+Deadreckoning Posted November 18, 2002 Share Posted November 18, 2002 DEAR ABBY... I like to hide caches just as much as finding them. Is there a rule or code that caches must stay put in one location for a certian lenght of time? I prefer to recycle caches if they have not been found for a month or so. Please help.... Rookie in Portland PS how the hell do i get that little picture thing to past on the left side. Quote Link to comment
Chameleon Circuit Posted November 18, 2002 Share Posted November 18, 2002 Do whatever tickles your fancy. Quote Link to comment
Rxprt88 Posted November 18, 2002 Share Posted November 18, 2002 While there is no time that a cache should be in one place, I would say leave it for a while. If the spot was good enough for you to have chosen it in the first place, people will eventually come to it. Quote Link to comment
+Tervas Posted November 19, 2002 Share Posted November 19, 2002 Originally posted by Geofun: quote: PS how the hell do i get that little picture thing to past on the left side. Just follow the instructions eg. here Quote Link to comment
+briansnat Posted November 19, 2002 Share Posted November 19, 2002 I'd say that a month is way too little time. I have caches that go 3-4 months without a find, then suddenly will get a bunch. There are always new geocachers picking up the sport, vacationers and business travellers passing through and even local Geocachers who may have your cache on their to-do list. Why deny them the opportunity to look for your cache? If it's in an interesting spot and not harming the surroundings, then why not leave it? Of course, they're you're caches, so you do as you please with them. "You can't make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs, but by standing a flock of sheep in that position, you can make a crowd of men" -Max Beerbohm Quote Link to comment
BassoonPilot Posted November 19, 2002 Share Posted November 19, 2002 quote:Originally posted by BrianSnat:I'd say that a month is way too little time. ... There are always new geocachers picking up the sport, vacationers and business travellers passing through and even local Geocachers who may have your cache on their to-do list. Why deny them the opportunity to look for your cache? I laughed out loud at the last sentence quoted above ... The likelyhood is new or traveling geocachers wouldn't have known about an archived cache anyway, and when it comes to local geocachers who have a cache on their to-do list, the question should not be "why deny them the opportunity" but rather "why did they fail to take advantage of the opportunity you had presented them." There are few guarantees ... Of course, it is entirely possible that newbies/vacationing/traveling geocachers printed out caches they wanted to seek in advance. Because of this, I usually leave my caches in place for a couple of weeks after archiving them, just in case. I also agree that one month is too short a time by which to judge a cache's 'success,' but I think that in most cases a cache owner should have a pretty good idea of how successful a cache is after two or three months. Periods of inactivity are to be expected, but I think that if a cache of 'normal' difficulty remains unvisited through 6 months of 'cacheable' weather, then the owner might want to consider archiving the cache ... if they decided to, they could always re-use the location at a later date or in a different manner. Caches of higher difficulty ratings could probably sit unvisited for a year or more ... but any cache that sits unvisited for an extended period needs to receive a maintenance/re-verification visit, with a note posted to the cache page. (Too many owners disappear and abandon their cache pages.) Quote Link to comment
+JoeCthulhu Posted November 19, 2002 Share Posted November 19, 2002 I'm pretty new to the sport, but I gravitate towards the caches that haven't been visited every often, or for a while. I figure that he ones that haven't been visited that often may be more challenging. Lovecacher Quote Link to comment
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