"Paws"itraction
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I was hoping it was something like that. I'm glad of it, because we wanted to "upgrade" from day-tripper to a campsite (there's gonna just be too much stuff going on to day-trip it!) and we couldn't as long as the page was inaccessible.
We've signed up and posted a note to the cache page that we just got site 60N.
Looking forward to seeing everyone there, and meeting all the FAMOUS cachers that are gonna be there!
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Any particular reason the cache is now a Premium Members only cache? I wanted to check out the reservations map and the list of who's attending and it's telling me I can't because I'm not a Premium Member.
Is it a seeeeeeekrit event now?
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Here's the reply we got from the DNR approver at Pokagon when we told him we archived and removed our cache that was in a protected (Nature Preserve) area:
Thanks for the understanding. We want to continue to allow geocaching
in the park, but our new geocaching policy outlines ecologically
sensitive areas that geocaching needs to avoid. Over the next month
or so, other geocaches in the Potawatomi Nature Preserve will need to
be relocated and registered at the Park Nature Center. We will be
contacting other cache owners whos caches will need to be moved, but
should you know any of them feel free to let them know, to speed this
process.
Eventually, all geocaches in the park will be registered at the Park
Nature Center. Thanks again for taking the initiative in relocating
your cache.
P.S. When considering your new cache location, most areas within
resaonable distance from a park trail or road will be approved, just
as long as they are not within the actual nature preserve. One other
point to ponder, though none exist there presently, trail 7 (bluebird
hills) caches will be approved on a cache by cache basis because of
the inherent risks in that area of the park due to multiple massasauga
rattlesnake encounters in the past by park visitors (including bites).
So be careful!
(bolding and underlining mine)
Rattlers? I wasn't aware there were rattlers out there, although it makes sense. I consider us to be VERY lucky- there used to be a cache out there along trail 7 that was ideal for rattlers - and our dogs would've investigated anything that moves and makes cool noises like that.We'll be applying for placement approval for Kai's Kache 2.0 in the spring - WELL away from trail 7, thankyouverymuch, and definitely not in any Nature Preserve areas! (We're already scoping out a couple spots that look really good and kid-friendly.
Thank goodness the approver is geo-friendly! Hopefully the more we work with them, the more people we can "win over"!
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Hooray! We got an email from the approver at Pokagon over the weekend. He said they approved one of our caches, but the other one is on a Nature Preserve area, and therefore we need to remove it. He said that the Nature Preserve areas are off-limits due to their ecological significance. BUT we're free to relocate it to a non-nature preserve area (they're marked on the trail maps of Pokagon, found in PDF format here.
He thanked us for our interest in the park and for following their new guidelines.
We've already archived the listing for the non-approved cache, and retrieved it. We'll be placing it in a new location sometime over the spring.
So it looks like we have at least one advocate at Pokagon!
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For larger CITO containers, we use prescription bottles once we've emptied them. Peel prescrip. label off, put a CITO label on the bottle, and we can usually fit 2 kitchen-sized trash bags and a latex glove or two in the bottle, so people don't have to get all icky-hands when they CITO. (Hey, it's been asked about before.)
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I got the permit application from RPW's "Item #9 in the agenda" link, above. I can understand them wanting some sort of control over where caches are placed - we were informed that there was the possibility of endangered plants near one of our caches. They obviously don't want a bunch of cachers stomping all over the endangered plants!
But I wish there could've been more information dissemination down the line. It's not a nice feeling to TRY to do things "the right way" only to be greeted with someone who's hearing about these permits for the first time from you - and they're not happy about it.
Nor is it a nice feeling for THEM to be greeted with a couple of geocachers who are presenting you with a new policy and a WHOLE LOT more work and effort, and you had no clue that it was even coming.
Communication is VERY important, but it looks like somewhere along the line, the communication ball got dropped, to very badly mix a couple metaphors.
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You've got to do the right thing even if it does screw up everything else. Under the table will just cause problems in the long run.
