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Hi,
If I would like to issue a geocoin (like 30-50), would it be possible for Groundspeak to issue me some TB numbers so that they could function in the system?
nfa
Edit: haven't had coffee, having trouble typing
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Here in the old-time woodsy adirondacks we like to rely on the time -tested methods of yesteryear...I limp/stumble/fall into the hot-tub, and administer ibuprofen and bourbon internally.
What can I say, I'm old-fashioned.
nfa
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sometimes I'll TICO (Trash In, Cache Out) which means I bring trash into a set of coordinates, and take the cache home with me.
NFA
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Hi,
...and about the term "geocaching"...couldn't we come up with a new term for that?
How about "GPS-stuff-hiding" or "Hide-the-ammo-can"?
nfa
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Hi,
I'm curous, but how much do they cost...I can get 160 freezer weight gallon ziplock bags for $10 at Sams Club.
nfa
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Hi,
I don't know if I CITO as much as I should, but I know that I do it about as much as I did before I started geocaching.
I've always carried a plastic bag (normally a couple of grocery store bags) with me when I go for a walk, hike, canoe, or ski...it's just a part of the stuff that goes into my backpack or fannypack. I pick up trash when I think of it, almost always when I see stuff like broken glass or soda/beer bottles/cans. I do not stop for every cigarette butt I see.
I do the same thing when I am caching, maybe a little more when I am getting close to the cache (I'm paying more attention to the environment by then).
nfa
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so...
If I have 12, that would put me in the top 97%...
Well, that's something
nfa
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my last cache, on my own property up here, took about 2 weeks to get approved
nfa
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Hi,
just to comment on another topic related to this one...
this cache definitely falls within the "frisbee rule" type of area...I actually have seen people throwing a frisbee in the area where the cache is placed.
nfa
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Perhaps you just need to take a breath and relax. The reviewer for your cache posted the following note on your cache.
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I'm placing this cache on hold until I can visit the site, hopefully this weekend. Once I have visited the cache so I better understand the hide I'll present it to the other admins for their opinions on the commercial aspect.
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Looks to me like he is going above and beyond the call here. Saying that he is taking the time and trouble to go look at the cache makes me think that this is a person that is really trying to approve this cache. He also indicates that he wants the opinion of other reviewers. This again looks like someone trying to work with you to get the cache approved. Give it a little time.
Hi,
First off...{{DEEP BREATH}}
Next, I do appreciate his coming out to look at the cache...I hope he had other reasons for visiting the ADKs
C) it still seems that this cache is getting more scrutiny than other similar ones I've seen on gc.com ( that being my original point)
4) If he really wanted to work with me to get caches approved, he could have given me advice like some of the posters in this forum...instead, he quoted gc.com's commercial cache guideline and inserted some "we can still be friends" material, and buried the part about visiting the site in the middle of it (I didn't notice it until later, see below to understand my confusion...I read the beginning, and then skimmed through the fluff, missing the proposed visit entirely...my bad).
Hello, I am an admin with Geocaching.com and I have reviewed this cache for listing on the website. Unfortunately, It appears to be placed in Donnelly's Ice Cream stand. Commercial caches are not permitted.Please consult the guidelines and for placing a cache, found here
Commercial Caches / Caches That Solicit
What is a commercial cache? A commercial use of the web site cache reporting tool is an direct or indirect (either intentional or non-intentional) attempt to solicit customers through a geocaching.com listing. Examples include for-profit locations that require an entrance fee, or locations that sell products or services.
I'm placing this cache on hold until I can visit the site, hopefully this weekend. Once I have visited the cache so I better understand the hide I'll present it to the other admins for their opinions on the commercial aspect.
Please don't hesitate to respond with an explanation if it's been misjudged or after you've amended it to meet the guidelines. If you have any questions, go to your cache page and email me via the link to my profile on the archive log, or email me directly at newyorkreviewer@hotmail.com . Please be sure to include the caches name and GC# or URL with your email.
Thanks,
New York Admin - geocaching.com
NOTE: Do not reply to this email directly. The communication will not be received. To ensure a prompt response, please follow the method of contact described above.
