CAV SCOUT … This cacher was top worldwide when he was developing EarthCaches. He also encountered the unfair mandates by HQ. He developed 203 Earthcaches for all to enjoy. Per multiple forum posts, he was always respectful and honest. However, he was still unfairly banned for a year, after which it was made permanent. He was not even allowed to let his brother adopt all his EarthCaches to keep them available for the caching community.
Cav Scout … Indiana Jones of EarthCaching
Posted June 24, 2008
I’m one of those guys 🙂 … I’ve been banned from placing anymore earth caches anywhere. Out of 96 earth caches I own I placed one on a state forrest that borders a national monument park called the Natural Bridge state park. I had permission to place ECs at the gorge and set up one that I thought was part of the red river gorge called Catacomb Arches. The park contacted me and asked me to shut it down, and I did. I later apologized. Geoaware recieved a email four days after it been shut down and sent me a email saying what I did was wrong. I agreed… It was one mistake out of over 100 submitted earthcaches. My punishment was all ECs I owned was blocked (that day) and I had to resubmit each permssion email from managers, land owners, etc. I pride myself on getting permission to place my ECs. I emailed the State Forrest manager and even he thought it was extereme for what happend and sent a email explaining how its easy to confuse the park with the red river gorge and has invited me back to the park to place future ECs. Unfortunatley I can no longer place ECs. It was fun while it lasted. I drove many miles across the USA, countless hours with my dog “Scout” and friend, and met a lot of great people while doing this. Maybe some day I can get back into the game of earth caches.
Geoaware has a really great program that has zero tolerance for mistakes and I respect that. After all it is his program and he has exercised that right 😀 .