Oh, I completely agree - that's a big reason why we went to all the trouble to apply for permits for our caches. It was just so doggone DISCOURAGING to have her be so negative and disappointed that the DNR went through with an approval procedure and permits for caches. Honestly - she was surprised and disappointed that they did it.
I am going to approach Indiana's newest state park -- Prophetstown -- sometime this month in regards to putting a cache there. As Car54 posted earlier the park was not very receptive late last year. Maybe with the new rules they will like it more. Wish me luck!Good luck! I hope you have no problems!
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Well, we tried to do it up right. We printed out the license application and filled one out for each of our two caches in Pokagon State Park. Took the apps to the park on Saturday.
The person behind the desk had never heard of geocaching. The manager-on-duty had, however. She told us she couldn't authorize the licenses because she wasn't the property manager, so she took the paperwork and said she'd give it to the property mgr.
Only thing is, she was REAL unhappy that the IN-DNR actually made a policy about it, and was going to allow cache-placement-with-permit. She didn't say so in so many words, but the vibes I got from what she WAS saying and how she was saying it was that she'd be REAL happy if geocaching went away and never ever came back. She also wasn't happy that the people doing the programs at the Nature Center actually did a geocaching program AND used our cache as the "starting cache" of their program.
She hadn't heard anything about permits, and didn't even know that the IN-DNR was discussing permits - she thought it was still a case of "well, people do it but there's nothing we can do about it and I'm not happy about it."
We did everything right. We did everything we could to assure her that if placement of EITHER of our two caches was a problem we'd either completely disable it and take it out altogether or we'd move it to somewhere that wasn't a problem. We let her know that we understood the problems she had with it and we would do our best to mitigate or eliminate the problems, that we were good, responsible geocachers, and responsible cache owners. She didn't care. She just doesn't like geocaching.
So...if the Pokagon Property Manager is of the same mindset as the day-manager we encountered...we're sorry if we screwed up caching in Pokagon for everybody by trying to do the right thing.
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This is done in pretty bad taste, IMO.
Evidently someone agreed with you - all the links posted in this thread that apparently worked on Tuesday & Wednesday are now resulting in a "not found" 404 page.
Including www.barbi.info.
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Thanks, C [space] O [space][space] D.
I'll let Kevin (Mr. Paws) know.
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I tried looking up the Cacher "Corp Of Discovery" using the "lookup/email another user" feature from the www.geocaching.com/my page.
When I enter in the user name "Corp of Discovery", it directs me to this user. When I click on "see all forum posts for this user" it lists all posts from someone named "Geo Troll".
When I click on the forum name "GeoTroll", it tells me that it's User ID # 88579, and returns me to the page I linked above.
However, if I go to the Forums and search for "Corp Of Discovery", I find the cacher I was looking for:
His user ID is listed as #97312.
I tried capitalizing the "Of", since as far as I can tell that's the only difference between the two names, but evidently the "search for another user" is case-insensitive since it still returned the first "Corp of Discovery / Geo Troll".
Incidentally, searching for cacher name "Geo Troll" returns nothing. "GeoTroll" does, but that user hasn't had any forum posts.
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With the 2-per-person rule:
My husband and I cache as a team. Would we, the "Paws"itraction team, comprising 2 people, be able to place up to 4 in one park then?
They also list several exemptions, including parks that are administered by certain divisions (Division of Outdoor recreation, Division of nature preserves). Is there any way to find out what division administers the park of your choice?
It also says that the property manager is not required to approve any multi-cache. Does that mean that "no approval is necessary for a multi-cache" or "they're not obligated to approve one just because you want it"? How is that different from "they're not required to approve ANY cache", which is how I understand the rest of it to read? Is it just that they're under "less obligation", so to speak, with a multi than a regular?
Thanks in advance for any answers anyone has...
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I would just like to add that BlackBrownDog's sig item is way cool. We have one and currently my husband has possession of it. But I am plotting to Get It Back.
Ours is a cross-stitched bookmark.
It's got a paw on it, our names are back-stitched on the paw, and "Paws"itraction underneath the paw. Each one completely unique! No Two Are Alike! (I just use whatever colors I feel like using that time instead of sticking to a set color scheme, so each one is a Unique Collector's Item.) I've got a couple finished; I'll have to see if I can scan one in before I stick it in a cache somewhere.
