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The Geocaching Association of Great Britain guidelines here include the following: Caches should be hidden so as to minimise the chance of security alerts, particularly where there is a liklihood of finders being considered suspicious for example where a cache is overlooked by houses / offices / shops / people. When a cache is placed in an overlooked location, the cache owner should help finders avoid being considered suspicious by offering a clear and unambiguous hint on how to retrieve the cache quickly. Cache owners should mark caches externally with the relevant listing site reference (eg GCxxxxxx, OXxxxxxx, or OCxxxxx) wherever the cache is big enough for this to be written externally. This will offer the Police a better way to identify a suspect package as a geocache.

I think we all know about the validity of the OP. I'm perhaps a little naive here, but what's your part in all this? Your from New Jersey and yet seem to have a lot to say about Lord of the Cachers? Have you had chance to search for this series by chance? or some of the others that he set? Lets see, it appears that I accidentally fed a troll while this was still in the general forums, then I attempted to distract everyone away from that fact by posting that humans are aliens, as well as displaying poor reading comprehension. Now I am called here because somehow I put this thread on a watchlist, and I am too lazy to figure out how to remove it. Other than that, I do hope to be in the UK within a few years to find a few which look interesting! Why don't you try answering his question? And here's another question: why do you care what your NA stat is? And a third and final question: how would you feel if somebody from a completely different continent went and flagged a load of caches near your location for archiving, for no reason other than they wanted to boost their NA stats. It wasn't to boost my NA stats, as no such thing exists. I was kidding. If someone posts valid NA logs, I don't care where they are from, nor should it matter. There are several dozen that probably deserve it, but nobody wants to do the deed and be known as the bad guy. Typically this seems to be evident in many places. Cachers will complain that everything needs maintenance or is abandoned, but nobody is willing to post the NAs or NMs. There is no need to get offended at a log type. If it is valid it gets acted upon. If not, it gets left alone. True in theory. But it doesn't help when someone from another continent does it with absolutely no knowledge of the local situation, and in doing so makes comments about keeping their NA log score up. It sets hares running. All completely unnecessary.

There are still over 30 trad caches in the forest, as well as a good few puzzles and multis, including the multi at the Lookout. As a reminder, despite the title of this thread, there has been no confirmation of any of this by anyone identifiable as connected with the Forest management or any of the other stakeholder agencies. I would have hoped that by now a geocacher would have contacted an employee at the Discovery Centre and obtained permission. Questioning the validity of the poster, while avoiding the employees at the location is not going to get you very far. Offer to hold a few CITO events in exchange for placements if they balk. It is likely that the OP found a container that was archived for non maintenance. Most muggles usually just remove caches without any communication which is frustrating. In this instance you have both communication and possible motive, which should help, as it is better than nothing. The matter is being dealt with effectively at a local level. If you read back through the thread you'll see mentioned that what you're suggesting is exactly what has happened. There is a good local relationship with one of the many stakeholder agencies who maintain a lot of the area and run the Lookout Discovery Centre, and that agency knows nothing about the ban. Another local cacher has an inside relationship with the parks department of the local council, who know nothing either. Enquiries are continuing, including contact by reviewers with the OP who hasn't been able to produce anyone to confirm his post.

There are still over 30 trad caches in the forest, as well as a good few puzzles and multis, including the multi at the Lookout. As a reminder, despite the title of this thread, there has been no confirmation of any of this by anyone identifiable as connected with the Forest management or any of the other stakeholder agencies.

I've asked a couple of reviewers who have heard nothing, and a local cacher has been in touch with the local management who knew nothing either. It's looking likely this was a troll - but you never know, as the responsibility for management and activity in the Forest is complicated.

It's Crown Estates property, part of Windsor Great Park. Certainly not MOD.

Can you provide more authority for that statement - are you posting on behalf of the landowner? Is there a reference to this directive somewhere other than your forum posting? Thanks