Is Waymarking exclusively for gps users?

The FAQ at Waymarking.com states that a gps is handy, but not necessary. However, I believe this policy is not policed. Example: I searched for wm's during my vacation, and found that every wm I considered required a photo with the gps. Additionally, I found a few photos with comments like: "the gps is my phone, my camera is my phone. hope this will count." Should I log a find and quote the FAQ to justify my lack of gps? What would you do? I think the gps is just one. more. thing. that I do not want to carry.

a view from the bean in chicago. "A" and I are near the center facing the bean.

Waymarking

My family and I have been staying in Colorado. When great natural resources abound, like Rocky Mountain National Park, geocaches are rare, so I look at Waymarking. I love the way that geocaching.com suggests nearby waymarks. [I haven't noticed reciprocity, though. When I look up a waymark, the word geocache doesn't appear.] In sensitive, natural areas, I'm OK without bagging a smiley face. I love increasing my numbers, and I can do that with Waymarking. The reward is the experience I'm having --

walking the tundra with one of my sons

seeing new things

doing the different

Caching in SD

I chaperoned a youth group to South Dakota. The main purpose was to do God's work among the Lakota via Re-Member. Without storing coords in my gps, I knew there would be earthcaches and virtual caches (types of geocaches are listed at this page) that I could log later.

One historic place we visited a couple times (and drove by many times) was the Wounded Knee Battle Site. The only geocache in this area is a virtual cache, GCG05Q Wounded Knee Creek.

We learned to make a sage smudge from a survivor from the 1973 incident (AIM audio and here). He was 7 years old at the time. This definitely was not an earthcache. Waymarking has replaced virtual geocaching.

The Fairy Door

Fellow geocacher egami established a waymark at Gray's Lake Park (in Des Moines) a while back. I read about it at the forums for the Iowa Geocachers Organization. I've wanted to see it since I read about it, and took the time to do so today -- my first waymark, awww.

"I" of GAIN Academy was ecstatic about the find. To her, it was proof that fairies really exist. She left a note with the hope that she'll re-visit and find an exquisite, hand-written reply, just like the other replies she found in the envelope. Her note said, "I believe in fairies." If you love fairies, you will want to visit this spot.

Two other groups visited the fairy door during our visit to Gray's Lake. One appeared curious just because we were there. The other group seemed to have prior knowledge of the door. (To read more, look at this article written by the local (news)paper.) Since the kids declared themselves "micro-haters," we did not seek any caches. I know we walked by three, but I think I agree with them. Micro-caches are not fun in the cold.

And, as usual, we did not leave the park empty-handed. We can never leave a place empty-handed. Two glass bottles for recycling and a rusty railroad spike left Gray's and accompanied us home.

When we had had enough of the sun and cold, we headed to the warmth of the car and Legion Park to find a geocache. The temperature dropped ten degrees during our visit. (Of course. See rule number two in previous post.) I had a burning desire to re-locate Mumbo Jumbo in order to keep it traveling (naturally, we stopped at Dairy Queen before we started seeking). It seems to be a relatively new travel bug, and I had been holding it much longer than I intended. I can't disappoint a new bug owner. "G" of GAIN recalled our own travel bug being held overly long, and understood the need to get it moving. I chose GC18YG2 Legion Park Hubbard #3 because new geocaches tend to have more traffic, thus increasing the chances that someone will see the travel bug, pick it up, and move it.