How can I get someone to adopt a cache

[+drdick&vick]

Hi all, I am on holiday in Cornwall, near Truro in the UK and have found some really good places for caches but cant set any as I live to far away. How does one go about getting somebody to adopt a cache so as it can be maintained.

Edited July 4, 2008 by DrDick&Vick

[+OwlCacher]

Well you need to choose someone to adopt this cache. After you do so, you can create the cache and go to http://www.geocaching.com/adopt/

However, if you want this cache to be under your account, you can just ask a cacher to mantain it, and post in the description and the reviewer note section about it. Otherwise, it would just be faster to have the mantainer submit the cache himself.

[+Kiwi Nomad]

Look at who has placed caches nearby and contact them directly or find a UK geocaching site and post a thread there stating you are wanting to place some caches in area x and were looking for some locals to maintane/adopt them once published and try in the UK section (oh I see you have lol)

[+NYPaddleCacher]

Hi all, I am on holiday in Cornwall, near Truro in the UK and have found some really good places for caches but cant set any as I live to far away. How does one go about getting somebody to adopt a cache so as it can be maintained.

 

If you have someone adopt a cache they become the cache owner. You won't automatically get any of the logs sent to you, be able to perform any of the online maintenance options, or even have you name listed as the owner. In order to have someone else adopt a cache that you have placed you're still going to have it published in your name initially, and that might be difficult if your very far away.

 

I think it would be difficult to find a geocacher that would agree to maintain a cache that you placed. If it's a good spot local cachers in that area might want to just place one there themselves.

[+Mopar]

Leave the hiding to the locals while on holiday.

Not saying this is true in your specific case, but generally the people who live there know best. There might be a reason such a "really good place for a cache" doesn't have one already.

• Maybe there are local rules against it. I know of one park in my area that used to have caches until the land managers found out and had them all archived. Now there is a perfect park for caches but you won't see any listed.
  
• Maybe the locals don't consider it such a good spot. I once found a cache in a town 1000 miles away. When I got home I was telling another cacher who happened to have grown up in the area I had just visited. Her words were something like "Oh my gawd, someone put a cache there? And you didn't get robbed? There is no way I would have gone to that area without a police escort!"
  
• Maybe there already *IS* a cache there and you don't know it. People on vacation tend to skip the harder puzzle and multicaches. There is an area I visit regularly about 5-6hr drive from home. I usually go up there for 1 week and 2-4 weekends a year. For several years I always wondered why this one obviously perfect spot for a cache never got one. Last year I finally started doing some of those harder caches and what do you know? A 4-5yr old multicache ends right in that perfect spot! Of course all the locals knew this, but I didn't.
  

Those are just a few reasons beyond the fact that if a problem comes up you can't take care of it in a timely matter.

[AZcachemeister]

Leave the hiding to the locals while on holiday.

Not saying this is true in your specific case, but generally the people who live there know best. There might be a reason such a "really good place for a cache" doesn't have one already.

• Maybe there are local rules against it. I know of one park in my area that used to have caches until the land managers found out and had them all archived. Now there is a perfect park for caches but you won't see any listed.
  
• Maybe the locals don't consider it such a good spot. I once found a cache in a town 1000 miles away. When I got home I was telling another cacher who happened to have grown up in the area I had just visited. Her words were something like "Oh my gawd, someone put a cache there? And you didn't get robbed? There is no way I would have gone to that area without a police escort!"
  
• Maybe there already *IS* a cache there and you don't know it. People on vacation tend to skip the harder puzzle and multicaches. There is an area I visit regularly about 5-6hr drive from home. I usually go up there for 1 week and 2-4 weekends a year. For several years I always wondered why this one obviously perfect spot for a cache never got one. Last year I finally started doing some of those harder caches and what do you know? A 4-5yr old multicache ends right in that perfect spot! Of course all the locals knew this, but I didn't.
  

Those are just a few reasons beyond the fact that if a problem comes up you can't take care of it in a timely matter.

 

What he said!

 

Another idea would be to mark the waypoint in your GPSr and suggest the location to some of the locals...you might get an honorary mention on the cache page if a cache gets hidden there!