I am new to geocaching and have found about 10 so far - all with my kids and their friends (ages 8-11). While there is no doubt that much of the enjoyment of caching is in the hunt, there is also surely some excitement in the prospect of finding something cool. If not, then I think caching could be enhanced if there was that prospect. However, the (greedy) economics of geocachine results in people taking the better items from the cache and leaving the lesser items. Over time this results in all the worst stuff being left in the caches. So, I'm wondering if the brighter collective mind out there can come up with a solution to this. Ultimately, we need to somehow incent people to leave good items and take the lesser items. Perhaps someway of maintaining stats around this could help. Any ideas?
