Brown county Earthcache placement frustration

[Lostby7]

[PCFrog]

Do they check all hikers to make sure their shoe strings are tied? 😕

[Lostby7]

If this does by some miracle ever get published please do not go look for anything that looks like the first two images…you are only allowed to see the third one (preferably from the parking lot….in your car…with the doors locked).

[zuma]

Maybe they can make a video of the place, and we can watch it from the sofa with a bag of munchies….Yeah, that would be a lot safer.

zuma

[Frizz]

I am embarrassed by the Brown County Parks committee. These are the same folks that wanted to charge a $5 yearly fee to hide a film canister along the trails and in the parks. They are nothing but a bunch of paper pushers trying to find something to justify their jobs. 👿 I’m sure that they have no clue as to what an earthcache is or how it is logged. I’m sure that they don’t care that this can bring about a greater awareness of the beauty and the fascinating geology of our county.

[Lostby7]

@Frizz wrote:

I’m sure that they have no clue as to what an earthcache is or how it is logged. I’m sure that they don’t care that this can bring about a greater awareness of the beauty and the fascinating geology of our county.

This is to be my 8th Earthcache and I explained everything very carefully. I even quoted at length sections of the earthcache guidelines. It boggles my mind how this might not be allowed…or how the land manager needed to get so many revisions and then contact the legal department in order to let people walk on the trails in a tax payer funded county park.

[zuma]

@Lostby7 wrote:

@Frizz wrote:

I’m sure that they have no clue as to what an earthcache is or how it is logged. I’m sure that they don’t care that this can bring about a greater awareness of the beauty and the fascinating geology of our county.

This is to be my 8th Earthcache and I explained everything very carefully. I even quoted at length sections of the earthcache guidelines. It boggles my mind how this might not be allowed…or how the land manager needed to get so many revisions and then contact the legal department in order to let people walk on the trails in a tax payer funded county park.

I am sure the land manager gets paid by the city quite well, and it is easier for him to make his living “contacting” people, than it is actually doing something to improve the park. This is the main reason that I have reservations about complex mandatory notification schemes. It is inevitable some of the people involved will be obstructionists. Looks like you ran into one.

zuma

[K0rpl]

Well, Frizz and I know from experience. It took about three months for us to get the 5.00 fee overturned…….

Your government money hard at work……

Justin

[Team Hemisphere Dancer]

Maybe you can make it a wherigo earthcache that plays a video of the formations as you enter the park.

[Lostby7]

Finally making progress on this….I think I may get permission…..I’m keeping my fingers crossed.

[K0rpl]

Awesome Gary:

Glad to hear that it is looking up!!! Looking forward to doing this once it comes out. Let us know when it is a go.

Justin

[gkrone]

@zuma wrote:

Maybe they can make a video of the place, and we can watch it from the sofa with a bag of munchies….Yeah, that would be a lot safer.

zuma

Can I claim it now that I have seen the pictures?

[Lostby7]

I got the official OK just now from the county (after one final omission from the original page); I will be submitting to the Earthcache folks this afternoon! 😛

[kbraband]

I remember finding a traditional geocache in that area near the falls a few years back. It’s a very interesting area to hike around. However, (if memory serves correctly) a few weeks after I was there someone was hiking or climbing along the river and fell and sustained some pretty bad injuries, which freaked out Brown Co. officials about the geocache there.

[Lostby7]

Yep there are two geocaches on the property…I’m thinking there may not have been permission for those to be placed? Yes there was an injury there and they are very nervous about “giving permission” formally for anything there at this point. I had to follow some very strict guidelines to gain approval from them. I can understand their position …without plausible deniability things are much more difficult.

I would have dropped this issue weeks ago but I really feel that this is a must see spot; places like this are the reason many of us go geocaching in the first place.

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