L is for Letterboxing

For anyone who hasn't gone letterboxing, you have to try it! It's a kind of treasure-hunting, similar to geo-cacheing, but more low tech, with the treasure being the tupperware box containing a stamp and notebook inside. Look up letterboxing.org for more info. We tried it for our letter L, and we had a blast! The kids were skeptical at first, but found the fun as we hunted through the drizzle for the box at each location. For the three that we searched for, only one was still in its place; I guess the other two were too old. This time we took along cousins Chloe and Madilyn to help. We were honored to have Madilyn join us, as this was her 6th birthday!

First clue took us to Canyon View park in Spanish Fork. What a cute group of girls! We had to climb several flights of stairs amongst poison ivy, but found only an open hole where the box should have been. Dang theives!
Clue #2 took us to the river trail in west SF. This is our version of the Whomping Willow.

We found it! Yay! We were all so excited to finally find a box! We stamped our marks in their book as proof that we were there and reburied it. We can't show you exactly where, as that would be against letterboxing code:) You'll have to hike over there to find it yourself!