[Az-Geocaching] Re: Why very few new caches lately in Arizona?]

[Trisha]

I kinda feel like people are still mis-understanding the point I am
trying to make. It's not about ratios, it's not about some arbitrary
percentage of finds/hides, it's not about a "rule" that you have to
hide caches if you seek them.

It's about simple common sense and common courtesy to keep the
game/sport new and refreshing. IF NOBODY HIDES THEM THEN THERE ARE NO
CACHES TO FIND. However you want to quantify that, or have reasons, or
make excuses, for not wanting to or liking to hide them, it is a
simple fact. 

If you subtract the number of caches that the "25 top-hiders" (or
whatever number you want to pick) have hidden (I have no idea who that
is, but all of us have an idea who some are), then how LOW would your
own stats be? How many places and finds would you have missed out on? 
Do you think that some of the hiders who hide alot of caches would
also like to find some new ones that are not their own??

OK, enough said. I'm done (I hear you saying "Thank GOD!!") ha ha
Trisha "Lightning"
Prescott


On Tue, 09 Sep 2003 21:30:13 -0700, Scott Sparks wrote:

> 
> I'm one of the guilty ones.  I have hidden just under 1% of those
I've 
> found.  However, nowhere that I've seen am I required to hide a cache
> in 
> order to find them. Four out of five of my hides are quality hides--
> not 
> 'stop and drop' like so many others.  The fifth one, until it was 
> stolen, was a unique hide and difficult to find so, it was a quality 
> hide too, in it's own way.  I will hide more but I would rather see 
> people hide fewer caches than to see them hide more than they can 
> reasonably maintain.  Remember, that is a responsibilty the hider
> needs 
> to assume.  Not just to flood an area with caches that he/she cannot 
> possibly maintain (until somebody complains that it is missing.)  As
> for 
> not enough caches in Arizona, I think that is poppycock!  I'll make
> this 
> promise to anyone who is reading this.  The day that someone
(anyone) 
> logs all of the caches in Arizona, I will go out that week and hide
20 
> new caches!  Anybody up for that challenge?
> 
> -- Sprocket
> 
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