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> Hello,
> File : /geotrash.jpg
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> Description : GeoTrashing
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> You can access this file at the URL
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I for one would like to protest this being posted to the site.
I know some geocachers. While I do not claim to like them, they have
their rights.
Sure they have trouble reading a compass, but that does not mean they
should not be allowed to buy a GPS device. And though they cannot
write clues about following paths or decyphering semaphore, they can
at least get those twenty digit coordinates down. No ambiguity there!
No sir! I doubt that many of us would really want to trust them with
a Speedball cutting set much less see what they would carve. So leave
them alone.
I am also tired of folks implying that the stuff in geocaches is
junk. Some people like junk. Go up to eBay or to your local dollar
store: no lack of folks at either. Why do we have to be so snooty
about handcarved rubber stamps? What do they cost?
And about the geocachers driving all over sensitive parks and
woodlands, they buy those 4X4s for a reason and they can afford the
gas. It is a free country even if gasoline isn't.
We do not need the National Parks to support letterboxing. We can
find other places to plant stamps. Let the rangers and the geocachers
have at each other. If they were there first, it is their right.
Well, just my two cents worth,
Sir Balthazar of 100**100D
