[Ray]

@SadowskiFamily wrote:

Has anyone sought out “their” land manager and introduced him/her to geocaching or discussed the DNR geocaching policy. I was thinking of contacting the one in my area. I guess I’m looking for some ideas. What do you guys thing of a Face to Face?

A few years ago, we held an event in Cascade. We sought permission wherever we could identify the land managers. We were very well recieved. The city clerk in Random Lake gave us a city map and hi-lighted all city property. Then she went on to explain what areas to stay away from and why [Maintenance garage, poison ivy]. Take a look at the archived cache GCGQ87 Cache in Adell for another example of how well we were treated when we asked in advance.

Always ask for permission! When you don’t, you will risk encounters with bomb squads, etc.

[Ray]

Baking soda

[Ray]

[Ray]

😀 😀 AHHOOAH!! 😀 😀

Saw the notes on the cache pages today. Now Duck WGA2! the crappy e-mail is on it’s way. Some cache owners don’t like it when you point out their neglect. You will see remarks such as: “You don’t have to get Pissy about it”, “Who are you, the cache police?” etc. BUT, take heart, there are those among us who are behind this effort 110%. (Even if we might see such a reminder on one of our own caches one day).

BIG, BIG KUDOS
~tb

[Ray]

If you have give her the chance to watch your progress on the GPS map, help with the navigation on the way to the cache, and check on your speed as you are driving; then, Now may be the time to buy her a GPS of her own. Kind of like the one you really want and a little better than the one you use.

Show her how to down-load way points and then hit the trails with dead batteries in your GPS so that she has to do all the navigating (with your expert advice). You will have her hooked. She will carry the GPS with her to mark where she parked at the mall. Yada, yada.

[Ray]

This promises to be a High-Visability opportunity to provided Fox Valley officials, reporters, land managers and citizens a positive image of geocaching. Fox Cities cachers should be making an effort to get the event onto their calendars. Yall come on out and bring your smiles.

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=73a225c0-27ff-457d-ac92-963c598f14ed

or more affectionately: GCX8DD

[Ray]

How does he know it was a GPS? It might have been a cell phone, or a walkie-talkie, FRS, portable radio, a game-boy or even a brick. And besides, a GPS in hand does not a geocacher make. 🙄

[Ray]

tyedyeskyguy wrote:

“this will bring you to the center of the jungle gym but thats not where the cache is… or is it?” Well, that is where the cache is.[/ quote]

Oh 😳

[Ray]

@Cheese-Wis wrote:

It was determined that no guidelines were violated.

Where do we draw the line. If 100 feet is ok, how about 200 feet? Is within a mile acceptable for not exact? I believe that the guideline was violated when the cache owner did not make an effort to provide coordinates within the limits of acceptable error.

Foul! 😡

[Ray]

I am calling a foul.

The coordinates are intended to help you find the cache, not to meerly get you in the general vicinity. There is enough error in GPSr readings as it is.

I thought the purpose in hiding a cache was to have it found.

Deliberate error – not cool 🙁

[Ray]

@K0rpl wrote:

For all those Interested I am going to set up a Meet and Greet Event at the Old Country Buffet in Appleton near the fox river mall I will be setting this up today, and the Alderman, Appleton Post Crescent, and the Park and Rec Director will be invited. I am looking to get as many people toghether that we can, and will will have breakfast and then go out and do some caches in some of the Appleton Parks

Trudy & I will be there.. 😀

[Ray]

I had sent the reporter a link to this thread when it was only a page and a half long. My note suggested that he read the thread. I sent him my real name, phone and e-mail address. He hasn’t responded to me, I wonder if he has read the thread? ❓

[Ray]

Maybe..

We should put together a “Meet and Greet” event and invite the alderman and the reporter. I’m thinking breakfast at Old Country Buffet with big discussions about geocaching in the Fox Valley. Follow that with caching and allow the afore mentioned duo to tag along with one of our more high power caching machines… 😀

[Ray]

I read the article and reread it. The writer is only relating what the alderman said. hearsay!
then I read this: http://www.postcrescent.com/contact/xethics.shtml
I really don’t see any evidence of research on the part of the author.
Perhaps the editor should speak to his reporter about hipocracy.
~tb

[Ray]

I suppose that all the dents in the bucket were the result of cachers thinking the cache was hidden pinata style.

[Author]

Posts