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O.K. Inquiring minds want to know. OR should I say curiosity killed the cat.
While looking over the earth caches in the state of Wisconsin. I found that their have been seven different caches that have been archived. I now asked my self as to why would you want to archive a good cache? The hard work is done.
I recently was one of the lucky ones to have adopted one of LB7s earth caches. So I ask, would it not be better to adopt them out, rather than
archive them? IMHO the better choice is adoption.Just curious, Benny7210
I would think adoption would be better than archiving them unless there is damage being done to the area…
I wonder if the influx of e-mails is the problem and to deal with it they archive instead of putting up for adoption. Once in a while I will respond to an earthcache answer submission, but I believe i put on one cache page that I would onnly respond back IF the answers were incorrect.
Do you have a list of archive ECs in WI?
The only one I know about is GC1023Q and I dont know why it was archived, but it was not a huge loss, as it was a poor EC. You had to stop on a 4 lane expressway to get the required info, that could have been seen on safer road cuts elsewhere.
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@zuma wrote:
Do you have a list of archive ECs in WI?
Here a few that I know off hand:
GCZM5Q
GC109NG
GC143BY
GC1023QI do know there are a few more as well.
Here are three more. My list has a total of seven that have been archived.
GC17978
GC17CKT
GC17975P.S.
I would be more than will to adopt any EC that someone wants to get rid of.
Please email me with the details….Has anyone inquired with these archivist on why they archived???
Why doesn’t someone ask the archivist indeed.
I archived a whole slew of geocaches, including Earthcaches, simply because I was far less active in my geocaching participation.
Each cache hider seeks his or her own level of maintainable caches. When the activity of geocaching becomes a burden, it’s time to back off. I know that most cachers would rather see a cache archived rather than become poorly maintained.
In the case of an Earthcache, maintenance involves answering inquires about the cache. When I archived them, I had neither the time nor desire to read and answer all those emails every day.
I’ve contacted Bandits on GC17978, but would also be interested in there other two. I think this would be a great opportunity for our school as a classroom project. They can verify the logs, learn from the earth caches and also learn about geocaching.
GC17CKT
GC17975
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