[Az-Geocaching] What have we learned?

[Scott Wood]

At 03:46 PM 8/20/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>Team Evil Fish has another thought..
>
>I know there is a way that all of us can get our heads together and write a
>nice set of Geocaching Rules alittle more specific than on the Main
>website... Questions to ask...

I guess I am a libertarian geocacher.  I don't want to see more and more 
rules.  All that will do is strangle all the fun out of geocaching.  I 
think that the rules that are laid out on the geocaching.com website are 
more than adequate.

We are trapped in the situation that there was a perceived problem, that 
perceived problem was not that the sites were being destroyed, but that 
geocachers were destroying sites.  I think that we have more than 
established that geocaching was not the vilian, and it was most likely not 
geocachers that were destroying the sites, we seem to want to make rules to 
solve a problem that isn't actually a problem.

>Will this cache cause undo dammage from heavier foot traffic?
>Will this cache at its present location be stumbled on without specific
>looking?

Both of those are very subjective, some land managers claim that a single 
person does undo damage.  If you make a rule, who gets to enforce the 
rule?  I think that both of those questions are valid, but the are valid to 
ask yourself when you place your cache.  They certainly shouldn't be part 
of the rules of geocaching.

Just my libertarian geocacher $0.02!


Scott
Team My Blue Heaven
www.myblueheaven.com/geocache