Silica in caches

[Da Bloodhound]

Just FYI, King Boreas (from the Twin Cities area) has done that quite a bit. You might contact him direct and see if it does any good and what size containers are best.
Good luck

[Muggle B]

Ok, I fully understand the concept of keep it out and it doesn’t become a problem. But I find caches with wet logs, would it be acceptable to put one in the cache if I don’t have the time to sit with the log and dry it out? This way the next cacher could toss the used silica after he signed the nice dry log.

Some of the ones I have also have GAC granulated activated carbon, mixed in with the silica for freshness, I would think one of those in a skunky ammo box would “freshen up the place”….No?

there has to be a poll or thread on groundspeak that has this covered. searching….

[Muggle B]

Well I ran into a good 10 threads or so on groundspeak, and most people say that they only soak up a very small amount of water, so they are not very useful. And on a hot sunny day they can release the water back into the cache.

I guess the only time they would be useful is to clean up a musky cache, but you would have to return like the next day to take them back out and not leave the moisture in.

I guess ill just toss them, or keep them for maintaining my own caches (if the day comes that I get my own)

thankx for all your responses anyways.

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