[GeoStL] Re: Using accurate coordinates
- From: "M. Bollinger" <lazylightning3@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 11:24:29 -0700 (PDT)
Accurate coordinates are nice, but even more critical are USEFUL hints. This
is a pet peeve of mine. I have often seen damage by seekers that could have
been avoided by having them find the cache instead of just looking for it.
Here's one I tried last week that is an example of one of the offenders:
STL Tar-egg by humanaquarium with NO hint.
"From the previous logs, I knew not to trust my machine, so I put it away and
just went hunting." Translation: "just went ripping up everything in site"
If everyone would have good hints like under the big flat rock, at the base of
the forked tree- (not: email me if you can't find it; park at this place; or
some other gibberish or no hint at all) people won't be so inclined to overturn
every rock, rip out every plant, stomp around in a flower bed, take every rock
out of a wall.
In every instance where I talked with land managers who were turned off by
caching, it was because people we looking in a nearby spot (like a planter bed)
that they shouldn't have been or disrupting and area while looking.
----- Original Message ----
From: k Sneed <sneed14@xxxxxxxxx>
To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, May 9, 2007 9:28:23 AM
Subject: [GeoStL] Using accurate coordinates
Part of the Geocaching Creed mentioned earlier:
...Minimize My and Others' Impact on the Environment
Obtain the best possible coordinates for your cache to reduce unwarranted wear
on the area. Recheck and correct your coordinates if finders report significant
errors.
This point wasn't brought up last week during the discussion regarding accurate
coordinates.
I have seen micros hidden in woods with log after log saying the coordinates
are 50-60 feet off. When you go to hunt those caches, you can tell everyone's
coord (except the actual cache) were in the same spot. Then a 50-60 foot area
is totally trampled and torn up. This is contrary to "leave no trace" and a
good reason for having accurate coordinates. Obviously, depending on what type
of an area the cache is hidden in, the impact could be less or more. A
pavilion cache, for example, may have coord that just "take you to to the
pavilion and now find it". However, in an area where many people hunting will
have an impact, "leave no trace" ethics would dictate the use of as accurate
coordinates as possible.
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