Archiving your caches

[sweech]

I recently archived my classroom’s cache in Wrightstown because I will not be teaching there anymore and the program I taught may not be in place anymore. (so, basically no one to maintain, etc.) However, I WILL be taking with me when I move to Wautoma and placing it there. 8)

[Astro_D]

Hmm…I’m not sure why we archived most of our Solar System caches. I think it probably came down to muggle issues. Archiving caches is something we try very hard not to do.

[uws22]

one was archived because the camo was cleaned up by a trail crew… the others were urban caches in Yuma, AZ that i brought with me up here. there’s still two of mine up in the mountains if you’re looking for a hike.

[sandlanders]

Not to hijack my own thread, but it seems that geocaching has evolved to a point where good hides in good places don’t always have to stick around. We placed our caches with the intent that they could stay there until they were compromised in some way (a couple of them might need tweaking soon after some possible disabling). In some areas it looks like finders and hiders like to mix things up every so often.

[gotta run]

It seems every time we consider archiving a cache that might have run its course, it gets found by a whole bunch of cachers. I suppose if the spot were opened up to a new cache, it would have gotten found by those new cachers as well as old.

It’s really hard to determine what should be archived. We have so many series and favorite caches. And our caches that aren’t found much are either not taking up prime real estate.

So we haven’t archived any except those that have caused so many problems that maintenance isn’t worth it any more. But that’s only a handful out of 199 caches so it’s not too bad!

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[Sagasu]

None for me yet. Still tweaking, upgrading and restocking. My wife says she will archive some of them when I can’t drive or walk any more.

[gotta run]

@Sagasu wrote:

My wife says she will archive some of them when I can’t drive or walk any more.

This is too funny. On our “team” I’m the one who wants to archive caches and am always told “but I like that one!”

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