Need An Opinion

[+miles58]

I am planning a series of caches through a chain of lakes that have a stream running through them. Here in Minnesota people regularly walk on the ice and drive all manner of vehicles on it in winter.

 

Because of the stream, the ice in winter will be unpredictable. I will be placing all of the caches in places safely accessible from shore(but not necessarily on "shore"). There are many many caches here along similar lakes, and most of us know to avoid the dangerous ice.

 

I am concerned that setting out a string like this might tempt the less thoughtful among us to use a snowmobile/ATV in the winter to make the run.

 

Not doing this deprives the community of what would be a really fun alternative day of caching.

 

Would it be acceptaable to write a warning that they *will* go through the ice if they use a snowmobile/ATV in winter, and provide approach directions that are safe for foot travel?

 

Generally here in Minnesota we tend to let Darwinism run it's course in situations like this, but I am concerned about the rest of the cachers trying to recover the GPSrs that went into the drink with the sleds.

[+briansnat]

You can place a cache, but you can't control how people will get there.

 

If the ice tends to be unsafe in the area around the cache it is a good idea to warn people about it - in bold letters on the cache page.

[+Metaphor]

Another option would be to temporarily disable the cache during ice flow season.

[+cache_test_dummies]

Another option would be to temporarily disable the cache during ice flow season.

This might help, but I've seen caches up here in New Hampshire that have been found and logged during the winter months despite being temporarily disabled.

[AZcachemeister]

Place your cache(s).

Write a warning/disclaimer into the description.

The backcountry is full of dangers, be they on a desert mountain in Arizona or a frozen lake in Minnesota.

 

A man's got to know his limitations-- Dirty Harry