[Az-Geocaching] Mo' bettah caches!

[TEAM 360]

Actually, I was wondering how Team 360 was doing. Last time we heard 
from you, you were heading home. Are you still in state? Did you get a 
job? We sure hope so.

Still here in Arizona. Struggling to stay here and still looking for work. It's tough out there these days. Still geocaching (without a GPS, sometimes by zooming the map in all the way and reading clues, and sometimes by teaming up with RopingTheWind, graldrich and whoever else will let me tag along). Thanks for remembering!

So Geocaching.com is once again resurrected as the scourge of the caching world, because they enforce policies to try and keep Geocaching a good experience that works well with those involved, and especially the land managers and government officials who can easily swing their axe of power and cut off our ability to cache in areas they have control over.  :rolleyes:
 
Brian
Team A.I.
 
Roll your eyes all you like...and stomp your feet to stay warm if you are getting cold up there, Brian...I never said GC.com was the "scourge" of the earth or that their policies concerning land owner management-relations were so terribly wrong. What I DID say is that I would like to see every state control their own caches. There is a lot of great opportunity in that idea. 
For starters, the land owners would be working with the LOCAL caching community, not someone up in Seattle. A lot more can be accomplished face-to-face, rather than through impersonal emails over 1000 miles. Cachers here in Arizona are just as capable as GC.com to work with land agencies. Even more so, in my opinion. 
Also, there could be a GROUP of cache approvers for Arizona, not just one. They could be voted in by the caching community on an annual basis. They would be people we would ALL know, not hiding behind the GC.com mask of anonymity. Quality of caches would improve DRAMATICALLY if 3 out of 5 reviewers had to give it a "yes" vote before it got listed. Caches might even be pre-visited by an approver. 
Wouldn't you rather see QUALITY caches here in Arizona, rather than the current onslaught of  behind-the-WalMart-dumpster-soggy-logsheet micro caches? Maybe that's the norm up there where you are at, but it SHOULDN'T BE for Arizona. Or anywhere else, really. Now, I am not saying I hate micros, either. As long as a cache is DONE WELL, it doesn't matter to me if it's an ammo can or a micro or anything else inbetween. I would just like to see better caches, in better places. 
Having GC.com tell us what types of caches we can or cannot place (Virts, Locationless, and now this Power Trail Mess) does not sit well with me. We should be in control of our own state when it comes to making these decisions, not sitting back and letting Seattle dictate to us. Again, I think a Power Trail, done well, would be a good idea. graldrich has the right idea. Can't you see a Power Trail with 30-50 different caches, all camo'd differently, in different types of hiding spots? What a great way to teach and train, not only newbies, but some of you "old-school" cachers as well...
 
On a final note, 
 
I would GLADLY send azgeocaching.com my $30 a year to get 'er done!


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