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

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Excellent job you guys!
Nancy

----- 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


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> 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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