Metro NY Geocaching Society

... 7:30 p.m. on November 15, 2011 when she was struck by a vehicle. To honor her for her efforts, the trail was named after her. This CITO event is being conducted in conjunction with the Flushing Meadow Corona Park Conservancy.

... the nearby parking area, he could have had a pair of binoculars and just waited to see if anyone else came by and watch what they were doing? I'm being paranoid, right? :-)

Interesting stuff. It appears that groundspeak was upset enough about the hullabaloo over this cache at the time that in addition to being archived, it's locked so that you can't enter any online logs at all (normally you can log archived caches, if you can figure out how to get to the cache ...

... and several people still successfully logged after it with no problem. I get the sense that the default is for caches to be log-able even after being archived, and that being "locked" is an extra step that groundspeak only occasionally takes (perhaps when they're ticked about something). ...

I was going to go with the most recent group to attack this cache, but wound up being out of town that weekend unfortunately. It's not a 5/5 - it's a 3/4.5 - but maybe it fits the bill.

... in advance for the length; I didn't realize how long it was until I previewed the post. (Details of the following story are intentionally being kept somewhat vague, to protect the integrity of some hidden cache stages. If those of you "in the know" could do the same thing, that ...

... his story! It sounds like an amazing experience... My caching bug is schizophrenic, similar to Tatanka's. The first part of it is almost like being OCD! If I know that something nearby is hidden (especially if there is a puzzle involved), it just... bothers me that it's somewhere out there, ...

... recently... That would make it the sixth cache in my general caching space to be retracted by NY Admin in the last year that I'm aware of - two being bridge caches, two with proximity issues, and the other being a cache submitted with a fraudulent ID. I don't know if this sixth one was retracted ...

... but not reliable. ...And, at least in part because of these failings, as of today's release the Google Earth network .kml is no longer being supported by groundspeak. Overall it was a resource hog, and because of it's general suckiness apparently only 200 people were actually using ...

... today. But then I noticed a familiar photo in the gallery, and recognized it as Vinny & Sue Team's profile photo. Vinny & Sue of course being the architects behind Psycho Urban Cache #13 , placed atop an enormous abandoned bridge pylon (familiar, no?). Not only was this cache approved ...

I can answer some of this. The main thing being that the listing has been vexed with problems from the start. The hider is new and has no hides or finds, which is always a reason to exercise care. The coordinates have been an issue, and the ultimately ...

... new crackdown on couch potato caches (caches that people often log from home without leaving their "couch", usually virtuals that aren't being properly maintained by the CO). In preemptively defending the new policy of enforcement she said: Stating that you must visit the location is ...

... pen than have people think that they're living up to the rules by bleeding on my logbook. I do have a cache where there is some language about being required to sign the log, but it's actually intended to be a subtle hint to the hide rather than a strong-form declaration of the rules.

... is GC30547 , by a new account with zero finds and just this one hide. Which makes me think it may be some sort of special project and it's being published from afar. But I'm just spitballin' here...