JessicaLynne83

Thank you all for the tips, lots of good stuff to keep in mind. I've enjoyed getting started, even took the time to find one while traveling out of state.

So true. It's easy to forget that courtesy and awareness isn't as common as one might hope it would be.

Welcome! Worth reading the Guidelines. http://www.geocaching.com/about/guidelines.aspx 3 or 4 times! Find a few, guidelines suggest 20 or so, and see if you are really committed to this. Owning your own cache is a long term commitment, and maintaining it does/should take priority over finding caches. But, nothing to stop you placing one now, so long as it fits the guidelines. What gets annoying is the new cacher, signed up and found their first cache yesterday, hides the first cache today, and tomorrow is off on their next new 'adventure/game' leaving a cache which becomes geolitter. Absolutely. I've been out and about solo and there's a lot of average litter as it is (which I've been cleaning up along the way), the last thing there needs to be is more I went through the guidelines and didn't note anything regarding timelines, but every activity can have its own unwritten rules and I like to respect that. I do like to be on both sides of the puzzle, but I absolutely do plan on waiting a bit before placing any, I just wanted to see what the thoughts were, I certainly did not want to step on any toes. It seems absurd to me that people just abandon their old caches without just going to collect them first. Thank you so much for the info!

I have been interested in geocaching for a couple of years and finally got going over the past couple of days and logged my first finds. While I don't plan on doing so immediately, I was simply curious if there was a certain etiquette involved with newer participants placing their own caches or if it were simply open to anyone that was interested in doing so. Thanks in advance for the info!