georapper Posted April 21, 2003 Share Posted April 21, 2003 would i get totally bashed if i placed a cache in the middle of a 100 foot cliff that required rapelling to find the cache? is there anyone else who has experienced this and how did it go? Creativity Within The Bounds Of Conformity Quote Link to comment
Swagger Posted April 21, 2003 Share Posted April 21, 2003 I'm a relative newbie, so don't listen to a thing I say, but I believe that that's used in the GC.com docs as an example of what a cache with a terrain rating of 5 stars would be. From the docs: quote:...please provide the coordinates in WGS84 format and let us know a) the difficulty (1-5, 5 being the hardest) and terrain rating (1-5, 5 using climbing gear), ... -- Random fortune: Quote Link to comment
+Sissy-n-CR Posted April 21, 2003 Share Posted April 21, 2003 Go for it. Me? I'm gonna start looking for gear and someone to teach me. Not many cliffs around here, but there are trees to climb and structures to negotiate. CR Quote Link to comment
+SeaTrout Posted April 21, 2003 Share Posted April 21, 2003 I would give you a 'pat on the back'. I wish east-central Fla had terrain that would allow that type of cache. I think that many people would like it.When we drive by fire department training towers I always ask the wife 'how could we get permission' to place offset cache numbers half way down. Seatrout Quote Link to comment
flat_lander Posted April 21, 2003 Share Posted April 21, 2003 As long as you specify that gear will be needed on the cache page, and post an appropriate rating I say go for it. You might want to include anchor making options at the location if you want to be nice. BTW "rappelling" has two "p"s "No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible." -George Burns Quote Link to comment
+Renegade Knight Posted April 21, 2003 Share Posted April 21, 2003 Good advice so far. You rate it a 5 for terrain and state the equipment you need, or at least what sport it involves. ===================== Wherever you go there you are. Quote Link to comment
+benjamin921 Posted April 21, 2003 Share Posted April 21, 2003 As long as it is close to me Sounds like fun to me. Just make sure that folks know what they are getting in to. Quote Link to comment
+TEAM 360 Posted April 21, 2003 Share Posted April 21, 2003 Do it. Hell, I am trying to figure out how to place a cache on the moon. Maybe a virtual, huh? As far as your idea, go ahead and do it. That's HARDCORE! Quote Link to comment
+cachew nut Posted April 21, 2003 Share Posted April 21, 2003 While stating the necessary gear is nice, I don't think it's mandatory as long as the rating is correct. I would leave it up to the finder to determine what gear they would need. They could bring it with them on the return trip. Quote Link to comment
+H. & N. Posted April 21, 2003 Share Posted April 21, 2003 We have thought about doing this ourselves, but were unsure of how the general caching population would feel about it. I think it's a great idea... and we have rapelling gear to find it... so go ahead! Heather and Nate Quote Link to comment
+MissJenn Posted April 21, 2003 Share Posted April 21, 2003 You may want to check on this thread for some other useful references. It is a thread mostly about rock-climbing, but these are very close subjects! You must be present to win. Quote Link to comment
+HartClimbs Posted April 21, 2003 Share Posted April 21, 2003 I think it would be fine (as long as it's rated 5 stars for terrain). There's a cache on a ledge in a nearby climbing area. Unless you rapped down from the top (or climbed up from the bottom - it's a 5.7/5.8 route), it's not accessible. I'm actually surprised it hasn't been compromised. I think it's a neat idea (but recognize you won't get much traffic to the cache). There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home. - Ken Olsen, President, Digital Equipment, 1977 Quote Link to comment
+Don&Betty Posted April 21, 2003 Share Posted April 21, 2003 "Hell, I am trying to figure out how to place a cache on the moon." It might be entertaining and instructive to compose a "puzzle" cache involving necessary research to answer your questions regarding the moon. You might also require seekers to study a detailed picture of the moon (or the real thing through a big telescope) to find landmarks on it, perhaps at "moon coordinates" you give (based on some given north pole and prime meridian reference you provide for the picture). Questions/answers regarding these moon-landmark visual features would be decoded to yield the Earth coordinates where you've hidden the cache. Quote Link to comment
+MissJenn Posted May 5, 2003 Share Posted May 5, 2003 quote:Originally posted by scoobydo:would i get totally bashed if i placed a cache in the middle of a 100 foot cliff that required rapelling to find the cache? So, what do you think, scoobydo?Any progress on this idea? -- I recognize fun when I see it. Quote Link to comment
Hologram21 Posted May 6, 2003 Share Posted May 6, 2003 I say go for it. A few friends and I are going hiking in the Pisgah National Forest in N.C. @ Memorial Day and plan to place a cache either atop, at the bottom, or somewhere inbetween by a little known waterfall about 6 miles back in the forest along a seldom traveled trail. I'm carrying my climbing gear to climb and rappelling the waterfall, so I see no problem doing it. As long as I can get an ammo box from Sissy-n-CR first. The path to insanity is seldom a solitary journey. Quote Link to comment
+Tsegi Mike and Desert Viking Posted May 6, 2003 Share Posted May 6, 2003 This would not be a cache I would ever be able to do but I bet a lot of you would have fun. As long as the special requirement was noted in the cache description. Let us know if it gets posted so I can put it on my watch list. As far as the Moon, someone in Tucson put a cache on the moon here. ********* That moss-covered bucket I hailed as a treasure, For often at noon, when I returned from the field, I found it the source of an exquisite pleasure. Samuel Woodworth The Old Oaken Bucket Quote Link to comment
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