A HIGH QUALITY geocache for me and my Husband Bill would be, a large container that is perfectly air tight . The geocache could be an Ammo Can, as bucket, or something the owner rigged up like a gadget cache for example. Also "high quality" for us is a cache this is hidden in a nice to visit location, it's dry 24-7, and isn't a magnet or mini magnetic bison on a sign on the corner or anything like that as those hides to us are considered low quality.
In your mind, what is a low quality geocache? Haha I just discussed this up above, a low quality geocache would be something like the "park and grabs" or any cache that is not maintained proper and is moldy wet and nasty and has a full log and no swag except the molded match box and kooshy mini ball that's hard and has a ton of hair n dirt stuck it (ice found countless amount a of caches that run exactly like this smh!) But that's low quality, if someone complains about a cache being of low quality in a log we are reading while thinking about going for a geocache we automatically think, the cache is going to be in a zip block baggy, stuffed under a tree stump, 100 feet away from its original spot, be moldy as all get out and have no viable swag for the kiddos to take. We slip them if they don't have my valuable history on it.
What steps can the community take to improve geocache quality? There are a few steps our community of cachers can take , the FIRST ONE BEING "MANAGE YOU HIDESTHE WAY HEAD QUARTERS INTENDED YOU TO, when you first hide a cache it asks you of you agree to all the terms and rules one of them being to check on your hide and clean up/out your container. Add or replace logs as needed, and if someone complains about something come out as soon as they are available and fix their cache up. Also if a cache is in need of a log or something instead of flagging down the owner to bring out some logs or what not, why not just carry some extra logs on you. I know US DIE HARD CACHERS bring a bag of TOTTs alomg fill with logs or bags for them, small temporary replacements. This would all better geocaching for our community as a whole!!!!!!
What steps can Geocaching HQ take to improve geocache quality? Do not allow cachers with less then 100 finds of their own, as I have seen geocaches hidden by people who only had one to five funds under their belt so they had absolutely NO EXPERIENCE AT ALL!!!!! 9/10 the geocaches are hidden all types of wrong, from cords being 100s of feet off, containers that are not water proof at all. Heck we even found a cache a person had his near their house, said person only had 2 finds period. So they hid the cache in a storm water man made sewage type system thing I rarely ever see them so I'm not sure the exact name however a few weeks latter z toem.came and washed their cache away however this is not all, we were the 2nd to find with cords being terribly off it was a miracle we even found it just happened to peak under the right metal bar. But the container was an orbit gum box, the log was only a two by two inch square of red paper. And wrapped around the cache via rubber band was a hotwheel car with a sticker on it that said this item is a trakable (misspelled it like that N all.) And in the cache page description they let everyone know that the FTF or anyone who wants it after that shpuld take their Trackables and move it along....... it was not a trakable it was just a toy with a sticker, I eventually spoke to them and worked out their misinformation , they actually thought a trakable was exactly what they made they expected that as the car moved cache to cache somehow e veeyone would know it was his car and that it started at his cache so he wanted future people to log "I have your car TH now" under his cache logs. I know confusing. That is a prime example of why geocachers shpuld have to earn the ability to hide geocaches them selves. This will also take some of the load off our reviewers as they will get less caches they have to archive or deny due to the person's being new and not knowing rules ect.
Thanks for Geocaching head quarters interest in what we the Geocachers think!!!!!! Hope some changes are made due to this survey you guys have put out!!!
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Thanks for Geocaching head quarters interest in what we the Geocachers think!!!!!! Hope some changes are made due to this survey you guys have put out!!!