[Az-Geocaching] Did it just get approved.

[loran @cox]

I emailed him also. I also found another cache that looks like he also just
activated. It was just with what appeared to be old caches with no finds I
wanted to be sure they where there before I went after them.

Loran

----- Original Message -----
From: Tim Giron <tgiron@cox.net>
To: <listserv@azgeocaching.com>
Sent: Monday, August 05, 2002 7:51 AM
Subject: RE: [Az-Geocaching] Did it just get approved.


> 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."
>
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