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Found with the help of Lightnin' Bug and Sheba while at Hikers and Hounds' December T-Shirt Gathering.  We ran into Eagle Bob and Teapot Marie while on trail.

Box 1: Tyler Hall
Box 2: The Compass Box

Found along with Lightn' Bug while at the Hikers and Hounds T-Shirt Gathering.

This fantastic series of boxes is hidden on Haycock Mountain, basically a giant pile of rocks in Upper Bucks County just across the road from Nockamixon State Park.  I headed up there one morning, and even though I was early, it was already hot and nasty.  I came back down sweaty, dirty, smelly, but with five of the seven stamps and ready to try again sometime.

Box 1: Doedicurus
Box 2: Woolly Mammoth
Box 3: Saber-toothed Cat
Box 4: Woolly Rhinoceros (not found)
Box 5: Giant Sloth (not found)
Box 6: Merriam’s Teratorn
Box 7: Irish Elk

Another box I found on the way back from boxing in the Lehigh Valley (there are so many boxes up there).  There were originally two boxes in the series, and I did manage to find the second box, but it was totally waterlogged, so I pulled it and returned it to Hikers and Hounds.

First Finder.  Quick box in a unique location.

First Finder!  A nice quick little box, though I think the image looks more like a fairy then an angel.

I wish I had more then just my black inkpad with me.  Nice stamp, and this is a great park.

How is it I manage to do boxes backwards???  I did this one in that way.  I managed to find the wrong side of the trail loop but still find the box because the clues actually worked the same in both directions.  Sometimes I amaze even myself.

First Finder!  OK, I cheated for this one.  I know the park very well and was able to backtrack on this box and get it in about 10 minutes.  Great stamp though, created by Team Psychokiwi from New Zealand, along with a hand made logbook.

Found with Jan of Team Little Dog.  This was my second try at this one.  I knew right where it was the first time, but at the time it was covered with two feet of snow.

Jan of Team Little Dog and I spent a morning getting several of the boxes in the Lehigh Valley area.  This was a nice series, with an easy but longer walk, which I insisted we do, although we could have driven to each of the boxes.

Found these creepy critters while on one of several trips to the Lehigh Valley.  Neat series in an interesting little park.

Box 1: Evil Eggplant
Box 2: Bad Broccoli
Box 3: Scary Carrot
Box 4: Spooky Radish

Found with Jan of Team Little Dog.  This was the last box we did that morning.  Nice little walk in a cool little wooded area.

Found with Jan of Team Little Dog.  Nice little hike going up hill most of the way.  It is located in a wildlife preserve, and we saw many deer as well as some turkey on the hike.  There is also a zoo here, though it was closed when we were here.

Hikers and Hounds planted this box for the 2005 LBMA Knoebels Gathering.

jbzfarm planted this box for the 2005 LBMA Knoebels Gathering.  It was a one day only stamp.

Jan has this box planted in her brother's pizza place, DeVitto's, in Ashland, PA.  I highly recommend the onion rings there as well, outstanding.

This series was found along with Hikers & Hounds the day after the winter gathering in Washington, DC.  We attempted to find all of the boxes, but could only come up with three of them.

Box 1: Drive-by
Box 2: Fly-by (not found)
Box 3: Good-Bye
Box 4: Bye-Bye

Quick find, you just have to watch for traffic.

This was another box that I managed to get by doing it completely backwards.  I couldn't find Elizabeth's Furnace on the map, so I was going to skip this one, until I saw a sign on the road.  I skidded around the corner and drove along this icy back road until I can across a cabin, which happened to be the cabin at the end of the clues, by the road.  OK, I walked down and figured out where I was with no problem.  If you do this the right way you end up going across a cool suspension bridge.

On my way to Tennessee I did a whole bunch of drive-by boxes just off the highway.  This one was planted along one of Virginia's Civil War Trails at a little known site.  Excellent stamp, though it did not scan quite as well.

A nice little box in a nice little community park.

Very neat series.  The boxes were very nice and well planted, and the overlook at the end was very nice.

Box 1: The Dove
Box 2: O Tannenbaum
Box 3: Noah's Arc

Nice box hidden in a cemetery.  Easy drive-by.

Another easy drive-by.  It is a pretty big stamps too.

I had no hitch hiker  to leave, so I just exchanged stamps.  There were several hitch hiker's in the hostel.

Quick and easy box hidden in a nice little community park.

I could only find four of the six boxes in the series, but someone seems to have found all of them since, so I must have just missed them.

Box 1: USAir
Box 2: Delta
Box 3: Northwest
Box 4: American Airlines (not found)
Box 5: United
Box 6: Alaska Airlines (not found)

First Finder!  It took nearly 18 months for someone to find this box.  Found in conjunction with the "Hairy Leggers"  The stamp is hidden to protect clues it may give to where the box is hidden.

This cute box was created by Lightnin' Bug.  It represents the feeding frenzies that usually go on at gatherings as the mass of letterboxers try to get each other's exchanges.

First Finder! I released this the same day by sneaking it into someone else's bag.

First Finder! I released this the same day at another letterbox the next county over.