MnGCA

Marsha and Silent Bob · Past MnGCA President Joined: 02 Sep 2003 Posts: 6261

The MnGCA Board is proud to announce that the Three Rivers Park District has updated their geocaching policy and posted it to their website here: http://www.threeriversparkdistrict.org/trails/trails_geocaching.cfm

The MnGCA Board had several goals going into the November meeting (see here: http://www.mngca.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=20225#20225 for more information about the November meeting):

Increase the distance from trail requirement from 25 feet to something a bit more cache friendly.

Increase the number of caches per park from their original limit of 3 to an amount limited only by the Groundspeak default distance requirement of a .10 radius.

Eliminate the yearly re-registration process to help streamline Three Rivers’ paperwork and to lessen the burden on Minnesota Geocachers.

The outcome of our proposed policy was put up for vote on Three Rivers’ January 19th, 2006 Board meeting. The original text follows:

Paklid · Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2006 11:56 am Post subject:

something just occurred to me in regard to this policy.

the former restriction on caches in the parks was "one cache per person / three caches maximum per park".

we proposed to eliminate the one cache per person restriction as well and I don't see any reference to that limit still being in place. can we assume that indeed a single person may place several caches in the same park? My reading of their published policy is Yes to that question.
_________________
-Paklid

Paklid · Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2006 12:13 pm Post subject:

The updated three rivers registration form does state 1 cache per person per park. I called Marlene and asked about the difference between the policy statement and the registration form and she was happy to be made aware of that disconnect (they missed it in the editing). She agreed that it would seem the "1 cache per person per park" provision should not be on the registration form since it is no longer written into the policy. She needed to verify this with her manager and expected that they'd be making the change to the form to bring it in line with the policy as stated.
_________________
-Paklid

Moe the Sleaze · Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2006 12:19 pm Post subject:

Can we assume that if we currently have a cache registered under the old policy, we can leave it in place without re-registering it?
_________________
"Hi, I'm Moe, or as the women know me - Hey! You in the bushes."
-Moe, The Simpsons

King Boreas · Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2006 12:20 pm Post subject:

I take back everything nasty I ever said about Three Rivers Parks, and sincerely thank the individuals from all organizations involved. I also thank Paklid for the clarification/communication with Marlene.

Marsha and Silent Bob · Past MnGCA President Joined: 02 Sep 2003 Posts: 6261

King Boreas · Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2006 12:29 pm Post subject:

This opens up dozens of previously unavailable areas.

King Boreas · Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2006 12:30 pm Post subject:

pto · Geocacher Joined: 18 Mar 2004 Posts: 136

Marsha and Silent Bob · Past MnGCA President Joined: 02 Sep 2003 Posts: 6261

Please be aware that the finalized text has little to do with what the MnGCA Board discussed with the Three Rivers Park District staff outside of the major points.

Their word choice on line items such as cache containers were their own.
_________________
Sad state of affairs.

Paklid · Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2006 9:25 am Post subject:

Quick note:
I made a follow-up phone call to Marlene at Three Rivers today (regarding the registration form). She wasn't there, so I talked with her boss, Tom.
He said that they WILL be editing the registration form to remove references to "one cache allowed per person" and "caches must be removed after one year". I also asked him about the caches that are already in place, and he said that if they are in the book (there are only 20 of them in there for 2005) then they're good to go. I don't know if the any older ones that might have had registrations lapse in the past and then were adopted are officially in the book. Whoever is the adopter should probably call Marlene and just ask if their cache is all legal and such. If not, I guess a form submission would be in order to bring it up to date.

So the registration form, though it is currently inaccurate, will be changed when their webmaster gets around to it.
_________________
-Paklid

gmichealson · Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 9:33 am Post subject: 25 foot rule

It's a shame this rule didn't get changed. It's far too easy for muggles to see you at a cache site when you're only 25' off a walking trail.
_________________
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - A. Einstein

King Boreas · Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 10:59 am Post subject:

so what is overkill?

celticwulf · Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 11:45 am Post subject:

King Boreas · Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 11:49 am Post subject:

20 per park

what is reasonable for one person?