[Event location at a school?]

Caches can be placed on school grounds if they have appropriate permission. I assume events also can take place on school grounds if they have appropriate permission.

 

Sorry to hi-jack but I have a question about the caches on school property. I have been trying to publish one on the oposite side of a public walking path from a school and have been continually turned down. Reviwer states that is is less than 100m from school and most school administrators, parents and other adults become concerned for the safety of the students when they see someone who looks out of place on or near school property. Funny thing is that with it being less that a foot off the public walking path I was confused by the rejection. So by my understanding if I get writen permission from the school to have it there I should be OK with the reviewer?

Here is waht is says in the Knowledge book:

Geocaches are not placed on school property or military bases. Many primary, middle and secondary schools, as well as most military bases do not allow geocaching within their borders. Further, it is inadvisable to place geocaches near schools or military bases as the borders shown on a map may be inaccurate. Geocachers who are actively searching for a cache are likely to arouse suspicion in such environments, and we want to avoid this situation.

 

Have you talked with your reviewer to see if your location would be OK?

[Event location at a school?]

Got it worked out, thanks for the input

[Event location at a school?]

Be sure to check the guidelines for event caches. In particular, note the following: "While a music concert, a garage sale, an organized sporting event, a ham radio field day or a town's fireworks display might be of interest to a large percentage of geocachers, such events are not suitable for submission as event caches because the organizers and the primary attendees are not geocachers."

 

Thanks, this would be a geocaching event to award prizes to cachers that complete the 2 week hunt that ends the same time as the craft fair and they want to give the awards at the same time. So, we did this last year at a business and it only lasted about 15 minutes. It was to hand out the awards but it takes place at a school and I just am trying to see if that is OK. So far, I can't see that it isn't but I am not the final answer.

[Event location at a school?]

I was wondering if we can host an event at a school? I know you cannot put a cache on school grounds but we are combing a short event with the fall craft bizarre and that is held at the school. Thanks!

[how do I remove a geocache from the list]

We grabbed the cache today. Yes it was wet inside but other than that, we found it easy enough. If you want the cache, please let us know but it has been removed (as we were sure you wanted that) so it will need to be archived.

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FYI - this is a direct quote from an email this person sent out about his ET trip - guess his memory isn't as good as it was when he was braggin it up!!!

 

"And then we could see some other cachers out on the horizon, about five miles in front of us. They actually came by us on the ET HWY logging caches while we were doing the head. We started to pour the coals on. I was almost smoking the tires accelerating from cache to cache. As soon as the guys got in I would push the throttle full open from 528 to 250 feet to the next cache. Then I was power braking from 250 feet to zero feet at the cache. The guys would jump out on a dead run. as soon as they were aboard again, I had the throttle full open repeating the story above. We reeled the other team of cachers in about ten miles of hard caching as described above. We actually had smoking brakes. But by God we caught up with them. When they saw us coming they started running back and forth to their Jeep. We just laughed and poured on the coals even more. We got right up on their rear bumper. We could of passed them, but xxxxxx said let's just stay behind them and keep the pressure on. They lasted about two more miles and then they called it a day. One of those guys was xxx from xxxxxxx. We sure had some good laughs over that one. I'll bet they never forget the day we ran their @@@es ragged. They were looking pretty worried there at the end. It felt real good to reel them in from way out on the horizon as just a little black dot far off in the distance."

 

Seriously - this is exactly what N7VIV and DB sent out in an email blast to numerous people!

I guess Rebasport figures I would deny sending the quoted email above. I won't deny it. I did send it and it's all true. And we were having a blast doing it. But we never held up any traffic or interfered with any.

 

So what's her point? I didn't break any laws. And during the period of time described in the story above. The cachers we were pursuing and us were the only vehicles on the road. So is it bad to enjoy the game with your fellow cachers?

 

Rebasport needs to get a life.

I believe Rebasport was responding to the difference between your description of irresponsible, and dangerous driving practices with the following:

The ill feelings along the trail were caused by "people" not necessarily all geocachers doing stupid things along the highway. The police officers and highway workers we spoke with were happy and pleased with us and the way were doing things along the road. So responsible geocachers didn't cause the problems along the E.T. Trail.

What you describe as your own actions were in no way the actions of "responsible geocachers." You described "geocachers doing stupid things along the highway."

 

Thank you for seeing it that way as well.

[Archival of E.T. Highway Series]

 

FYI - this is a direct quote from an email this person sent out about his ET trip - guess his memory isn't as good as it was when he was braggin it up!!!

 

"And then we could see some other cachers out on the horizon, about five miles in front of us. They actually came by us on the ET HWY logging caches while we were doing the head. We started to pour the coals on. I was almost smoking the tires accelerating from cache to cache. As soon as the guys got in I would push the throttle full open from 528 to 250 feet to the next cache. Then I was power braking from 250 feet to zero feet at the cache. The guys would jump out on a dead run. as soon as they were aboard again, I had the throttle full open repeating the story above. We reeled the other team of cachers in about ten miles of hard caching as described above. We actually had smoking brakes. But by God we caught up with them. When they saw us coming they started running back and forth to their Jeep. We just laughed and poured on the coals even more. We got right up on their rear bumper. We could of passed them, but xxxxxx said let's just stay behind them and keep the pressure on. They lasted about two more miles and then they called it a day. One of those guys was xxx from xxxxxxx. We sure had some good laughs over that one. I'll bet they never forget the day we ran their asses ragged. They were looking pretty worried there at the end. It felt real good to reel them in from way out on the horizon as just a little black dot far off in the distance."

