What does this mean? re: geocaching listing

[Trekkin and Birdin]

When I pull up the listing of caches in a 50 mile radius to plan our adventures, I get to know all the names after awhile. I’ve noticed occasionally a listing will suddenly have “WSQ” in front of the cache name. This morning, “Mt. Tabor” became “WSQMt. Tabor.”

What’s up with that?

[Team Honeybunnies]

All it means is somebody changed the name of the cache. WSQ is a naming convention some of us are starting in the state to designate cemetery caches.

Often enough it’s one of those things that goes unnoticed, but owners change cache names often enough.

The big one that sticks out in my mind is when Zuma changed his Yellowstone Trail series so that rather than starting with Yellowstone Trail, they start with the name of the city. Not a big difference until you have them all loaded into a Palm and you have a nice row of different cities instead of 50 caches that all start with Yellowstone.

[GeoPink]

See This Thread regarding the new “Wisconsin Spirit Quest” designation for all cemetery caches. This is a new voluntary initiative by those who’ve hidden cemetery caches to easily designate them as such.

I like the idea myself, as I can then easily ignore them if need be… not because I don’t necessarily like them, but because I don’t feel I’m being respectful with three or four kids running around wanting to play.

I see marc12345 has already changed his personal WCC designation over to the WSQ designation.

[Trekkin and Birdin]

Thanks, I get it now. Funny, we just did a cemetery cache today, and as we were leaving, Trekkin’ commented on how our sons sometimes play Ghost in the Graveyard at an old country cemetery near here. My opinion was that as long as they are respectful of the monuments and plantings–and they’re playing late at night, so it’s unlikely family is visiting–that if it were *me* laying in the ground, I’d think it’s cool that kids want to visit and play there.

I know we all have differing opinions about such things. I do agree that no matter the time of day, a certain level of respect is in order.

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