… the land owners would be working with the LOCAL caching community, not someone up in Seattle. A lot more can be accomplished face-to-face, rather than through impersonal emails over 1000 miles. Cachers here in Arizona are just as capable as GC.com to work with land agencies. Even more so, in my opinion.

Also, there could be a GROUP of cache approvers for Arizona, not just one. They could be voted in by the caching community on an annual basis. They would be people we would ALL know, not hiding behind the GC.com mask of anonymity. Quality of caches would improve DRAMATICALLY if 3 out of 5 reviewers had to give it a "yes" vote before it got listed. Caches might even be pre-visited by an approver.

I’m still thinking about trying to sign up at this site, so I’m certainly not endorsing it, but I wonder what you and others here think of some of the concepts behind http://terracaching.com?

As best I’ve been able to make out, you need to obtain two sponsors who are already members in order to join. Those two members then become your cache approvers. It sounds as though it would answer some of the points you made in the paragraphs I quoted above, Jeff.

I could see Terracaching as a supplement, rather than a rival, to gc.com. But I also fear it could get out of hand if it grew as quickly as did gc.com.

I’m just wondering about other points of view on what Terracaching is doing. For myself, I am unconditionally ambivalent.

I wish you a rapid resolution to the job hunt, Jeff.

Steve

Team Tierra Buena