GC5FCP8 Wal-Moose
Type: Letterbox | Size: Micro | Difficulty: | Terrain:
By: MooseTag @ | Hide Date: 10/24/2014 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N40° 31.311 W105° 04.744 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
               

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This is a letterbox hybrid cache designed to introduce people to letterboxing and make for hopefully easy find.

Congrats OneKindWord on FTF!

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We are severely lacking Letterbox Hybrid caches here in Fort Collins, the closest one is either East in Windsor or West up the Big Thompson Canyon, so this cache is designed to teach those who don't know what a letterbox is about it, and then give you a small test to find the actual cache.  If this one works out the way I'm hoping it will I will be adding at least one more letterbox to town with a little harder puzzle but a little more incentive for making the find. 

For starters, letterboxing can be dated back to 1854, when a man decided to build a box, and leave a letter inside, hoping the next person to come across it would find the letter and mail it.  More people started doing this, and then it became a hobby by hiding them in far-off locations that only the most determined hiker would stumble across it, meaning that letters would be left there for a very long time.  There are my clubs and organizations that deal with letterboxing, just like geocaching, to keep the tradition alive.  Today, letterbox hybrid caches can be many things, but typically will still have some sort of puzzle, or some sort of riddle you must solve to figure out its location.  When you travel you may see some very interesting ones with random clues that send you on a hike through the woods based on shapes of rocks or trees you may see along the way.  When it comes to simple ones, you will find simple puzzles you can either solve ahead of time, clues that are easy to follow at the given coordinates, or in my case, a simple waypoint projection.  Instead of leaving letters in caches, most people will just leave a rubber stamp, sometimes with an ink-pad, sometimes self-inking.  The one I have left here is a small self-inking fox stamp that you can stamp onto a piece of paper, your notebook, or just leave it alone.  The main thing is that you LEAVE the stamp there for those who do want to use it, it is NOT a trade item!

Since this is meant to introduce you to letterboxing, I will help you out as best as I can.  This one is meant to be fun and easy, and then you will run into some that will be very hard.  If this is your first time doing a letterbox, bring along a small notepad to put the stamp on, or anything you wish to use, and start collecting stamps if you wish!

First: go to the given coordinates for this cache.  This will be your "starting" point.  Next, on your GPSr, choose whatever setting you  use to project a waypoint.  You can mark a waypoint, select it, and choose the button called "project waypoint" or you can use something I know the Garmin has called "sight and go" which has you turn the compass to the proper bearing and then you enter the distance to go.

The bearing you will want to use for this is 31 ° True North, and you will want to go 36.576 meters. 

You can do this at home using google maps if you know how, and you should either have one of the many apps on your phone for conversions, do the conversion ahead of time, or just enter it into your GPSr as meters. 

This is my first attempt at both a letterbox and using a compass bearing projection for a cache.  I tested it on my GPSr and it came close enough that with some common sense you can figure out where the cache will be.  Let me know if you have any troubles, suggestions, etc. as I want to make this fun for everyone, and make the next one even better.

 

Additional Waypoints

06/11/2019 By dustyriver
I enjoyed the find today. Found with BriGuy. Adventures in the area as we are up for an NOCO event later in the day. Best Wishes, DustyRiver / Terry

06/11/2019 By _BriGuy_
Found with dustyriver. We wanted to come up from Denver and attend an event in Northern Colorado. It has been a few years since we have, so we figured we would make a day out of it. We enjoyed all the finds and we really need to cache this area more often. Thanks for all the fun!

SL.TFTC

06/01/2019 By Laphamclan
I am away from British Columbia heading to the States for a 10 day road trip with 3 others -- Sweet Marie, MissPeach13 and Kteeeee. We signed logs with CCC stamp (Canadian Caching Crew)
Thanks to all the COs for making this such a great hobby/pastime
Day 4 and today it is Colorado and our goal is the oldest cache, road closed so alternate plan B

Thanks for the letterbox

06/01/2019 By kteeeee
Great times had with sweet-marie, MissPeach13 & Laphamclan (CCCs) on our roadtrip into Colorado! Thanks for the mailbox.

06/01/2019 By MissPeach13
Here on an amazing 10 day geocaching road trip with sweet-marie, kteeeee and laphamclan. We flew into Kansas City and after renting a car we drove through Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Missouri and back to Kansas. All logs were either signed CCC (Crazy Canadian Cachers) or stamped with our red CCC stamp. Answers to Virtuals and Earthcaches have been sent in on behalf of the group.

05/21/2018 By blackdogsMT
EDIT: I have cached long enough to know that I should have read the description fully, and I admit that I did not. My apologies. If I had, I would probably have realized the cords were the starting point and that I needed to use the bearing that you give. Sorry about that. However, I still never found a stamp, but did find a log sheet and put pen to paper.

I found this only because I was with betzij who found it last September. Cache coords are off by 100+ feet and was found at the following cords. N40 31.327 W105 04.728. Only a micro container and log, no stamp or pad for the letterbox hybrid. I sought out this cache because I am working on the qualifications for a challenge cache that needs a specific number of letterboxes. CO may want to check up on this one, but if nothing else, update the coordinates. Dipping my personal TB's for mileage.

05/13/2018 By randm321
Still not sure if we understand the hint or not, but we found it. Opened and closed quickly but I don’t think the stamp was there.

04/13/2018 By dragonlover13
Tftc

12/18/2017 By monkeymo
SL TFTC.
Visiting from Florida
Brrrrr.

09/30/2017 By DDSRN
Found the cache with Betzij last year and forgot to log it. I am being reminded of this cache at the GIGA Event in Cincinnati!! I did the projection for us.

Edit log May 26, 2018: Changing write note from May 26, 2018 to Found it September 30, 2017.

Met with betzij and BlackdogsMT today at the GIGA Event in Cincinnati, OH. Both reported my handle on the log sheet next to betzij ,dated 9/30/2017. I remember doing the projection and could describe the location. I do not have a good reason for not logging the cache the same night. Oh, well. I was there.