Gradings

[M&Ms]

Perhaps it is opportune to give a reminder of our local guidelines as to gradings:

 

Terrain difficulty: 1*- Tarmac; 2* - Track passable to 2WD; 3* - 4WD required; 4* - Challenging 4WD; 5* - Expedition desert driving.

 

Overall difficulty: 1* - Open for all to see; 2* - Covered from view but obvious to a geocacher; 3* - Requires a bit of looking. 4* - Requires a lot of looking or out of the box thinking, 5* - A wee stonker.

 

Please note when writing up a cache to consider the summer-bagger and if a person might be expected to be away from their vehicle for more than 15 minutes then you should consider a warning as to the need to carry water particularly if geoathleteing is required.

 

This local interpretation avoids a considerable number of our caches have a total difficulty rating of 8* or more using the more conventional grading systems. Experience has shown that such high-and-tight gradings offer less than useful guidance to the baggers as to what they are in for.

 

M of M&Ms

[+Carbon Hunter]

Found this thread and thought it was worth bumping up to give us some topic to add to.

[+me N u]

We posted this on www.saudigeocachers.com to guide local cachers in grading their hides.

 

The gradings out here are definitely a bit different from "normal" grading and it's hard sometimes to determine cache grading using www.GC.com rating