[Az-Geocaching] What do you think of this idea?

[Scott Nicol]

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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