[GeoStL] Re: Should I keep up the Moving Cache?
- From: "Mike Maryan" <mmaryan99@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 11:36:19 -0500
-
I say KEEP IT! This one is great!
>From: Glenn <GLNash@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [GeoStL] Re: Should I keep up the Moving Cache?
>Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 11:05:42 -0500
>
>-
>Keep it.
>
>It is one of the successful moving caches still around. Since it is an
>old grandfathered cache, it can play by different rules. Once it is
>gone, that will be all she wrote for moving caches around here.
>
>glenn
>
>
>Jim Bensman wrote:
> > -
> > The final for my Moving Cache in Forest Park got muggled. I am seeking
> > input on if I should shut it down or replace it.
> >
> > GC1D0F
> >
> > It is a popular cache with 175 finds and 18 people watching it.
> >
> > I placed it in 2001. For those who have not found it, it is a two part.
> > You find the first part which has directions to the second part. After
>you
> > find the second part you move it and then update the direction in the
>first
> > part. You are allowed to find it again after 10 others find and move
>it.
> >
> > I thought it was an interesting concept. I hoped it would give people
>an
> > opportunity to practice doing a cache without having to own it. Since
>you
> > move the second part after finding it, you can put it in a public area
>with
> > lots of mugglers.
> >
> > They will not allow a cache like this anymore. It is grandfathered.
>That
> > is one reason I tend to think I should keep it. However, the reason why
> > they don't allow this kind of cache anymore is you could move the final
> > close to another cache or a waypoint. I think they want to be able to
> > approve all cache locations. In 2001, that really was not an issue as
>there
> > were hardly any caches. Now Forest Park is full of caches and
>waypoints.
> > So it is a major issue for the cache today. The last time I moved it, a
> > short time latter I found a waypoint about 100 feet from it.
> >
> > If they would allow these kinds of caches, I would shut it down and set
>it
> > up in a park with far fewer caches. But I cannot do that.
> >
> > Someone recently logged another one of my "historic" caches and indicted
> > they really enjoyed finding a cache that had been around so long.
> >
> > So I am torn on what to do with the cache.
> >
> >
> >
> > Jim Bensman
> > "Nature Bats Last"
> >
>
>
>
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