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Overlooking Jurassic Park (GC2KMPM). Admittedly a toposcope, not a trig pillar.

So, Lieblweb has a phobia of labels. Any attempt to categorise society is disadvantageous to minorities. The very word, "minority", is perjorative. It's all just a system to keep the privileged few at the top of the pile: And, yes, we are watching you Look, Lieblweb, I'm sorry but this "we're all people" stuff is daft when you refuse to acknowledge or discuss cultural differences. To get back to the OP's question, it's a fact that there's an ethnicity bias against minority participation in geocaching, and a few possible causes (again, in answer to the OP's question) have been discussed, ever so briefly, here. Posting, in effect, "don't talk about this stuff!" is counter-productive. Claiming that earlier discussion would have "disgusted" minority readers was ridiculous.

Geocaching is also a business. GS probably want their business to grow; so if there's a marketing bias, however innocent, that leaves a potentially large segment of the market untapped then they might want to do something about that. I seem to remember that there aren't many French cachers or caches on gc.com, in stark contrast to the take-up in Germany. Would it offend you less if gc.com took steps to entice more French players into the game?

"Sat" is being used as an adjective - think of "seated" instead. "What a numpty seated next to Chad".

At least two reasons: reach out to an untapped market, and cover themselves against charges of discrimination. I would hope and expect that the former is what motivates the NPS. If there's an ethnicity thing going on then perhaps the NPS, with a simple tweak to how they present their parks, could greatly increase visitor numbers. It makes sense to research the possibilities unless, that is, you've already written-off the non-white segment of society as "not being in to wilderness and stuff".

Oh, please. When there's obviously low attendance by non-Caucasians at National Parks, it makes perfect sense that the NPS and others should ask to what extent that's a problem that needs fixing. There's no need for you to be embarrassed by social science. Another couple of quotes (from a different report) for inquiring minds: and Interesting how different people are.

It seems there's plenty of research on the subject of ethnic variation in outdoors pursuits. For example (link) ... So when the OP asks, "Any theories?", well, there's your reading list for the great outdoors. (Can't help you when it comes to LPCs though!)

Worth a look: Outdoor Recreation Participation Report 2012. Page 44 shows a greater overall outdoor participation rate by Caucasians than by other ethnicities. Page 45 shows that African Americans aren't keen on hiking in particular. The stats are significant, but not so extreme as experienced here in geocaching. If Obama gets kicked out of the White House then perhaps he should run for president of gc.com instead

No, don't. Instead: "KILL IT. KILL IT WITH FIRE." Ha!

That worked out well and I didn't even tip off The Magna Defender to this thread Dog-almighty, you might want to reserve the spot now it's "open". Set up a basic cache listing page with the right coordinates, but leave it unpublished until everything's perfect with the physical hide.

So that's The Magna Defender, then. Don't ask him to archive his cache. Instead, just mail him, pointing him to this thread, and asking his advice on how you can best implement your idea. He might be willing to close down one of his caches to make room for yours, or perhaps can use his experience of the local area to suggest another suitable spot. The answer is but a quick PM away.

Ugh. I hope you removed the placcy bag. That's one bit of "theft" I think we can encourage.

... bringing new meaning to "motorway mayhem". (Edit: oops, "mayhem", not "madness")

Sabotage?

Two more: 1800x3300 black 1506x2850 grey

Well I suppose the locals might form an instant opinion of a new hider whose first and only contribution to the game was a death-defying challenge for freaky cat-like climbers You could put out a much more straightforward one at the same time if that bothers you.

"" - wtf? Don't get all haughty with me. It was a simple observation made for conversational purposes, not as a trailblazing scientific breakthrough. Thanks for doing the grunt work to enable it.

I'm not entirely convinced of the value of it but here it is. Look what it did to the City of London's ranking! The value? I just wanted to know where the "real" caches were, as I tend to take a dim view of micros.

Could you please repeat that analysis, restricting to caches marked as "regular" in size? Just curious.

I suppose you're just grouchy that you didn't get a poster of your own. Happy ten years, by the way.

The first two - keep archived; think of somewhere better. The third - new listing.

Wow. I was considering entering the competition until I saw that photo. Amazing! Game over.

There's a bookmark list that might help. I've found when walking with a five year-old that he'll forgive any amount of muddy trudging if he gets lunch in a pub. Not all pubs are equal though ... spend a bit of research time finding a good one first.

It's all rather two-dimensional. If I had landowner permission then I should be able to place a few caches at N25.197139 E55.274111 without falling foul of the 528' guideline.

OK, seriously for a moment, here's another - GC3VJJT. In the general scheme of Armstrong caches, it seems Lance has the yellow jersey at the moment.