bradleyhenley
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Small membership at the present time, but its a positive step.Geocache - Responsibly
Huh, interesting link.
Its a start. Thank You.
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Now if they would just outlaw caches placed in the medians of divided roadways.
The geocaches in the medians and on bridges are against the guidelines of Geocaching.com along with multiple other placements. Please refer to (http://support.Groundspeak.com/index.php?pg=kb.page&id=306)
But the reviewer will continue to publish all geocache placements.
As I have run into down in East Texas little if any reviewing is being done at this time.
1) Geocache Nano’s approved on bridge guard rails.
2)100's of plastic geocache placements in the National Forest (that are prone to controlled burns every other year) with no permit being filed or approved.
3) I have seen a geocache on the big blue U.S. Post box outside the local post that had been active for just under 5 years with 80+ smiles.
Geocache - Responsibly
Stop making up your own rules.
Please refer to original responce I do not make up rules. I have just informed myself as best I could.
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Huh, interesting link.
This is my attempt to get the information together for future referance
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Now if they would just outlaw caches placed in the medians of divided roadways.
The geocaches in the medians and on bridges are against the guidelines of Geocaching.com along with multiple other placements. Please refer to (http://support.Groundspeak.com/index.php?pg=kb.page&id=306)
Nothing about medians in there that I can see.
Cache is problematic due to its ""proximity"" to a public structure ""including and not limited"" to highway bridges, dams, government buildings, military bases, schools, hospitals, airports and other such locations.
prox•im•i•ty
–noun
nearness in place, time, order, occurrence, or relation.
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Now if they would just outlaw caches placed in the medians of divided roadways.
The geocaches in the medians and on bridges are against the guidelines of Geocaching.com along with multiple other placements. Please refer to (http://support.Groundspeak.com/index.php?pg=kb.page&id=306)
But the reviewer will continue to publish all geocache placements.
As I have run into down in East Texas little if any reviewing is being done at this time.
1) Geocache Nano’s approved on bridge guard rails.
2)100's of plastic geocache placements in the National Forest (that are prone to controlled burns every other year) with no permit being filed or approved.
3) I have seen a geocache on the big blue U.S. Post box outside the local post that had been active for just under 5 years with 80+ smiles.
Geocache - Responsibly
1 - not all bridges are off limits to Geocaches
2 - I know of no restriction in local National forests for either permits or metal boxes - so it isn't universal
3 - Did you post the appropriate NA log on that cache - it is possible the reviewer was unaware of the actual loaction.
The reviewers do not review for safety issues. But they do respond when offcials in the area have safety concerns.
1) As far as bridges - Ask Prime Reviewer - When I wanted to place a bridge series - I was told that placing any caches no mater what size near a bridge was against the guidelines of geocaching. Being that when a bridge would be maintained the cache could be considered a bomb. Note the multiple bomb scares recently.
2) As for the National Forest restrictions and permits. The National Forest, State Parks, and Historical sights/Markers all fall under Federal rule. Which are under several different reglatory offices. example the southern National Forest Referance (http://www.fs.fed.us/r8/texas/recreation/policy/geo_cache_regional_policy_fs_manual.pdf) And before you comment on the law stating Atlanta, Georga. Atlanta, Georgia is where the regional office is for region 8.
3)I have stated "NM" and "NA"
on the mail box it was Archived with hast.
on the National Forest that has created another issue that is getting resolved but it will take some time. There are 100's of caches with several different owners.
Ignorance is no longer an excuse. Please learn your states laws associated with Geocaching. We would like the sport to continue for a long time.
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Now if they would just outlaw caches placed in the medians of divided roadways.
The geocaches in the medians and on bridges are against the guidelines of Geocaching.com along with multiple other placements. Please refer to (http://support.Groundspeak.com/index.php?pg=kb.page&id=306)
But the reviewer will continue to publish all geocache placements.
As I have run into down in East Texas little if any reviewing is being done at this time.
1) Geocache Nanos approved on bridge guard rails.
2)100's of plastic geocache placements in the National Forest (that are prone to controlled burns every other year) with no permit being filed or approved.
3) I have seen a geocache on the big blue U.S. Post box outside the local post that had been active for just under 5 years with 80+ smiles.
Geocache - Responsibly
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If your around East Texas way April 2, 2011. Please stop by the Azalea Trail CITO 2011. This is the second Azalea Trail CITO event ygo2slow and I(bradleyhenley)have hosted. We are partnering with Angelina Beautiful Clean and The Chamber of Commerce for Lufkin Texas.
The Azalea Trail CITO event will be part of the Don't Mess with Texas Trash-off.
There is more information on the event page. http://coord.info/GC2M1KY
If you will be in the area and plan to attend. Please post a will attend we are trying to get an idea on the amount of attendees.
Thank You
Bradley Henley
bradleyhenley@yahoo.com
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Team Low Tech was started by two geocachers (ygo2slow and bradleyhenley) looking for other fellow geocacher to meet under one flag and attempt to fuel the fire of the growing sport of geocaching by finding fun and exciting things to do envolving the local area cachers.
If you are in the Angelina/Nacodoches counties or surrounding area please feel free to contact us.
www.teamlowtech.info
teamlowetech@gmail.com
We also have members world wide and growing by the day.
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As fellow geocachers we have run across the always disheartening DNF. As a group we can rid ourselves of these abandoned cache problems. With the help of all geocachers logging every DNF we can get these caches archived for active geocachers to replace and maintain. An easy way for one person the get an abandoned geocache archived is to follow-up. By following up on DNF's we can rid ourselves of these issues.
Step #1 - Actively look for a geocache, if not found, log as DNF!
Step #2 - 2 weeks later, if no new logs, log needs maintenance.
Step #3 - 1 month later, if still no new logs, log a needs archived
Step #4 - 1 month later, if the reviewer has not disabled, log needs archived
I have used this process several times with success.
Also be sure to log a note on every DNF, Needs Maintenance, Needs Archived stating "I'll be back for this one" or something that tells the owner/reviewer that you will be following up on this cache.
Bradley Henley
Team Low Tech - Lufkin
www.teamlowtech.info
If you have any other concerns email us at teamlowetech@gmail.com
Archival of E.T. Highway Series
in General geocaching topics
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as with the ET Highway. Cachers not finding a sutiable place to park (just stoping in the road) creates an issue all its own.