Delorme challenge

[+NYPaddleCacher]

Reading the post about bogus found logs. What am I suppose to do if I complete a Delorme challenge and the CO doesn't send me coordinates for the final. Apparently he hasn't for the past 9 months. No response to "Notes" cachers have posted. I would like to log the find before it get archived.

 

I was told by a Reviewer to contact Groundspeak. I also saw another cacher logged the "find" about 6 months ago without actually finding the final and the log is still there.

 

Thanks

 

The CO shouldn't be holding the coordinates hostage, they should be on the cache page or derivable without you needing to contact the cache owner.

Precisely what was enacted with the new challenge guidelines (and maybe just a bit before). Good to see Groundspeak is listening to its customers concerns.

 

Might be time to Archive it if the cache owner is unresponsive. Basically sounds like an unfindable cache unless you're part of the clique of prior finders.

Would it be just as easy to post the cords in the logs?

 

It would, but that wouldn't stop a cache with an unresponsive owner from being archived. I know of one where updated coordinates were posted in the log, a reviewer asked that they be updated using an "update coordinates" log (which actually changes the coordinates), and when the CO didn't respond a really interesting cache (it required a several mile boat trip to get to it) was archived.

[+sloth96]

On 1/8/2012 at 4:27 PM, BBWolf+3Pigs said:

 

Some friendly corrections:

 

CT/RI share an atlas.

 

The RI DeLorme Challenge has 12 pages. It is also the only one that can be accomplished in a single day.

 

Here's a Lost & Found video documenting one finder's trip.

 

(Full Disclosure: I own the Little Rhody DeLorme)

 

(Edit to add link)

The Delaware Delorme can be done in a day.  There have also been speculations that the Vermont Delorme can be done in a midnight to midnight run.