What about a cache that was found, but hasn't been found since (our) find
for over 6 months? Camp Wood Cache (Wyle E's) is an example....Flash and I
bagged that one way back in July '01 and according to the logs, no one has
been there since.
~~trisha "Lightning"
This is only a semi-serious question....I was just pointing it out, not
seeking any extra "credit"...LOL

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From: <srdrake@srpnet.com>
To: <az-geocaching@listserv.snaptek.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 2:02 PM
Subject: [Az-Geocaching] Re: Both fixes have been made


> Correct.  Or the Spring Training cache I listed in mid-December can't be
> achieved until March 1st, therefore it has a mandatory 75-80 days wait
> before the first log.  The same is true of the Humphreys Peak virtual
cache
> I did.  Someone could do Humphreys Peak now (with winter hiking equipment
as
> it is done), but most likely the first log won't be until June (150+ days
> after listing).
>
> The 100 day gap between listing and first find log has a lot of multiple
> interpretations and reasons, but with some subjective analysis, the long
gap
> can be discounted on some as irrelevant to difficulty.
>
> Bronco Butte I think did probably intimidate some people and it did take
> time for a strategy for conquering it to be determined.
>
> The others I listed that went over 100 days before the first find log...
> Yes, temperature was a factor for some of them, but if you look at
> geocaching activity during the summer months, people are still going after
> caches.  Doing a Hundred Dollar Cache in August is possible given that
> someone has the desire to do it then.  And we know there is an
> attractiveness or status that can be associated with being the first to
find
> a cache.  (Look at the logs of people cheering that they were first.  On a
> lot of them.)
>
> Bass Ackwards and the underwater one on Lake Havasu are two (that I can
> easily notice) that deserve special attention to the first to go find
them.
> Of course I expect to see a yellow jeep log on both of them any day.....
>
> >Or it was hotter than hell when the cache was hidden
> >and everyone was waiting for the temperature to cool
> >down to a tolerable level before trying it so they
> >didn't end up being a statistic themselves.
> >
> >I did Bronco Butte because I thought it would be a
> >fun hike, and it turned out to be just that.  Doing
> >it in July would not have been enjoyable at all, IMHO.
> >
> >Bob
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