Letterboxing!

On Sunday I went Letterboxing. I got the idea from this article in the Courier. A friend and I went followed this clue to a forest preserve I never knew existed–Voyager’s Landing.

We had to climb up and down a lot of small yet steep hills to get to the hidden box.

Finally, a letterbox!

It had lots of stamps in it from other people who had found it over the past two years.

There were two boxes hidden, but we only found one. We weren’t sure what “a sleeping giant” in the clue referred to–another tree?

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Letterboxing in Elgin

Click here to read an article about letterboxing in Elgin.

Has anyone engaged in this? I don’t fully understand it, but apparently there are little wooden boxes hidden all over the place and if you find one you stamp a piece of paper in it to let the owners know you were there. Also there are clues involved. Where do you get the clues? Does a clue inside a letter box lead to a different letter box? If so, how are you supposed to find your first letter box?

I would really like to get involved with this.

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