Neener!

Just thought I would share that I was able to contact the cache owner. He is an older gentleman, and is finding it hard to keep up with them (the majority were placed 3+ years ago). I have now formally adopted the cache, which was actually a really easy process. To do this, the owner needs to log on to www.geocaching.com/adopt and enter the required information (cache code, new owners name, etc), which sends an adoption request email to the new owner. Once the new owner clicks the 'accept' link, it is now theirs to edit as they see fit.

Found this one on a geocaching vacation. Sad part of it was, it took me 10 minutes to find this sign on the ground telling me to look somewhere else (the tree cover was killing my GPSr signal). What kills me is that they took the time to engrave then paint a sign to tell us to look elsewhere rather than log onto the geocaching.com site and change the coordinates

I found this one at Xel Ha while I was vacationing/geocaching in Cancun. Each time I see it, "STOP! In the name of love...." comes to mind

1700 miles - From Minneapolis MN to Cancun MX I purposely let three of them (all within a mile of each other) be find numbers 100-102

I am in complete agreement with you. I currently have a cache close to home that because of the location of the hide(it's on the ground, and most DNFs literally walk right on it), tends to be high-maintenance. I have tried to contact the owner (who does not respond) that I would be interested in adopting the cache, in order to prevent some of the maintenance issues (e.g. outdated online descriptions, full log books, compromised containers, etc), but no luck. Looking at this person's hides, they have 42, but over half have been archived/disabled. So I'm thinking that this person has succumbed to the "no longer fun and too hard to maintain" stage of their geocaching careers. Of those that are still active, many have similar maintenance issues. So does anyone have advice on how we can help these poor souls, or is there a formalized process to "adopt" a cache (or caches)? Due to the number of caches in my home area it's hard to find a new location to hide my own but I'd love to take over some of the neglected ones and maintain both the listings and the physical caches themselves.

still a problem

sorry about the extra posts...the servers are timing out and giving me error messages