RIBNAG - Letterboxing - Family of Friends (Text-Only)

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In the event you did not already know this, letterboxing involves turning off the television, getting off the couch, gathering the basic human necessities to survive for a few hours away from a refrigerator, and wandering off into the woods. This includes, at a MINIMUM, one protein-bar per hour per person, one liter of water per hour per person, a functional compass, an emergency radio beacon, and a map of the area you intend to occupy. You should also consider a first aid kit, an extra set of warmer clothing, a pocket-knife or utility tool, a GPS receiver, a cell-phone, and pepper-spray. Carefully observing the above will maximize, but not insure, your chances of returning home intact. Ignoring it can, and eventually will, get you lost, hurt, and or dead. Prepare yourself properly, and consider yourself warned.

YOU SHOULD NOT CONSIDER THIS A SAFE ACTIVITY!

By following the directions included on this page, which neither RIBNAG nor any of its members present as wholly or even partially accurate, you accept complete responsibility for your actions and safety. You further agree that in no event will you hold RIBNAG or any of its members morally, criminally, or financially liable for any misfortunes that may befall you over the course of searching for this letterbox, including the return trip from said letterbox. By proceeding beyond this sentence, you certify that you have read all of the above, agree with it in its entirety and with no exceptions, and consider yourself mentally, physically, and chronologically competent to parse these two paragraphs, agree with them, and successfully undertake the task of finding, and returning from, the letterbox indicated herein.

IF AND ONLY IF YOU AGREE, YOU MAY PROCEED

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Family of Friends (2 boxes and growing) - 05/20/2003 verified okay.

In order to find the first letterbox of this series, you must first fill in the missing words in each of the following sentences. Then, just use the correspondingly numbered letters from the fill-in-the-blanks to complete the paragraph at the end.

Note that you could probably solve the actual clue for the first box without getting even one answer from the fill-in-the-blanks section. If you like puzzles, by all means feel free to try to solve this the "hard" way first. :-)

We intend to make this hike a growing chain of boxes, but will keep the number mentioned in the title accurate (minus any mystery or otherwise special boxes, of course).

Finally, if you somehow arrived at this text-only page by accident, and would like to see the version with spiffy in-line images here. It looks ever so much nicer, if your browser and printer have the ability to handle it correctly.

Fill in the blanks:

Lorna: As any pharmacist knows, drug reps give you lots of toys, and even a few useful marketing tools; none seem quite so popular as Allegra™ facial tissues, which do not, however, contain even the slightest bit of 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 , the active ingredient in Allegra™.

Carl: One of my most bewitching friends and I enjoy watching 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 , a TV show about three sisters entrusted with powers to help the innocent.

Ben: 20 21 22 23 24 , the operating system used by Slackers Wearing Red Hats (possibly named Susie or perhaps Debbie Ann? Whatever, just get me an Icepack to put under my Hardhat, and stir some more Mandrake into the Caldera'n, as I quietly strum my Lute hoping for Stormy Yggsdrasil to bring a Stampede of Rocks, Dragons, and Blue Cats from Antarctica).

Ox: Fermented from only the finest honey, 25 26 27 28 , has satisfied many a thirst at great celebrations over the millenia.

Shannon: Maidenhair fern, like all other plants, manufactures its cell walls from 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 , the polyscharide which makes up over 90% of the Earth's biomass, and which happens to form the basis of a dear friend's Ph.D. research.

Sherri: With her great skill at 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 , I will never again entrust this art of capturing images on film to anyone else. (Okay, can we say "cheese"? I couldn't think of anything better...)

Amy: Martha Stewart 49 50 51 52 53 54 , seems almost a bible to me, and always a source of good gardening and homemaking ideas. This periodical I love to share with my one dear friend who really knows when "Its a good thing"

Okay, now figure out how to get to the first box:

41 35 09 27 Y 48 04 23 W 52 20 49 51 21 36 10 T W 02 36 41 37 44 11 29 42 V 18 53 T 16 48 50 22 16 39 40 19 06 21 S 31 45 07 28

05 35 20 34 42 W R T 1 1 7 W 12 36 41 33 11 T 31 20 Y O U T 33 16 22 49 02 05 41 04 53 T 40 31 26 W 50 S 01 45 16 25 R 40 08 28

08 01 41 30 R 47 15 34 05 15 25 52 32 37 43 04 44 10 54 14 T 35 07 T O 22 I 13 14 42 32 27 S R O A D

45 01 41 30 44 08 34 25 40 S T 27 17 50 31 18 48 35 23 W 10 20 34 13 16 42 S 36 45 S 17 15 49 32 B U T S T 33 44 09 48 B R 52 19 43 12

10 17 25 06 19 52 27 41 02 31 48 A F T E R 41 47 12 B R 21 09 54 02 T 33 44 22 R 50 54 39 41 42 38 46 35 36 10 T 18 08 38 51 07 K 21 S 47 40 16 15 53 43 06 54 45 T 26 50 11 T 04 T H E 11 21 29 47 42 34 27 36 05 27 44 17 W 52 32 28 49 10 05 30 16 26 01 23 42 26

46 A 16 K 10 07 T H E 20 35 T 15 N D 01 21 1 09 T H E 05 21 44 S T B 40 03 29 49 04 36 30 T O 48 42 33 44 29 15 R 52 22 A 35 53 18 42 16 T W O 05 40 04 41 28 06 12 38 39 35 31 02 23 53 19 37 R T H E 20 45 R 54 02 01 20 08 T 36 41 40 22 06 O 07 T 42 46 40 01 41 14 30 07 40 44 T 47 12 27 36 T 13 04 R 11 12 44 35 05 T H E 01 04 23 53 28 27 41 50 42 07 W 08 20 34

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