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Hi Team Vorvik, The cache reviewers use .1 mile (which is 161 meters or 528 feet) as the minimum seperation. According to my calculations, using the posted coords, the two caches are .12 mile, or 196 meters apart. That should be fine. Are the coords perhaps wrong for one of the caches? Regards, erik - volunteer cache reviewer

I remember that APE cache well. I raced to be FTF but five people beat me to it. I still remember the huge ammo can and the nifty Planet of the Apes trading card that I got. One concern is the location. It's behind a church, and debatedly on church property. Much of the property surrounding this is administered by the National Park Service, and they have recently confiscated caches not on NPS property but along a river shoreline zone they claim as in their jurisdiction. As a cache reviewer I would not feel comfortable publishing a cache here without assurance that the location is ok. Given the fact that there is nothing to adopt I'd suggest finding a safer location and hiding a cache with a similar theme instead of trying to resurrect this historic cache. ~erik~

Not all of us revenuers have wierd names. Don't know where you got that idea.

Looks like fun to me. It should be listed as a multistage cache though. I have one somewhat similar: about ten or eleven stages over about a half mile, but the final stage is only about three feet from the one before it. ~erik~

Singapore geocachers: (unfortunately this could not be published in it's current form as a geocaching event cache, but please help me spread the word among Singapore's geocachers! erik - volunteer reviewer of Singapore caches.

Like Keystone, I am a cache reviewer, albeit also not covering Canada. As a courtesy to the OP I checked his cache listing and still find no note detailing how the cache will be maintained 450+ miles from home. Not to beat a dead horse, but when your cache reviewer does review the cache he will likely put it on hold pending an answer to the obvious question. Why not be proactive as Keystone suggested? erik - geocaching.com adminion

Sheila, Welcome to our group. Glad to hear you and the kids had so much fun. Be careful though, it can get addictive, or so I hear. As a general rule you want to trade something of relatively equal, or better value. I'm sure trading three trinkets for three trinkets is perfectly fine, as long as your kids aren't trading in their broken McToys for something of real value. Again, welcome and have fun! ~erik~

OP wrote: That should work fine, in that a GPS would be required. I suspect where you'd run into resistance from your local cache reviewer is if you placed one that did not require a GPS: in other words if MapQuest showed where the library was and the rest was done indoors using the Dewey Decimal System instead of our GPS's latitude and longitude system it really wouldn't be geocaching, would it? ~erik~

Well, as a cache reviewer I judge the cache location based on doing a copy/paste of the final cache coords into a firefox/greasemonkey script that displays a list of nearest caches with distance to the new cache, and the Groundspeak map. I'm not really all that cognizant of where the cache is beyond that, and have no trouble forgetting the location months later when I finally get around to doing the cache myself. If a puzzle is involved I don't ask for an explanation of how it works, just want to see those coords to review the cache. If the cache is near me I've been seriously aggravated by having the solution described to me in a "note to reviewer". I don't want to know how to solve it, I want to figure it out on my own! I don't know if this would be considered cheating, but I have adopted a few puzzle techniques (with permission) that I've spotted on caches I've reviewed in other parts of the world, and done my own cache using that puzzle. I think you'll find that the cache reviewers have given up on being FTF on a cache since since they've become cache reviewers. In fact we've had some recent cases where new reviewers were needed for certain geographic areas, we've approached experienced and well respected geocachers to ask if they would be interested in being a volunteer reviewer and been told, "thanks but no thanks, that would cramp my style too much... ~erik~ edited to fix typo

Well, the earliest I could find me posting was this thread back on May 11, 2001 at 10:37 am. ~erik~

I'm not familiar with your particular GPS but if you were able to mark your home as a waypoint you're halfway there. Just mark your home as a waypoint (there should be a button to do that) then edit those waypoint coords to that of the cache (or other waypoint) you want to go to. ~erik~

I took a look at both the caches referenced above. Both caches had been published, then "unpublished". In the first case the cache owner was asked for additional information, and the cache's state is "archivage temporaire" awaiting that. In the second case it's an older cache. The cache owner has moved it and asked the cache reviewer to update the coords and text. The cache reviewer has corrected the coords, but because of the large amount of editing asked the cache owner to do the text himself. It was "unpublished" to allow that to be done. See, there's a (somewhat) logical explanation for everything. erik - geocaching.com volunteer cache reviewer

I just found out that the Dell desktop I ordered won't have any serial ports. My Garmin 12, Etrex, and PDA all connect via serial ports on my old deceased PC. A bit of googling turned up this adapter and some discussions indicating that some adapters won't work dependably. Can anyone vouch for the one from Pfranc or have experience with others? Thanks, ~erik~

I'd be honored to purchase one. That leaves only 999 to have to put in caches. ~erik~

Now it looks fine again. At least with my FF browser. ~erik~

The OP wrote Well, that's not completely true. We are still discussing it, though the consensus is against publishing it as currently written. One concern I have that has not been addressed here is that you live 1600 miles from the cache location (cache is in Ohio, owner in Arizona). Is that a factor in your inflexibility when it comes to making the minor changes many have recommended? Your cache page notes that local geocaching friends will maintain the cache once they find it, but as a cache reviewer I'm still concerned. A second concern not addressed on your cache page or the "notes to reviewer" is the permission issue. Maybe I missed it, but did the librarian approve your fake book being on the shelves? Thanks! edited to correct second concern - I did find a note indicating that the librarian approved the location. sorry. erik - geocaching.com adminion

Welcome to the group, msspatz. I did my first cache hunt without a GPS nearly five years ago, and bought a GPS the following weekend. Life hasn't been quite the same since. ~erik~

Cache owner says he has permission, which means he has been given the benefit of the doubt by me - the original cache reviewer. We had previously exchanged three e-mails about the fact that Barbers Point was a Naval Air Station, but except for a small section, is now State of Hawaii land. The cache owner is in the military, and says he has reviewed the cache location with the military police there. I have the cache on my watch list and have not had reason to retract the listing. I am not going to get in the middle of the personality conflicts at play here, but do want to note that the cache was not approved with blinders on. erik - geocaching.com admin

Very good Seth! I enjoyed looking at the cartoons. Keep up the good work! Happy Holidays! ~erik~

I think I can do it. Give me the details and I'll try, otherwise I'll end up restoring the wrong log on the wrong cache. erik - geocaching.com adminion

You could also send a note to the cache reviewer. We would then question the cache owner without disclosing who expressed the concern. erik - geocaching.com volunteer cache reviewer

Here's one reason why not to allow editing of an archived cache. I found this years ago, but now have no idea what I found because the cache owner edited it away.... ~erik~

Happy Christmas holidays to all! Hope Santa is good to you. ~eriK~

Enjoy your geocaching vacation! If you're tempted to thank the locals by placing a cache of your own please pre-arrange for one of the local geocachers to act as a cache guardian for you as you'll be unable to maintain a cache there after you return to the mainland. I did a search of old vacation caches that had never been posted (as they had no one to take care of them) for a local Maui geocacher last night and found 8 within 20 miles of him. He's going to trash them out if they are still there, but we wouldn't want that sad end to happen to anyone's cache. erik - volunteer cache reviewer for Hawaii

Not all of us. I'd always assumed the reason why the night caches I'd reviewed never had more than 500 refective tacks is because that's the max number of waypoints most GPS recievers can hold. erik - volunteer cache reviewer and joker