HaLiJuSaPa

Here in Westchester we have lots of trails to put caches on. I've always been intriuged about this trail that goes through much of the western part of the county: http://www.aqueduct.org/content/history-aqueduct-trail Yet unlike almost every other trail here, I have never seen a cache placed on it. It came to my mind when this cache just outside of the entrance to the trail appeared: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=GC2E78V. The CO, a relatively new cacher, seems to word it carefully to show that it's not on the trail itself, but has easy access to it. I have thought about placing one or more caches on this trail but was puzzled at the lack of past caches and took pause. Is there something about this trail that doesn't allow caches? Please let me know, thanks!

Try the Metro NY Geocaching Society forums, their website is www.metrogc.org. You might even get someone not from Northern Westchester to help you, some of the more hardcore members frequently cache around the area, including two I know of who are an existing and retired teacher respectively. One of them is planning a "Geocaching 101" in Rye on Veteran's Day for example......

Finally a Northeast (oops, I meant Mid-Atlantic) GeoWoodstock! Maybe one year they'll even put it in NY State or New England.....

Honestly, yes. That is my point. They should go there if this is what it is supposed to be. I could understand the logic behind when they decided new virtuals become Waymarking if: A) The grandfathered ones have to go too (grandfathering made sense at the beginning but it's 5 years now and it's time to be consistent). ' Earthcaches stayed in Waymarking. I'd like someone to give me a good reason why they were moved back, and don't simply say "the educational organization who backs these wanted that", I want to know WHY? And why Jeremy moved them back when they are essentially "virtuals". C) Given that the argument is that geocaching should only involve a physical container to be found, why do you get a 'smiley' for going to an event? Again, I'd like to know the reason for this "inconsistency" (and as for the comment about my saying this "not helping my cause", this "hypocrisy" is proof that they will never change it so I may as well express my feelings on it. Also, regarding the person who knocked the person who defended Waymarking for being "off topic", I completely disagree, as someone else noted I am talking about this in regards to Waymarking and as such it's the right of anyone who wants to say they like Waymarking, it's great, etc. to express their thoughts, feelings, opinions, etc. as I have mine.

It's been a LONG time since I've been on these forums (this may even be my first post of 2010, LOL!), but when I learned of this I HAD to say something. I was tipped off by a friend that the "Geocache of the Week" feature in the new "Latitude 47" blog on the GC.com site featured this cache: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...3f-15915fca508b Now granted, if nothing else, a new virtual like this should be allowed if someone proposed it. A plaque under the sea? Something you need to Scuba dive to get to? (as evidenced by only 41 finds in 6 years, so a real "wow" challenge) You know no one's going to find it in Waymarking in between all those McDonald's, etc. that are listed there (I'm surprised the site hasn't vanished yet, but that's a whole other thread I won't get into.......). But worse than that, if TPTB feel that Virtuals are not "caches" and are just being "nice" about this "grandfathering", then don't make one of them "cache of the week", no matter how spectacular. It's just very very hypocritical......(and truth be told, if caches are supposed have a "container", then event caches and earthcaches shouldn't count as caches either.....oh I forgot, it's all "political"; if events didn't count as a smiley, they would get 1/10 of the attendance they have and the foundation that runs the Earthcaches must have pressured TPTB to bring them back because no one was going to them at Waymarking). I've said my peace......by the way the link to the Latitude 47 blog: http://blog.geocaching.com/

I think it was quite the opposite. She thrived on the attention. It really took the wind out of her sails when she was bumped down to #2 on the leaderboard. Maybe her father's passing started "the end of caching"?

I would. Hmm. CCCA. I should have remembered that, but I hadn't stumbled on any logs in quite a while. I'm sure I'd seen it as I regularly surf the newest caches in Pennsylvania. Did I nail it, or what though? I said "about 1,000 finds", and the total is 996; I said "5 or 6 hides" and the total is 7. Just retiring an account an account, and starting over. Not the first time I've seen that, there's nothing to see here. Other than this thread being informative to any people who may have thought she quit caching completely. Sorry to "bump" this (I'm reviewing my rare posts over the last 6 months and saw how this thread continued), but I just looked at it an interestingly enough, it has a picture that says "game over", and says "no longer caching" and strangely, it appears she (or at least this account) "stopped caching" a day or two after these posts. Of course, being near the end of a calendar year may have made that coincidental anyway. Did she finally * truly* "retire"? Just curious, that's all.......

This tells you how I've been "out of it" when it comes to forums lately (including this one, I think this is my first post in about 2 months or so), didn't realize the NEPAG site was "gone" temporarily (though part of it is I haven't been to the region, let alone caching in it, for awhile). Thanks for the updates!

I haven't been on much (only my 2nd post this year! kind of a "life got in the way" kind of thing though we still cache semi-regularly) but your story reminded me of something we had last night. We were at my kids' Little League games with my mom and construction of a bridge blocked the normal way home. My mom insisted she knew a shortcut I didn't know about but when she described it I told her that because of a new department store on that way they blocked off the shortcut since it would cause massive traffic through some very quiet residential neighborhoods. How did I know this? Well went it first went up someone who lives on that street put a very clever cache in the area of the blockage so people (at least those who cache) could see this and know about it. I went by there and showed her the hide and she thought it was interesting.

It is the real Cache Ninja, on the NY Metro Geocaching Society forums he noted what he's up to nowadays, etc. I think he's in Oregon and has an intensive job that makes it hard to find time to cache or something like that. (PS I've really been off the forums, just realized this is my first post of the new year!).

