749. Catch a Can in Ketchikan
Just a little addition to Ketchikan’s letterboxing “hot spot”

Nope, not much in the way of letterboxing currently going on in Alaska as far as we could tell on our last cruise through, and the little “stick-up” guy we left near a totem pole on a previous Alaskan trip is indeed gone. So, we decided to add another little “travelin’ light” in what now appears to be Ketchikan’s favorite letterboxing “haunt”, where most tourists probably wouldn’t want to go, so we’re hoping it’s a safer spot for leaving a little something behind, as well as keeping company with a couple of other boxes still hanging out nearby.

Anyway, just mosey on up to this place south of town with a view of the bay and look for a picnic table with a trash can. Yup, it’s in there, up where you might not be expecting it, east of the flag on high, up a few wooden stairs sort of set back leftish on a flat spot near the woods. The trash can is presently on the northeast side of the picnic table in front of a row of border rocks starting from the left side of the woods there. Directly behind the trash can is a large flat mossy rock with a slightly uplifted back side. If you carefully step over to the far side of this rock, we hope you can find the small 1-2” light-colored, trashcan-shaped stone that we left sitting on a longer, darker “shelf rock” behind a thin half-cut pear-shaped trap-door. As usual with our “travelin’ lights”, the trashcan stamp is glued on the back of the small stone, and would probably look best in gray with a blue or green background. Please replace as found so that this poor little stamp has a chance of surviving however briefly in a very damp environment and doesn’t end up in the trash too soon!

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