 

Seriously - this is exactly what N7VIV and DB sent out in an email blast to numerous people!

 

I guess Rebasport figures I would deny sending the quoted email above. I won't deny it. I did send it and it's all true. And we were having a blast doing it. But we never held up any traffic or interfered with any.

 

So what's her point? I didn't break any laws. And during the period of time described in the story above. The cachers we were pursuing and us were the only vehicles on the road. So is it bad to enjoy the game with your fellow cachers?

 

Rebasport needs to get a life.

 

Rebasport has life and it is wonderful! It is your own actions that are deplorable by your own words. Don't attack me for exposing the truth.

[Archival of E.T. Highway Series]

Well I find this thread to be some most interesting reading. It appears that most posters on the thread have no first had information on the E.T. Trail and the surrounding area. Now on the other hand myself and two other cachers completed the trail in October 2010. So as some would say, "Been there did that". So with some personal knowledge of the trail and the area, and most importantly the local residents. Here's my take on what the complaint was about.

 

When driving down a two lane highway and stopping you have to use some common sense. Since I was the appointed driver in our team I'll explain further. You have to realize this is a desolate Nevada highway with fairly light traffic at "times". I would keep constant watch on the horizon in front and behind us at all times. I was fully aware of when a vehicle appeared on the horizon. I got pretty good at calculating when that vehicle would arrive at our location.

 

There are areas along the route such as where the caches first came into discussion where the snow plow incident occurred. That were very dangerous. There is a real windy narrow up and down area. Very difficult for approaching trucks to make any adjustment to miss you if you are parked on or close to the highway. But common sense should come into play here for us geocachers. Park your vehicle completely off of the road. I did. There were several near misses when we we there. Not us, other cachers/vehicles. The owners of the A'lien Inn in Racheal Nevada, operate a large truck on the highway each day. One day to keep from killing some cachers, the driver had to flat spot a new set of tires on the truck to avoid an accident. He wasn't happy about the geocachers that day. Also one of the local EMT's works at the A'lein Inn and she told us plenty of stories about close calls and wrecks caused by the cachers. To say they were less then impressed why we were there, would be an under statement.

 

But they weren't mad at the geocachers for playing their game. They were made at the idiots that didn't use any common sense in where they parked. And not paying attention to when and what they were pulling out in front of. We saw many police officers go by while we were doing the trail. One Nevada State Police officer actually stopped and ask if we were okay. When I explained, "Yes we were just geocahing". He said,"Okay have fun" and continued on down the highway.

 

There is a difference in how you handle the situation of parking along the road. Common sense plays deeply into being safe. If the highway was clear to the horizon in both directions, I would just stop on the edge of the lane/road. And idle while my partners ran for the cache and signed the logs. All the while I was watching the horizon for another vehicle. If a vehicle was approaching I would pull completely off of the road so they could pass completely free of any danger of an accident. It's so easy to be curtious.

 

The ill feelings along the trail were caused by "people" not necessarily all geocachers doing stupid things along the highway. The police officers and highway workers we spoke with were happy and pleased with us and the way were doing things along the road. So responsible geocachers didn't cause the problems along the E.T. Trail. The cachers that made the tremendous effort to build the trail for others to enjoy, should be commended. It's a shame those of you that didn't get to do the trail missed out. We took many pictures along the route as the scenery is wonderful. Sorry to see such a fun thing end the way it has. But don't be to critical of something you know nothing about unless you have been there and talked to the people personally.

 

Just my opinion. Not trying to flame anyone.

 

FYI - this is a direct quote from an email this person sent out about his ET trip - guess his memory isn't as good as it was when he was braggin it up!!!

 

"And then we could see some other cachers out on the horizon, about five miles in front of us. They actually came by us on the ET HWY logging caches while we were doing the head. We started to pour the coals on. I was almost smoking the tires accelerating from cache to cache. As soon as the guys got in I would push the throttle full open from 528 to 250 feet to the next cache. Then I was power braking from 250 feet to zero feet at the cache. The guys would jump out on a dead run. as soon as they were aboard again, I had the throttle full open repeating the story above. We reeled the other team of cachers in about ten miles of hard caching as described above. We actually had smoking brakes. But by God we caught up with them. When they saw us coming they started running back and forth to their Jeep. We just laughed and poured on the coals even more. We got right up on their rear bumper. We could of passed them, but xxxxxx said let's just stay behind them and keep the pressure on. They lasted about two more miles and then they called it a day. One of those guys was xxx from xxxxxxx. We sure had some good laughs over that one. I'll bet they never forget the day we ran their asses ragged. They were looking pretty worried there at the end. It felt real good to reel them in from way out on the horizon as just a little black dot far off in the distance."

 

Seriously - this is exactly what N7VIV and DB sent out in an email blast to numerous people!

[Archival of E.T. Highway Series]

Sorry, I am trying to delete my post and can't seem to figure out how

[Archival of E.T. Highway Series]

Many people are curious about what will happen to the Route 66 caches. Groundspeak has not been contacted at all by the land owners or land managers for that, so we have no plans.

 

Just wait for the next bad press and possible statewide regulations then I guess. I wonder if Nevada DOT will make a policy for ALL their land now? I wonder if anything could have been done to avoid that potential problem. http://feedback.geocaching.com/forums/75775-geocaching-com/suggestions/1051337-reinstate-old-powertrails-guidelines

 

Well, Route 66 is in California! So no NDOT carryover????

[Route 66 - Feb 12th]

We would like to find another couple to do the Route 66 trail on February 12th, bright and early. We've done the ET Trail so we have an idea of what we are up for. It would be fun to meet someone from another part of the country to share teh adventure.