Tips and tricks with the revised EC submission?

[Trekkin and BirdinParticipant]

It’s been awhile since we’ve placed any EarthCaches, but I have a couple new ideas and locations. Any hints, tips or tricks regarding the new submission process are more than welcome. Thanks in advance.

[BakRdzParticipant]

I’m no expert by any means seeing I’m 1 for 2 on my attempts, but seeing my one “success” was a recently approved one (GC2GBNB) I thought I’d pass along the things I kept in mind while authoring it…

1. If it doesn’t involve rocks or dirt, don’t bother.
2. Keep the focus simple, but provide lots of background and info.
3. The “to log this find” qualification should include some sort of “field” experiment, not just observations.

Lostby7 gave me a lot of advise that helped, too, but the one point that stuck in my head was will the reviewer feel the cacher has actively learned something.

[Lostby7Participant]

The only real difference now is that they are being way stricter on approvals. Make sure you have a good lesson and good logging requirements.

[Trekkin and BirdinParticipant]

Thanks, I feel that what I have in mind should be solid. Also, it looks like the submission is now done through the regular gc site, not the ec site anymore, correct?

[Lostby7Participant]

@Trekkin’ and Birdin’ wrote:

Thanks, I feel that what I have in mind should be solid. Also, it looks like the submission is now done through the regular gc site, not the ec site anymore, correct?

correct you now submit through GC…much easier in terms of submission.

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