EARTH CACHE

[+#Road Runner]

HOW DO YOU MAKE AN EARTHE CACHE ITS SAY I NEED A MORE DETAILED DERCRIPTION EXAPMPLE

 

THIS IS WHAT I PUT

 

This earthcache is placed along the sledge track

 

Not far from another cache

 

Sledge Track is only 17 kilometres and 20 minutes drive from the centre of Palmerston North. Follow the main route south

out of the city, past Massey University and take the Woodville turn off, onto Old West Road (State Highway 57). Keep going

straight ahead into Kahuterawa Road, which after 6km is unsealed. At the road’s end you’ll find the Kahuterawa car park,

where you can use the picnic tables and toilet facilities before setting on the track some 200 metres from the carpark.

 

Officially opened in 2003, Sledge Track follows an old roadway to Hardings Park, a classified scenic reserve

of more than 860 hectares of native bush at the southern end of the Turitea Water Reserve. The track was

restored by retired farmer Ian Argyle and volunteers using global positioning system readings and old survey

maps to ensure the track sits on the old road.

 

if you want to you can contunue up the the platnum mines

 

In order to log this cache you need to follow these steps

 

 

1.Find the Rock with the plaque on it

 

2.whats on the Plaque ?

 

3.Estamate the height of the rock with the plaque on it?

 

Optional photo of the rock with GPS in the backround (Plese dont include the plaque)

 

 

FTF=???

 

2TF=???

 

3TF=???

 

ledge Track is suitable for a wide range of fitness levels. The first part of the track up to the 'Swimming Hole and Picnic Table' is suitable for families with small children, and up to 'Argyle Rocks' should suit most schools groups, while beyond 'The Elevation' is suitable for experienced trampers only. Mostly undulating, the track climbs gradually as it meanders along the picturesque Kahuterawa Stream. From 'The Elevation' the track takes on a new dimension and should only be negotiated by experienced trampers with a moderate to high fitness level. From 'The Elevation' it would take experienced trampers approximately 3 1/2 - 4 hours to complete the Hardings Park Loop tracks and return to 'The Elevation' point .

 

Officially opened on 6 April 2003 by Prime Minister, Right Honourable Helen Clark, the track is the result of a partnership between Palmerston North City Council and a team of volunteers led by a local retired farmer, Mr Ian Argyle

 

Mr Argyle first proposed the development of the track to Council in 1999, receiving an enthusiastic reception at this opportunity to add to the City's walkway network. Over the succeeding years, and following the original survey of the old road, Mr Argyle aided by volunteers, proceeded to open-up and clear what would become know as the 'Sledge Track". GPS (Global Positioning System) readings and old survey maps guided these developments to ensure the track followed the original road to the point where it linked up with the loop tracks within Hardings Park (861 hectares of native bush at the southern end of Turitea Water Catchment Reserve), now a classified Scenic Reserve.

 

you will need to do the puzzle at argyle rocks

Additional Hints (Encrypt)

 

Big Out in the clearing you should see it

 

THE REVIEWER PUT

 

Please read through these instructions carefully to make sure your EarthCache submission meets these guidelines PRIOR to submittal.

 

1. EarthCaches must provide an earth science lesson.

 

2. EarthCaches must be educational. They provide accurate, educational, but non-technical explanations of what visitors will experience at the site. The cache page, including the description and logging tasks, must assume only a basic knowledge of geology.

 

3. EarthCaches must highlight a unique feature. EarthCaches that duplicate existing EarthCache information about the site or related sites may be rejected. EarthCaches must be developed to provide a unique experience to the location's visitors, and to teach a unique lesson about the feature at the site. Multiple EarthCaches on the same feature should be avoided and content, rather than proximity, will be the guiding principle of EarthCache reviewers.

 

4. EarthCaches must have approval from the Land Manager prior to submission.

 

5. An EarthCache can be a single site or multiple sites. You must have visited the site(s) recently (within two months) to make current, first-hand observations. You must provide accurate coordinates for each site where visitors are to perform the logging tasks, and ensure these areas are accessible to the public. You are responsible for taking appropriate actions if conditions change regarding access, permission, or other concerns.

 

6. Logging an EarthCache requires visitors to undertake a site-specific task which provides a learning opportunity related to the topic. The logging tasks must have visitors using the information from the cache page along with their observations at the site to perform some type of analysis of their own. Logging task solutions will serve as the cache owner's proof that the cacher has visited the site. Questions which only serve to prove that someone visited the site, and do not relate to the site's geology, are not permitted. All requests for photographs must be optional.

