OEnavigators
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The bomb squad in Conway is an arm of the fire department. The fire chief actually created a geocaching account and posted a clarification of what happened in our state forum:
Hello to everyone. First let me clear up a misconception, the bomb squad is an arm of the fire department. The police are there to help us with traffic and bystanders so they do not deserve any fall out. I nor anyone else involved have any intention of stopping geocaching in Conway. As a matter of fact I would like to give it a try myself it sounds like a great way to get out and be active. The members of the squad are trained to the federal level, they are experienced and very serious about their job.Their job is about safety for everyone and there are federal guidelines they must follow. Geocachers are not the problem, the problem is due to people out there who really do make bombs and have cost citizens,police and firefighters their lives, thus the guidelines and protocols. We have a meeting scheduled for tomorrow morning and with everyones input we will come up with a plan that will work so geocaching can continue. Like I said, if someone is willing to take me along I would like to give it a try. Thanks for your time.The cache owner has already held a very successful meeting with local representatives of both the fire department and law enforcement officials. In fact a couple of other geocachers are supposed to meet up with both the fire department chief and the chief of police and take them geocaching!
It was a very unfortunate incident but with everyone showing willingness to work with officials the outcome is better than anyone could have asked for. -
There aren't many EarthCaches in Arkansas but Skullcrusher Rapids seems to fit some of your criteria. It's a really fun EarthCache and well worth a visit.
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Thank you
. I wanted to keep it simple but interesting. I thought by having visitors calculate the waterfalls location in X number of years would help demonstrate how they form and change over time. The location I'm looking at is Little Missouri Falls. W camp at the campground nearby several times a year and it really is a beautiful area. There is some signage there but I don't recall it mentioning the erosion rate. Is it acceptable to just make up a number for demonstration purposes? Maybe an average of other falls. I can always ask the forest geologist.
Thanks for all the help. I can't wait to get back down there.
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I've tried to install this twice now and don't see the install option using the right click or under the tools menu. What am I doing wrong?
You need to be using the Firefox browser, with the Greasemonkey add-on installed.
That was it. Go it installed now and it is awesome!
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I've tried to install this twice now and don't see the install option using the right click or under the tools menu. What am I doing wrong?
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I thought it would be interesting to somehow have visitors use some form of measurement to determine the location of the waterfall at some future date. I have several EarthCaches I'd like to develop and two of them involve waterfalls.
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Lots........and lots of alcohol.
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Okay, I found some information on determining the force flow of a waterfall but I still can't find any information on erosional cutback rate. We already have one waterfall EarthCache "Natural Dam" and I don't want to repeat questions on another one. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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How would you go about figuring out the cut back rate and the force flow calc?
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There's a rather extreme geocache not far from where we live called Blowing Cave Bonus Cache.
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They have the submittal guidelines listed at EarthCache.org.
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It is under 0.10mi. It's a great cache and I know we really enjoyed hunting it. I've spoken with the owner through email before without problem. I'm hoping to hear something in the next day or two.
Maybe I'm a little slow, so someone educate me. Why do you have to get permission for an earth cache, is it just being polite or is it a Groundspeak rule? An earth cache isn't a physical thing, you just gather some information and log the cache.This EarthCache will be (hopefully) at the Natural Dam waterfall. It's a forest service recreational area and both the Ozark and Ouachita NF require a permit for any cache virtual or otherwise. Our state parks even require a permit to place a waymark in a state park. It sounds restrictive but it is actually better for everyone since they have embraced geocaching and encourage it. I'm hoping to work with our forest geologist to get quite a few EarthCaches placed in our forests.
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I hope I'm posting this in the right thread. I have a question regarding permission for EarthCache development.
We've selected a site and filled out the required permit which, after discussing it with the district ranger, I'm assured will be approved. I even contacted a member of the Arkansas Geological Society regarding the feature and she was very helpful. There's just one glitch. I contacted the owner of a nearby cache and asked if he would mind my placing an EarthCache nearby and got no response. I'm waiting for a response to my second email but I'm afraid I may get ignored again. If so, can I still place the EarthCache without their permission?
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We love earthcaches. We've never visited any location where the kids asked so many questions. There are just a handful scattered throughout Arkansas but we're working at hiding some now. It's tough finding information for some of the sites but we're working on it.
Don't know what part of Arkansas you are in but take a look at the Little Missouri Falls that are SE of Big Fork. I was going to try to develop that but I didn't save my pics from when I visited.
We live in west central Arkansas. We've camped at the Albert Pike campground very near there many times. That would be a great place for an earthcache. I thought about placing an earthcache there but there is already a cache at that location. There's a little known waterfall nearby called Crooked Creek Falls that I thought about developing and also a small cave called window rock near the campground.
