HHHMMM.
I like it and I don't like it. I like the concept behind the moving cache.
Sounds like fun. What I dont like about it is the fact that several other
cachers could go looking for it before the last finder can get to a computer
to log the find. I have seen many caches around here that have had several
visits in one day. Usually, each time a find is had, it usually doesnt get
posted until later that day or even that night. I sometimes will get a cache
while driving across town or whatever and will not get to log it until I get
home. That could be several hours or all day.
We went up to the Payson area last weekend and didnt log those finds until
nearly midnight that night.
So, with that said.. I dont like it. I don't like the idea of going after a
cache and not finding it simply because it isn't there.
There is a travel bug/cache here in PHX called Locutus of Borg. I guess,
from what I can tell, it is a travel bug that is displayed on geocaching.com
as a cache. Once the last cacher finds it, they log it and the coords of the
next cache it is placed in becomes the new coords and thus the new cache. (I
think this is how geocaching.com used to move travel bugs and now TB's have
their own pages). The reason I bring this cache up is because it is
currently not active. Yet, still shows up as a cache that is available for a
find (it is in papago park and is the present site of the Sign of the Past
cache). The last finder apparently didn't place the travel bug in another
cache. Either that, or they didnt post that they did place it in another
cache. Once placed elsewhere, that 'cache' location should archive. It hasnt
as of yet.
The same thing could happen with this traveling cache. It could sit in
someone's hands for a while and not be logged. In the meantime, other
cachers are going looking for something that isn't there.
It is kinda like the Wyle E operative TB's. You see it posted in a cache and
so you go to that cache hoping to get the TB. Unfortunately, someone already
got to it before you could. All is not lost though, there is still a cache
there to log into (unless you have already been to that cache, I guess). I
have not gone after a Wyle operative yet. I am waiting until one is placed
in a cache I havent found yet. I might then quickly go out and try and get
it and log another new find. I don't want to go back to a cache I have
already been to (unless it is right near my house). (I do think that the
Wyle A B C D Operatives are a cool idea for getting the clues for a cache!).
Otherwise, the idea of the cache sounds like a fun new idea. Worth a try? I
guess so. Everything has to have a first try. The one good thing about this
traveling cache is that the same person can continually find it and thus log
another cache find! (however, is it possible someone could hide it and then
'find' it again next and keep logging finds?!) Perhaps we can watch this
cache and see how it progresses.
Scott
Team Ropingthewind
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