Thanks Steve,
I figured you'd know, I had taken a look at the Phoenix Park and Rec sites and had not found anything prohibiting Geocaching. I had actually seen these posts yesterday, as they were occurring, (clicking on the last 200 finds during some downtime at work), and noted that some of them refered to PMPC or outright the Phoenix Mountain Preserve Council. I did some looking and it appears to me that this is NOT a public agency but is rather a public organization that anyone can join for a $20 fee. They appear to be a stewardship organization who have made the PMP their pet project. While they may be against Geocaching, (or at least frown on it as an activity in the PMP), I have found no grounds for their being able to enact or enforce a ban in the PMP. As you said, that would have to come from the City of Phoenix. Which, unless it has enacted such a ban just recently, does not currently have any policy other than the one you show.
I also had noted today that all of the archive requests had been deleted as well. I had noted the profile as well, and had hoped that geocaching.com would investigate things...hopefully they have. Or it's possible that the Sock-puppet himself went through and deleted all his posts....gee, I wonder who has done something like that a time or two before....but that's just an opinion, I could be wrong.
Joe
TeamBlunder
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A few things I noticed as I looked at this:
· The "archive request" message appears to have been deleted from the cache page
· The cache does not appear to have been archived
· To the best of my knowledge, the Phoenix Mountain Preserve does not have any policies against Geocaching other than the City of Phoenix prohibition against Geocaching at archaeological sites (see http://www.geocachingpolicy.info/usa.html#Arizona)
· If you look at rhodopogon's profile, it is a self-confessed alias account (also known as a "sock puppet"). Geocaching.com frowns on sock puppets, and perhaps those charged with reviewing these things give less credence to the archive claim because of that.
I conclude that the approver(s) disagreed with rhodopogon's assessment of the cache.
Steve
Team Tierra Buena
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