+Puppy Dawg Posted September 6, 2009 Share Posted September 6, 2009 Would you bother to do a difficult puzzle that lead to a cache far out on a trail? I always have lots of puzzle ideas, might start dumping them on hiking trails depending on the responses here. Quote Link to comment
+paulbarratt Posted September 6, 2009 Share Posted September 6, 2009 Would you bother to do a difficult puzzle that lead to a cache far out on a trail? I always have lots of puzzle ideas, might start dumping them on hiking trails depending on the responses here. If it's a good trail then I'd do it. You will probably get people leaving caches along the trail if there's room cos that's what cachers are like. Find an area and fill it. Quote Link to comment
+anavolena Posted September 6, 2009 Share Posted September 6, 2009 Would you bother to do a difficult puzzle that lead to a cache far out on a trail? I always have lots of puzzle ideas, might start dumping them on hiking trails depending on the responses here. I would be especially happy to do it if it was horse accessible, as that's my preferred mode of transportation, but yes, I'm definitely in favor of caches, traditional, multi, or mystery, that get me out and about. Quote Link to comment
+Arrow42 Posted September 6, 2009 Share Posted September 6, 2009 Just make sure you say somewhere on the cache page that the final location is down a trail. That will give those who aren't interested in hiking a chase to skip the work of solving the puzzle. Quote Link to comment
+cottonmouth Posted September 6, 2009 Share Posted September 6, 2009 Would you bother to do a difficult puzzle that lead to a cache far out on a trail? I always have lots of puzzle ideas, might start dumping them on hiking trails depending on the responses here. I wouldn´t do it. For me caching is an outdoors game. I have enough indoors hobbies and solving puzzles usually is not one of them. But on the other hand many cachers in my region seem to like difficult puzzles. Quote Link to comment
+L0ne.R Posted September 6, 2009 Share Posted September 6, 2009 Would you bother to do a difficult puzzle that lead to a cache far out on a trail? I always have lots of puzzle ideas, might start dumping them on hiking trails depending on the responses here. I'd like to know how far out. Is it 5km one way? Maybe, on a nice day. Are there other caches along the way to keep me motivated? Is it close to the trail or are you talking bushwacking most of the way, in that case no thanks. I'm not a fan of getting poked and scratched and tripped up and I get easily disoriented even with a GPS. Like Arrow42 said, put the distance and type of hike in the description and let people make up their own minds about what they can handle. Quote Link to comment
+Puppy Dawg Posted September 6, 2009 Author Share Posted September 6, 2009 Heck, I haven't HIDDEN it yet. But my hikes generally are 8-14 miles long (round trip). Mountains, and of course I'd do caches every tenth of a mile. I do that anyway...and was thinking of making them all puzzles on my next hike. Quote Link to comment
+Walts Hunting Posted September 7, 2009 Share Posted September 7, 2009 (edited) I would and have gone miles on a good hike to get one cache. As to the every 528 feet don't waste your time. It is classified as a Power Trail and is prohibited. Try one at the start, half way and then the puzzle at the end. Edited September 7, 2009 by Walts Hunting Quote Link to comment
+GRANPA ALEX Posted September 7, 2009 Share Posted September 7, 2009 I love the trails and the hiking, so THAT would not hinder me except to schedule the time. I have done nearly 12 miles for 5 caches and had to walk back - great stuff! Making it a puzzle/mystery makes it more solving puzzle game than geocaching . . . not for me. IMO, if it can not be solved/resolved on the trail or in the field - it simply ain't geocaching, it is puzzle-solving. But, this is another thread, I guess. Quote Link to comment
Dj Storm Posted September 7, 2009 Share Posted September 7, 2009 The more info on the cache page, the better. This summer I did a multi that was a 13-14km (8-9 miles) roundtrip, through the countryside; the cache page mentioned that. I planned to do only this multi in the afternoon. There were 2 other multis about 5km from the town I was visiting. Turns out the multi I was doing walked me near the other 2 caches, for which I had no listing with me. If the listing would have mentioned that the walk brings you close to the other 2 caches, I would have searched for those, too. If you put 2 or more puzzles on the same trail, please mention the neighbor caches on each cache page. Someone who solved the puzzle and looks at google maps, will see only the traditionals along the trail, not the other puzzles (unless the puzzle posted coordinates are on the same trail). And yes,I will search for such a cache. I like to hike, and I like to solve good puzzles (the kind where you know the rules and use brain power to find the solution, not the ones where the difficulty is finding the puzzle). Unfortunately I'm halfway across the globe. Quote Link to comment
+niraD Posted September 7, 2009 Share Posted September 7, 2009 Would you bother to do a difficult puzzle that lead to a cache far out on a trail?Sure. It might take me a while to grab the final though. I've got one that I solved a couple years ago, but I haven't been hiking in the park where it's located, so I haven't found it yet. Quote Link to comment
