+Dekaner Posted May 7, 2002 Share Posted May 7, 2002 There seems to be a drought (sp?) of caches in the Buffalo, NY area - so I am planning to begin placing caches in the Buffalo Olmstead Parks system. I thought it best to check here first if anyone has had any contact with the City of Buffalo regarding Geocaching and what the outcome was - good or bad. Please let me know ASAP as I am hoping to get my packet out to them in the next few days. Thanks! - Dekaner of Team KKF2A Quote Link to comment
+DxChallenged Posted May 7, 2002 Share Posted May 7, 2002 Hey! It would be great to have more caches in my area!!! I just posted my best cache to date......THE HOBBIT - BAG END CACHE. It is a cache that links to the Fellowship of the Ring cache in Erie PA, has a geoquilt project attached and contains the best prizes we have placed yet. I have a small bag of silver jewlery, some nice stones, current CDs and items that go along with the Tolkien theme. Our second cache.....C & S Eversures cache was my first approved by the commisioner of the Erie County parks department......I had to write a 12 page presentation for that one explaing geocaching and what we as a family would do to maintaine our cache....... We also have the Akron Bike Path cache ...it is a replacement for the one that was stolen on the same path....somebody trapped all over private land...asked a renter how to get on the path and I think that cacher was followed by the renter and the cache then stolen.....so for the replacement cache we put the parking coordinates in the bdy of the report...rather than a clue...sent a picture of the parking lot and described the cache as being off a black topped bike path........ Currently I have to reserve my caching to the weekends as the closest that i haven't done are in Rochester........so Dekaner.....please hid away! If you want we could team up to get some publicity....Buffalo News or one of the TV channels.....I currently have a geoquilt project on Canada that is going very well....blocks to be sent to all provinces. 2 cachers from Ottawa are helping me with it........ e-mail me with any questions ect..... DxChallenged "Have you no news on your travels?" the Book of fairy & folk tales of Ireland (1888) Quote Link to comment
+briansnat Posted May 8, 2002 Share Posted May 8, 2002 How about more caches between Buffalo and Erie PA. I'd like to have a few more to do when I visit my in-laws in Westfield. Quote Link to comment
+DxChallenged Posted May 8, 2002 Share Posted May 8, 2002 Funny you should mention Erie and Buffalo.....The Tolkien caches are a cooperative that Mike chim and I are doing......The Fellowship of the Ring multi cache is in Erie PA and the Hobbit one that I mentioned yesterday is here in Akron NY...30 minutes from buffalo........ 2 more by MIke chim to go in the Erie PA area....Twin Towers and The return of the King DxChallenged "Have you no news on your travels?" the Book of fairy & folk tales of Ireland (1888) Quote Link to comment
+Dekaner Posted May 8, 2002 Author Share Posted May 8, 2002 I've been geocaching for quite some time now, but haven't felt the urge to place new caches. (Syracuse and Rochester are filled with them!) But when I wanted to go back to Buffalo - well you've all seen the dismal turn out. I have tons of places I'd like to place some caches, and this is my first attempt at getting some officially approved. I figure once I have the City behind me it will be much easier to get new ones in place. I have a couple of contacts in the media, and I am also trying to get the Buffalo Olmstead Conservatory group in on this round. I think the Buffalo News has done a good job on covering Geocaching (2 articles in the past 2 months), but think it would be cool if we could get a tv spot after I get these in place. So in short - yes! Let's team up, place some caches and get famous! On that note, would you mind sending me the contact information for Erie County, both for future reference and in case my contacts in Buffalo want to talk to them? Perhaps we should call/email them first and ask if it's okay to use them as a reference? You can either post the information or you can email me at dekaner@kkf2a.com. Thanks for the support!! - Dekaner of Team KKF2A Quote Link to comment
+Dekaner Posted May 8, 2002 Author Share Posted May 8, 2002 I've been geocaching for quite some time now, but haven't felt the urge to place new caches. (Syracuse and Rochester are filled with them!) But when I wanted to go back to Buffalo - well you've all seen the dismal turn out. I have tons of places I'd like to place some caches, and this is my first attempt at getting some officially approved. I figure once I have the City behind me it will be much easier to get new ones in place. I have a couple of contacts in the media, and I am also trying to get the Buffalo Olmstead Conservatory group in on this round. I think the Buffalo News has done a good job on covering Geocaching (2 articles in the past 2 months), but think it would be cool if we could get a tv spot after I get these in place. So in short - yes! Let's team up, place some caches and get famous! On that note, would you mind sending me the contact information for Erie County, both for future reference and in case my contacts in Buffalo want to talk to them? Perhaps we should call/email them first and ask if it's okay to use them as a reference? You can either post the information or you can email me at dekaner@kkf2a.com. Thanks for the support!! - Dekaner of Team KKF2A Quote Link to comment
+Dekaner Posted May 8, 2002 Author Share Posted May 8, 2002 J-Ra of Team KKF2A has family both South of and in Erie, PA - so I'll see what we can do to get some caches placed there. Give it a little time though as I'm a stickler for getting permission first. Quote Link to comment
+Dekaner Posted May 15, 2002 Author Share Posted May 15, 2002 An 11 page document was sent out to the City of Buffalo and the Olmstead Conservitory Group today. They should have it in their hands tomorrow and I plan to follow up with them middle of next week. - Dekaner of Team KKF2A Quote Link to comment
+Dekaner Posted June 8, 2002 Author Share Posted June 8, 2002 I got official support from the Buffalo Olmstead Parks Conservancy last week. I spoke to the Buffalo Parks Dept. again this week and they are giving me the green light - just need to apply for a park permit. Woo hoo! - Dekaner of Team KKF2A Quote Link to comment
+sbell111 Posted June 11, 2002 Share Posted June 11, 2002 Congratulations on your success! I can't wait to hunt your caches when I am in WNY in July-August. Quote Link to comment
+briansnat Posted June 11, 2002 Share Posted June 11, 2002 How about some caches in the Dunkirk, Freedonia, Westfield, Ripley area. It would be nice to find a few when I go there this summer. Quote Link to comment
+briansnat Posted June 11, 2002 Share Posted June 11, 2002 There are no caches in Ripley, belive it or not. Quote Link to comment
+Dekaner Posted June 11, 2002 Author Share Posted June 11, 2002 I sent in my park permit today and assuming all goes well, I hope to place the first 3 out of 6 the weekend of the 21st. The other 3 parks do not have any wooded areas so I will be looking for alternatives from the traditional cache. I'm going to try to avoid doing virtuals, so you'll just have to wait and see what I come up with. I think that once we have support from the City it will be much easier to convince other agencies to give us permission to places caches. I'd be happy to look into any and all surrounding areas for cache placement. I myself am somewhat of a stickler that you should get permission -before- placing a cache. - Dekaner of Team KKF2A Quote Link to comment
+Dekaner Posted June 19, 2002 Author Share Posted June 19, 2002 The permit was reportedly mailed out yesterday and we are all set! All you Buffalonians out there, watch for three new caches this weekend! - Dekaner of Team KKF2A Quote Link to comment
+Dekaner Posted June 24, 2002 Author Share Posted June 24, 2002 We were able to get three caches placed this past weekend. Three more will be placed as soon as we can find suitable locations to put them! Thanks everyone! - Dekaner of Team KKF2A Quote Link to comment
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