The reviewer can contact me to discuss. I wont place it in a log here.
I would have thought that the essence of this was to ensure no damage was made to any objects and to ensure that environment around GZ was kept safe. It seems that following the direct interpretation of the guideline means that these caches break the guideline and need to be archived.
Although these caches have in fact seen some minor modification to items, we have in all cases endeavoured to ensure GZ was maintained prior to publish, no structural damage was made AND GZ is maintained post publish. In many cases, GZ is now in a better state of repair than when we placed a cache and for two of the above caches the caretakers of the area know of the caches existence . But it seems this is not taken into consideration.
If we take this approach to most of our caches, then they probably breach some rule or another e.g. on the side of a bridge is actually on RTA property, a bison in a rock breaches the No object or property may be altered guideline. This has led to the personal archiving of all our caches apart from Bifrost. Although we cannot change what has happened to our caches I would hope this does not become a regular occurrence in caching. I would imagine that the nail in tree for night caches, caches in the cap of a fence post, caches in a rock and the list goes on would actually breach guidelines.
In respect to all the geocachers searching efforts on Bifrost we have not yet archived it but transferred it to The Trixter. This cache remains under consideration. Note that we may need to archive this one as well, and I quote from a forum log by the same person This has not stopped people visiting the cache location and being fairly destructive with their searching techniques. Luckily it is a fairly hardy location and the owner has been very specific where not to look now to stop further damage. While Bifrost may not in fact be the reason the above 4 caches came under close scrutiny, its popularity may have had an indirect impact.
As you can well imagine, this event has had an impact on our passion to continue the good search and placement of caches. We have invested many hours in developing and designing our caches and hope we helped in developing the caching community at least within the Hills area if not wider area. We do appreciate the community at large an apologise if this has put you out in any way.
Best Regards
Hammerman & Trixter
God, looks like the heavy handed reviewer has opened a can of worms with their recent actions