Anyway, I am grateful for his attention to detail, his willingness to visit the site, and his being a volunteer. I also appreciate the feedback from people in this forum...we'll see what happens...
NFA
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I have no way of measuring it, but I bet the water out of an older camelbak "LEACHING' anything is less a hazzard than breathing in most urban areas. Do you wear a filter?
Duh...of course...
I actually wear 2 filters, in case one leaks.
I also wear a tin-foil helmet (and keep a spare in my pack) to protect me from gamma rays and aliens.
nfa
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You might want to have it say "This cache is on private property, placed with permission. You do not need to enter the nearby store or buy anything to log this cache"
Hi,
I have altered the wording such that it now includes your suggestion.
Thanks,
NFA
If only approvers were allowed to give advice on how to improve cache listings
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I had a notice on the listing saying that although there was a business on site, you didn't have to buy anything to log the cache, but I took it off this morning in case it was miscontrued as an advert by the approver.
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The business is Donnelly's Ice Cream, 6 miles outside of Saranac Lake, with acres of green grass for people to sit on and enjoy one of the most beautiful views in the adirondacks.
nfa
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Caching Adirondackers Circumventing Hiding Embargoes
No...not really, I just wanted to come up with a acronym for adkrs
An analgram sounds like what men over 40 go to their doctors for every year or so...just relax...
NFA
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Hi,
I live and cache in the Adirondacks, and placing caches on state forest preserve land is not allowed. I don't agree with that policy, but can live with it...
I set up a cache, with permission, on the private property of a local business. The cache is not in the store where business is transacted, just on the business's property (about 150 feet away from the store in the grass and sticks of the many acres the business owner owns). Nobody has to buy anything to visit the cache, find the cache, or log the cache. The approver has said that this cache is contrary to gc.com's commercial guidelines...
I just don't see it...I've read the guidelines, and they don't seem to apply to this cache...if they do, then there are thousands of other caches in New York State and around the world that are also contrary to the commercial guidelines.
I feel as though I'm jumping through extra hoops that the millions of micros in parking lots (of businesses) and scattered throughout cities (near businesses) are for some reason exempt from.
Before you flame me about "blah, blah, blah, talk to contact@geocaching.com...", please understand that I have already. The previous approver was the one who denied me the right to place a virtual on this site, saying that it would take up space that should be utilized by a micro...I followed his advice, got permission, placed the micro, and am now in a similar runaround with the new approver.
Forgive my frustrated venting...he'll approve it or not (as is his right), I just find the whole thing frustrating...I'm not trying to rob anyone, cheat anyone, or hurt anyone...I'm trying to place caches in a cache poor environment to help the sport, and getting slapped around for my troubles.
Sigh...
NFA
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Hi,
I'm forming a geocaching group for Northern New York, and I hope that you'll join.
The mission of Northern New York Geocachers (NNYGeo) is to increase awareness, appreciation, and enjoyment of geocaching in Northern New York.
Activities of NNYG will include online forum and chat opportunities, geocaching-related education and outreach, and geocaching events and activities.
I hope that we can work together to enhance geocaching in Northern New York. Please visit the site today and become a member...there is no cost, and you have nothing to lose and lots to gain!
Thanks,
NFA - Jamie
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My home is in the Adirondack Park in Upstate New York. It is a park made up of around 6 million acres, 45% of it public land and 55% of it private land. The park is mostly wild land, with a few towns scattered throughout. The area that I live in is almost as much water as land, which makes for great canoeing and kayaking. We routinely have winter storms dumping 2 or more feet of snow in a 24 hour period, and the temperatures can get into the -40 range (C & F, as this is where they meet). Visit my profile to see some pictures I've taken while out caching, and feel free to get n touch if you're coming through and/or have questions.
NFA
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To whom it may concern,
I would be happy to place YJTBs throughout caches in upstate New York. I love the idea of the event, and would really like to be a part of it. I can easily/happily place 10-20 YJTBs, and would even be glad to paypal you the postage (as I would think that postage for all of the YJTBs would add up quickly). On the other hand, I'm just as happy to simply be involved in the search.
