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Welsh:
You might consider starting a section of chain in Iowa if you aren't currently close enough to the "west" end of the Wisconsin-Illinois-Indiana chain. In my opinion (and someone else may certainly have a different idea) the goal could be to head towards and ultimately connect with the existing California-Nevada-Utah Chain. You definitely want to head west not south.
Viewing the chains that currently exist and are moving eastward the most obvious route would be for the chain to continue moving east of Salt Lake City into Wyoming or Colorado and then into Nebraska to connect with a westward moving chain coming from Wisconsin and your own state, Iowa. From what I can tell there are a lot of caches hidden along the I-80 corridor east of Salt Lake. If anyone along that route could add some links of chain that would get things really moving to help connect the east and west coast chains. Of course since I don't live in that area, the direction the chains take depends on what the Geocachers in the Great Plains states decide to do:)
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Good work everyone. I see that the Wisconsin- Illinois-Indiana CacheAcrossAmerica chain extending eastward (currently east end chain is at Indianas First)is now within 110 miles of the NY,Michigan, Ohio chain extending westward (currently west end of chain is at Torndado Alley). Good work everyone-now we just need the folks in NY to get moving and extend their end of the chain east to connect with the chain crossing Mass. For anyone interested in helping check out and send e-mails to the group below:
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Count another Ohioan in-what a great Idea-I would want one for Ohio, Michigan, NY, PA, and Idaho where I plan to go Geocaching in August!
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Count another Ohioan in-what a great Idea-I would want one for Ohio, Michigan, NY, PA, and Idaho where I plan to go Geocaching in August!
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Cache Across America ia a project whose goal is to link Geocaches in a continuous chain from the Atlantic Coast to the Pacific Coast. Each Cache in the chain must be NO further than 100 miles from the one it connects to. The West Chain has already extended from the Pacific Coast east into Nevada and a promising section is crossing Massachusetts extending westward and hopefully will connect with the NY-Ohio segment. There is also an Illinois-Wisconsin Segement that already exist that hopefully will be connecting with with the Ohio-NY segment shortly.
We need help from Geocachers in the Central states west of Wisconsin to extend the Northern section of the chain westward. You can start an east-west chain in your state by submitting caches you own or have visited within 100 miles of each other and/or join the existing segment by visiting the last cache in the chain closest to you and then e-mailing the Yahoo Group with the info and name of the cache or caches.
All the info you need to help the project out can be found at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CacheAcrossAmerica/
thanks, zoisrus (Ohio Geocacher)
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I am in NE Ohio-but might be interested in a picnic get together depending on when it is planned since August is out for me. Columbus is only 2.5-3 hours drive south so possibly other NE Ohio people might be interested.
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I am in NE Ohio-but might be interested in a picnic get together depending on when it is planned since August is out for me. Columbus is only 2.5-3 hours drive south so possibly other NE Ohio people might be interested.
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joethielen has connected his Toledo, Ohio caches to the west end of the Ohio,Michigan,NY CacheAcrossAmerica chain. Any chance anyone from North East Indiana, Western Toledo areas could connect a cache or several caches (any caches you have hidden or visited personally) to Wasteland:
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.asp?ID=1673
joethielen may be connecting a couple more of his other geocaches to Wasteland when he has a chance so he may move the chain west of Toledo this weekend which would make it easier for the NE Indiana people to connect to.
Thanks in advance for helping out.
zoisrus
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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CacheAcrossAmerica/
CacheAcrossAmerica is a fun project whose goal is to link Geocaches within 100 miles of each other in a continuous chain from the east coast to the west coast. I've started a chain in NE Ohio and I've extended it by link caches I've personally found west into to SE Michigan (South of Detroit) and east to Darien Center (near Buffalo), New York. If my fellow Geocachers in and around the New York State area would like to help this project out by extending my portion of the chain all the way east to the Atlantic Coast I would appreciate the help. The site address I've provided above will provide all the info you need to participate, add caches to the end of an exisiting chain, and ask further quesitons.
I thought I had posted this note on April 15th, but when I check I didn't find it? So sending it again.
Thanks, zoisrus
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The link I mentioned in my initial post:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CacheAcrossAmerica/
will provide more detailed info on the CacheAcrossAmerica project. The page above will also provide you with e-mail addresses so you can contact the appropriate person to answer more detailed questions about this project or if you have any caches you would like to connect to end of an existing change. Thanks for your interest
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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CacheAcrossAmerica/
CacheAcrossAmerica is trying to link caches within 100 miles of each other in a chain from coast to coast. I've started a chain in NE Ohio and extended it West to SE Michigan (South of Detroit) and east to Buffalo, NY. I need some Indiana and Michigan and Ohio folks to help out by linking this chain to the chain some folks in Illinois have formed.
