TerryDad2

That looks like the one. Some day I may get out there.

Has someone set up and EarthCache at the I68 roadcut through Sileling Hill in Maryland? http://www.mgs.md.gov/esic/brochures/sideling.html

I'm been keeping in touch with rangers to review 20 or so locations for the past 2 years. The request has changed hands and I'm assured that my request is always in their mind. But there is always something more pressing on thier agenda, loss of staff, forest fires, avalanches, building fires, rock slides. It puts my request in perspective. Though I would appreciate return calls and/or e-mails.

Hopefully they will get those cachers not already interested in EarthCaches to have a look and get hooked. And show the PTB that these cache types are valued by their customers.

This is still off topic. The question of what drives cachers to want to keep track of the numbers of EarthCaches they find and why those same cachers feel they need recognition for or want to advertise their accomplishments is a very serious question that deserves being elevated to its own thread and shouldn't be buried in this different topic that was started to discuss the specific mundane mechanics and requirements of additional levels of the EarthCache Masters program.

This is off topic and should be started as a new thread in the general Geocaching forum since the question appies to all cache types.

May I ask you (and those others that are excited) why some icon or virtual reward (whatever it is called) provides you with motivation to get out and visit Earthcaches? Either one is interested into ECs or one isn't. To me this sounds like in nursery school where most children want to get a blue ribbon if one child gets one. You need not answer. There is no need to justify your excitement. I am just curious. I am aware that I used a why question, but it is ok for me if my question remains unanswered. Cezanne For us introverts, they are a conversation starter to share EarthCaches. All I really need to know I learned in Kindergarten

Are you still looking for volunteers?

I am hoping that the new levels will include the finding EarthCaches from the various classifications.

I'm not there yet. Though you should look through the Earthcache - California Challenge of a Century Unknown Cache.

soon http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=268247&view=findpost&p=4695777

Already starting to work on the family to head out there. I think it will take them a while to warm up to it. Unfortunately our schools start the Wednesday prior to Memorial Day, just in time to take a vacation day!

Time to put this thread on my watch list then.

I'm ready for the new levels. Will past finds be usable for the new levels?

Congrats!

Should I cry if I didn't get one Not that I could go anyway .

I've got one just of the Southern California coast. It just needs snorkling to get to but it is a popular SCUBA diving place. It is White's Point Hydrothermal Vents.

Did you also post a "Note to Reviewer" log? Or you could send an email directly to the reviewer using the profile.

I was wondering the same thing. I hope you are allowed to adopt them. Losing so many would be a significant loss to the EarthCache program. Worst case, someone could copy each of his cache pages and resubmit them and adopt them back to him when he comes back. I would do it but I haven't been to any of his in the last month.

The only real issue I have seen is that YOU must take the original coordinates. Oh yea. Quite true. I forgot that and a very good thing to point out.

I know this guy in Southern California that listed ECs, in Maine, Mississippi, Arizona, Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Northern California and Australia . The only thing stopping him from doing more is time and money for travel. I don't know of an official policy on that. My experience is that it won't matter. A warning (and I'll duck and cover here as I've seen it in multiple posts ), you will get multiple responses saying it shouldn't be allowed for this or that reason (typically for maintenance issues, but you'll see many other issues). Don't let that stop you contributing to the EC list.

It's in White Rock, British Columbia. Imagine that, White Rock. Who would have thought of that name?

The one with the white rock (erratic) is in Brittish Columbia, near Victoria I think. The others I don't recognize.

I had to get a special use permit for the EarthCaches I listed in Devil's Postpile NM. The special use permit there had a clause that allowed the fee to be waived for educational activities. This may apply. You can use those as examples. I heard of one park, Smokey Mountains as I recall, wanted $200 for thier fee. I have found many NP take quite a while to get back to me. Yosemite was the hardest but now they have approved another dozen that I still have to write up. Persistance and cooperation has paid off. Death Valley is going on 9 months of waiting as people change and they figure out who will actually approve it. I won't mention how long I've been waiting for Inyo National Forest. I hope I even remember the details of the spots when I start writing them up.

I put one at least in your region over the summer. Since it is in MS it probably is over 100 miles away.