[Az-Geocaching] Did it just get approved.

[Tim Giron]

I emailed Lasivian yesterday about the apparent coordinate glitch and the date. He indicated that the coords were indeed 33 N, but the the date was correct.  He placed it a while ago and delayed activating it.

Tim
Team AZFastFeet

> > Was looking at nearby caches and came across this one:
>>
>> Camelback Cache by Lasivian [profile]
>>
>> N 34° 30.778 W 111° 57.474 (WGS-84)
>> convert to NAD27 or UTM
>>
>> State: Arizona [state map]
>> Hidden on: 6/3/2001
>> Use Waypoint: GC79E5 (what's this?)
>>
>>
>> Coords look to be wrong as I believe it should be N 33° plus
>> there are no finds. What also strange is that it was hidden
>> over a year ago. Makes we wonder if there is another cache up
>> on Camelback that has been sitting around for a long time
>> that no one knows about. Or is there some weird glitch at
>> geocaching.com.
>>
>
>My guess is more likely Lasivian was tired from the summer hike up
>Camelback. He probably hid it on 8/3 and typed 6/3 by mistake, just like
>he typed N34 instead of N33. Correcting the latitude would put it about
>1500 feet from Place Tup Top. (I've never been up there. Is there that
>much room on the summit?).
>
>The newest cache placed anywhere (as of about 30 seconds ago) had a
>waypoint of 7A6D, so that would put this one as being posted very
>recently, not last year. When they get up to 8000, they'll be halfway
>through all the currently available waypoint IDs.
>
>Do you want to drop him an email? I'm sure he'll fix it as soon as he's
>made aware of it.
>
>Steve
>Team Tierra Buena
>"There are 10 kinds of people in the world...
>those who understand binary and those who don't."