How to manage cache after military move

[+BlessedBees]

I would like to hide a few caches of my own, but don't know how to manage them after each move. Being in the Navy, I expect to move every 2 years (like to another state). What would I do when I leave? Do I archive the listing, or is there some organized method for me to turnover the ownership to another willing player?

 

In practicality, I would expect that I could only 'own' a cache for 12 months after I place it. That assumes that I didn't place it immediately after I arrived and I would need to dissolve ownership a few months prior to moving again. That seems like a very short time...

 

We have found this game to be lots of fun (finding), but I would like to be able to play both sides.

 

Any suggestions? (I can't be the only military player out there)

[+Moose Mob]

Being near Nellis air force base we hae that issue arise on occasion. In the long haul, not much to worry about. The cream of the crop will be adopted by willing locals, and others can be pulled before you PCS out of the area. Certain ones, like seldom visited ammo cans, will likely not require any significant maintenance so you may opt to keep those if you have a locval maintainer.

[+Lotho]

There isa way of handing ove caches- "Adoption". The guidlines state a cache should be in place for at least 6 months if possible, so you could jsut archive the cache.

[TopangaHiker]

I would like to hide a few caches of my own, but don't know how to manage them after each move. Being in the Navy, I expect to move every 2 years (like to another state). What would I do when I leave? Do I archive the listing, or is there some organized method for me to turnover the ownership to another willing player?

 

In practicality, I would expect that I could only 'own' a cache for 12 months after I place it. That assumes that I didn't place it immediately after I arrived and I would need to dissolve ownership a few months prior to moving again. That seems like a very short time...

 

We have found this game to be lots of fun (finding), but I would like to be able to play both sides.

 

Any suggestions? (I can't be the only military player out there)

 

If I knew a serviceman who was moving I'd volunteer to adopt his caches as long as it was in an area that I could responsibly administer.

Get with a local group and take it from there.

Hey, are you in the construction battalion? A SeaBee?

Edited August 19, 2007 by TopangaHiker

[+jtbrady01]

If you aren't already a member of the Military Association of Geocachers why don't you check them out at www.militarycache.org. They have their own forum as well that discusses this very same topic. Another military cacher might jump right on board the opportunity to take over your cache.

[+DudleyGrunt]

All of the above is good advice, but I'd also suggest checking out the Military Association of GeoCachers at www.miltarycache.org. It would be one source for finding someone to adopt your caches and to find fellow cachers at your new assignment.

 

Dave

[+Isonzo Karst]

Handing your cache over to another player when you leave is easy - assuming you've found an adopter.

You can adopt your cache (or travel bug or coin) over to another cacher here.

 

http://www.geocaching.com/adopt

 

This is automated. When the cacher responds to the bot generated email asking if she wishes to accept ownership, the cache (coin, bug) is transfered to their account.

[+Glenn]

Just be aware that adopting a cache out will reduce your hide count. There is nothing wrong with archiving a cache as long as you also remove the cache. If it is a good spot then that opens it up for someone else to hide a cache there also. Maybe even someone else military who is moving in to the area. Archiving a cache is NOT a bad thing.

[+Team FIREBOY]

We live in a town with an Air Force base. A young man who was PCSing from Cheyenne to Florida owned caches, he put a note out on his cache listing page, one that we were watching, and we adopted the cache just before he left.

 

We have enjoyed his hide immensely, we even changed the cache page to show respect for him by saying., "We adopted this cache from........"

 

Just because you might have to move in two years shouldn't keep you from placing a cache. If you hide, they will come.

 

Good luck!

[+BlessedBees]

Civil Engineer Corps actually.... good guess TopangaHiker