[GeoStL] Re: Cache containder idea???...Now Moving Caches
- From: DRM <drmdcm@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 22:02:48 -0800 (PST)
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From what I understand the reason "moving caches" are
no longer allowed is because they are not always moved
to a location that meets the geocaching guidelines.
(private property, to close to railroad trackes, etc
etc) They have allowed the older ones to remain as
"Grand Fathered".
--- Dan Henke <thunder_monk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> -
> Yeah it is too bad and still don't understand why
> they are not allowed....just another one of the
> hairbrain decisions that make a great hobby not so
> great....I had a great idea for a moving cache I
> wanted to try to ....a mailbox cache with a roll of
> stamps or two and my address along with a log
> book....the person who finds it sends a postcard
> from their area to me and then moves the cache on
> somewhere else and sends the new coords to me to be
> posted. When the stamps were gone I could be
> contacted and would have sent new stamps fot the
> cache. The postcards would have been scanned and
> used to show where the cache had been. But that is
> another idea shot down by gc.com
>
> Jim if you have not archived the Moving cache you
> could always put another box out under the same name
> and keep it going as they will not approve another
> one .
>
> Dan
> Jim Bensman <junkmailno@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> -
> That's too bad. The reason why I set up the moving
> cache was to give people
> an opportunity to hide a cache before they did an
> actual cache. Seems like
> a good thing to have.
>
> Before there were travel bugs, I also had my Impress
> Me cache GC22CC that
> was a moving cache that moved around the world. It
> traveled over 30,000
> miles and went to Hawaii, England, France, and all
> over the place. It also
> traveled in a commercial plane cockpit. I really
> liked that cache. But it
> went missing in KY with postcards and pictures of
> its travels from around
> the world. But its adventures are in the logs with
> lots of pictures.
>
> Jim Bensman
> "Nature Bats Last"
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: geocaching-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> > bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sarah Chisholm
> > Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 2:07 PM
> > To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [GeoStL] Re: Cache containder idea???
> >
> > -
> > Moving caches are NO LONGER allowed. The one in
> Forest Park is
> > grandfathered in.
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----
> > From: Bernie
> > To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 1:56:16 PM
> > Subject: [GeoStL] Re: Cache containder idea???
> >
> >
> > -
> > I didn't know that moving caches are not allowed.
> I know where there is
> > one. Bernie
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: geocaching-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:geocaching-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf
> Of Dan Henke
> > Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 12:40 PM
> > To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [GeoStL] Re: Cache containder idea???
> >
> >
> > -
> > Can you imagine the headlines?
> >
> > "Counterfeit Coin a part of an Internet Game"
> >
> > "People try to spend "cache" cash"
> >
> > Seriously though too bad moving caches are not
> allowed as that container
> > would be a cool one for that
> >
> > Dan
> > Jon Mertz wrote:
> > -
> > Now THAT is a good way to get a cash muggled...
> even by an unobservant
> > cacher!
> >
> >
> > On 1/11/07, tnands wrote:
> > > -
> > > "In a U.S. government warning high on the
> creepiness scale, the Defense
> > > Department cautioned its American contractors
> over what it described as
> > a
> > > new espionage threat: Canadian coins with tiny
> radio frequency
> > transmitters
> > > hidden inside."
> > >
> > > Obviously these people are not geocachers who
> have looked for an urban
> > > micro. Although the tiny transmitter could open
> up a new pocket-cache
> > twist.
> > >
> > > This could be a stepped up "Where's George"
> technique lol.
> > >
> > > Nancy
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Sarah Chisholm"
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