[Az-Geocaching] Cache Placing Philosophy

[Ken]

    I agree with most of the others here. It is nice to have a variety of
caches to choose from which depends on how much time I have and who is with
me. I have no problems going out on an all day adventure to find just one or
two caches. Some of the more memorable ones for our family have been Coyote
cache, Mine-O-Mine, Observatory, Miners Spirit, and Humbolt Mountain.

    I don't know if it is possible but I would like to see a way of rating
caches by Geocachers that have visited them. The above mentioned caches were
truly treats to visit and some sort of rating system would make it a bit
easier to find the gems that are worth an all day effort. If you take away
the stats, .99 cent trinkets, and the comparative nature I still think the
vast majority of the people here would still be out enjoying the views,
history, and adventures that Arizona has to offer.

    I would also like to thank the guys at Snaptek for all of their hard
work. They are so far ahead of Geocaching.com that its no contest. The way I
found out about this site was shortly after releasing the traveler
"Courage". The controversy that was created was unforeseen but it did have a
positive of introducing me to this site. BTW "Courage's" cousin "Rescue"
TB6C9 was released today :)

Thanks,
WhereRwee?
Ken




----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Cluff" <brian@snaptek.com>
To: <listserv@azgeocaching.com>
Sent: Saturday, April 06, 2002 8:40 PM
Subject: RE: [Az-Geocaching] Cache Placing Philosophy


> On Sat, 6 Apr 2002, Team Tierra Buena wrote:
> > People look at those stats and their competitive juices get flowing.
> > And number found is perhaps the easiest stat to compare. (That's why I
> > think it was wise of Team Snaptek to include the stats that are
> > weighted by difficulty and terrain ratings. They know that it isn't
> > only about quantity.)
>
> This is very true... when you look at the number found by Team Snaptek we
> are at the time of this message at 30th place with 61 caches found, but
> when you select score that is based on the number found, the difficulty,
> and the terrain all together, we suddenly jump up to 23rd place that team
> tierra buena currently has with 73 caches found.
>
> The funny thing if that while everyone seemed to be concentrating on
> getting the most finds, wolfb8 came along and zoomed to the top of the
> list in the number hidden and cache karma with almost no compition at all.
>
> Brian Cluff
> Team Snaptek
>
> P.S.  I definatly need to work on the sorting interface on for the team
> stats.  It annoyingly flips back and forth every time you click a
> different column... not at all the expected or desired result
>
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