@Miata wrote:
So what’s your point Marc? 😛
What? You can’t read my mind?
……….
As I cache throughout Wisconsin (and IL, MN, etc), meeting different addicts from all over, I have been hearing more and more about cache saturation. And specifically, puzzle caches.
Not wanting to solve them, or go hunt for them, is one issue. I am hearing from more and more cachers who specifically state they will not do puzzles. Look at the number of finders for them. Look at the number of puzzles some cachers have found. The numbers are not promising.
But another, more important point is how these caches are tying up otherwise good locations for other, and future, caches.
Yes, each cacher has a right to place a cache. But when an area becomes saturated with puzzles, it can have a negative effect.
The primary purpose of geocaching for to hide caches for people to go out and find. When some (or too many) caches are barricaded behind complicated hoops and barrels that frustrate the majority of cachers, it defeats that intent.
Caches are meant to be found.
Puzzle saturation can affect the future of caching. Consider this: How are new cachers to begin to figure out where to place a new cache, when there are so many hidden ‘bombs’ out there?
Is it time to place some restrictions? Or should individuals begin to restrain themselves? Would they?
