Ok, everybody look left Yep first time on a forum. (dang noobs)
Finding out the hard way, I’m with Criminal and won’t be jumping all over another challenge. Like was already written, we all have our own personal reasons to accomplish things and ways we do it. In the end the only real reward is only personal self gratification. We all know we’re good at what we do, that’s what separates us from the average cacher.
That being said, I want to throw in my 2 cents.
1 cent: I feel the easiest way to keep track is, elevation at the TH and elevation at the highest cache of the hike. It doesn't get any easier to verify than that.
2 cent: Shaddow you mention a few times “exercise”. I think just getting up off the couch and attempting an elevation cache is a good start. Unless you count calories burned, who’s to say the person walking back down at a slugs pace isn’t getting more than someone that put it in gear and pedaled their B’s off. I hiked up Washington on packed snow, and slid my feet in the slush on the way back down. I think a skier would have gotten more exercise that day than I did. And I really don’t know of that many caches that would benefit a bike rider enough that a goat couldn't go straight up with less effort. I think you allowing bikes and skis would also make for more fun. (Anybody want to teach me how to ski?)
Just my 2 cents, and like LandRover wrote, “ "TS they don't have to do it."”
