[Az-Geocaching] Re: More on abandoned Caches

[Mike Schwarz]

At 09:45 AM 5/16/02 -0700, C. Sullivan wrote:
>
>Which brings me to this question, that nobody seems willing (or able) to
>answer.  How is placing a cache somewhere that you have no plan, desire,
>or ability to get to on short notice different than littering?
>
>-Fedl
>

Mike:
Ummm...Unless the Boca Boyz (from Boca Raton) have some plans I don't
know about, the Bat Cave Cache would qualify as litter, according to
your definition.  How many other geocachers here in the Valley consider
the Bat Cave Cache to be litter?

Here in AZ, with the number of geocachers high, we all cooperate and
can help maintain Caches like this, if they ever encounter problems.
No special trip from Florida should be needed.  If that Cache ever
disappears, or causes problems, I am sure that someone here will step
in to help.  As far as I am concerned, the Boca Boys would be doing
their part if they get on the web site (from Florida) and then disable
or archive the Cache (if it ever has problems), and send a few emails 
to us AZ people that have found it, to check on it.

As far as I'm concerned, the biggest problem is people just plain
dropping out of geocaching, whether they live close to their Caches
or not.  Then they won't do anything for their Caches, regardless of
what happens.  Off tip-off to a possible dropout: if the date they
last logged in to Geocaching.com is quite some time ago, they've
probably dropped out.  You can see this if you check someone's
profile, if you're logged in.