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by Dartymoor
Tue Apr 25, 2023 5:15 pm
Forum: Letterboxing
Topic: Newbie
Replies: 2
Views: 2019

Re: Newbie

Hi Tracy, Unfortunately this site rarely gets visitors now - I keep it going mostly for the historical messages - so there's been no replies. There is a nice article here; https://www.dartmoorletterboxing.org/viewtopic.php?t=1501 And there's a very small community on Facebook covering letterboxing, ...
by Dartymoor
Fri Dec 23, 2022 8:14 am
Forum: Letterboxing
Topic: Looking forwards to a new year
Replies: 0
Views: 974

Looking forwards to a new year

2022's been another odd year, and I personally find it reassuring that Dartmoor largely succeeds in continuing unchanged and provides a reassuring constancy. Of course there are changes - climate change seems likely to alter the landscape as it has been altered before. Dartmoor Bylaw changes threate...
by Dartymoor
Thu Apr 14, 2022 8:41 pm
Forum: How I started
Topic: Back to letterboxing
Replies: 3
Views: 3326

Re: Back to letterboxing

Sounds great, thanks for the history. Plotting the locations is half the fun for me, and I also try to be efficient by grouping them together with others, plus some geocaches too. Not been out too much lately though, but hoping to do more soon.
by Dartymoor
Tue Apr 12, 2022 5:23 pm
Forum: Site Announcements
Topic: 2022 and the forum is back!
Replies: 2
Views: 3449

2022 and the forum is back!

(After announcing this, a significant bug surfaced that prevented people registering or logging on, so I've reverted to a different form of hosting and this now seems to be working)

April 2022 - This forum is now back and hosted on Dartmoor.
by Dartymoor
Wed Apr 07, 2021 4:51 pm
Forum: Site Announcements
Topic: The future of this forum
Replies: 8
Views: 2816

Re: The future of this forum

That's a fair point, Rich - although it was already in decline when I took it over 4 or 5 years ago. Forums tend to need a critical mass of active users and I don't think that will ever return here.

I'm going to try to find someone to take it over though, so hopefully it won't disappear completely.
by Dartymoor
Fri Apr 02, 2021 8:50 pm
Forum: Site Announcements
Topic: The future of this forum
Replies: 8
Views: 2816

The future of this forum

It's now been a few months since there was any activity on this site, so I'm writing this partly to test whether things are still working - but also to see if there is much interest in this forum continuing.
by Dartymoor
Wed Sep 23, 2020 8:08 pm
Forum: Letterboxing
Topic: Is there a procol for removing decaying boxes?
Replies: 2
Views: 1622

Re: Is there a procol for removing decaying boxes?

Geocaches will be on the geocaching map if they're active - I'm happy to check any grid reference or coordinates if anyone's in doubt if there's one there. They're also rarely closer than 0.1miles apart. They should also be marked as 'Geocache' or have a card inside, and will always have a logbook o...
by Dartymoor
Tue Sep 22, 2020 9:59 pm
Forum: Letterboxing
Topic: The Autumn MEET 2020 is cancelled
Replies: 1
Views: 1370

Re: The Autumn MEET 2020 is cancelled

Thanks for confirming that. Not entirely unexpected and certainly the right thing to do.
by Dartymoor
Mon Jul 20, 2020 6:45 pm
Forum: Letterboxing
Topic: Returning to the moor
Replies: 8
Views: 3030

Re: Returning to the moor

Hi Frog, Welcome back to the fold. I don't do much letterboxing myself, although I do geocache quite a lot. Hopefully someone else will be along to add their view, but here's my answers to your little quiz; 1) Where are the areas we can't site boxes, it was Birch Tor in my day but I've seen mention ...
by Dartymoor
Wed Mar 11, 2020 5:55 pm
Forum: Letterboxing
Topic: The Spring MEET is cancelled
Replies: 1
Views: 1416

Re: The Spring MEET is cancelled

Thanks for posting this, Nik. So many things being cancelled right now.
by Dartymoor
Fri May 17, 2019 5:44 am
Forum: Letterboxing
Topic: Suggest an outing
Replies: 1
Views: 1388

Re: Suggest an outing

Hi Thomas, I can answer a couple of bits about the access - hopefully someone else can fill in some info about box densities. The Okehampton military roads were partly closed a fair few years ago. They're still a good setting off point for Cranmere Pool, but you can only go about a mile on from the ...
by Dartymoor
Sun Oct 21, 2018 7:56 am
Forum: How I started
Topic: Back after more than 20 years
Replies: 3
Views: 2513

Re: Back after more than 20 years

Welcome back to the fold!
by Dartymoor
Thu Jul 19, 2018 9:05 pm
Forum: Site Announcements
Topic: Registration issues - solved
Replies: 0
Views: 2567

Registration issues - solved

A user made me aware of some issues that resulted in this error message during registration; "Field 'user_website' doesn't have a default value [1364]" I've given the database a good talking to and registrations are now active again. Apologies for this, not sure what happened - possibly an...
by Dartymoor
Mon Mar 26, 2018 5:50 am
Forum: Missing or Damaged Letterboxes
Topic: Some Missing Boxes
Replies: 4
Views: 4313

Re: Some Missing Boxes

There is a geocache on Hollow Tor - placed by famous letterboxer Red Roaming. https://coord.info/GC19Q6Z

It's a traditional so won't contain a stamp. Caches do often contain trinkets for kids, but don't need to.
by Dartymoor
Sun Nov 12, 2017 7:08 am
Forum: Charity Events
Topic: Charity Walks winter 2017/18
Replies: 3
Views: 7082

Re: Charity Walks winter 2017/18

Thanks for posting this.