UltimateCacheFinder Posted July 1, 2010 Share Posted July 1, 2010 City 1: San Leandro City 2: Alameda City 3: TBD City 4: Willits City 5: Fort Bragg Estimated Date of Completion: 7-20-10 Quote Link to comment
+Walts Hunting Posted July 1, 2010 Share Posted July 1, 2010 That is pretty ambitious for your first cache and I do believe there is a maximum distance between waypoints on a multi. Quote Link to comment
jholly Posted July 1, 2010 Share Posted July 1, 2010 (edited) That is pretty ambitious for your first cache and I do believe there is a maximum distance between waypoints on a multi. You know, I thought that also. But looking in the guidelines I did not come across a specific mention of that. But I suspect the reviewer will squawk the distance because it will throw the traveler mileage way out of whack. If he would put the final near the start then it might fly. But with a distance like that expect about one find every two or three years. You certainly won't have to worry about changing the logbook frequently. Also the distances involved are probably going to be a cache maintenance issue. I certainly would have a conversation with my reviewer before I invest to much time in this one. Edit: With two finds and no history of wide ranging finds I think the cache maintenance will be a big issue with the reviewer. Your talking about a couple hundred miles here. Edited July 1, 2010 by jholly Quote Link to comment
+Happy Bubbles Posted July 1, 2010 Share Posted July 1, 2010 If it can`t be listed as one multi-cache because of the distance between waypoints, it could be listed as five "?" caches, with a separate page for each leg explaining that to find it you need information from the previous cache in the series. Quote Link to comment
+niraD Posted July 1, 2010 Share Posted July 1, 2010 There is no maximum distance between stages of a multi-cache. I've found multi-caches that required several miles of traveling. There's a nearby multi-cache that will require several dozen miles of traveling, which I'm considering using as my 1000th find milestone. I'm aware of multi-caches that require hundreds of miles of traveling. But the cache owner will need to demonstrate the ability to maintain all the stages of a multi-cache. Quote Link to comment
+KBLAST Posted July 1, 2010 Share Posted July 1, 2010 Yeah - we have one by us that starts here in Columbus and the final is in New York. There's a blog on Latitude 47 that talks about the World Wide Cache. Pretty cool stuff! As NiraD said, make sure you can maintain it all. Quote Link to comment
+EscapeFromFlatland Posted July 1, 2010 Share Posted July 1, 2010 Here in OR/WA the Harry Hobbit fans put out a series of multi-caches that go to all the areas used for their Twilight movie scenes. Those have to have some good travel distances between some of the stages. Quote Link to comment
sdarken Posted July 1, 2010 Share Posted July 1, 2010 City 1: San Leandro City 2: Alameda City 3: TBD City 4: Willits City 5: Fort Bragg Estimated Date of Completion: 7-20-10 Yep. That's pretty ambitious for someone that joined 3 days ago. Based on the 2 caches you've found so far I'm guessing you live near Willits. Will you really want to drive the 150 miles to check on stage 1 if it goes missing? Quote Link to comment
+pmolan Posted July 2, 2010 Share Posted July 2, 2010 I do believe there is a maximum distance between waypoints on a multi. Although there are no guidelines on distance between waypoints, the spirit of the guideline would obviously limit you to 1/2 mile or less. This is to reduce unnecessary wear and tear on the asphalt and help preserve saplings that may be growing in the cracks of the sidewalks.. Quote Link to comment
Motorcycle_Mama Posted July 2, 2010 Share Posted July 2, 2010 I do believe there is a maximum distance between waypoints on a multi. Although there are no guidelines on distance between waypoints, the spirit of the guideline would obviously limit you to 1/2 mile or less. This is to reduce unnecessary wear and tear on the asphalt and help preserve saplings that may be growing in the cracks of the sidewalks.. Huh?? Can you explain what you mean by the sentence I bolded? Quote Link to comment
+Team Cotati Posted July 2, 2010 Share Posted July 2, 2010 That is pretty ambitious for your first cache and I do believe there is a maximum distance between waypoints on a multi. You know, I thought that also. But looking in the guidelines I did not come across a specific mention of that. But I suspect the reviewer will squawk the distance because it will throw the traveler mileage way out of whack. If he would put the final near the start then it might fly. But with a distance like that expect about one find every two or three years. You certainly won't have to worry about changing the logbook frequently. Also the distances involved are probably going to be a cache maintenance issue. I certainly would have a conversation with my reviewer before I invest to much time in this one. Edit: With two finds and no history of wide ranging finds I think the cache maintenance will be a big issue with the reviewer. Your talking about a couple hundred miles here. My talking. Quote Link to comment
+GeoGeeBee Posted July 2, 2010 Share Posted July 2, 2010 I do believe there is a maximum distance between waypoints on a multi. Although there are no guidelines on distance between waypoints, the spirit of the guideline would obviously limit you to 1/2 mile or less. This is to reduce unnecessary wear and tear on the asphalt and help preserve saplings that may be growing in the cracks of the sidewalks.. Huh?? Can you explain what you mean by the sentence I bolded? That's the part that confused you? I'd like to hear an explanation for the sentence after that one. Quote Link to comment
crawil Posted July 2, 2010 Share Posted July 2, 2010 There is a multi-cache hidden near my house whose final location is several hundred miles away. It has been found by 3 cachers since 2004. Be prepared for very few logs. Quote Link to comment
knowschad Posted July 2, 2010 Share Posted July 2, 2010 I do believe there is a maximum distance between waypoints on a multi. Although there are no guidelines on distance between waypoints, the spirit of the guideline would obviously limit you to 1/2 mile or less. This is to reduce unnecessary wear and tear on the asphalt and help preserve saplings that may be growing in the cracks of the sidewalks.. Huh?? Can you explain what you mean by the sentence I bolded? Nuts to that! I want to know about the part in blue text!! Quote Link to comment
Motorcycle_Mama Posted July 2, 2010 Share Posted July 2, 2010 I figured that the sentence was tongue-in-cheek. Quote Link to comment
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