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<DIV><SPAN class=986495803-03062006><FONT size=2>> I thought the article was
pretty straight forward and absent of malice. Certainly the reporter was not a
geocaching zealot, but neither is she an eco-freak like</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=986495803-03062006><FONT size=2>> some who have written for
the Rep in the past--Christine who?</FONT><SPAN class=986495803-03062006><FONT
face="Book Antiqua" color=#0000ff size=3> </FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=986495803-03062006><SPAN class=986495803-03062006><FONT
size=2></FONT></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=986495803-03062006><SPAN class=986495803-03062006><FONT
face="Book Antiqua" color=#0000ff>Christina Leonard. Diana Balasz didn't do us
any favors either.</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=986495803-03062006><SPAN class=986495803-03062006><FONT
face="Book Antiqua" color=#0000ff></FONT></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=986495803-03062006><SPAN class=986495803-03062006><FONT
face="Book Antiqua" color=#0000ff>I agree with Dick. The article is fairly
even-handed compared to other press we've received in the state. Actually, this
is part of a campaign that's being conducted in the US and Canada by Tread
Lightly. It's tied in, I'm certain, to the training that they're
conducting in Phoenix week after next that I wrote up here a few weeks ago.
If you do a search on Google News for "tread lightly geocache OR geocachers OR
geocaching" (without the quotes) you'll come up with three or four recent
articles from around the country, most or all of which quote the same Patti
Klein that's mentioned in the Prescott article.</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=986495803-03062006><SPAN class=986495803-03062006><FONT
face="Book Antiqua" color=#0000ff></FONT></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=986495803-03062006><SPAN class=986495803-03062006><FONT
face="Book Antiqua" color=#0000ff>I'm personally impressed with the campaign
that Tread Lightly is orchestrating. They seem to be focused on getting the word
out to the caching community that you don't just go in the direction the arrow
on your GPSr is pointing. They're attempting to educate us, perhaps because we
haven't done such a good job of it ourselves. I believe that the majority of
harm caused by caching and cachers is as a result of ignorance rather than
laziness or a sense that "the rules don't apply to me". I ain't proud of it, but
Judi and I bushwhacked when we first started out, but only because we didn't
know any better. The earlier and the more thoroughly we can instruct new cachers
that there are right and wrong ways of hiding and seeking caches, the better off
we and our game will be. </FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=986495803-03062006><SPAN class=986495803-03062006><FONT
face="Book Antiqua" color=#0000ff></FONT></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=986495803-03062006><SPAN class=986495803-03062006><FONT
face="Book Antiqua" color=#0000ff>AZcachemeister hit the nail on the head. We
see that instructional role as a major function of the organization we're trying
to put together. If you want to be a part of making it happen, let me
know.</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=986495803-03062006><SPAN class=986495803-03062006><FONT
face="Book Antiqua" color=#0000ff></FONT></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=986495803-03062006><SPAN class=986495803-03062006><FONT
face="Book Antiqua" color=#0000ff>Steve</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=986495803-03062006><SPAN class=986495803-03062006><FONT
face="Book Antiqua" color=#0000ff>Team Tierra
Buena</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV></BODY></HTML>