A Letterbox on the Loop Letterbox Hybrid

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Cuilcagh: The cache owner is not responding to issues with this geocache, so I must regretfully archive it.

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Cuilcagh - Community Volunteer Reviewer for Geocaching HQ (Ireland)

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Hidden : 11/15/2012
Difficulty:
3 out of 5
Terrain:
2.5 out of 5

Size: Size: regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

This is a letterbox hybrid bringing you for a short walk along the lower part of the Annaloughan Loop. The length of the walk affords the finder panoramic views of the town of Dundalk, the mouth of the Castletown River and the expanse of Dundalk Bay.

LETTERBOXING

A recreational hobby that individuals or familes/small groups of people can participate in. It started in the middle of the 19th century in Dartmoor when in 1854 a Chagford guide called James Perrot set up the first letterbox at Cranmere Pool on North Dartmoor. Originally it was just a cairn (small pile of rocks), the idea was for a walker to leave a message there for the next walker to collect and so on. Later, other boxes were established at Taw Marsh (1894), Ducks Pool (1938), Fur Tor (1951), and Crow Tor (1962). These boxes are deep into the moor and still represent a challenge. People from all walks of life go letterboxing, they spread from Cornwall to Scotland, the U.S, Holland, Germany and New Zealand. The boxes hidden contain a visitor's book and rubber stamp. When finding the box an impression of the rubber stamp is taken using an inkpad and stamped onto either a book or postcard. The visitor then either signs the visitor's book, or use their own personal stamp to leave their mark.

Letterboxing is done without the use of a GPSr, but with a recent interest in combining geocaching with letterboxing the LETTERBOX HYBRID cache has evolved. Basically this means that the two are combined using both a GPSr (to a lesser or greater extent) and clues to find the cache.

The next feature that applies to letterboxing and hybrid letterboxing is the addition of a stamp to the box that isn't to be removed by the finder. When you find the cache, you stamp the "box stamp" onto a logbook that you may carry. I appreciate that not all geocachers carry a log book - that's not a problem. Then you stamp using your own stamp (again you may not carry a stamp, don't worry), your "trail name", and the date you found the cache into the logbook, as normal. In letterboxing people keep track of how many boxes they've found and how many boxes they've placed, just like in geocaching, but more likely in notebook form.

The given coordinates bring you to a small parking area. Please do not block the gate . Once here your GPS will be of very limited use to you To find the cache you will need to follow these steps

1) From the given coordinates you will have to go on foot, following the forest road.
2) About 600m from the start (as the crow flies) the trees on your right will thin out giving you your first views of Dundalk Bay
3) About 1.25km from the start (still as the crow flies) you will come to the IP coordinates. There is a large tree with some cream stones at its base. 4) Leave the path at this point and follow the trail 60m approximately. You will come yo a small clearing. You will find the cache under a stone at the base of a tree to the left of the clearing.
The stamp is not a swapable, please do not remove from the cache. Please return the cache in exactly the same manner in which you found it.

After logging the find you return to the main path at which point you can either return to you car the way you came or continue on around the loop to the rest of the Annaloughan Loop series The cache has been placed in line with the "Leave no Trace" principles.

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