Thanks, zoisrus
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Where is the cheapest place to buy the Garmin Map Software (how recently have the maps been updates on the software?) and cables. Also trying to decide which map CD. I've been told the Topo map software also provides side roads. I am interested in software that shows side roads not shown on state maps. I need something that provides sideroads, so that I can get to Geocache site in unfamiliar areas and states such as PA who don't seem to sell the comprehensive red county map books that they do in Ohio-I don't have any particular need for metroguides-city streets. Thanks.
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Has anyone had the experience of telling someone far away about Geocaching for the first time-someone who lives an ocean away. I just had the unexpected and very pleasant experience of explaining Geocaching to a young woman who lives literally half a world away from me. Nat lives near East London, East Cape down in South Africa. She had ICQ'ed initially just chat about shared hobbies (camping, hiking, and training dogs) and she knew what a GPS was. HOwever she had never heard of Geocaching when I mentioned it was something I enjoyed right along with hiking and dog activities. After I explained Geocaching briefly, Nat said it sounded like a exciting hobby but that she doubted anyone did it in South Africa. So I quickly went to the website and e-mailed her the link to the list of 96 cache sites in her country. That info was of course news to her. Now Nat is REALLY interested in finding out more about our hobby. The power of the internet with regard to reaching out to individuals all over the world......it will never cease to amaze..
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"As a supporter of caching I hope things can be settled, but I think it is important to remember that this park system has a policy against hiking off trail. This is not a policy to prevent geocaching, but a policy to protect pristine areas found in the county."
With regard to the above statement that would make sense if it was public knowledge, however my friends and I have NEVER EVER seen anything posted publicly on site at any of the parks I've visited that states the above.
Examples of this policy not being adhered to:
1. Fishermen have created their own trailstrails to get to various river locations to go fishing in the parks and the park sytem park obviously has allowed that to happen as they continue to permit fishing. I've seen the many resulting social trails personally.
2. I also know for a fact that the Lake Metroparks Horse Posse has gone off trail with Lake Metropark owned horses in Lake Metroparks as have many other riders. Surely a few Geocachers looking for a Geocache will have far less impact environmentally than the hoof prints of 1200+lb horses!
Like most people, I appreciate the importance of protecting the environment and preventing damage of fragile plant life. However not sure why walking on dry leaves (not on plants) in nonfragile areas would pose a threat to the environment especially in rural parks that are several hundred pristine acres in size with minimal miles of trails of trails running through them. Not that many people go Geocaching in rural areas anyway.
Just playing Devil's Advocate here and giving my opinion about this so called policy with regard to Geocaches specifically when the same policy hasn't been inforced for other instances which cause far more environmental damage?
The best idea I have heard so far is for a Geocache site to be approved ahead of time by the park system it to be placed in (as Carly was talking about in another forum) and then to be moved as needed to prevent an obvious trail from forming and to never be placed in a fragile area to begin with. However one thing to keep in mind, IF caches are hidden too close to a trail they are subject to being easily discovered accidentally or otherwise by nongeocachers and vadalized or stolen as has happened.
Will be interesting to see what happens!
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Thanks for being proactive and taking the initiative to approach Lake Metroparks representatives BEFORE they decided officially what stand to take with regard to allowing Geocaches in their park system.
I've spoken with Carly Martin, the Naturalist for the Cleveland Metroparks System who has hidden the caches and who was interviewed by the Plain Dealer. During our conversation, she mentioned that they will be giving a presentation about Geocaching to naturalists from various park systems at an upcoming meeting (in Mid-March).
Hopefully since the Cleveland Metroparks are publically promoting Geocaching and obviously feel it is a benefit for their parks to allow it, the other park officials/naturalists in attendance at that meeting will follow Cleveland Metroparks' fine example and view Geocaching as yet another way to promote their parks to the public. Once other park representatives have a chance to find out exactly what Geocaching is about from one of their own and can ask some questions they may look at it in a more positive light. They will see that Geocachers really ARE sensitive to environmental issues and other concerns in addition to wanting to enjoy the parks their hard earned tax dollars are paying for in a fun new way.
CacheAcrossAmerica needs caches in the central US to link to the East West Chain across America
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Welsh:
You might consider starting a section of chain in Iowa if you aren't currently close enough to the "west" end of the Wisconsin-Illinois-Indiana chain. In my opinion (and someone else may certainly have a different idea) the goal could be to head towards and ultimately connect with the existing California-Nevada-Utah Chain. You definitely want to head west not south.
Viewing the chains that currently exist and are moving eastward the most obvious route would be for the chain to continue moving east of Salt Lake City into Wyoming or Colorado and then into Nebraska to connect with a westward moving chain coming from Wisconsin and your own state, Iowa. From what I can tell there are a lot of caches hidden along the I-80 corridor east of Salt Lake. If anyone along that route could add some links of chain that would get things really moving to help connect the east and west coast chains. Of course since I don't live in that area, the direction the chains take depends on what the Geocachers in the Great Plains states decide to do
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CacheAcrossAmerica/