Geocaching’s intent and time
The attitude of Steve O’Gara (“I have no qualms about taking my Jeep over bushes”) gives the sport of geocaching [“Cache Prizes,” Feb. 16] a bad name.
By recklessly trying to rack up the most caches he is missing the point of the adventure in the great outdoors and often in our pristine parks and canyons. Shame on Mr. O’Gara and those like him.
BARBARA N. SHERET
Pasadena
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Amazing. The Los Angeles Times is probably the only big-city (supposedly world-class) newspaper that would wring a magazine cover story out of a fad in decline, hitting on geocaching once the caches are not so cache anymore but out in the open, discussed to death on websites and blogs.
This is a time when geocaching has moved from agile daring techno-hikers into the realm of Winnebago geezers and is even used as a reason-to-buy in ads for the cheapest and most primitive GPS units on the market.
I am waiting for the day when the Los Angeles Times discovers surfing or jogging.
JAN DREIER
Venice
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