[GeoStL] Re: Geocaching Ethics Question

  • From: "cunning linguist" <_rnx_@xxxxxxx>
  • To: <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 19:14:38 -0400

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Did the Travel Bugs actually go on the cruise with you? =


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Received: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 05:33:34 PM EDT
From: Michael Rogers <mrogers07@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [GeoStL] Re: Geocaching Ethics Question

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As long as you just posted a note, I don't see why not.

Nitpickers would argue you didn't actually find the cache, but  =

hey...you aren't claiming a find...just dropping TBs for mileage.

I say go for it.

-Michael

On Mar 15, 2007, at 4:25 PM, fourfeld@xxxxxxx wrote:

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> I'm fishing for opinions.
>
> Cathy and I have just returned from a cruise around the southern  =

> tip of South America.  I had some bugs and coins with me that I  =

> wanted to trade, or at least get them some mileage.  The geocaching  =

> turned out to be a big disappointment.  We visited four countries  =

> and travelled over 4000 nautical miles over fourteen days, and in  =

> all that time we were only able to log one virtual cache.  The  =

> locatiions of the caches in relation to our ports of call just  =

> weren't conducive to geocaching.  (As a side note, we substituted  =

> the time we would have spent looking for caches with time spent  =

> looking for our luggage.  The airlines lost it and it didn't catch  =

> up with us until day nine of the cruise.)
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> My question is this.... Would it be acceptable to log the bugs and  =

> coins in and out of the cache nearest to our ports of call so that  =

> they can get credit for the miles traveled even though I did not  =

> find the caches.  In some cases the closest I got to a cache was 20  =

> or 30 miles.  Naturally I would log these as a note and would not  =

> claim a find for myself.
>
> Let me know what you think.
> Mark
> Sniper1
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