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Originally Posted by Alchemist2000
Shannon, if you have some specific info, I would love to see it.
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Thanks for the terrific, insightful post.
The extent of my information was from several entries on Geocaching.com regarding various Enchanted Rock SNA caches which were in my Watchlist (I'm user "WildTexas" on Geocaching.com.) The gist of my post was nearly verbatim what cachers have posted in their Geocaching.com entries for some Erock caches -- see
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache...e-a2a5b12a8af2
for one such post.
Those coupled with my existing knowledge that TPWD had no publicly stated, uniformly applied policy on geocaching, to make it seem as though this latest note regarding ERock was indeed a new TPWD policy, perhaps as-yet documented on their website.
I am a geocacher myself. I love the sport although my primary reason for visiting parks is to hike and camp, and I often forget to obtain coordinates for caches when I travel. My only issue with geocaches is probably the same as many TPWD park rangers -- some caches are placed poorly, in sensitive areas or too far off trail, and there are parks where I'm familiar with the cache placement and I've seen over months' time side trails and underbrush disruption develop as people "bushwhack" to find a cache that some more thoughtful locating could access with far less disruption. It is for this reason that I think I prefer virtual caches and microcaches.