Has always been that way in the guidelines, but what individual cache hiders do is an entirely different story. I personally haven’t found any caches like this but have heard stories.

Unfortunately it’s pretty difficult for the reviewers to police this issue from their end unless the cache owner says something in the cache page to indicate that the cache is buried.

what about ON fire hydrants? I thought that was a violation, but I can’t find it in writing anywhere.

The old guidelines had language indicating that if you needed to use an implement (the actual words were “pointy stick”) to break the ground, you were violating the guidelines. Of course, that lead to people claiming that the 6 foot deep hole was made by scrabbling with their fingernails. I think they were just clarifying in this particular case.

Fire hydrants are dependent on the laws in particular communities. Some have laws prohibiting “tampering” with hydrants. I don’t personally have any knowledge as to which communities have such laws.

When I heard this news I was so happy that I could finally take the shovel out of my geo-bag. I will keep it close by though to help me dig through the %#$@ that shows up here from time to time.

Looks like meadow’s post went bye-bye…

I’ve actually swapped for a shovel (O.K., garden spade) that was in a cache.

GC27AWN

@gotta run wrote:

Don’t tell me how to play the game! There are 20,000 other caches to look for in the state if you don’t like these caches!

(Whoops, sorry, wrong thread!)

Wow, no need to get all upset about it. Sheesh!! 😆