Geo cleaning team

[bertlake]

why not start groups who clean and replace caches with a ''needs mantince'' or missing. also replace logs and trade items

[+geohens]

That sounds like a great idea!!!

[TM92]

sounds like a clever idea. it would work out in areas with enough caches but maybe not in other areas with few caches it would also help cache owners with numerous amounts of hides as well. Clever idea indeed.

[+briansnat]

why not start groups who clean and replace caches with a ''needs mantince'' or missing. also replace logs and trade items

 

They already have them. They are called cache owners.

[+wkmccall]

why not start groups who clean and replace caches with a ''needs mantince'' or missing. also replace logs and trade items

 

Replacing a logbook or baggie or even a micro container like a match tube or magnetic key box I Probably wouldn't mind, but I would have a problem with someone replacing a "missing" cache of mine.

[+BlueDeuce]

Typically a cache deteriorates because the cache owner is MIA. Maintaining an owner-less cache is not a service to the community. So I agree with clean and replace if it's clean up the geo-trash and replace it with a new listing and an active owner.

Edited May 17, 2009 by BlueDeuce

[Skippermark]

Isn't that what owners are for?

[+Sol seaker]

Isn't that what owners are for?

 

The cache owner actually owns the container, according to Groundspeak. That's the part of the cache they own. It is their job, and something they've agreed to do as cache owners, is upkeep their caches.

 

I agree with all said before: the detoriating caches are often abandoned caches. These need to be cleaned out and replaced with new caches with active owners.

 

Groundspeak put out a notice at the end of winter, that it was time for everyone to do cache maintaince on their own caches. Sometimes, with the caches I find, I think few people read it.

[+Wooden Cyclist]

Typically a cache deteriorates because the cache owner is MIA. Maintaining an owner-less cache is not a service to the community. So I agree with clean and replace if it's clean up the geo-trash and replace it with a new listing and an active owner.

 

 

The Michigan Geocachers Organization (MiGo) has the MiGo Rescue Mission. Geocachers go to the site of an archived cache and retrieve the cache and its contents or confirm that it has already been removed. That way there isn't any geotrash left behind.