The Letterbox project was started by one of our fabulous camp members because she loves to letterbox and we thought it would be a fun way to get people interacting with each other in an artistic,creative way. Not everyone in BRC is going to build a huge artwork but with letterboxing you get to create,share and enjoy other peoples creations
For an introduction to letterboxing and clues to letterboxes in your area as well as Black Rock City check out Atlasquest.com
If you are putting in a letterbox please post your clue to atlasquest.com,for on playa letterbox clues go to playa info.
Later!
ATTRACTED TO SHINY OBJECTS
| Author: | Bam-a-lam    |
| Location: | Black Rock City,NV (United States) [MapQuest] [Yahoo! Maps] [Google Maps] |
| Plant Date: | August 13,2009 |
| Clue Last Updated: | August 13,2009 |
| Status: | active (Last found:Never) |
If you happen to be wandering around the playa kicking up dust between August 31 and September 7 during the Burning Man Festival of 2009,
you will see many amazing and interesting things that will catch your eye. Pack plenty of water and prepare for a surprise around every turn.
As you bike or meander through the spokes of the desert wheel,somewhere around 3-ish &G-ish you will notice a cluster of very large,shiny,silver objects.
Next to one of the smallest of these silver twinkie shapes,you will see a motley flock of odd looking guard birds.
The lone buzzard stands near an “X”that will signal the location of what you seek. Bam! You have found it.
BARBARIAN BOX
| Author: | brassia |
| Location: | Black Rock City,NV (United States) [MapQuest] [Yahoo! Maps] [Google Maps] |
| Plant Date: | August 21,2009 |
| Clue Last Updated: | August 21,2009 |
| Status: | active (Last found:Never) |
The dusty city,created from dust,alive for one week,and then to dust it will return. A unique civilization,civilized or uncivilized,civil or not. On 3 near fossil,a barbarian challenge –feats of strength and agility,plus a bit of swordplay –for those who are brave and strong. For those simply interested in a stamp,look for a skeletal hand on a box of gold,and please remember to stamp our book in return!
Our box and obstacle course are family friendly.
SNOWFLAKE VILLAGE LETTERBOX
| Author: | ThePaperLeaf |
| Location: | Black Rock City,NV (United States) [MapQuest] [Yahoo! Maps] [Google Maps] |
| Plant Date: | August 10,2009 |
| Clue Last Updated: | August 10,2009 |
| Status: | active (Last found:Never) |
Like Bali-high,this city of 50,000 appears out of the playa dust but once a year for a week in August and disappears on Labor Day. To be worthy of entry you must have your golden ticket and a week’s worth of food,water,clothes,and ear plugs. If you are going to be at Burning Man 2009,do come by &visit this short-time box.
Within the Nevada desert is Black Rock City. And on that city’s main esplanade is an oddly named Village of Snowflake. And within that Village is an unlisted camp called “Shack of Sit”with it’s 1,000sf of shade. Have a sit on one of their couches,partake of some ice water from the natives while looking around for a suspicious lump in the carpet or sand under a chair or table.
I hope the snowflake stamp will remind you of these kind people in the desert offering shade &water.
This camp &letterbox are family-friendly.
THE TIME MACHINE
| Author: | Parfum Sacre |
| Location: | Black Rock City,NV (United States) [MapQuest] [Yahoo! Maps] [Google Maps] |
| Plant Date: | July 16,2009 |
| Clue Last Updated: | August 21,2009 |
| Status: | active (Last found:Never) |
“I am afraid I cannot convey the peculiar sensations of time travelling. They are excessively unpleasant. There is a feeling exactly like that one has upon a switchback–of helpless headlong motion! I felt the same horrible anticipation,too,of an imminent smash. As I put on pace,night followed day like the flapping of a black wing. The twinkling succession of darkness and light was excessively painful to the eye. Then,in the intermittent darknesses,I saw the moon spinning swiftly through her quarters from new to full,and had a faint glimpse of the circling stars. Presently,as I went on,still gaining velocity,the palpitation of night and day merged into one continuous greyness;the sky took on a wonderful deepness of blue,a splendid luminous color like that of early twilight;the jerking sun became a streak of fire,a brilliant arch,in space;the moon a fainter fluctuating band;and I could see nothing of the stars,save now and then a brighter circle flickering in the blue.”
If you have your own time machine,set it for the Time Machine at Carbon Dioxide Camp,Burning Man 2009,and you can be the first finder today! If you don’t have a time machine of your own,you’ll have to wait and find this box between August 31 and September 7 2009. Look in Time’s back pocket.
Carbon Dioxide Camp is in the general neighborhood of Adapt and 4:30.
This box is family friendly.
Booby Box
| Author: | Scrofulous |
| Location: | Black Rock City,NV (United States) [MapQuest] [Yahoo! Maps] [Google Maps] |
| Plant Date: | August 27,2009 |
| Clue Last Updated: | August 27,2009 |
| Status: | active (Last found:Never) |
Very cryptic clue passed on to me to post here for other burners. Box only exists during Burning Man 2009.
Where do babies drink?
Find the Boobs and ask for the
Cigar box special
Don’t miss the “Boxing Burners,Burning Boxers”gathering at Carbon Dioxide Camp on September 3 at 1PM. There will be an event stamp for the gathering.
And if you’re going to Burning Man,please,pretty pretty please with caramel and thick sliced smoky bacon on top,hide a box in Black Rock City!