As far as I’m concerned, a CO can Archive a cache (or ALL their caches) at anytime, for any reason…even personal reasons. There are “Hiding a Cache” guidelines, as far as publishing and maintaining caches. There are logging guidelines, too. There are excellent Reviewers to oversee these things at the onset of cache placements, but it looks like the general caching public wants to police the fun from there.
My niece was visiting from Oklahoma this weekend. She uses her Smart Phone for geocaching. She finds an average of 1/month, as she usually has her 3 kids in tow. It helps her break up the day and distracts the kids from petty bickering. She is very grateful to COs that place P/G caches for the 4 of them to find. She attended “Quarry Quest” this last weekend and got her first real taste of hiking to a cache! But she had 3 other adults helping tend her kidos, too.
She looks forward to the day when she can have the time to write more meaningful logs.
I guess I’m hoping that a CO never Archives all of their caches because of someone like my niece.
