Quartz Site Letterbox Hybrid
PaukenAC: Sad, another Viejo letterbox is victim to muggles, in this case the loggers who tears up the ground indiscriminately.
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This is a Letterbox Hybrid in an ammo can placed at a popular place for finding quartz crystals. A short walk over basically level ground with a slight grade change at the end. Suitable for all ages.
Take highway 260 east from Payson and turn on the Control Road. 5 miles down the Control Road is the road to Diamond Point. It is well signed. Aways down the road there is an information sign on the right stating the rules for quartz seekers and a small pull-off where one may park. The cache is a standard geocache with the addition of a rubber stamp and a sketchbook for leaving an impression of your stamp if you have one. There is no ink pad so you will need to carry one and a pad for the stamp image from the stamp enclosed in the cache. Please keep the Letterbox material separated from the geocache material. Clear quartz crystals, many of them doubly terminated and resembling New York Herkimer diamonds, are to be found at Diamond Point. Easiest pickings are to be had after heavy rains A double terminated crystal is a crystal with two naturally faceted ends. It is a rarer form of crystal as it forms free-floating in pockets of clay, rather than on one side of a stone. They tend to be highly sought-after, as those who believe in the power of crystals claim that energy can flow in both directions through a double terminated crystal, and that this makes them ideal for ritual "healing" ceremonies and astral projection, among other applications. They are often made into pendula or pendants. This is a Letterbox Hybrid geocache. It functions just like any other geocache and has exchange items and a log. Signing the geocache log is all that is required to claim full credit for the find. The cache also contains the paraphernalia for Letterboxing, which entails exchanging rubber stamp images instead of exchange items. Participating in this aspect of a hybrid geocache is purely voluntary. Letterboxing activity requires that the letterbox contain a rubber stamp and something to accept the impression of rubber stamps. The finder also needs to have a personal rubber stamp, an ink pad and something in which to record stamp images. The finder thus develops a collection of impressions from the stamps in the various letterboxes found and each letterbox develops a collection of impressions from the finders. The stamps can be hand made or commercial. If you have the items you need for Letterbox Hybrids, you also have the items needed to participate in finding free standing Letterboxes. More information is available at www.letterboxing.org
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