+Chrysalides Posted September 7, 2009 Share Posted September 7, 2009 I would, if it is a trail I'll enjoy going on. As long as terrain is rated correctly I don't see what's the problem. Quote Link to comment
Clan Riffster Posted September 7, 2009 Share Posted September 7, 2009 I like everything except the notion of spitting one out every 528'. To my biased caching aesthetics, that feels more like spew than caching. An ideal hiking trail for me would have a cache every mile or so. That gives me time to smell the flowers and keeps me from having my nose buried in my GPSr the whole trip. Quote Link to comment
+bittsen Posted September 7, 2009 Share Posted September 7, 2009 I like everything except the notion of spitting one out every 528'. To my biased caching aesthetics, that feels more like spew than caching. An ideal hiking trail for me would have a cache every mile or so. That gives me time to smell the flowers and keeps me from having my nose buried in my GPSr the whole trip. Yes, at 528 feet is halfway to the counting down point. I usually start counting down at 300 feet so just as you get a stride going, you are watching the GPS (or counting footsteps or whatever) but not concentrating on where you are in nature. The 528 rule isn't designed to be a challenge to place a cache every 528 feet. Quote Link to comment
+Puppy Dawg Posted September 7, 2009 Author Share Posted September 7, 2009 (edited) 528 feet is an exaggeration, but combine the caches already on the trail with the ones I place with the ones the FTF place with the ones I place when I FTF theirs... Caches every .1 mile. Edited September 7, 2009 by Puppy Dawg Quote Link to comment
Clan Riffster Posted September 7, 2009 Share Posted September 7, 2009 Caches every .1 mile. With that in mind, I can properly address this question: Q ) "Would you bother to look..." A ) "No" Quote Link to comment
+Puppy Dawg Posted September 8, 2009 Author Share Posted September 8, 2009 In that case, I guess you wouldn't do any hikes around here. Personally, I think .3-.4 miles is a good distance between caches, but I have no control of all the other locals. Quote Link to comment
+ecanderson Posted September 8, 2009 Share Posted September 8, 2009 Would you bother to do a difficult puzzle that lead to a cache far out on a trail? I always have lots of puzzle ideas, might start dumping them on hiking trails depending on the responses here. If the trail is good enough to warrant the walk all by itself, definitely. Certainly wouldn't be the first puzzle cache I'd gone to find without any guarantee about a result. If you're worried that some might not make the time commitment on a puzzle, you can always employ a geochecker to give them some assurance they've got it solved before they leave. Quote Link to comment
+Puppy Dawg Posted September 8, 2009 Author Share Posted September 8, 2009 (edited) I use coord checkers, since Steve&GeoCarolyn made post #16 in my thread about them. And, is there a reason I would hike the trail if it wasn't nice? Edited September 8, 2009 by Puppy Dawg Quote Link to comment
+WRASTRO Posted September 8, 2009 Share Posted September 8, 2009 Well I bothered to look at this thread. Difficult puzzle and one cache only for a long hike? Maybe. Half a dozen other caches by other cachers to add variety? More likely. Quote Link to comment
Clan Riffster Posted September 8, 2009 Share Posted September 8, 2009 In that case, I guess you wouldn't do any hikes around here. I don't think they'll let me in Kalifornia, so your power trail is probably safe from this ole fat crippled guy. Quote Link to comment
+TrekkingTurtles Posted September 8, 2009 Share Posted September 8, 2009 Heck Yes!! Love the Puzzles, Love the Hikes! What is a bummer... spending time solving a puzzle - only to find the hide in a LP in a chain store parking lot. Too Sad! I will do either puzzles or hikes alone - but together, total bliss! Bring me the Puzzles!! Bring me the Hikes!! Quote Link to comment
+Renegade Knight Posted September 8, 2009 Share Posted September 8, 2009 Would you bother to do a difficult puzzle that lead to a cache far out on a trail? I always have lots of puzzle ideas, might start dumping them on hiking trails depending on the responses here. No. My idea of puzzles is Professor Layton on the DS and other DS games or the trick questions I get at work. My idea of a cache is "go find it". Thus while might eventually get to your cache on a trail as a cache, unless the puzzle has my name on it as one I would enjoy ouside my normal puzzle habitat, I won't solve a cache puzzle to do it. There is an exception. If I have cleared out all the local caches and the only ones that remain are puzzles. Then I'll work harder at it. Quote Link to comment
Skippermark Posted September 8, 2009 Share Posted September 8, 2009 If the puzzle is a solve at home (which is seems like it would be with a coord checker), and there were other caches along the trail, I might be up for it. If the hike is 14 miles and you mixed in some traditionals and a multi or two, then it would be fun. Generally, around here, most hiders make finals to puzzles pretty easy. The ones that are long hikes generally don't get found too often. Quote Link to comment
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