Acceptable places for a cache - up a tree?

[Johnius]

Is there a maximum acceptable height for a cache? For example, my desired cache location meets all of the other requirements of location specified in the rules... but I want to put it in my favorite tree, ten or twenty feet up. It's a good tree to climb, so I wanted to share it with others. Is this against any unwritten rule?

[+gof1]

Just make sure the difficulty and terrain ratings reflect the nature of the hide.

[Quentonious]

not really. Although, it is nice if you hide them about 6 ft or lower. I personally carry a stepladder along, although it can be hard to explain yourself if you are caught....

[jholly]

I've done a number that were up a tree. Of course there was a rope or fish line to lower the cache.

 

Jim

[+DatCrazyMongoose]

I agree with gof1. Put it as high as you want. Just make sure your D/T ratings are appropriate. I would personally LOVE to do a tree climbing cache. Hmm. Perhaps my next hide will be one.

[+cantuland]

I have one up a tree. It's about 17 feet up to it, and as soon as you are ALMOST under it, the ground slopes down. The tree is too small to climb. So it's a bit of a puzzle to figure out how to get to it.

 

The geocache is GCQCJT - Over the rainbow and has some hidden pictures showing the geocache up in the tree. Find the text that reads:

REMEMBER:

Make the fair trade.

Log your visit.

Leave the site better than you found it.

Protect the environment — always.

Educate those around you.

Find another cache!

Good luck, and may all your cache dreams come true.

—cantuland

 

and you will notice that each character in "—cantuland" will show you a different picture, left to right on the characters goes from ground, up to the cache.

[+weathernowcast]

Is there a maximum acceptable height for a cache? For example, my desired cache location meets all of the other requirements of location specified in the rules... but I want to put it in my favorite tree, ten or twenty feet up. It's a good tree to climb, so I wanted to share it with others. Is this against any unwritten rule?

 

Always good to post a picture to let me know what they are getting into:

 

 

from the cache page:

Climb a Tree, Find Cache - EXTREME!!

[+coman123]

Yep, its ok, as long as the finder uses common sense.

I had a 70 year old cacher who was smart and did not go after this one of mine

 

GC1W9KF

 

I e-mailed her and offered to go caching with her, to help her sign this one.

 

So rate appropriately, and cachers please be careful, you do not have to get everyone, cache safe

Edited August 7, 2009 by coman123

[Johnius]

Thanks guys! Hopefully a couple will appear in the Grand Rapids, MI area soon.

[jholly]

Is there a maximum acceptable height for a cache? For example, my desired cache location meets all of the other requirements of location specified in the rules... but I want to put it in my favorite tree, ten or twenty feet up. It's a good tree to climb, so I wanted to share it with others. Is this against any unwritten rule?

 

Always good to post a picture to let me know what they are getting into:

 

 

from the cache page:

Climb a Tree, Find Cache - EXTREME!!

 

Man, that is one tough cat.

 

Jim

[+cerberus1]

For me, the higher the better.

Finally got tired of cache 'n dashes and micros in parks (forget guardrails and lpcs.)

 

Remember that the higher it goes, the more extreme it becomes - and should be rated so.

Sounds like it'd be a fun hide.

 

Cache safe.

[+Mike & Kate]

Thanks guys! Hopefully a couple will appear in the Grand Rapids, MI area soon.

 

If you hide it, I'll make sure to head your way and try it. Of course, I'm accident prone, so maybe climbing a tree is a bad idea, but still...

 

Mike (Mike & Kate)

[+ras_oscar]

It should also, IMHO, be visible from the ground and recognizable as the cache. You don't want the scorched earch cachers climbing up every tree searching.

 

Found a coule neat ones that were up a tree on a rope. You unhook the rope and lower it down. No climbing necessary. The trick is to properly camo the slack rope at ground level.

[gojkgo]

The first cache we ever did was up a tree, actually! Another one springs to mind that required cleverness rather than climbing.

 

I do have to point out one thing though - grand rapids is like 150 miles from Warren. There may not be an unspoken rule against caches in trees, but there is a geocache placement guideline that requires you to be able to do regular maintenance on your caches and respond quickly to reported problems. You might have trouble getting this sort of cache approved.

[+debtodd007]

I've found three caches that required climbing up a tree, two fairly easy, one very scary climb. Also have one that I could see, but couldn't figure how the cache owner managed to place the cache where it was.

 

As others have said, make difficutly ratings appropriate.