Scott,
I'm replying because I agree with you! I put my
caches out to be found by anyone that wishes to try and locate them. If
one comes up missing, it certainly won't be the first cache to have been taken,
let alone be the last! Guess this would be a good place to put a plug in
for my "FREE" Ammo Can Cache! LOL
Anyway, I did have that one as MO but have since
changed it. By the way, no one has taken the first ammo can, so I guess
everyone has all the cans they need!
Gordon
Team
Coyote1022
At 12:32 PM 8/9/2002 -0400,
you wrote:
We will be changing
our caches back to normal after the weekend. With all the bad publicity, we
thought it best to make them members only as a temporary basis. Some of our
caches are very delicate or specialized and would be hard to replace if
someone chose to destroy or remove them. Hope this isn't too great of an
inconvenience.
Let me ask a question. What exactly does
this accomplish?
If you are concerned that a horde on new geocachers
will damage your cache, then what would be the difference if that same horde
of new geocachers find it the second week after the bad article? If you
are only planning on keeping them member's only for one weekend, aren't you
just delaying what you must consider the inevitable? If you are
concerned that a horde of land managers are going to be out this weekend and
removing caches, what will prevent them from waiting a week and doing it after
they have been moved back to being normal caches?
Somehow I just see
this as wrong. What is the goal of hiding a cache? Is it to
provide something for others to find, or is it to help our own egos? If
someone chooses to destroy or remove our caches, they are going to do
it. If not this weekend, then perhaps next weekend, or the weekend after
that, or...
I posted a message about this yesterday and only received 2
replies, either people don't want to talk about this issue, or I am the only
one that feels we are looking very snobbish to new geocachers by trying to
hide our caches from them? We welcome the new folks who signed up to
this list because of the Republic article, but we don't seem to want them to
find our caches until after this weekend. I just don't get it.
I
will get off my soadbox now, but I really think that those teams that have
made their caches member's only should really consider changing them
back. If an item is so delicate or specialized that it can't be
replaced, perhaps it shouldn't have been used as a geocache.
Just $0.02
more.
In liberty,
Scott
wood@myblueheaven.com