[Team Deejay]

Actually, if you post a note to the cache page every couple months, indicating progress to those watching the caches, you will never hear from a reviewer.

[Team Deejay]

I don’t think we ever agreed on this, so I didn’t change anything.

[Team Deejay]

It’s in the mail today. Still looking for someone to take over prize distribution responsibility.

[Team Deejay]

@cheezehead wrote:

But you can hide them fron veiw so only you and the reviewer can see them.

Or not, if you want the puzzle to be easier…

[Team Deejay]

Bec,

Assuming you want BOTH files to be in the Palm at the same time, you have two options.

1. When you export the second file, change the name. I usually change waypoints.pdb to waypoints1.pdb. (Yes, it really is that simple.)

2. If you don’t want to change the name for some reason (a broken keyboard, let’s say), just export the first, then sync the palm, then export the second with the same name, then sync the palm again. The files will be combined in Cachemate, but that should be what you are looking for with Palm Cachemate. (Pocket PC Cachemate is different.)

Or you can just call me and I will talk you through it.

[Team Deejay]

@SammyClaws wrote:

We spent a bit of time hiking in the Kettle Moraine Southern Unit on Saturday. Ms. SammyClaws had one tick on her, I had two and the geo dogs attracted about 12 apiece.

For some reason Team Deejay managed to avoid them or did they avoid him?

You know, all those years working in an insecticide factory did have some side benefits….

[Team Deejay]

I’ve been wrong before, but I’m thinking that Tamarack Road is a better access point for this cache. Not sure about parking availability, however, so we might want to park at the Bluff area and carpool over. I’ll try and drive by the trailhead and check it out.

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Ummm….WRONG! Create the cache pages, but uncheck the box that indicates the cache is ready for approval. Then email the numbers Becky or I and we will precheck them for you. If you have a large number of these (like more than 20) and want to set something up ahead of time, we can talk about a more complex process, but the basic one works fine. When the caches are ready to be approved, just check the box and save and it will pop up on our lists.

[Team Deejay]

The waypoints are not stored on the SD card, but in internal memory, and 1000 is a fixed limit. Assuming you are using Mapsource, GSAK, Easy GPS or something else to load your waypoints, the easiest way it to delete all the waypoints and then reload a new set of 1000 for your next trip. Usually I can’t find more than 1000 caches in a single day anyway. 😆

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I don’t think we can expect law enforcement to look up geocaches on a website, even if maybe this particular guy could have done that. The reality is that until geocaching is more well-known, you will have incidents like this. This is why Becky and I bug you about permission when placing caches in residential or other private property locations and generally say no to bridges, airports, train stations, et al.

Unfortunately, the cache near the edge of an urban park is always at risk for this sort of thing. If a person is acting suspicious and neighbors don’t recognize them, they are going to call the cops. This is especially true for placements around playground equipment. When you place these, be sure to NOT tell your finders to be sneaky. Instead, encourage them to interact with the neighbors. Most people who are watching would really like to know what you are doing, so telling them removes the threat. Its true that one person in 100 will disturb the cache, but most people will be respectful and probably have fun “helping” finders in the future. Of course, this doesn’t help if the person is peering out of a window with binoculars, but you can’t have everything.

[Team Deejay]

Another excellent improvement! Thanks guys!

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Excellent work, Madame Secretary! Keep up the good work.

[Team Deejay]

The best way to do this is to create a cache page with the location in question, which makes it much easier for us to check proximity and map the location, UNCHECKING THE BOX indicating the cache is ready to be reviewed. Then just email us and ask one of us to look at it. We can usually check for DNR ownership, SNA locations, Milwaukee/Dane/Waushara county parks, City of Madison parks, private/public property, etc.

I do use the SE Wisconsin Regional Land Planning site mentioned above, but another nice site for non SE Wisconsin is Wisconsin Mapping Sites. Most counties in Wisconsin have excellent GIS sites which provide property ownership, easement locations, police and fire stations, and lots of other stuff. There are few counties either have nothing (Dodge) or very weak (LaCrosse, Winnebago) GIS sites. The city of Milwaukee has a decent site, but the rest of Milwaukee County is pretty much not covered.

On a similar note, the DNR site that Brian mentioned above is great for establishing DNR ownership, but is not complete for finding state natural areas. Recently, the DNR created a new site for mapping the SNAs. This is a huge improvement of the old “map from hell” (a phrase coined by Jeff Thorson), which required us to do a lot of guessing and comparison with topo maps.

[Team Deejay]

Actually the idea is “handicapped accessible”, not “wheelchair accessible”. That means flat, paved, no overgrowth, and less than a 1/2 mile hike (I interpret this as 1/2 mile round trip hike). I would say that roughly 50% of the terrain 1 caches meet this standard.

As there are many different reach levels for wheelchairs/scooters/people on crutches, there is no standard for height of the hide, i.e. a low hide that is reachable by someone in a wheelchair might not be reachable by someone on crutches. Of course, a hide higher than 6 feet is probably not going to meet any handicapped accessible standard, but I would say that from 0 to 5 feet off the ground should qualify. Remember that people who are permanently handicapped usually use reachers or other devices to extend their reach. It is the guy with the broken leg, hobbling on crutches, that is likely to be unprepared.

[Team Deejay]

Well, my choices were to cut it off at 7/31 AGAIN which would have been around 282, or stretch it to the maximum date of 8/29, which would put it at where is ended up at 479. If I went up the 8/31, I ended up with 532 caches. For those among you who are mathematically astute, you recognize that this means there are 250 caches last found in August of 08. By the way, if I tried Gotta Run’s suggestion, I end up with 981 caches, meaning 449 caches were last found in September. Yikes!

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