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speedysk1 · Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2008 2:52 pm Post subject:

Andrew, maybe a suggestion for them. They have 150 GPSrs now from BB. Why don't they send 1 to each park and have them do the work? Seems many others had similar experiences to mine. The parks don't seem to appreciate what we did for them last time around. I'm not trying to be rude here, but what's the point of having a volunteer now that they have GPSrs?

I can still smell the smoke from the burnt bridges.
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Pear Head · Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2008 6:57 pm Post subject:

bflentje · Geocacher Joined: 29 May 2006 Posts: 3655

bigred_librarian · Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2008 7:54 pm Post subject: Not interested at St. croix.

I am not interested in working with St. Croix again (too far away from my work or home to help the park out)

I would be willing to help out at one closer to St. Cloud though. Maybe within an hour.
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EPMinnesota · Past MnGCA Board Joined: 13 Apr 2006 Posts: 1898

I would be happy to help Ft Snelling again this time. While my ranger is a go-getter and knows what she's doing she still took my suggestions. We did try to keep that cache a simple multi since it was a demo park and used for classes and first time cachers and the fact that it was a high traffic park. It's had over 375 finders. This time, after seeing what other parks did, I'd like to kick it up a notch and find a fun spot perhaps like the outhouse another park used!

herrwald · Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 10:13 am Post subject:

loneeagle_24 · Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 12:27 pm Post subject:

My experience with the park staff was mixed. One park staff was wonderful to work with (Upper sioux) while the other staff (LQP) seemed to go out of their way to go against everything we were trying to do. I had even submitted a couple of caches for approval back in july, I have asked a few times about them and I still get the same answere from the park manager, I have to get the Naturalist to approve the sites before I can get either of them approved. After two months of trying I finally gave up on even trying anymore. Both caches were to be placed in areas I can't imagine would have been harmful to the environment. One was just a few feet off the trail and the other would have even been easily handicapped accesible. When you can't get any cooperation from the park management it seems they don't care about you anymore. Even When I was trying to move the final stage of the cache located there (it was right under one of the informational signs) the ranger even had a fit about where I had located it. I was tempted to tell him to just leave it under the sign and let a muggle walk off with it. After a half hour of argueing with him he found a spot that was agreeable but not a very ideal spot for it. Enough about that.

I would be more than happy to work with the staff at Upper sioux again. I would have to decline on LQP due to the park ranger.
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speedysk1 · Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 1:58 pm Post subject:

bflentje · Geocacher Joined: 29 May 2006 Posts: 3655

andrewmcc · Past MnGCA Board Joined: 29 Jul 2007 Posts: 979

Thank you to the people that have replied about their parks. I have passed on the feed back.
I still would like to hear back from the rest of you before I open up the positions to the rest of the membership.
Will the following geocachers let me know what you want to do and some feed back would be great.
Thanks andrewmcc

Jambro
dachebo
elfdoctors
Gone Astray
Froggy Baby 123
PassingWind
DLHCatcher
marbleeyes
weldor
handezman
merkman
Eskoclimber
ghost640
cushman Rider
uffda320
Proton
former hawkeye
Kurt Franke
woolychaps2
onionpond
fargnot
Not Yet
Momandson
roylake
GEO06
Lagrac
4egg07
altura
lizs
princessB
zuma!
accordiongal
k2geokids
msrubble
TheCollector
KBayNPapaBear
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Pear Head · Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 11:30 am Post subject:

andrewmcc · Past MnGCA Board Joined: 29 Jul 2007 Posts: 979

Dances With Beehives · Geocacher Joined: 12 Sep 2003 Posts: 671 Location: Chaska

Like I mentioned earlier in the thread, I will help, and I will be contacting the Park Ranger.
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andrewmcc · Past MnGCA Board Joined: 29 Jul 2007 Posts: 979

m&tcacheseekers · Geocacher Joined: 17 Oct 2007 Posts: 101

ok, we had a meeting with Camden State Park, and have been given all the information that the park ranger had received currently about the new program, including finding out the 3 picks they are looking at for their critter. We were informed that they will be using the cache containers from the history challenge..with needs of removing all the labels and reference to BB from the container.. the parks will be picking up all the caches and any travelbugs and geocoins to be given to the cacher that helped the park to be placed in other caches to help continue their little goals. We were informed that any statepark travel bugs would be pulled out and returned to the park..it would be a good thing if they could edit the travel bug and add them back into the new program to continue having these bugs moving about.

We have not heard anything back from Split Rock Creek yet.. that park is a satalite park from blue mound. if whomever worked with blue mound has an email address we would sure appreciate it..if not we will be willing to let someone else help with that park if they wish to..

we have narrowed down a place for the new cache at Camden, but the ranger working with us is on vacation until the 5th, so the cache coordinates for that one may not be exactly in by the short noticed date of the 9th of january, but will do our best on that one.
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