Tree Climbing for a cache…Good or bad idea?

[czernicachers]

@Frizz wrote:

This is a log from a cache I found this weekend:http://www.geocaching.com/seek/log.aspx?LUID=8d687d47-b121-4f92-b38c-e71fa232d2f8, kinda sums up how I feel about climbing. 😉

Looks like you can go back to that one after this year 😉 as your situation expires this year 😀

[Frizz]

@czernicachers wrote:

@Frizz wrote:

This is a log from a cache I found this weekend:http://www.geocaching.com/seek/log.aspx?LUID=8d687d47-b121-4f92-b38c-e71fa232d2f8, kinda sums up how I feel about climbing. 😉

Looks like you can go back to that one after this year 😉 as your situation expires this year 😀

Not gonna happin. My New Years Resolution is to not succumb to “testosterone poisoning”! 😮

[3 Hawks]

I am anything but the most agile of climbers. I have had two knee surgeries, an unhealed old fracture in one foot, and two bum shoulders. Without even mentioning my weight, I’m not in ideal tree climbing shape.

Uncle_Fun’s tree cache gave me pause but he chose a tree suited to climbing. The cache is further up a tree than I’ve climbed in about 25 years, but the pine branches form a natural ladder and I never felt in any real danger. It is one of my most memorable caching experiences. Another climb was only about 15 feet up a tree, but the branches were small and/or rotting stubs. I disliked that climb almost as much as the climb I made out on a branch 15 feet over a rock filled stream.

Climbing a tree for a cache can be a great experience, but it is not for everyone. Hiking 5 miles for a cache can be a great experience, but it is not for everyone. As long as you properly advise cachers about what they are getting into, then it can be a great placement as long as a suitable tree is selected.

I think variety is one of the great aspects of this sport. If every cache were hidden in a fashion easily accessible to all cachers; every cache would be hidden under a light pole skirt. Wouldn’t that be fun???

[Cheesehead Dave]

I see no problem with it. Just like caches that require SCUBA equipment, rock climbing experience, or fifty mile hikes with an overnight stay in the wilderness, not everyone is going to be able to find that cache. But for those who are up to the challenge, it’s a nice diversion from the typical ammo box in a hollow log

[Lostby7]

I’m cool with that method so long as it is made clear on the cache page….at the very least stating it outright will save some people who’d be uncomfortable with such a feat a chance to save a bit of gas….would I attempt to find one like that, you bet (but then again I have never been known for my good common sense).

[kbraband]

@greyhounder wrote:

@ecorangers wrote:

😆 Professor gives a “senior discount” for his Evil Monkey caches. They (senior cachers) log saying they spotted the cache and that’s good enough for him. Tami

How senior is senior? Perhaps I qualify? 😀

Bec

I probably qualify as a senior too, but to my way of thinking, it’s not an age thing. It’s about fitness and attitude.

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