Pipanella, are you anywhere near Allen, Auglaze or Hardin counties? Sure sounds like it, everytime I have to head up that way (which is far too often) I look to see if there are any new caches (a rare occurrence). I am thinking that I will have to place one or two myself next time I am up there (in a week or so).
Come on down to Cinci we have plenty of caches to go around
On the subject of poorly placed caches down here in SW Ohio we had a certain cacher who placed hundreds of caches in a very short time. Many of them were micros hidden in parking lots under light pole covers and the like. It got to the point where I did not hunt any of his hides. Some of them were great but most were at best so-so but I still do not think that more rules would be the answer.
Another cacher we had placed around 100 caches and most of them were pretty good. Some of them were very innovative. There was a bit of time before any needed maintenance was done on any cache of his. So yes, I would have to agree that more than a handful of caches can lead to maintenance problems expecially if you have a job and family that also need your time.
I do not think there is a simple answer just because there are so many different personalities, styles and reasons for placing a cache. Yeah, I often ask myself why I am looking for a micro in a narrow strip of trees and grass between an office building and a car rental. Many times I pass on these but when it is 1.6 miles from your front door well . . . .
Yes I was burned by a prolific placer who beat me to the punch by placing, actually a quite good cache about 450 feet from the spot I was scouting. Oh well, he eventually self destructed at gc.com (ended up being banned) and many of his caches were archived several of the more memorable ones, and a few of the less scenic . . ., were adopted by local cachers. I adopted the one that he burned me on and eventually it vanished so now I am free to use my original idea and location.
It is up to the community to police ourselves. One of the groups down here started a series of caches:
Waypoint for #1 GCH57K
So far there are ten of these from 1 - 13 (4,5,6 are not listed). Unfortunately, these are ALL MICRO CACHES*
#7 is cracked and soaked (noted 6 June) No action taken,
#11 the coords are off by 300' (reported 25 February) No action taken,
#9 was last found on 15 may and there have been 6 DNFs since then, No action taken.
Good idea, poor follow through.
Place as many caches as you like but make d*** sure that you can and will maintain them all!
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* I am guessing that once you know how to hide a micro cache in a narrow strip of Honeysuckle and poison ivy placing a traditional cache becomes second nature.
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