Hi everyone,

The NPS folks at Acadia are developing a cache, and hope it will be a prototype for geocaches in the NPS more generally. They are testing it with park staff now, but are hoping that actual geocachers will come and try it out so that they can be sure it's the kind of cache we like and that they've done a good job. If anyone is interested in giving it a whirl BEFORE December 1 (when the loop road in the park closes for the winter), let me know and i'll get you all the data. The park folks realize that they've had a somewhat adversarial relationship with geocachers in the past but now they really are trying to meet us half-way. The cache they've developed is a multi, and the version i saw, the alpha-test, i guess you could say, was pretty nice.