It may take awhile but we'll get some placed here and hopefully spark some more interest in them.
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We love earthcaches. We've never visited any location where the kids asked so many questions. There are just a handful scattered throughout Arkansas but we're working at hiding some now. It's tough finding information for some of the sites but we're working on it.
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Dead..as..a..doornail.
I really have no idea what a doornail has to do with anything but as far as caches go, not counting mine or my sons, there have been two placed within twenty minutes of our house in the last eight months. -
I'll jump in here. I reached a milestone recently by finally finding GCNEMT Summit of Sugarloaf Mountain. It was made even better because my thirteen year old son and our friends Cardinal and Red Ink took part in this adventure also.
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PM sent.
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It's common practice to claim temporary caches at events here in Arkansas. Cachers usually log each cache individually on the event page or on one of the event sponsor's caches or sometimes both. It's been that way at every event we've attended or seen here. With the exception of the smaller meet and greet's.
We ourselves have never claimed any but some cachers do. People play the game differently.
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I'd like to nominate the Arkansas Geocachers Association
The Arkansas Geocachers Association or ArkGeo started when the Arkansas State Parks figured out there were some geocaches in their parks, they started trying to figure out what geocaching was. As a knee-jerk reaction, the park commission decided to ban geocaching in our state parks.
There was a huge turnout of geocachers at a public hearing to discuss the issue, and we managed to convince them that geocaching was park friendly, and we weren't going to be destroying the parks. As a result, they agreed to permit geocaches in the state parks, with some restrictions and regulation.
After the meeting several geocachers got to talking and realized that they needed a way to discuss local issues such as this, as well as coordinating local events, etc. That afternoon, a Yahoo Groups discussion list was set up, and shortly after, the web page.
ArkGeo is a great organization dedicated to promoting this hobby in our state. It serves as a place for members to get together on the forums to share ideas or just joke around. Businesses and representatives of our state parks also post asking geocachers input on projects that they are working on.
Our very first annual event will be held on May 31st and March is the inaugural month for regularly scheduled monthly meetings to be held across the state.
The best thing about ArkGeo is of course its members. Everyone is super friendly and eager to help out whether you're asking a question about which GPSr to start geocaching with or needing volunteers for a boy scout outing or anything.
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Great shot! I was really wanting to get a look since it will be two years before we get another chance but alas, not so much as a star due to all the clouds
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Yup, I'm a FTF hog. I have the email notifications and an iPhone. No matter where I'm at I get the notification and off I go. Our reviewer changes things up a bit. I've seen some published as late as 9 pm and as early as 6:30 am. I only work 3 days a week so chances are if one is published on my days off I'll get the FTF. No cheating involved...if some folks get tired of me logging the FTF's then they need to be faster.
PS-there is a bit of competition here between 3 of us....we've all had our share of wins...LOL.
He's not kidding. One of the cachers LM mentioned actually drove roughly 100 miles (round trip) just to get a cache that had been placed near where I live. We don't really care about being FTF but reading their logs and following the "competition" is very entertaining. -
I wear a pair of the New Balance 965's. These shoes are great! Like sbell111 said they really will stick to anything including wet rock. They're also very comfortable.
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There's a geocacher in our area that has over 800 finds and rarely uses a GPS. I had the privilege of accompanying him on several cache hunts and it was a lot of fun!
He uses a combination of: viewing satellite photos beforehand, Delorme software on his laptop to get in the area, and then tracking skills to find the cache.
The tracking part is what is the most fun and sometimes a little sad. Some caches have such a clear trail right to GZ That I'm amazed they don't get muggled. We did hunt a FTF together and he was able to see where the hider had walked and even impressions in the ground where the hider had stood for awhile revealing where the cache was hidden. It was impressive.
As a bonus, not using a GPS is a neat way to make some of the dull urban hides a lot more challenging.
Geocaching without a GPS is a more unorthodox way of finding caches but I believe it fits perfectly with the spirit of this hobby.
It was a very unfortunate incident but with everyone showing willingness to work with officials the outcome is better than anyone could have asked for.
I really have no idea what a doornail has to do with anything but as far as caches go, not counting mine or my sons, there have been two placed within twenty minutes of our house in the last eight months.
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That's really sad news.
Hopefully we can meet the qualifications for silver before the deadline. I'd be more than happy to buy our silver if we don't though. This is a wonderful program and I would like to thank geoaware and everyone else involved for all of their hard work. We've had a blast participating so far and look forward to more fun! 