Directions: The posted coordinates will take you to a spot on the Mill Towns Trail as it passes through Seckler Park west of the Cannon River in Northfield. The cache is 328' directly south of there. Go pass the scoreboard and look for a path into the woods. Then look for a large cement block several feet into the woods. Beside the block is a large rock. Tucked under the rock is the letterbox. Use the stamp and ink that are in the box to stamp your personal logbook if you have one, returning the stamp and ink to the box. Sign and write a note in the cache's logbook; and, if you have a personal stamp, please leave an impression of it as well. If you don't have a stamp you can obtain one from one of the other letterboxes in this series.
Please note the following:
- As recreational letterboxing predate the GPS and hence geocaching by about 150 years, directions to the hide do not use coordinates but are given verbally. To be an LBH (Letterbox Hybrid), geocaching coordinates must play some significant role. In this case they take you to a starting point, from whence you follow the directions given above.
- Most letterboxes are not intended to be difficult to find. If the directions to the location are correctly given and correctly interpreted then the find should be easy enough. The challenge is often in writing and reading the directions.
- Letterboxes are often hidden under cement slabs or in a spor (suspicious pile of rocks).
- Small food containers seem to be the container of choice in the US as they neatly have just enough room for the contents. Anything smaller, a so-called minibox, is rarely used. However, today in the UK, esp. in Dartmoor National Park (where it all began), "pill pots" are generally used.
- The essential contents are a logbook and a stamp. A writing utensil and an ink pad may be included as well. Trinkets are uncommon as finding and stamping constitute enough of a thrill for young and old. Travelers (called "hitchhikers"), similar to travel bugs, may be present as well.