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Well, here in Europe I don't even know when is the hunt season, but hunters are dangerous, they shoot over everything that moves. There's almost nothing to hunt, but there they go shooting everything, and that's quite dangerous, not only for geochaching but also to MTB ( I use to combine both ). So, I won't stop my activities because hunters are on the field, well, try to chose caches in urban areas ......

Are you suggesting we would do this instead of geocaching? Waymarking is a spin-off from geocaching. Owned and operated by the same great staff and everything. True, but that has nothing to do with my question. I wasn't asking if the OP was suggesting Waymarking in addition to geocaching, where Waymarking comes from, or even who started it. The OP clearly states that the activity he suggests be done INSTEAD of geocaching ("leaving plastic boxes in some weird places"). My question was an attempt to find out if that's what he really meant. Hi guys Thanks for the comments I didn't now Waymarking, it seems to fit my purposes, but a category should be created, for instance, Archaeological Sites. Concerning the last comment, I should clarify that personaly I think that Waymarking is far more interesting than geocaching. I'm not saying that geocaching should be replaced. Each one should do what he likes most. This is only my opinion Geocaching can be trouble some to implement, in isolated places it can be easy to leave a box, but anyway, someone, a non-geocacher could find it and destroy it, but in a city it can be very tricky to hide a plastic box, and with the terrorism paranoia, someone hiding a box could be misunderstood..... Getting back to Waymarking, I Live in Portugal, near to Spain, Europe, we have a history back to Neolitic age, we have Megalitic monuments, iron age "castros", romans ruins, ( roads, bridges, buildings ), medieval castles, the defense lines that defeat Napoleon armies, etc..... unfortunately, most of them are left abandoned. The governement is very slow in catalog all of them, and sometimes when a builder finds some ancient remains, he tries to hide or destroy it. So, if such an activity like this could be spread, such sites could be identified, catalogued, even if in a personal level, and when things are known, there's more public pressure to preserve them. Thanks

Dear Collegues Recently I acquired a GPS, a Garmin Quest 2. Quite usefull as it can be used both for car and for trekking, cycling and so on. Among the several sports related with GPS, there's something very usefull that could be done with GPS. As you know, heritage and archaeological sites are at risk all over the world. It would be nice to preserve them in some way or another. The ideia is to mark archaeological sites, ruins, old monuments, mainly the abandoned and forgotten ones, and create a Waypoint file, and group them with one or more photos from the place. Rule number 1 - places can not be changed in any way, no garbage, no graffitis, no destruction, to preserve and record is the main rule. The objective: To know places, to spread the information, to catalog heritage sites. What do you think? Instead of being around leaving plastic boxes in some weird places, this seams quite more insteresting and usefull. Thanks TOF