I know what you mean....  I posted a note on my Story's around the Campfire
cache indicating that I thought the trail to it might be closed (but didn't
get a chance to go confirm it myself).  When I got a report from someone
confirming the closure, I temporarily disabled it.  Last summer, I sent a
couple of notes to cache owners whose caches were inaccessible and a few of
them temporarily disabled them in response.  The latest visitor to Fore and
Four Tenths appears to be clueless about trail closures though.  What is not
to understand about a trail closed sign?  Maybe we should log notes to those
caches that are in closed areas and/or communicate with the cache owners.  I
can see if the cache owner is from out of town that they might not know the
conditions near their cache, which is one reason the latest version of the
rules indicate not approving caches by people on vacation in an area who
can't easily maintain their caches.

Jim.

On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Scott Wood wrote:

> I have brought this up before, but I feel that it must be asked again.
> 
> Why won't people set their caches to temp disable when the forest area that 
> the caches are in are closed?  Read the latest log from this cache.
> 
> http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.asp?ID=46937
> 
> There are a lot of caches in Tucson that are in areas that are currently 
> closed.  This cache is from a team that is not from Tucson, but many of the 
> caches in closed areas are by active Tucson cachers, but the caches remain 
> active.
> 
> I am the last person who wants to be a cache cop, for that matter I don't 
> want anyone to be a cache cop, but at some point common sense should come 
> into play.
> 
> 
> Scott
> 
> scott@myblueheaven.com
> www.myblueheaven.com
> 
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Jim Scotti
Lunar & Planetary Laboratory
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721 USA                 http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~jscotti/