Haffy

Anyone have a list of where they have all taken place?

I noticed that he isn't a validated member so he probably hasn't checked his email yet.

Just got all my PQ's, thanks to the TPTB.

Does anyone have an answer yet as to why the PQ's aren't running? Still waiting for mine after more then 2 hours.

I just created 5 new PQ's and they all say they haven't generated yet and it has been over a half hour since I created them. Something must be wrong as they usually generate and I get them in just a few minutes or even seconds.

Here is a great tutorial concerning pocket queries: http://www.markwell.us/pq.htm

Jeremy posted on FB that they were updating some code today so maybe that is the problem.

Well although I detect a hint of sarcasm in your post, just for fun let me tell you what I did - since the spot is not in any city limits I checked the county plat map just to see who controlled the land, and found it was BLM land. So, I went to their website and did a search on the words Geocache and Geocaching and found a PDF bulletin released back in 2005 that explained their general stance on having a cache on their managed land. It states that as long as it is not placed in a designated Wilderness or Wildlife protection area, that it is basically fine as long as it doesn't overstep what they consider to be a "casual use" activity. To make a long explanation short, an actual geocaching "event" would fit that definition, but a single cache wouldn't. So I should be fine right? Well, just to appease any doubts, I went ahead and e-mailed the local field office here, who's director I know since we have worked with him in building an R/C flying field on BLM land recently, and let him know what my intentions were, and asked what were his thoughts. His reply said since it wasn't on any restricted land and it fit their guidelines that it was fine. (just fyi there's already 2 cache's along the same road further up the mountain) They are well aware of Geocaching and it's place, and actually support it (from what I can tell) as a means to get people out - I even found a PDF pamphlet on their website talking about "stepping lightly" while geocaching or while enjoying the land that the public has every right to enjoy. Great job on your first hide!!! Sounds like you did everything right the 1st time, And maybe it will keep people like the bigfurrymonster from making hurried judgements before they open their mouths.

There is no reason.

It's still your usual micro in a guardrail or stop sign so what's the sense in that? I don't get it.

Acadia NP in Maine has a great earthcache program. http://www.nps.gov/acad/earthcache.htm

So Cameo what you are using now?

I'd love to since I am the owner of the Maine cache,which is being maintained by a good friend since I moved down here to SC. Wish I could help out but I live in SC, not too far from the border so if it takes too long to get someone who lives in NC I would be willing to help out.

My glass is at least half full...what is yours? Half full? Really? A couple of Earthcaches compared to how many real caches you just threw under the bus? You not remember the whole argument of why virtual caches had to go away? Why virtuals would not be coming back no matter how hard it is to get a cache on NPS land or outright prohibited in USF&W lands? It is exact situations like this. Yeah, I guess as long as you get yours, nothing else matters. Yeah, great news that you've pretty much told the authorities that Earthcaches are every bit as good as real caches. Ya'll just made it harder for the rest of us to convince them to allow physical caches. Yeah, thanks for looking at the bigger picture and your fellow cacher. Yeah, also thanks to Groundspeak for bringing Earthcaches back to the real geocaching side. Nice set up for a situation like this. CR, I respect your opinion and know that you must be pretty pissed about the ruling as am I. If I had placed some caches and was told I would have to archive them I would feel the same way. I haven't lived here in this state very long so forgive me if I sounded like I like the ban and that is so far from the truth. My only feeling is that since we have to abide by the ban then I think that earth caches are at least a partial compromise to visiting areas that we normally wouldn't go to were it not for caching. For me personally it's not the container or the swag that I cache for. I mean how many caches nowadays have anything at all left by the time they are pilfered of any good swag at all. For me personally it is the adventure in getting to that special place that the CO has brought me there to in the 1st place. I never once said earthcaches are everybit as good as a regular caches but in the meantime I think we have to respect the law and work on getting it changed if that is what is needed. I wonder how many of your elected officials have seen any of this topic. I doubt they even halfway know what geocaching is about. I can say that it was probably one or more careless geocachers who didn't get the proper permission and other cachers looking for the cache and trampled some sensitive areas that brought about the ban to begin with. We all must take the proper precautions when hiding caches. Like I said in a previous post ,all it takes is one bad apple to spoil it for the rest of us. Unforunately if was probably only 1 or 2 cachers who caused this to happen.

Hmm, here is the link to the website and the coin ordering is on the right hand side of the page. http://www.geocachingmaine.org/

My glass is at least half full...what is yours?

If you have a premium membership then all you have to do is make a Pocket Query of the caches that you want and you will receive a GPX file of those caches to your email address. Check out this topic for your answers. http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php...amp;hl=markwell You also have a great geocaching organization up there as well. http://atlanticgeocaching.com/index.php?op...ge&Itemid=1

What's the GSAk macro you're referring to?

I myself havent' cached in the area but from looking at the zipcode 29925, I can say that probably any caches by Waterbaron will be quality caches and not the average P&G. Hope that will help some.

I have updated my PTR Earthcache description to reflect the recommendation by TNC. The SCDNR point-of-contact mentioned by TNC is: Brett M. Moule Region 3 Heritage Preserve Manager S.C. Dept of Natural Resources 2730 Fish Hatchery Road West Columbia, SC 29172 803-755-2834 Office 803-755-0617 Fax MouleB@dnr.sc.gov That's great news!!! It's good to at least hear that they are receptive to earthcaches at least in this preserve and hopefully we now have a precedant that will allow other earthcaches in the preserves and WMA's to be allowed in the future. Thanks for all your hard work.

Get your geocaching friend 2FastLX to buy you a membership, he seems to have a good job....

I noticed that you are not a premium member as of yet. Hey for 30 bux a year you can't beat the price for all the added benefits you get. Pocket queries, instant notifications and many others that are too numerous to mention. Well worth the price for admission.

You might want to try here: http://www.travelbygps.com/z_links/appalachian_trail.php

As Fegan stated, what is this waypoint tool you keep referring to?

Here is a nice tutorial that my friend Brdad put together. http://www.geocachingmaine.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1637