 

7. The EarthCache text and logging tasks must be submitted in the local language. Additional languages are encouraged, but the local language must be listed first. You may be requested to provide text in a language understandable to your reviewer to assist with the reviewing process.

 

8. Respect Trademarks and Copyright and only use text, images or logos if you have permission. EarthCaches with information that is copied from other sources, plagiarized, or used without proper attribution will not be published. Limited amounts of text may be quoted, but must be properly attributed.

 

9. EarthCache sites adhere to the principles of geocaching and Leave No Trace outdoor ethics. In addition, use waypoints to ensure cachers take appropriate pathways and use established trails only. Damage to the site is unacceptable. Please be mindful of fragile ecosystems. EarthCache sites will highlight the principle of collect memories--not samples. Furthermore, no physical cache, or other items, can be left at the site.

 

10. EarthCaches are submitted through geocaching.com and must meet these guidelines and adhere to the Geocache Listing Requirements / Guidelines and geocaching.com Site Terms of Use Agreement. The Geological Society of America and the EarthCache Team retains the right to edit, modify, reject or archive any EarthCache that does not adhere to these guidelines, or for any other purpose that the Team deems as appropriate.

 

In the current form your earthcache presentation does not comply with Guidelines 1, 2, 3, and 6. Please review and revise. You should check out some other earthcaches to understand the concepts.

Regards

GeoAwareANZ

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ANY HELP THANKS :blink: :blink: :blink: :blink: :blink:

[+terratin]

Quite simple, an EarthCache is meant to educate cachers about a specific geological feature. At the moment your listing only mentions there's a rock with a plaque. That's hardly a geological lesson, is it?

 

You can ask your reviewer for more input, but generally your listing should be about

1. a specific geological feature, like a fault, a very special outcrop, nice sedimentary bedding or other things

2. write a few general lines about this feature: what it is, how it was created

3. go into more detail on how this applies at the location you selected

4. ask logging tasks that combine what people read in your text and see at the site. Don't ask about words on a sign, the number of benches nearby or the size of the feature unless it's directly related to the geology.

 

And indeed do what your reviewer suggested: look at other recently published Earthcaches nearby and see what they are about and how they are set up. Please feel free to look at ours, but the waterfall is seriously outdated and needs some reworking and the others are somewhat difficult.

 

Mrs. terratin

[+palmetto]

Hello Road Runner, the reviewer provided direction on how to create an Earthcache. I suggest you read that note with some care and try to get a good handle on it.

Here are the Eartcache guidelines

 

There's also a chapter of 5 articles in the Help Center on Earthcaches - Creating Earthcaches

[+Touchstone]

Judging from your post, I can see the following issues:

 

1. Doesn't appear to be geology based. For the most part, it appears you copy and pasted from the following website (see #8 of the Guidelines):

 

Backcountry New Zealand

 

2. You don't mention whether you have permission from the Land Manager (#4 of the Guidelines), which only allows for some very limited exceptions, which your location does not appear to fit.

 

3. Your Logging Requirements appear to fail the educational intent of the Guidelines (i.e. quoting back phrases, dates, words from a plaque involves no educational purpose IMO).

 

4. If you intent is to discuss the geology of the Argyle Rocks, you'll need to provide a geology description in your Listing about the rocks. Merely asking how big a rock is, has no geology based significance.

 

Good luck!

[+#Road Runner]

OK will work on that thanks :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

[+ETVTRTAT]

I don't know if it's too late for you to edit your Cache post, but I would be willing to help with the spelling and grammar, if you desire.

[Pup Patrol]

I don't know if it's too late for you to edit your Cache post, but I would be willing to help with the spelling and grammar, if you desire.

 

As of this date, there is no Earthcache owned by the OP.

 

 

B.

[+NanCycle]

I don't know if it's too late for you to edit your Cache post, but I would be willing to help with the spelling and grammar, if you desire.

 

As of this date, there is no Earthcache owned by the OP.

B.

 

And it's never too late to edit the spelling and grammar, until the cache is archived that is.

[Keystone]

The cache was archived by the Earthcache reviewer months ago. After several attempts, the cache owner was not able to develop a meaningful geology lesson and educational logging task for this site.