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I have donned my flak jacket and other protective gear, as a precaution:
Here is an idea regarding how to encourage others to place caches. I consider it a form of gentle persuasion, but I’m not sure how others might view it.
Host a simple breakfast meet, prior to caching in the local area. For example, Appleton. Nothing fancy at the breakfast, no temporary caches. Bascially, meet, eat and cache.
Attendees would log the event as one cache.
Anyone attending who has recently (say in the last 45 days) placed a cache in a given area (say Outagamie and Winnebago counties)could log additional ‘attended’.
Tentatively, something like:
1 new cache – 1 addtl attended
2 new caches – 3 addtl attended
3 new caches – 5 addtl attended
4 or more – 7 addtl attendedOk, I’m ready. Start shooting …………..
Marc
Here’s some general observations that might not apply to you and your area:
1.) The volunteers at Geocaching.com seem to be overwhelmed with the number of requests to place a new cache.
2.) A good cache requires a lot of planning, in my humble opinion. While some people think of geocaching as a numbers game, many like the “wow” factor. http://www.wi-geocaching.com/forums/Forum8/HTML/000868.html
3.) Some areas, like my local area, have a cache or two located just about everywhere. (I just found one at a public boat launch, which is enough public ground for a 50′ strip of pavement and a sign.)While driving the other day I saw this little park, probably 15′ x 30′, and thought, “There isn’t a cache there. Wow.” For many “in the city,” everywhere they go there’s a cache. I’m waiting for people to start sticking them to the underside of their paper boxes or mail holders and post it on Geocaching.com. If they have a big enough lot they could stick one on their flagpole too.
So back to the 15 x 30′ park. Do I put one there and call it “Micro Micro?” The numbers folks might be happy, but the view would be…a bus stop? The challenge is not being seen looking for it? (That’s so the cache isn’t muggled.) Of course, it could take making a microcache to a whole new level of small, in which case I could call it “Micro Micro-micro” for “Micro-park’s Micro-microcache.” THAT might be kind of fun.
Wow. That got off topic fast. I don’t want to hijack this thread with my ramblings, so vote on it here: http://www.wi-geocaching.com/forums/Forum8/HTML/000876.html
Speaking as a geocache reviewer:
If you are the owner of a cache, whether it be regular or event, YOU set the logging requirements. If you want to allow 27 logs, you can do it. Geocaching.com has stated that they generally don’t care how caches are logged on-line.As far as the reviewers being “overwhelmed”, I would have to disagree. At times, if there are enough new caches submitted, the turn-around time can increase by a day or two. Turns out that Sundays and Mondays tend to have the most submissions.
Keep in mind that the geocache reviewers are also geocachers, and like to find new geocaches too.
Kinda seems a shame that “marc_54140” put on his flack jacket for nothing … good to see positive discussions going on … sort of lacking in jokes, but you can’t have everything.
Just a punchline, and you can reverse engineer the joke. “No sir, I’m a frayed knot.”
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Originally posted by Buy_The_Tie:
…. As far as the reviewers being “overwhelmed”, I would have to disagree. At times, if there are enough new caches submitted, the turn-around time can increase by a day or two. Turns out that Sundays and Mondays tend to have the most submissions….
Great. Would you please get someone to look at GCP1MF for me?
Update: Thank you! The waypoint was looked at and I was able to post a few answers and more questions. (I wanted to ask before making assumptions.) Hopefully it will be a fun series.
[This message has been edited by Opossum (edited 05-27-2005).]
In my personal opinion, I would say “No”.
Attending an event and logging temp finds is one thing that we are accustomed to doing.
I don’t think the amount of caches you’ve hidden has anything to do with the event or “finds”. That’s why hidden is a seperate category in your profile.
I think it would open up a big can of worms. People may suddenly rush out and hide a bunch of token caches just to boost their “finds” score.
The logging requirements for events and temporary caches is pretty loose, but I don’t think this would be appropriate.
I just put out 12 in my series and THAT was a bit of work. I’d love to put MORE out in other areas a bit further way, but I am affraid of getting overwhelmed with having to do a lot of maintenance with them. I am thinking though, Regular caches are probably less of a hastle than the micros. Critters tend NOT wo walk off with Ammo boxes. LOL
I don’t want to mess with any critter that makes off with an ammo box.
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Originally posted by Cache_boppin_BunnyFuFu:
I just put out 12 in my series and THAT was a bit of work. I’d love to put MORE out in other areas a bit further way, but I am affraid of getting overwhelmed with having to do a lot of maintenance with them. I am thinking though, Regular caches are probably less of a hastle than the micros. Critters tend NOT wo walk off with Ammo boxes. LOLquote:
Originally posted by Miata:
I don’t want to mess with any critter that makes off with an ammo box.That’s kinda what I was thinking too!! LOL
As I sit in the North Woods, along side Lake Wissota, I am wondering about this idea. There are few caches in this nick of the woods – but, there are plenty of ticks! That is another thought.
I would rather visit a park or an off the beaten path than just go geocaching and look at stop signs for magnetic containers, under lighting posts in a shopping center parking lot, or a magnetic case stuck on some metal object.
Who said that the journey is worth more than the geocache?[This message has been edited by rpaske (edited 05-28-2005).]
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Originally posted by rpaske:
As I sit in the North Woods, along side Lake Wissota, I am wondering about this idea. There are few caches in this nick of the woods – but, there are plenty of ticks! That is another thought.
I would rather visit a park or an off the beaten path than just go geocaching and look at stop signs for magnetic containers, under lighting posts in a shopping center parking lot, or a magnetic case stuck on some metal object.
Who said that the journey is worth more than the geocache?[This message has been edited by rpaske (edited 05-28-2005).]
I have given this some thought as well.. I fonnd a magnetic on a parking lot light pole and placed one as well. I haven’t placed one on a guard rail yet. I suspect that the flora, fauna, terraine and view are pretty much the same in most parking lots and along most guard rails. But, parks and woods offer a fascinating variety. I can’t seem to get enough of it. If you have seen one parking lot, you have seen them all. So I guess it is back to nature for me.
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