NFA
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To whom it may concern,
I would be happy to place YJTBs throughout caches in upstate New York. I love the idea of the event, and would really like to be a part of it. I can easily/happily place 10-20 YJTBs, and would even be glad to paypal you the postage (as I would think that postage for all of the YJTBs would add up quickly). On the other hand, I'm just as happy to simply be involved in the search.
NFA
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Hi,
I recently listed a cache, and had some initial trouble getting it approved.
The map the Mtn-Man was using shows the cache location to be on state preserve land, which in my neck of the woods is off limits to placing physical caches. We had some back and forth, including my losing my cool a bit.
Mtn-Man ended up approving the cache while placing a log that stated:
The cache owner has assured me that this cache is on private property and that no state land must be crossed to access the cache. If there are any problems the cache will be archived.Although I was not happy about the log at first, I now can see how this was really a great compromise on the part of the approver. The cache has been visited a number of times without mishap, it's about 200 yards behind my house through the woods (and really is on my land), but gc.com was/is protected in the case that I had been deceiving them.
This is a great example of the lengths to which gc.com approvers will go to work with geocachers to protect and enhance the sport.
NFA
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Hi,
I use a bladder in the warm months, and nalgene bottle in the cold...the hose kept freezing when I would go out in the winter with the bladders.
I find I like the taste better with the nalgene bottles, but like the convenience of the bladder for drinking on the go and also for its compactability when empty.
They also make much better pillows than nalgene bottles do.
NFA
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yawn...
Thanks for all the love.
Hi Ferreter5,
Not yawning at you in particular, but at the circular nature of this discussion thread...nobody knows more than they did a couple of weeks ago, and I find it frustrating...NYGO appears even less active than gc.com (and they have more at stake)...people keep asking for updates or info, and being referred to the same old and incomplete information...talking about the need to do something, but not doing anything.
I have asked both here and at NYGO about helping in a plan, but it appears that the plan is to wait out the DEC, perhaps hoping they grow too old to run down cachers...
I'm still ready to help in any way that I can, but found myself bored with the discussion last night, and exercised my right/ability to express myself (in a forum, noone can see you yawn, so you have to type it).
Sorry for any offense, none was intended,
NFA
P.S. - btw Ferreter5, nothing but love for you and all the people concerned with protecting the rights of outdoors people in New York.
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Hi,
Just to follow up on a comment another member made...why don't you have/use a GPS unit? is it a choice, or is there some reason you do not (cannot) use one?
NFA
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These are all from Ed Abbey:
Nature is indifferent to our love, but never unfaithful.
Remaining silent about the destruction of nature is an endorsement of that destruction.
We need wilderness because we are wild animals. Every man needs a place where he can go to go crazy in peace. Every Boy Scout deserves a forest to get lost, miserable, and starving in. Even the maddest murderer of the sweetest wife should get a chance for a run to the sanctuary of the hills. If only for the sport of it. For the terror, freedom, and delirium. Because we need brutality and raw adventure, because men and women first learned to love in, under, and all around trees, because we need for every pair of feet and legs about ten leagues of naked nature, crags to leap from, mountains to measure by, deserts to finally die in when the heart fails.
The idea of wilderness needs no defense. It only needs more defenders.
The essence of true wilderness is big mammals that can eat you.
A journey into the wilderness is the freest, cheapest, most nonprivileged of pleasures. Anyone with two legs and the price of a pair of army surplus combat boots may enter.
You do your needed work out of love, the love that dares not speak its name, the love of spareness, beauty, open space, clear skies, and flowing streams, grizzly bear and mountain lion, wolf pack and twelve-pack, of wilderness and wanderlust and primal human freedom and so forth.
Benedicto:
May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. May your rivers flow without end, meandering through pastoral valleys tinkling with bells, past temples and castles and poets towers into a dark primeval forest where tigers belch and monkeys howl, through miasmal and mysterious swamps and down into a desert of red rock, blue mesas, domes and pinnacles and grottos of endless stone, and down again into a deep vast ancient unknown chasm where bars of sunlight blaze on profiled cliffs, where deer walk across the white sand beaches, where storms come and go as lightning clangs upon the high crags, where something strange and more beautiful and more full of wonder than your deepest dreams waits for you --- beyond that next turning of the canyon walls.
I would love to read some favorites of other forum members...
Thanks,
nfa