[Az-Geocaching] Re: How about more stats on the caches or tra velers?

[Bell, Robert]

Great minds think alike.  I have almost finished the travelers only
cache I've been putting together, with one problem I've been working
on resolving.  How to discourage non-travelers or encourage travelers
without making the cache be maintained manually?  I think I have a 
solution, but I would like to hear some other creative solutions 
from this group...

Rob 
Team CHUMP

-----Original Message-----
From: Team Cache-Quest [mailto:cache-quest@home.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 23:06
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Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] Re: How about more stats on the caches or
travelers?


Stephen,

I like the idea of a Traveler only cache.  Perhaps near a major highway,
like some have suggested in the past.  I've seen caches with multiple
travelers in them before, so I think the web site can handle it just fine.
Maybe people will start a traveler just to log the cache.  Start it soon and
maybe I can beat Wyle E to it.  I've got one Traveler (Coleman) and three
empty tags sitting here on my desk just waiting for you.

Jerry
Team Cache-Quest

----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen Drake" <srdrake@primenet.com>
To: "Geocaching Listserv" <az-geocaching@listserv.snaptek.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 9:41 PM
Subject: [Az-Geocaching] Re: How about more stats on the caches or
travelers?


> Jerry,
>     That's exactly what I was thinking yesterday.  Although finding
> geocaches is obsessive enough of a hobby, I don't want to start
> challenging myself to see how many travellers I can find.
>     For the past week I've been toying with the idea of making a
> permanent Traveller cache.  I'd start the cache with a logbook (of
> course) and 3 travellers (I would get from other caches).  Then each
> person, to log a successful visit, would need to bring another Traveller
> and exchange it for one of the Travellers in the cache.  Of course I'd
> need to be sure if the geocaching.com website would work tracking 3
> travellers in a single cache.  The person visiting would have the
> challenge of nabbing a traveller before he/she could visit, then have
> the choice of which traveller to take (depending upon each traveller's
> goals).
>     I think such a cache would work for awhile, but over time I think
> the travellers would disappear and non-traveller items would eventually
> fill the cache.  With my White Elephant Cache having specific rules,
> I've found 1 or 2 visitors have totally ignored the rules and treated it
> like a normal cache.  And one person in the log even complained that the
> cache had too many rules.  (It has I think 4.)  I'm sure at some point
> I'll need to go to this cache, clean it out and restart it with a single
> White Elephant gift.
>     Well, my mind has been cranking thinking of unique cache ideas.
> That's one of them.
>
>
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