[GeoStL] Re: St Peters Update: Good News, Everyone

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Susan,

That's great. The hard work paid off. You know this will work out good for
everyone and soon we'll have "boxes in the woods" again. Now who's the
contact for the St. Peters police/ bomb squad when they find someone looking
for a tag or marker hidden on a tree? :-)

Rich



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Susan Ring" <susanmring@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, October 29, 2004 7:21 PM
Subject: [GeoStL] St Peters Update: Good News, Everyone


> -
> This has taken me WAY too long to send to you all,  but a sick kid and a
big
> test got in the way, sorry.
> On Monday, Oct. 19, I met again with the head of parks and also the head
of
> the ranger division.  Also attending was Kelly of KBW Trackers, who is the
> wonderful person who spoke infront of the aldermanic meeting to give the
> push to the city to revisit the idea of caching in the park system.  It
was
> a very successful meeting.
>
> The Rangers are going to sponsor geocaching as a program.  I am going to
> work with them to develop a series of multicaches somewhat similar to the
> one in Whitecliff park in Crestwood.  Each multi will consist of some
> waypoints that may be either virtuals or some sort of distinctive tag or
> marker (I get to design maybe).  These WP's would lead to a final cache
that
> will probably be located in the Rec-Plex.  The good news is that the final
> will be an actual box with prizes, trinkets, maybe coupons of something
like
> free dippin dots at the Rec-Plex.  So I think we will have a real multi
> cache that GC.com will be OK with.  The Rec-Plex is not a commercial
> establishment and it has extensive hours, so I don't think it will be a
> problem having the finals located there.
>
> Rick, the guy in charge of the rangers, is very pro-GC, and will give us
> free reign to be as imaginative as we want, as long as he gets to OK the
> WP's.  He even is OK with WP's off the paved trails, again, as long as he
> approves.  I will work as the liaison between the rangers and the GC
world.
> They would like caches of varying difficulties: some for little kids, some
a
> bit more challenging, maybe some brain teasers for adults even.
>
> It's a baby step, since we will still not be placing "boxes in the woods",
> but it's a huge improvement over the last meeting.  Apparently, as long as
> they have control they're OK with assuming the liability.  Rick hinted
that
> if this plan goes well, maybe the next step might be to allow microcaches.
>
> Now, as you can imagine, this will be a huge undertaking, but a fun job.
If
> there are any St. Peters cachers on the list who would like to help, let
me
> know.  I will be contacting the StP people I know who are not on the list.
> Spread the word, this is a great opportunity to plan some really cool
> caches.
>
> Nice to have some happy news after reading about the ridiculous bomb scare
> thing. We owe a BIG thankyou to KBW Trackers, who got this ball rolling.
>
> Susan
>

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