Night only cache idea

[+jcblough]

ARKANSAS CACHE SPOILER POTENTIAL BELOW!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

I got inspired by Burns Park Night Cache and I want to add another in the area. I've gotten permission from the placer of the original cache to do another and here's what I've come up with. I need your feedback and what kind of difficulty rating you'd give it.

 

I plan on posting coordinates here that lead to a tree, like the original cache from that tree, you look for illuminated tacks. At the base of the tree, there will be a micro container with another set of coordinates and instructions on how to find the final cache (something involving using a compass, no gps). The location of these coordinates would also be marked with tacks to help people stay oriented. At the end would be a traditional cache. . .

 

Too much? Too Little? Anything missing or suggested changes, difficulty ratings?

[+Kit Fox]

ARKANSAS CACHE SPOILER POTENTIAL BELOW!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

I got inspired by Burns Park Night Cache and I want to add another in the area. I've gotten permission from the placer of the original cache to do another and here's what I've come up with. I need your feedback and what kind of difficulty rating you'd give it.

 

I plan on posting coordinates here that lead to a tree, like the original cache from that tree, you look for illuminated tacks. At the base of the tree, there will be a micro container with another set of coordinates and instructions on how to find the final cache (something involving using a compass, no gps). The location of these coordinates would also be marked with tacks to help people stay oriented. At the end would be a traditional cache. . .

 

Too much? Too Little? Anything missing or suggested changes, difficulty ratings?

 

Not sure why you got permission to hide a similar night cache. His technique for hiding the cache is fairly common.

 

The Difficulty and Terrain rating all depend on how hard it is to find the trail markers, and how complicated the Compass directions are. Many GPS models have functional compasses, and can be used to walk in headings, as well as take bearings.

 

Here is my night cache, that uses compass directions, you can copy any part of mine, if you want.

 

The Haunted Forest (Night Cache) Part Two

Edited December 8, 2006 by Kit Fox

[+jcblough]

Not sure why you got permission to hide a similar night cache. His technique for hiding the cache is fairly common.

 

The Difficulty and Terrain rating all depend on how hard it is to find the trail markers, and how complicated the Compass directions are. Many GPS models have functional compasses, and can be used to walk in headings, as well as take bearings.

 

Here is my night cache, that uses compass directions, you can copy any part of mine, if you want.

 

The Haunted Forest (Night Cache) Part Two

 

I asked him more as a curtosey than anything. The park he used is the only local park I know of with trails open until midnight. I didn't want to put a redundant cache out there if I it was a rub with the local cachers.

[+jcblough]

Nice cache by the way, that's about along the lines of what I was thinking. . .

[+Kit Fox]

I asked him more as a curtosey than anything. The park he used is the only local park I know of with trails open until midnight. I didn't want to put a redundant cache out there if I it was a rub with the local cachers.

 

I didn't know you were going to do it in the same park.

 

 

Nice cache by the way, that's about along the lines of what I was thinking. . .

 

Thanks for the compliment! Ironically, I have a total of four night caches, and I've yet to find someone else's (night only) cache. I figured out how to do it, by reading about them, here on the forums.

[FlagFinder]

ive never done a night cache are they funner?

[Neos2]

Not sure why you got permission to hide a similar night cache. His technique for hiding the cache is fairly common.

I asked him more as a curtosey than anything. The park he used is the only local park I know of with trails open until midnight. I didn't want to put a redundant cache out there if I it was a rub with the local cachers.

I'm not sure I am really following you (I've been ill and am still not functioning up to par!). Are you going to put out a second cache that is almost exactly like a cache already in the same park?

 

If yes, well, wouldn't some variety be interesting? I understand that it's a cool cache and all, but, maybe some people would like to enjoy the park during the day?

Perhaps visiting the nice park for a day cache would encourage some people to come back at night to try the other cache, even thought they don't ordinarily night-cache?

Maybe your copy cache would be more appreciated somewhere further away from the other one just like it?

 

I'm not saying not to do it, just asking you if you have thought of those angles.

[+jcblough]

The cache is significantly more involved than the one currently at the park. The only reason I'm thinking of using the same park is it hosts a 10 mile boyscout trail and a 5 mile trail that are open until midnight. I was going to put this on on the leg that currently has no cache.

 

I was thinking that having 2 in the same area - prob 3 miles apart or so - would give people a place to go to do a full night of caching in the dark without having to drive around. From what searching I've done, there is only one night only cache in Little Rock.

[+emurock]

ive never done a night cache are they funner?

Yes.