Corps of Discovery will have possession of one tomorrow; we're meeting him for the Caching Karma Stick Hand-Off in South Bend.
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Oh, wow, those chainmail squeezy balls are completely weird. No, I mean COOL! They're completely COOL. Yeah, that's it.
(Seriously, those are nifty. They look REALLY labor-intensive though; how long does one take to make?)
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But there are some cache pages that, while they do list "micro" as the size, give NO indication whatsoever of what size "micro" it is.
Is it the size of a quarter? A film can? An Altoid's tin?
"Container is hidden in a tree" isn't much help either, here in Indiana.
I've hunted for some that haven't been labeled "micro", and have NO cache container description, and they've turned out to be a tiny film can, hidden VERY well (or in some cases, have fallen out of the tree they were hidden in and rolled 20 feet or so. Try to find THAT in a bunch of undergrowth!)
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I still think my best find was a chainmail stress ball in Maryland. It was just so strangely cool. I still have it on my desk.
I can't even picture this one...can you post a pic of this?
In my mind, "Chainmail" and "stress ball" just don't go together.
Squeezable chainmail?
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They also look like they could be Ugli Fruit, which is a unique type of tangelo.
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Ordinarily I wouldn't do this either (for the reasons given above - and I do like the description Leprechauns gave to it!) but we're now in possession of the Caching Karma Stick and...well...I thought this might be sort of a special case.
Though at this point I'm leaning toward "not doing it anyway" - as I said, I don't really like it either, but since it was the CKS, I thought "well, maybe..."
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Very much looking forward to it! I'm working on finishing up our first sig item - now I'll make SURE to finish one up before we go tomorrow!
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We're going to an event cache in November. We've seen instances where people will log a bug into the cache before attending, and then several people will either log the bug in & out of the event cache, or "grab" it. Then the original holder will take it back and send the bug on its merry way.
We'd like to do that with the bug we'll have at that point, but how do we do it?
We thought of making up small cards with the bug's tracking number on it and a notation to "Please log your pickup & dropoff of this bug before December 4, as we will be logging it to other caches on that day."
We also were planning on having a "sign-up sheet" for the TB, so that anyone who wanted to log the TB had to sign the sheet so we knew when everyone had logged it and we could "take it back".
Is this a good way to go about it? Is there a better way? Suggestions and comments are definitely welcome!
Thanks!
-Kim for "Paws"itraction
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Am I the only one who pronounces it "Key-toe"? Huh.
Must be all those songs in Latin I had to learn.
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Thanks to Team Hydnckr for contacting me so quickly after my post. I'm glad we were able to work out the final details, and we'll meet up on Saturday!
-Kim, for "Paws"itraction
(sorry for the xpost; I wanted to make sure they saw this one.)
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Thanks for contacting me so quickly after my post. I'm glad we were able to work out the final details, and we'll meet up on Saturday!
-Kim, for "Paws"itraction
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Team Hydnckr, BlackBrownDog, I've been trying to get ahold of you via email for about a week to finalize the "where & when" arrangements. I suspect my email provider is not sending the emails, or they're not getting through a firewall somewhere or something.
PLEASE email me before Friday night so we can finish up the plans to meet on Saturday.
-Kim for "Paws"itraction
Email addys: nivekmik@myvine.com (this is the one it'll go to if you go through the "email cacher" link on geocaching.com)
nivekmik2000@yahoo.com
Thanks!
(crossposted to the Midwest forum as well.)
Rattlers? I wasn't aware there were rattlers out there, although it makes sense. I consider us to be VERY lucky- there used to be a cache out there along trail 7 that was ideal for rattlers - and our dogs would've investigated anything that moves and makes cool noises like that.
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I really like the new design, but is there a reason for the year on it? If it's left off, then that can be a general coin that doesn't have to change year by year - I'm thinking that might make the cost cheaper, at least in the long run, if you don't have to have a die change every year.
I'm not sure how they set up the dies, so it may not be an issue.