[Az-Geocaching] Open Invitation to all and CHICKS with TRUCKS a challeng...

[mike and gale jett]

To Chicks with Trucks. We wish we had read the e-mails before we came to the 
picnic to offer you our support. Our team too took criticism for caches and 
still feel stung by it. Quite frankly a few cachers do sound elitist and 
that is not what we are looking for in this sport. One of our team has 
physical limitations and cannot do the difficult (terrain) caches. We accept 
that and find other ways to amuse ourselves. We enjoyed your caches and felt 
you gave to the game as much as you took from it. Please replace your 
caches. We haven't felt able to speak much about caching since we are new to 
it ourselves, but we couldn't be silent after reading the e-mails.


>From: "Regan Smith" <buggers@mindspring.com>
>Reply-To: listserv@azgeocaching.com
>To: <listserv@azgeocaching.com>
>Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] Open Invitation to all  and CHICKS with  
>TRUCKS a challeng...
>Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2002 12:30:25 -0700
>
>Scott
>  I in no way implied archive them all just those that have no reason for 
>being there other than being there... and as they refer to this game... you 
>place a cache it needs to be found...
>
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: Scott Wood
>   To: listserv@azgeocaching.com
>   Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2002 9:57 AM
>   Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] Open Invitation to all and CHICKS with 
>TRUCKS a challeng...
>
>
>   At 06:44 AM 9/22/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>
>     I look forward to the picnic as well
>
>      I  as a cacher who has found several of their caches decided to offer 
>suggestions but for some unknown reason they took it as an attack, it is 
>sad that they took the archive approach as they had some nice areas to 
>visit...
>
>   I have been trying to come up with a reply to your original post as 
>well, but Kelly of Team Roadrunners pretty much said everything that I 
>would have said.
>
>   I think they might have gotten upset because of the somewhat elitist 
>sound your message had.  It is frankly none of your business how they place 
>their caches, and you have no right to ask them to archive any of their 
>caches.  While some of their caches might be open to some criticism, others 
>have been enjoyable caches.  The reality of the matter is that if I don't 
>like the way that they hide caches, I just won't go and look for them.  You 
>said that they would have the respect of the geocaching community if they 
>archived their caches.  You don't speak for me, or for the geocaching 
>community for that matter, none of us do.  CwT have my respect because they 
>took the time to go out and hide caches for people to find.  I don't care 
>if they are easy urban caches, or harder rural ones, I enjoy finding both.
>
>   Far too many people seem to want to turn themselves into Cache Police 
>for some reason.  I can't see this as being a positive for this game.
>
>
>
>   Scott
>   Team My Blue Heaven
>   www.myblueheaven.com/geocache




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