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Friar Cadfael
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Joined: 09 Feb 2006
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Location: Minneapolis
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 Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 6:38 am Post subject: Vacation Etiquette |
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My family and I enjoy camping quite a bit, for a variety of reasons. My daughter and I love to geocache along the way. Is it okay to hide a cache in a location that is too far from home for us to service and ask someone to adopt the hide? If so, is there a procedure in place to acomplish this? Thank you.
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Surfer Joe
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Joined: 18 Jan 2006
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You may be able to get a cache listed a long way from home if you can convince the reviewer that there is someone local, preferably a cacher, who has agreed to maintain it for you or if you can convince him/her that you frequent the area often enough to maintain it yourself. There is no procedure in place for finding locals to maintain your caches. You have to figure that out for yourself.
That said, hiding caches is best left to the locals who are familiar with the local regulations and hopefully know the cool locations to place them. |
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Marsha and Silent Bob
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| Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 9:20 am Post subject: |
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Moving this over to Geocaching Websites.
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Friar Cadfael
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Joined: 09 Feb 2006
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Location: Minneapolis
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| Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 10:55 am Post subject: |
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| Surfer Joe wrote: |
You may be able to get a cache listed a long way from home if you can convince the reviewer that there is someone local, preferably a cacher, who has agreed to maintain it for you or if you can convince him/her that you frequent the area often enough to maintain it yourself. There is no procedure in place for finding locals to maintain your caches. You have to figure that out for yourself.
That said, hiding caches is best left to the locals who are familiar with the local regulations and hopefully know the cool locations to place them. |
Thanks for the reply. That makes a lot of sense, so maybe it would be better to simply find the caches left by the locals, no matter how enchanting the location. |
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HugoBear
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Joined: 21 Sep 2005
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Location: Hugo / White Bear Lake
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| Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 2:38 pm Post subject: |
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SurferJoe -
I have not hidden a cache yet, but would like to place a few in the Hugo, MN area. As the reviewer could you give me any pointers on what you'll look for in a submission? I'd like to smooth out the bumps in the process for you (and me) as much as I can. What gets missed most often, things you always seem to have to ask for, etc. Hope you can help.
HB
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Surfer Joe
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| Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 3:21 pm Post subject: |
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| HugoBear wrote: |
| As the reviewer could you give me any pointers on what you'll look for in a submission? I'd like to smooth out the bumps in the process for you (and me) as much as I can. What gets missed most often, things you always seem to have to ask for, etc. |
The most important thing is to READ and UNDERSTAND the Guidelines. Don't just check off the box that said you read them on the cache submittal form. This should go without saying but is is obvious that many folks skip this step.
The other information you should familiarize yourself with is the local geocaching restrictions.
The most common newbie mistakes seem to be:
- Placing a cache within 528 feet of another cache.
- Placing a cache in an area that doesn't allow caches (National Wildlife Refuges, State Parks, Wildlife Management Areas, etc.)
- Placing caches withing 150 feet of active railroad tracks
Other things you can do to help me review caches efficiently:
- Post a reviewer note describing the area the cache is located and who it belongs to (city park, county park, etc.).
- Use the additional waypoints feature to report stages of multi-caches or actual coordinates of puzzle caches.
- When submitting puzzle caches, post a reviewer note telling me enough about how to solve the puzzle to show me that you have provided enough information to make the puzzle solvable.
If you have questions, it is best to ask before placing the cache.
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Posen
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| Posted: Wed May 17, 2006 10:23 pm Post subject: |
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"Placing a cache within 528 feet of another cache. "
but 529' would sometimes be okay?!?!
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HugoBear
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Location: Hugo / White Bear Lake
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| Posted: Thu May 18, 2006 9:49 am Post subject: |
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This is awesome info. Thanks.
Another Q for you would be this.
I see that there are a few places that have published caching guidelines (three rivers, ramsey co, washington co, etc.). What about the ones that don't? For example, the City of Hugo. There's nothing about caching (pro or con) in anything I've read online or otherwise.
Do I have to bring this to their attention, opening Pandora's Box as it were, or can I place caches in the city parks and you approve them as being on public land with no published opposition to them being there?
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GeoPierce
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Location: Eden Prairie, MN
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| Posted: Thu May 18, 2006 10:02 am Post subject: |
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| Do I have to bring this to their attention, opening Pandora's Box as it were, or can I place caches in the city parks and you approve them as being on public land with no published opposition to them being there? |
I know there have been a number of discussions on this forum and everyone has their own opinions about whether to contact the city/county before placing caches in public parks if there are none yet. I understand both sides of the argument so I'm not sure what is the best thing to do, but I tend to be on the side of "don't ask, don't tell."
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celticwulf
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Joined: 24 Oct 2005
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Location: Eagan, MN
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| Posted: Thu May 18, 2006 10:07 am Post subject: |
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| HugoBear wrote: |
| Do I have to bring this to their attention, opening Pandora's Box as it were, or can I place caches in the city parks and you approve them as being on public land with no published opposition to them being there? |
I know there have been a number of discussions on this forum and everyone has their own opinions about whether to contact the city/county before placing caches in public parks if there are none yet. I understand both sides of the argument so I'm not sure what is the best thing to do, but I tend to be on the side of "don't ask, don't tell." |
One thing I have seen is that there are many park areas that do know about caching but do not want to have a "formal" policy in place because of the work that involves as well as the liablity concerns. Many parks/cities view it as a valid use the same way picnics and playing frisbee. It really depends...and yes, I tend to also be in the don't ask/don't tell bandwagon Although with private property you must ask...and as we saw on our Chip. Valley outing, some of the private buisnesses have a lot of fun laughing at people trying to be stealthy 
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Surfer Joe
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Joined: 18 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Thu May 18, 2006 10:19 am Post subject: |
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| HugoBear wrote: |
| I see that there are a few places that have published caching guidelines (three rivers, ramsey co, washington co, etc.). What about the ones that don't? For example, the City of Hugo. There's nothing about caching (pro or con) in anything I've read online or otherwise. |
The geocaching.com guidelines state:
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| By submitting a cache listing, you assure us that you have adequate permission to hide your cache in the selected location. |
(emphasis is mine)
What exactly "adequate" means has been subject to many long and heated discussions. You have to decide yourself what it means in ambiguous situations. But the reviewer gets the last word. |
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Moe the Sleaze
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Location: Champlin, MN
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| Posted: Thu May 18, 2006 10:24 am Post subject: |
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I believe a lot of cities/park districts are aware of geocaching going on in there parks and are watching it to see what develops and would prefer to not be forced into making a yes or no answer as to whether or not it is allowed.
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HugoBear
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Location: Hugo / White Bear Lake
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| Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 9:11 pm Post subject: |
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SJ - thanks for the insight. I'm on the road for a while but you can expect a few to review when I return!
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15Tango
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Location: St. Paul
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So, upon reading the geocaching.com guidelines, I should get busy and get to the 7 caches here at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, which is a Military Installation, before they get pulled. Even though I have now read the guidelines closer than I have in the past 5 years, I'm not going to be the bad guy and pull the caches over here--there's enough cachers that get deployed here to justify keeping the caches in place. There's nothing in the guidelines about minefields, so I guess I can hide caches outside the wire, which happens to be one of the most heavily mined areas in the world. 
Edit: Added smiley to let people know I'm kidding about hiding caches in minefields!!!
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Posen
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| Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 8:49 am Post subject: |
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15tango---thanks for serving! As for the caches IN a minefield, I'm not the approver, so I can't judge, but for my kid's sake, please don't put sharp knives or live ammo in the caches!
Stay safe...hunt on! |
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