Hi All
I have noticed that there isn’t really a place (on the SA forum) for new cacher’s to ask questions about placing caches and for the older (and wiser) cacher’s to share some of their expertise and wisdom with us. I have also noticed that people are quick to criticize the “newbie-placers”, (of course, constructive critisim is necessary in order for us all to learn and is often warranted). However, as a “pre-newbie-placer” it truly terrifies me into thinking that, if I do place a cache, it may not live up to all your expectations and my cache my go unfound until the parents feel sorry for me and give it a try.
As a youngest cacher (or baby chicken) of an all-caching family, my goal is simple, to utterly confuse and stump my parents (for those of you who are not in the loop, that would be TV&M) by creating the worlds most challenging cache. I realize that in order to achieve this goal, in my lifetime (and theirs) I need to take baby steps.
So please, older and wiser cachers of South Africa, share your wisdom with me by advising me of the following:
1. What inspires you to go out and do a cache? (Besides the FTF, of course)
2. What are the most suitable containers to use?
3. Urban caching is tricky, but do you have any hints or tips about placing those nanos?
4. Puzzles caches – do the tricky ones put you off or are you up for a challenge?
5. If co-ords are given to a general location and you are required to figure out the actual hidey-hole, is that ok?
6. Do all write up require a long story as to why it is placed there? It is in the middle of nowhere and you simply placed it because you thought, “Hey, that’s a cool place to hide something”, would you still want a story?
Ok, that’s all for now folks! And for all those other “newbie-placer”, perhaps you too have some questions that you are dying to ask but just haven’t yet.
