I invite any of you here to attend the next WGA event. (Date and place yet to be determined, but traditionally there is a picnic every August.) I went to the WGA picnic last August, and I walked over 20 miles that day. (As did my 7 yr old son. Now he won't cache with me much anymore. ) If you come, you will see that the caches placed at a WGA event are of exceptional quality and would meet any cache placement guidelines for gc.com, including being far enough apart from each other, and including a logbook. The quality of these caches is astounding - usually cleverly hidden and disguised micros. MUCH better than any magnetic key holder on the back of a road sign along a road.
Usually, the only reason they end up being temporary instead of permanent is at the request of the land owners who would prefer that the WGA doesn't leave that many items in the park when the event is done. Being that the WGA works very hard with landowners to make geocaching accepted in our state, it is sometimes the only way they will let us play our game in their park. And the WGA respects that wish. (It's all about building bridges with land managers!)
Within the WGA, this topic has been discussed (quite heatedly) many times, and TPTB have been spoken to for guidance and advice. It was decided, after much discussion and deliberation, that cachers can do what they want in regards to logging temporary caches at an event, as long as the event host doesn't specifically say you can't. Some cachers choose to log each cache that was found, and feel perfectly fine doing it as the caches meet every guideline as I mentioned before. Others prefer not to, and don't. It's their preference. And as a whole, the members of the WGA have decided that it's the cacher's decision.
~Mama Fishcacher
