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  • 01/11/2009 at 8:39 am #1727529
    Team Venom

      I have been Maintaining “Lord of The Caches” for a few years now as the owner has gone west never to be heard from again. I have tried to contact him a few times, but have never recieved an answer in over a year. Groundspeak shows him as a Non active member.
      What do I have to do to get this cache passed over to me, I have no way of getting the owner to allow me to adopt it, so the location page data can be maintained.
      I talked to a Wi admin during the West Bend event, and he said that he didn’t think anything could be done… I hope this is not true.

      Help from an admin would be appreciated.

      01/11/2009 at 4:29 pm #1900046
      greyhounder

        In order for you to adopt a cache, the cache owner must start the ball rolling. If said owner is not available, basically all you can do is post a SBA note and get the process rolling for archival. Once the listing is archived then you can put a new cache in the exact same location (can use the same name even).

        Here’s geocaching.com’s knowledgebase info on this:

        adoptions

        Bec

        01/12/2009 at 1:52 am #1900047
        RSplash40

          There is a group here in wausau that is the same way, on one, I was the last finder, parts were everywhere, location was an obvious fort for local kids.

          Owners had not been online in 2 years, I picked up the container and posted a SBA and eventually it went away via the reviewers. They have 5 others here in town that are the same way, some have 3-4 containers now as people have been playing the lonely game a bit too much or just wanting to claim the found and place a container where they thought it should be.

          01/12/2009 at 1:55 am #1900048
          -cheeto-

            And you can always add a link on the cache description to the prior archived cache if you want cachers to be able to find the prior one for historical reasons.

            01/12/2009 at 5:45 pm #1900049
            Team Venom

              Well I’d hate to let the original be archived, due to the historical relevence of the cache. So I guess it will remain as it is then… I’ll keep tending to it.

              01/15/2009 at 6:11 am #1900050
              Team Venom

                THANKS BE !!!!
                TO: Wis-Kid and those at GroundSpeak for the transfer of “Lord of the Caches”

                THANKYOU Thank You THANK YOU!!!! 😉 😀 😆

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