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As long as a cache owner can and will maintain his or her caches, there is no need whatsoever to mandate a sunset period. I am finding out personally how much maintainance is involved with placing caches as I’ve got quite a few hides in relation to my finds. I do however enjoy the hides almost as much as, and sometimes more than, the finds. Any requirement for me to stop doing the part of this activity that I enjoy (owning/ hiding/ maintaining caches) would be completely out of line. The other side of the coin would be to limit the number of finds you can make in a given time period so that the caches that are there, don’t get too overworked. (equally out of line)
Each of us gets a different aspect of enjoyment from this activity and there should be as few rules and regulations involved as possible so that everyone can enjoy geocaching in thier own little way.
I realize that this topic was brought to the front as a result of the lack of maintenance and inactivity of a cacher. I am all in favor of one cacher being able to adopt caches that may need adoption. This process seemed to carry out well in a different thread which brought the owner out of the woodwork and back into the forefront of thier responsiblilities as cache owner. The way this is being handled now makes plenty of sense. There are no rules, guidlines, suggestions, or zero-tolerance policies that will fit every situation. Let’s not even try.
Instead, lets keep on doing what has been working:
1) Exhaust all efforts at contacting the owner of distressed cache.
2) Contact the appropriate approver with your concerns or wishes to adopt.
3) Proceeed on a case by case basis.
This does put a little bit more of a burden on the time of our volutneer approvers, so their involvement should be limited, if possible.
This process would also seem to ensure that we are not littering the landscape with tupperware and ammo cans.My only other thoughts are these. I was disappointed that T&tB had archived a bunch of caches just to my south. I hadn’t had a chance to find them yet. This is their perogative thought as cache owners. Hopefully someone will step up and place some where they left off. I believe that was thier intent. In this case though, there are not that many cachers in the area, and I would have loved to have been able to have the chance to adopt them myself, if only to archive them and hide another there a short time later. Maybe we need a place where we can go ahead and put our caches “up for adoption” if we so choose. This would give others the chance to find them prior to archiving, knowing that time is limited.
my two copper coins
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Team GeoPink
Co-conspirators to make the world a better place…Whenever I have time. Weekends definitely… I’ll stay up late the night before printing and planning then, out the door the next morning. During the week is when I do the ones that have popped up nearby or the ones I’ve been saving, or Virts (to get them off my Nearest cache list) or lately I’ve been spending all my time hiding more than hunting so whenever I can get my butt near a cache I’ll try to log it.
I’m a whenever I can cache cacher, I guess
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Team GeoPink
Co-conspirators to make the world a better place…Inspirational! Way to go!
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Team GeoPink
Co-conspirators to make the world a better place…I can imagine I’d have room in one of my new caches for one or two. I’ve the perfect starting point / starting cache too. Can you say… Yellow Submarine! (How quickly can I get it, It’s scheduled for release in a few days)
[walks away whistling…]
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Team GeoPink
Co-conspirators to make the world a better place…[This message has been edited by arcangl7 (edited 06-08-2004).]
[This message has been edited by arcangl7 (edited 06-08-2004).]
Ahem…
The SS Badger, a non-taxpayer supported Carferry Service, has been running the Manitowoc Ludington Route for over 50 years now. The Badger, built in Wisconsin, accomodates 620 passengers, 180 automobiles, tour buses, R.V.s and semi-trucks. The SS Badger offers the largest cross-lake passenger-oriented service on the Great Lakes. A four hour 60-mile cruise takes passengers and their vehicles or bicycles across Lake Michigan between Ludington, Michigan and Manitowoc, Wisconsin.
The Prices are more reasonable and the Onboard Activities and Accomodations knock the pants off your high-speed, high-cost southern quality knockoff down there.
Oh, and, no there aren’t any caches within walking distance of the Ludington docks but there are at least a dozen or so caches within 15 miles of Ludington.
Sorry, but this is a sore spot for us up here. And yes, I do hope your fairy takes a one-way boat trip elsewhere in the near future.
A 10% Round Trip Discount on a Midnight sailing, a full day of caching on the oposite shore, a late or next day return trip, and a crapload of new caches in the Manitowoc area would certainly make for a fun Event Cache Weekend!
Just my $.02
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Team GeoPink
Co-conspirators to make the world a better place…I second that! Thanks!
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Team GeoPink
Co-conspirators to make the world a better place…quote:
Originally posted by Cathunter:
I too, would like to see the event at Buckhorn or Mirror Lake. I’d also like to get together with others & make a group camp of the weekend.
OOooo… I could see us getting into the group camp idea!
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Team GeoPink
Co-conspirators to make the world a better place…3 more emails on the way…
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Team GeoPink
Co-conspirators to make the world a better place…It wouldn’t let me send anything over 10MB… me thinks they’re broken into 5 e-mails. My favorite is the QuickTime 360 of the campsite. I wish I could post that somewhere but I don’t think it will work on the Picture pages… I’ll try though.
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Team GeoPink
Co-conspirators to make the world a better place…Yeah… I stalled about a quarter of the way through…
Trying again.
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Team GeoPink
Co-conspirators to make the world a better place…30MB email on its way… Sorry.
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Team GeoPink
Co-conspirators to make the world a better place…Take your time. I’m in no hurry. Thanks for the willingness. I’m excited to be the proud sometime-to-be owner of an autographed Campout shirt.
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Team GeoPink
Co-conspirators to make the world a better place…Thank you, thank you.
I would love to have this baby autographed by the current board members if at all possible. Find a place somewhere on the front. I don’t know what kind of writing utensil will show up best on the shirt but get what is needed, I’ll cough up the bucks for it. Hang on to it, I’m planning on getting down there for a breakfast or some caching. We can make the trade then.
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Team GeoPink
Co-conspirators to make the world a better place…This weekend will consist of spring cleaning and coing all the stuff I should have been doing the last several weeks. Finally, I am hoping to finish up the cache series I’ve been working on for two months now.
Keep your eyes peeled…
Manitowoc’s WWII Submarines
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Team GeoPink
Co-conspirators to make the world a better place…What, no pictures?
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Team GeoPink
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