First Texas Letterbox

Well TALE 10 has come and I've finally logged all my boxes from the event. I've also gotten to sorting the handful of pictures I remembered to take. This rather blurry shot from my phone is special.

Beuscher State Park is the home of the first letterbox in Texas which was planted in 2000. This is Eoghan's Lost Pines box and you can only get the WOM clues through the Texas letterboxing yahoo group. Given the pile of rocks this sucker is buried in, I can see why it has lasted as long as it has.

Most of Eoghan's boxes have been lost over the years, but several Texas boxers are working on replacing them or in some cases planting tribute boxes which duplicate them as closely as possible.  One of these is the the O-Knots series originally planted in Bastrop State Park.  This series required you to find orienteering markers from a topographical map, and then use compass headings to find the box from the marker.  Sadly, these boxes and the markers were destroyed in the fire which devastated the park.  I was fortunate to have found 2 of the 4 boxes before the fire.

For the tribute series, Mosaic Butterfly and I recarved the stamps from images in PI Joe's logbook from  2003.  We planted them in Beuscher State Park and you can find them here.  While the clues are not quite as challenging as the original, we hope  you enjoy them.