What Is Letterboxing?

[+crunchiespg]

whilst in dartmoor this week i saw one of the nearby caches was a geocache/letterbox hybrid.

also another cache i visited said there was 5 letterboxes nearby.

 

so simply, what are they?

ta

[+lordelph]

Try http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letterboxing

 

"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 (see below). However, clues to finding some of the most highly-sought boxes are passed around by word of mouth. Individual letterboxes usually contain a logbook, an often hand-carved ink stamp and an ink pad. Finders make an imprint of the letterbox's stamp on their personal logbook, and leave an impression of their personal stamp on the letterbox's logbook — as proof of having found the box. Many letterboxers keep careful track of their "find count."