RE: [Az-Geocaching] Congrats & Invitation to Phoenix

Scott,

    I'm replying because I agree with you!  I put my caches out to be found
by anyone that wishes to try and locate them.  If one comes up missing, it
certainly won't be the first cache to have been taken, let alone be the
last!  Guess this would be a good place to put a plug in for my "FREE" Ammo
Can Cache!  LOL

    Anyway, I did have that one as MO but have since changed it.  By the
way, no one has taken the first ammo can, so I guess everyone has all the
cans they need!

Gordon
Team Coyote1022
-----Original Message-----
From: az-geocaching-admin@listserv.azgeocaching.com
[mailto:az-geocaching-admin@listserv.azgeocaching.com]On Behalf Of Scott
Wood
Sent: Friday, August 09, 2002 10:01 AM
To: listserv@azgeocaching.com
Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] Congrats & Invitation to Phoenix


At 12:32 PM 8/9/2002 -0400, you wrote:

    We will be changing our caches back to normal after the weekend. With
all the bad publicity, we thought it best to make them members only as a
temporary basis. Some of our caches are very delicate or specialized and
would be hard to replace if someone chose to destroy or remove them. Hope
this isn't too great of an inconvenience.

Let me ask a question. What exactly does this accomplish?

If you are concerned that a horde on new geocachers will damage your
cache, then what would be the difference if that same horde of new
geocachers find it the second week after the bad article? If you are only
planning on keeping them member's only for one weekend, aren't you just
delaying what you must consider the inevitable? If you are concerned that a
horde of land managers are going to be out this weekend and removing caches,
what will prevent them from waiting a week and doing it after they have been
moved back to being normal caches?

Somehow I just see this as wrong. What is the goal of hiding a cache? Is
it to provide something for others to find, or is it to help our own egos?
If someone chooses to destroy or remove our caches, they are going to do it.
If not this weekend, then perhaps next weekend, or the weekend after that,
or...

I posted a message about this yesterday and only received 2 replies,
either people don't want to talk about this issue, or I am the only one that
feels we are looking very snobbish to new geocachers by trying to hide our
caches from them? We welcome the new folks who signed up to this list
because of the Republic article, but we don't seem to want them to find our
caches until after this weekend. I just don't get it.

I will get off my soadbox now, but I really think that those teams that
have made their caches member's only should really consider changing them
back. If an item is so delicate or specialized that it can't be replaced,
perhaps it shouldn't have been used as a geocache.

Just $0.02 more.



In liberty,


Scott


wood@myblueheaven.com
www.myblueheaven.com