While working on a ATH (armchair treasure hunt) I found a GREAT tool for figuring out distances at a certain compass heading. Before this, I had been doing a multiple step process with Google Maps: 1. I put a point on Google Earth and opened the ruler tool, which lets you draw a line and shows you the distance and heading. I dragged the end point of the line and the clicked at the distance and heading I wanted from…
While I was out hiking with my dog somewhere in the eastern U.S., he started digging furiously. I thought he was after a critter, but he uncovered a mysterious scroll. It turned out to be the lost quatrain! Yup, The Mapsurfer Quatrains has an additional verse: XXIV. An old Amish myth and these lines do agree If you go wayback, my meaning you’ll see For it lay in the question of a certain verse And it lies in its answer,…
I recently tackled a mystery letterbox that gave longitude and latitude coordinates. Not being a geocacher, I first had to find out just a little bit about how they work. So here’s a real quick lesson. Latitude are imaginary lines that run horizontally along the sphere of the earth (parallel to the equator). Longitude are lines that run vertically from north to south poles. The coordinates are given as a latitude number first, then a longitude number. Format Each number…
There are a lot of letterbox clues that have cryptograms you need to solve. A cryptogram is a substitution cipher, which means that a different letter or symbol is substituted for the regular alphabet letter. Like this: 3ls83# dl1i th3s (Don’t try to solve that, I just made it up). I don’t like to cheat in solving clues, but I have no problem using tools that take the busy work out of it. I found a neat online cryptogram helper….
When I first started boxing, I thought all boxes were listed in either Atlas Quest or Letterboxing.org. But I’ve found that some people have their own websites of clues which can’t be found on either of those sites. This post is just as much for me to keep track of them as to share. Mapsurfer (Randy Hall) Website: mapsurfer.com This is the first rouge letterboxer that I read about. His clues are absolutely fantastic. I read on a blog that…