Joining the faces you may recognize is the Pratt family (PratFamily777) on the left, who discovered letterboxing two months ago. They also brought their adorable "baby" Cooper who made fast friends with Dragon Warrior (Alex). I have to admit I'm not much of a dog person, but Cooper was an absolute angel!
We started off with the usual round of exchanges and split up for the morning to check on different sections. We regrouped for lunch shared our mud stories. While the weather was beautiful Saturday, it rained enough Thursday night and Friday to make the trails a mess. Some of the boxes required wading to reach them, and everyone had to navigate sticky portions of the trails. We are proud of our mud!
After lunch we headed back out on the trails for the afternoon. Somehow after lunch, most of the group ended up boxing together and this turned out to be a big help. We found several boxes by pure accident just by having several people looking in the general area. Our big find for the day was The Patchwork Girl of Oz. It's home turned into a clearing (probably bulldozed) filled with logs and branches. Can you find the box in this photo?
Give up? Ok, here is the answer:
Somehow Wry Me managed to spot the little corner sticking up out of the dirt. So she was our hero for the afternoon. The box was broken and soaking wet,
but somehow the stamp was in great shape. So we put it in a new box, added a logbook and moved it to a new and hopefully safer home.
When it was all said and done we had a great day with some great company! I'd like to thank everyone who came, and Boots Tex who recently updated the Nada Clue series everyone enjoyed so much. (and the new location is beautiful!). Thanks for playing in the mud and saving some boxes!
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