stamp added to it. I wish there was more restriction on what can be called a Letterbox cache. If you do like Traditional Caches rather than Mystery Caches, then hooray - you can score a rarer icon by finding one with a letterboxing stamp inside. You can usually tell from a quick read of the cache description. If you don't like Traditional Caches with letterboxing stamps, limit yourself to Mystery Caches and Multi-Caches with letterboxing stamps. You can have a Traditional Cache with a letterboxing stamp, a Mystery Cache with a letterboxing stamp or a Multi-Cache with a letterboxing stamp. If this issue came up in 2011 instead of 2001, we would instead see "Has a Letterboxing Stamp" as a Cache Attribute. If they can't be more special than that, why have Letter box caches?īecause, at the time when this cache type was introduced, there were no "Cache Attributes." Letterbox Hybrid caches were added so that people wouldn't take the stamp as a trade item (and in the hope that people would cross-list letterboxes from other websites as geocaches on ). As I said, many are basically a traditional plastic box with a stamp thrown in as an after thought. A lot of effort had gone into making this.Īccording the guidelines, you can call it a Letterbox Hybrid cache if you have a rubber stamp in the cache.Īnd that's the problem. That was I think under the metal hat, then you had to use the key to open the chest and in there were two good sized plastic containers one with stamp and good sized log, the other for trinkets. Maybe my favourite a metal person (not tiny) and (from memory) you had to find a number to open something to find the key. Or it could be placed in an interesting cache, as some I have found. Some could have clues, but I don't think that should be the only way a cache can be a Letter box cache. I would support additional restriction, but I don't think it's realistic expectation.ĭefinitely big enough log for stamps. Letterbox-style clues to be involved somewhere in the hunt I feel the same - I wish LBH to be more special than just minimalistic design of Trad + stamp. I started geocaching in 2008, and at that time, LBHs were really rare and mostly something "special". Ok, these two points are probably standard procedure for all PTs. the whole trail on one day, which is physically impossible) is never questioned. No maintenance plan whatsoever, and obvious fake logging (e.g. cheaters) have all logged all caches as "beta testers". Owner account is a sock puppet, and the "real" owners (who are, incidentally, also known almost country-wide as "creative loggers" a.k.a. Many boxes had no stamp whatsoever from the beginning.ĭ/T ratings arbitrarily distributed in the D>3/T>3 corner, quite often way off a realistic rating, again just to please those who like to ramp up their D/T "loop count". This LBH powertrail (which is not too far from my home zone) is a textbook example of what can be "wrong" with PTs: There's nothing wrong with Geo-Art but in my opinion there are good ways to do it, and bad ways. It seems like if the possibility exist TO create a powertrail, somebody will.
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