Higher Difficulty Rating for This Cache?

[+alienbogey]

As you can see by my join date I'm still relatively new. I placed this cache:

 

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...=y&decrypt=

 

and rated it as a 2.5 difficulty. So far it has 3 finds and 4 DNF's.

 

I know that's a small sample, but I want the cache to be rated fairly, do you think I should bump it up to a 3? Higher? Stay 2.5?

[+TrailGators]

As you can see by my join date I'm still relatively new. I placed this cache:

 

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...=y&decrypt=

 

and rated it as a 2.5 difficulty. So far it has 3 finds and 4 DNF's.

 

I know that's a small sample, but I want the cache to be rated fairly, do you think I should bump it up to a 3? Higher? Stay 2.5?

 

Sure why not.

[crawil]

According to the found logs you've gotten so far, it looks okay to me.

[CoyoteRed]

As you can see by my join date I'm still relatively new. I placed this cache:

 

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...=y&decrypt=

 

and rated it as a 2.5 difficulty. So far it has 3 finds and 4 DNF's.

 

I know that's a small sample, but I want the cache to be rated fairly, do you think I should bump it up to a 3? Higher? Stay 2.5?

A couple of things to consider: some folks haven't had their "boxes" expanding sufficiently and any rating is a range.

 

I still giggle at an incident where a group of cachers, all of whom had finds into the 4 digits, couldn't find a large ammo can even though several of them where within mere inches several times. The only reason I can think of is they weren't used to that type of hide. Their "box" wasn't large enough and/or they didn't think outside it.

 

Ratings are very subjective. I rarely think of any cache in terms of "this is a 2.5 difficutly. It should only be this hard." It simply doesn't work that way. For me, a 2.5 could be completed trivially or it could stump me time after time. Of course, a 1/1 should be really easy and a 5/5 should be really, really hard. But even there you have a range.

 

I think your 2.5 sounds just about right. It's stumping a few folks and impressed a high numbers guy. I'd say leave it.

[+Isonzo Karst]

Reads like 2.5 or 3 is right. Also reads like you've hidden a very nice cache. Congratulations.

 

I think you'd be fine either way. Leave it alone, or bump it to 3.

[+Rockin Roddy]

Looks good to me, wish I were out your way!!

[+alienbogey]

Thanks for the feedbck, I'll leave it as is.

[+briansnat]

Thanks for the feedbck, I'll leave it as is.

 

I'd do that for now. If the DNFs continue, then maybe a 3 might be in order as long as some people are finding it. If nobody is finding it, then probably higher.