Night caches

Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2010 5:31 pm

Requirements, guidelines, suggestions, do's and dont's ...

Anything helpful in the placement of such.

Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2010 8:17 pm

I just placed my first one not to long ago, and the biggest thing I found was, that I did it myself 3 times before I posted it, and tweaked stuff every time till I was happy with it. If I would have released it after my initial placement, I dont think it would have been as good.

Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2010 10:14 pm

I would have to say that one thing to be careful of is footing. A place that might be a breeze in the daylight can become very difficult in the dark.

An interesting description page to set the mood, but you guys have that down pretty well.

Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2010 9:22 am

This might seem obvious, but place it at night! Then check back in daylight to look for obstacles you may have missed.

Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2010 9:43 am

Now I read somewhere that stages of night caches are not restricted by the 528 rule, is that true? Of course the final would still need to be 528 away from other caches....

Anyone wanna take a stab at clarifying this?

Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2010 10:16 am

Lostby7 wrote:

Now I read somewhere that stages of night caches are not restricted by the 528 rule, is that true? Of course the final would still need to be 528 away from other caches....

Anyone wanna take a stab at clarifying this?

I believe that is now true.

Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2010 6:23 pm

We don't worry about firetacks for proximity. The one place people usually fail is not including GPS usage. At a minimum, you need to start your night cache at some random spot, rather than a parking lot, trail junction or other easy to find location. This is just like a LBH in this respect. Note that some people go the extra mile and have intermediate waypoints, so you go to a spot, follow a trail, find a container, go to the next spot, follow another trail, etc. Note also that parks take a very dim view of placing firetacks along bridle trails (horsemen ride at night with headlamps as well, and the flash from the fire tacks startles the horses). Also note that placing this sort of cache in a hunting area is bound to be screwed up by some hunter placing his own trail right across yours. (I've seen it happen 3 times!)

Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2010 8:55 am

I thought I read that one of the requirements was to eliminate, and keep eliminated, all mosquitos from a 1 mile radius of the starting point through to the physical cache.

Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2010 9:22 am

furfool wrote:

I thought I read that one of the requirements was to eliminate, and keep eliminated, all mosquitos from a 1 mile radius of the starting point through to the physical cache.

I think that's for winter night caches. You're on your own during bug season.