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I'm pretty sure after every "race" or leg they get like 12 hours. That is quite a bit of down time (can't all be used for sleeping and eating). I'm pretty sure one could find a internet cafe or hell even someone with a GPS. Most of the checkpoints are major landmarks. I bet there is one close to the ending of every leg.

^^^ wrote my post before I read second page, guess there were some answers about the maintenance thing

Oh look first post noob! (I guess I'll out my lurking for a bit) no i haven't placed any caches yet I think I found my 27th cache today (found around 15 with some other friends before I got an account) I have had account for about 2 months now. I have a real GPS, I travel for a living (of my 27 i have 5 states) I think I'll stick with this for a bit So I have some questions . . . some posters seem to think they don't want new people to hide a cache because they will get bored with caching and not maintain it. what's an acceptable response time for maintenance? I live in CO and think a good location is important for a hide, but that location may be up in the mountains. What if I can't get to that part of the mountains in winter months? is that a bad hide? should I hide one closer to where I live so I could get around to it in say a week or two? I know the only way to learn the difficulty ratings is to start finding harder caches and see what they look like but can I get some kinda scale as to the difficulty ratings? what if you had to climb a tree say 10 feet in the air? is that more of a terrain rating? what if you had a fake brick you had to pick out of a wall? okay I have more questions but this will suffice as my first post.