On January 24, 2003 (5:00 AM) Rand Hardin responded to "Disney Fanatic":
Jessica, I think you have missed the point. This is not only a matter of the Superstition Wilderness, but decisions that may affect the survival of geocaching as a hobby/sport in the years to come. The removing of the caches in the Wilderness is a beginning of the unraveling of geocaching (unless we can reach compromises). The Rangers who removed the caches had every right to remove them - we were wrong in placing them without permission. The situation has gotten to a point where we as geocachers need to be concerned about the placement of all of our caches (including the city parks where you have a good number of your caches hidden - and that we enjoy). If we didn't show any concern about our current situation with the Superstition Wilderness, and we just moved on and didn't say anything as you suggest, then how long would it be until the caches started disappearing from every National, State, City and any other government land that is open to the public.
With any movement there needs to be compromises through dialectical evolution. We cannot reach a synthesis without a conflict of opposites. Coming together as a group and working with our land managers - and even contacting our State and Federal Representatives - is the process we now need to take to preserve our freedom to enjoy geocaching without having to resort to mostly virtual caching.
Rand Hardin (RandMan)
On January 23, 2003 (at 10:52 PM) "Disney Fanatic" wrote:
I never in a million years I thought I would ever post again here but I've been following this thread and I'm getting nothing but a huge laugh! My gosh some of you sure do get your panties in a bunch over silly stuff. I realize I don't take this game nearly as serious as most and stats mean nothing to me but come on now - remove your caches, hide them somewhere else (or don't) and move on. Hiring lawyers, writing to your congress man, letters of apology - my goodness!!! Glad nobody has over-reacted. Seems pretty simple to me - just don't hide a cache in the Superstitions. You can still hike there if you want for crying out loud.
I know I'm not the most popular cacher out there - and I think I might actually be proud of that fact the more I read on here. Wholly Cow!
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