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…so I may as well stick around to get this FTP.
Hate to interrupt the normal conversation here, but this fits in with the conversation we are having about the LCG. It seems Oregon is pushing to have caches five or more years unfound archived if not maintained. Well, that is a bunch of my caches out there. I do have a few people maintaining things for me, and a couple of hikers that are trying to finish my hides along the OC&E Trail, but haven’t got to the eastern end yet. The caches on the trail are containers that are built for the long haul. Locations are solid. It is like all the lonely ones we have up in northern Wisconsin. https://coord.info/BMDHC5A
Oregon reviewers follow this specific Wiki and maintain it. I see no mention of 5 years or more of not found t be archived.
https://gcwiki.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/GEO/pages/529840/Oregon
How many Oregon cachers has the CO contacted to offer the hides up for adoption? One of the cache placement guidelines is that the CO must be in a position to maintain their containers. If the Reviewers start finding exceptions to this guideline there will be plenty of geo-junk in the wild, since most cache hiders use containers that will last and last and last and last. I’ve even seen chest freezers used as containers!
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The CO is me 🙂
I have reached out to everyone that cached out there. Most have gone into hibernation themselves, or the caches are too remote for them to access easily. I lived out of town, they are all “townies”. I do have people that see them, are excited about finding caches that have gone unfound for multiple years, and reach out to me – especially for the puzzle caches. That’s how I have maintained caches for 7 years now. When they are missing, they get archived.
Geo-junk was something I actually worked on cleaning up while we lived there. There were dozens upon dozens of caches that had been archived in a pique of anger by a CO, that then quit caching altogether. I methodically went through their archived caches and found whatever was left on site, sometimes placing a new cache to replace (and republish) in the same location if they were not simply the high desert version of a GRC. I know my caches are (almost all) there because of the containers I used, and the locations I chose.
The reason the caches are not found is because of those locations. Like the caches that dominated the LCG in northern Wisconsin, nobody wants to hike the OC&E. It isn’t a power trail.
Because of the way we were forced to move back, there was no way we could remove the caches placed. But, like I said, I know most of my caches are still there even after all these years because of the locations chosen and the location in general. The closest thing to muggles are free range cattle that walk the Trail.
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Hate to interrupt the normal conversation here, but this fits in with the conversation we are having about the LCG. It seems Oregon is pushing to have caches five or more years unfound archived if not maintained. Well, that is a bunch of my caches out there. I do have a few people maintaining things for me, and a couple of hikers that are trying to finish my hides along the OC&E Trail, but haven’t got to the eastern end yet. The caches on the trail are containers that are built for the long haul. Locations are solid. It is like all the lonely ones we have up in northern Wisconsin. https://coord.info/BMDHC5A
Oregon reviewers follow this specific Wiki and maintain it. I see no mention of 5 years or more of not found t be archived. https://gcwiki.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/GEO/pages/529840/Oregon
I have over a dozen copies of this email:
“Hi from geocaching.com,
It looks like your cache has not been found in at least 5 years. One of the responsibilities of a cache owner is to maintain the cache. Please visit the cache to confirm that it is in place and ready to be found, then log a note on the cache page that you have visited the cache location and it’s available to find.
I will check back in a few weeks to make sure the cache is available for cachers to find. If there is not a log on the cache page that you have checked on the cache I will have to disable it at that time.
If the cache is no longer available, you may choose either to replace the cache in the same location or archive the cache so it no longer shows up as available to find.
Thanks for understanding.
Sincerely,
ThunderEggs
Volunteer Geocaching.com Reviewer”The best sig is no sig.
Hate to interrupt the normal conversation here, but this fits in with the conversation we are having about the LCG. It seems Oregon is pushing to have caches five or more years unfound archived if not maintained. Well, that is a bunch of my caches out there. I do have a few people maintaining things for me, and a couple of hikers that are trying to finish my hides along the OC&E Trail, but haven’t got to the eastern end yet. The caches on the trail are containers that are built for the long haul. Locations are solid. It is like all the lonely ones we have up in northern Wisconsin. https://coord.info/BMDHC5A
Oregon reviewers follow this specific Wiki and maintain it. I see no mention of 5 years or more of not found t be archived. https://gcwiki.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/GEO/pages/529840/Oregon
I have over a dozen copies of this email: “Hi from geocaching.com,
It looks like your cache has not been found in at least 5 years. One of the responsibilities of a cache owner is to maintain the cache. Please visit the cache to confirm that it is in place and ready to be found, then log a note on the cache page that you have visited the cache location and it’s available to find.
I will check back in a few weeks to make sure the cache is available for cachers to find. If there is not a log on the cache page that you have checked on the cache I will have to disable it at that time.
If the cache is no longer available, you may choose either to replace the cache in the same location or archive the cache so it no longer shows up as available to find.
Thanks for understanding.
Sincerely,
ThunderEggs Volunteer Geocaching.com Reviewer”
Well, what I think the reviewer is trying to say and perhaps needs to be worded more correctly is that cache maintenance (per HQ) should be performed at least once per year by the cache owner, or someone who is also a designated person to check on cache. What the reviewer is probably saying is nobody has visited in 5+ years, and that could include the CO. It really doesn’t matter what the CO thinks, it’s really what is in the logs. Cache maintenance logs count as a visit.
Hope that helps..
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Gotta get this before BigJim jumps in on it. 😉
7 and 7 = 14. This is post 14.
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