Still playing the game. Hosting, hiding, finding, logging, and from time to time archiving. When is the last time that you heard from them? I haven't, but I did see where she was using a name that was similar to CCCooperAgency, created a year or two ago, and had about 1,000 finds logged under it. I probably wouldn't post it publicly even if I did remember what it was though. I wouldn't be looking to contact her or anything, though I could understand not publicly telling everyone her "new" name. Why would she start over with a new name? To find caches she already found? Wouldn't TPTB not be too keen about that?

Still playing the game. Hosting, hiding, finding, logging, and from time to time archiving. Unless she/they changed their ID, they're not logging online......that's why I'm wondering.

I recognized one name on the list that has found several of my geocaches. Probably the guy with 52 on that list. Now he has 7,000, and probably finds 52 every weekend. Hey, I wonder if any of those people dropped any cut-and-paste "TFTC" logs on any of those caches. CCCooperAgency joined 5/26/01. BruceS 8/21/01. Those two probably owned later versions of that list. I'm curious what happened to CCCooperAgency. Came to my mind because of a TB I am moving in the next day or two for which she/they had logged in the past. Looks like she "retired" at 25000 finds and gave up the neck-and-neck race with Team Alamo. I know her father died somewhat recently and figure maybe she and the team became busier with the actual "agency" as a result, but what I found really strange was that it appears most if not all of her hides are "archived" though looking at a couple that were actually hidden in 09 they are "archived" with no note from her/them or the reviewer; to the point where one was still getting finds as recently as November with comments like "I didn't know this was archived", etc. Made me wonder if she/they crossed TPTB. Does anyone know? Really curious, thanks.

Moderator, close both topics, sorry. The forums must be sort of down, it took what I typed in, waited 45 seconds, gave me an error, then showed the topic as 2 threads with nothing in the body. Don't know what happened.....

Congrats to all the recent milestones and Happy Holidays/New Year. May there be more milestones to come in 2010 (including the 10th anniversary of Geocaching as a game!).

Haven't been on the forums anywhere near as much as I used to and just saw this. Very sorry to hear about your loss, he sounds like he was a wonderful husband and father.

Geocaches are banned in Strawberry Fields in Central Park. An out-of-town cacher threw down a film cannister on vacation a few years ago, and refused to disable the cache when the area was closed for re-seeding. This despite multiple warnings in the preceding weeks from some cachers who pointed out the signs and fences in their Notes on the cache page. Sadly, some less-than-conscientious cachers continued to hop fences and trample the sensitive area searching for the (maddeningly) still-enabled cache. The Central Park Conservancy was, rightfully, pissed. They removed the cache themselves, notified Groundspeak, and banned geocaching from Strawberry Fields forever. We are lucky that they didn't ban geocaching in all of Central Park. I wouldn't necessarily describe the CPC as geocaching "friendly", but neither is it currently hostile. They have neither allowed nor banned caching, and they have their eye on us. But as long as we continue to play nice, things seem to be okay. I'm surprised that the admins (especially NYAdmin, knowing him or her) didn't simply archive it on the spot or something.

Wow that is some streak, congratulations to you and keep on enjoying retirement. Am proud to say that I believe all of our hides were part of your streak.

I have many hides a little bit off the short NY portion of I-95. Some have scenic views. Rather than list them all here, feel free to find them in my profile.

Hi! I was on the Metro NY Geocaching Forums and buttaskotch, who is a major NY City cacher, noted your post. The post she found on here said you were a teacher and you posted your name, which really caught my eye as I'm an aspiring teacher and almost share your last name (which I won't post here). Anyway, you should join us, it's free, go to www.metrogc.org and the click on the link to the forums. Someone there can answer it. I'm not too familiar with NYC regulations (though I have several hides in Bronx parks and never had a problem) but someone there will. I live in southern Westchester and am slowly drifting towards CT (where my recently acquired teaching license is) so I'm not too familiar with NYC park stuff beyond the Bronx. I also want to add that while I love the idea of introducing caching to schools and having them post a hide or two, please make sure you go on the site and maintain it. A charter school in the Bronx recently hid 2 caches in Crotona Park, and two areas they put it in had a lot of trash around them; one hide got stolen already and the other one had coords that were 200 ft. off (you'll see if you go to the list that I FTF'd them both!). And it appears from communication with them that after they hid the caches they have ignored it since. Good luck!

I think the main problem with all this is that breaking the law makes caching look "illegal" and will just encourage authorities to limit/ban it.

Well, at least, unlike L&O SVU: 1) They didn't say it was geocaching (though of course she did have a GPS and mentioned coffee cans and boxes). At first when the opening sequence talked about movies and I saw them going toward a giant box with a GPS I thought it would be a spoof on the old Project APE caches, BTW. 2) Instead of two "uber-geeks", at least it was a pretty hot chick (who was showing caching to her boyfriend )

In my view it showed it in a horrible light now that I saw it! Made it a lot more geeky than it was, and while there are a few "crazy" Manhattan hiding locations, I don't think some of the ones shown in here are even allowed. And while I thought the user name was funny, it's a shame as this is a very family-friendly activity and this goes a long way towards turning off parents learning of this activity through this show. I'm not sure if this is one of the other 2 links posted, but what I like about this YouTube post is it ends with a disclaimer describing what geocaching REALLY is and how many families enjoy it:

I had no idea the episode mentioned caching. I used to watch SVU sometimes but this year it is opposite Criminal Minds, I would've recorded it if I knew it. Maybe they'll rerun it soon or it will be online for awhile......

Since only 2 examples were given..... Here in the NY area there was an old hiker who went on GC.com as "BigBill6" and while I think he didn't find or seek any caches, he hid dozens of them along the beautiful lower Hudson River western shoreline from Palisades Park in NJ up to and past Bear Mountain, perhaps a string of 50 miles. When he passed away I believe his brother took over the caches, but asked any who wanted to adopt them to do so and many in the local caching community did.