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Maybe the reviewer was simply baffled by the grammatical errors, strange syntax, and usage errors (i.e., “pedantic”) and hit the publish button in his confusion…
On the Left Side of the Road...If the county parks guy you talked to gets a DNR form, particularly post-placement, he/she will likely be annoyed and feel like you are making an end run.
At this point you could go back to the county parks person and mention the many approved caches on other rails-to-trails (in general–not saying “well, there are dozens of other caches already along this trail,” which would probably cause more problems), along with some of WisKid’s verbiage. I would probably stick with the postive because if you start mentioning statues and stuff he might just toss the form off to the nearest department attorney and then you’re pretty much DOA.
Either way you’ll have to circle back to the DNR but I think you need to start with the parks person first, otherwise it’s like asking your dad for permission after mom said no, which is always a bad idea when they both find out.
Anyone else, feel free to chime in here….
On the Left Side of the Road...😀 {well, we really need a thumb’s-up emoticon…}
On the Left Side of the Road...@odysseyuwrf wrote:
The trail signs all point that the trail is being maintained by the Outagamie Parks Dept. I contacted them and the Director got back to me with his concerns.
Well, see there’s your problem right there…probably a thousand caches in land maintained by Outagamie Parks that they don’t know about.
Anyhoo, check with WisKid on this one. When we put our cache out, we were told it was still DNR, very much like how the Mountain-Bay trail is DNR even though individual sections are maintained by local and/or county parks departments. So we did the the DNR form and everything is copacetic.
On the Left Side of the Road...@AstroD-Team wrote:
I can certainly find a better use of 30 hours a month of my time. Like actually finding caches at the published coordinates. LOL
Oh come now. Two words…”Master Observer.” Can I have the 5 hours of my life back?
Well, actually I learned a lot… 🙂
On the Left Side of the Road...@TyeDyeSkyGuy wrote:
I just don’t see the point in adding to that danger when it can be avoided by simply using a different material for your container.
Agreed.
I’m betting we’ve all put our fingers into places in the course of this game where we just hoped like heck we weren’t going to get bit, cut, stung, or worse.
On the Left Side of the Road...@JimandLinda wrote:
I yield my time to gotta run.
It’s only 30 hours/month, right? 😉
Depends whose puzzles we’re working on. Some are easier than others and you can mark off a baker’s dozen or so in under an hour.
Other puzzles are tougher and once we get working on them we might be seldom seen whilst we try to come up with a solve, but that’s just peachy.
On the Left Side of the Road...@odysseyuwrf wrote:
I’ve been trying to get permission to put some caches on the Newton Blackmour Trail, but it seems like it’s not going to happen. Some concerns about poison ivy and other plants. Grrr, frustrating.
Has the regulating agency of that changed from the DNR? The last time we looked into the trail we were told (by a gc reviewer) that the trail was managed by the DNR, so you only need a DNR notifcation form. Not sure who you’re working with.
On the Left Side of the Road...8) ❓ x 4,700!
On the Left Side of the Road...Ah! That makes perfect sense because you know your “old” queries will never get any bigger unless someone messes with the placed dates. 😈
Thanks for the tip!
On the Left Side of the Road...@SammyClaws wrote:
I’ll try to when I get home tonite to make sure, but I believe its GPS>Receive Waypoints – on that dialog box, I have mine set to ‘if matched update found status only’.
Aha! There it is…”Just update finds.” It was greyed out behind the defaults.
Someone should write a book on this.
On the Left Side of the Road...Lots of potentially hazardous things about geocaching. I’ve seen glass used safely. Or at least as safe as reaching into your average guard rail inhabited by a paper wasp’s nest. Yes, yes, I know the cache owner didn’t put the nest there, I’m just saying you need to use your judgment. How about climbing a 30′ pine tree? There is a puzzle final I recall where glass was used and it is a very appropriate container.
On the Left Side of the Road...I can’t find anything in the guidelines about it although I thought there was something there at one time.
More of a maintenance headache than anything I would think. As far as finding one goes, we’ve found a cache where we had to, quite literally, crawl through a tunnel of broken glass to retreive it, so finding a glass jar wouldn’t be so bad by comparison.
On the Left Side of the Road...Brilliant…”For just 30 hours a month…” 😆
On the Left Side of the Road...@Team B Squared wrote:
It is very easy to query your database for caches that you haven’t found and don’t own when planning a trip. Before planning a trip in gsak I just filter out caches that we own and that I have already found. I then plan my trip using the caches that are left in that filter. If you don’t know how to do this I can outline it for you, just let me know.
Yeah, this I can do. Basically the difference is to filter it on the GSAK side rather than the PQ side. Makes sense.
@Team B Squared wrote:
As for the 30 mile radius exceeding 500 caches with your finds included, there are ways around that. I can type this method up if you are interested, just let me know.
Well, the only way I know is to set a few coordinates at the X mile mark from my home coordinates and then run smaller-radius searches from there. Then load the multiple PQs into one GSAK database. GSAK takes care of the overlap. If there’s an easier way than that, I’d love to hear it.
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