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Well, I was searching for one of Zuma’s Yellowstone Trail caches in Racine, that involved a puzzle at a church. One of the questions involved “the number of sides of the steeple”. The steeple itself was hexagonal, but had 4 clock faces. Since it had 6 sides, I inserted 6 into the puzzle coordinates, which put me 1000 feet north of the actual container location, in a giant juniper bush, roughly 10 feet from the street and 10 feet from the driveway. I dug into the bush and was lying there searching with my feet hanging out. Someone passing by thought I was a dead body and called the cops. That was quite an explanation, as it was early in the game and most people didn’t know about geocaching, plus, I couldn’t find the container to show them. To this day, I now avoid Juniper bushes.
I think you will find a difference in attitude between the Dane County folks and virtually every other parks department in the state. The others would agree with your assessment and be happy to attract more people to their parks (with a couple exceptions related to worries about damage). Dane County, on the other hand, seems like they couldn’t care less about visits, but are very interested in getting more money from users.
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You mean you don’t know my story about being mistaken for a dead body in Racine?
Thanks for volunteering, Scott. I have arranged for Groundspeak to assign the cache to scott543 soon (if they haven’t already done it.)
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This is one of the coolest spots you will ever visit.
Yes, and on every cache page, there is a link to Ignore, which is the easiest way to use it.
Remember that many browsers will “cache” graphics the first time they are loaded and then reuse them. If you looked at this before the cache was added, you will need to refresh your view of the page to get a new graphic file.
It is there now.
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I would vote but I don’t wear hats.
Welcome to the game!
Geotours are actually a commercial offering of Groundspeak. They are typically setup by local tourism boards or other business groups to draw people into the area. Note that setting one of these up requires a significant payment to Groundspeak to be included in the program. While the WGA could theoretically setup these caches as a geotour with Groundspeak, I personally would not think that this is a good use of money. In theory, the DNR could do it, but considering that they wouldn’t even provide stickers, I don’t think they will be coughing up money any time soon.
I think maybe we need a set of instructions for some people who hide these. Certain ideas like:
1. Putting your log inside a book is very likely to be a sustainable idea. A hollow book or a normal container will work. A library card or a sheet of paper in a book will likely be borrowed along with the book.
2. Putting your cache in one of these without informing the owner is not a very good idea at all.
3. Because of high muggle traffic, even a good design will required greater than average maintenance. Try not to place these outside your normal caching area.
By the way, I know of at least one instance where a land manager was upset about someone placing a bunch of challenge caches on their property. Their problem was that they felt these sort of caches don’t attract enough people to the area, compared to “normal” caches. Of course, they really weren’t paying that kind of attention. Someone in the area complained when there was no more room for THEIR cache. The CO managed to negotiate with the land manager and keep half of the challenges from being archived.
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