Night caches with reflective elements - multi or mystery?

[+bflentje]

I hid a night cache last spring using the old reflective dot method and our local reviewer would not even consider publishing it unless it was a mystery. I wanted it to be a multicache.

[+DE_Cryptoman]

I put out one night cache a few years ago and I put it out as a traditional (probably because I didn't know any better and the reviewer didn't question it). GC1NB63 Night Delight. I also provided for individuals to find the cache in daytime by providing additional information . . . encrypted . . . in the description. Another cache put out years ago and still active in our area is shown as a mystery (?) cache. GCKM82 Cache Night Moves - 2! It gives you a starting coordinate and you walk for quite a distance following fire tacks to get to the final. Without the fire tacks, you are not going to find the cache. So, go figure.

[+thebruce0]

First, the primary thing to remember is: It's always up to the reviewer's judgement.

 

A multi requires that full or partial COORDINATES are obtained at POSTED stages.

Are you sure? I've found a number of multi-caches that didn't involve coordinates at all, except for the first stage. What I found at the first stage "pointed me in the right direction" for the second stage, and so on. Your basic offset multi-cache works this way, for example: "The final is ABC feet at bearing DEF° from stage 1."

 

If there was absolutely nothing at posted and nothing relevant at posted except to serve as a virtual waypoint from which to project a new waypoint using info you had without needing to go to posted, that should warrant a Mystery cache type. If there were other elements to the cache stages, then perhaps the reviewer felt it was better listed as a multi, or they just didn't think it through and made a mistake. Either way, if that's the case (virtual posted), then it should by default be listed as a multi. Unless the reviewer wants it otherwise. And unless the reviewer is wrong and appeals overrules the reviewer decision.