Shakespeare and Rev Slippery’s view on archiving.
Repair or archive, that is the question:
whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to let old caches suffer the slings and arrows of time and poor location or to take up arms against a sea of finds and end the pain. And, by end the pain, archive them.
To die, to sleep. No more – and by archive we say we end the heartache of DNFs and the thousand maintenance trips that Tupperware is heir to – ‘tis a waste of everyone’s time. To die, to sleep, yes to sleep perchance to replace.
Ay, there’s the rub.
For in replacement we can foresee what may become, when we have again shuffled the container. We must pause to the respect that makes the old cache want to live on for it has borne the whips and scorns of time, but are we wrong, too proud to archive?
The pangs of removing an old friend who now has a weary life but the dread of something after death haunts us, the all discovered cache who now adorns all find pages, no cacher returns, puzzles are worse and they make us bear the ills of even fewer finds.
Does our conscience make cowards of us all and thus the resolution is sickly creeping o’er us to keep the old cache alive?
Sometime this enterprise requires great pitch and movement within the currents of time and now, in the name of action the fair geocache should be archived and all it’s finds remembered.
May I have the “Coles Notes” version please?
Unless the cache is in a super spot, it should be archived after a while, especially if it always needs work to keep it going. When an easy to get to cache is only getting 2 or 3 hits a year, time to go. Keep things fresh and exciting.
I am not sure I will be able to express myself so eloquently
Using Shakespeare’s verse and tongue; mine being of Molière’s.
But if you let me I should try as I write here regularly,
So here’s my answer; friendly cacher with no hairs.
Once again between the two I am torn.
Lately I’ve replaced some that time has worn,
But no more on unfriendly grounds I have sworn,
As not by the name Mother Theresa I was born.
From me, you shall now see more “needs archive” in the air,
As some said a geopolice I certainly became
But fear not, if of your cache you take good care,
As only at the goetrash rightfully will I aim.
Now as an owner, which side would I take?
Archive or maintenance, what choice should one make?
How much time have you really got on your hands?
Answer this one with truth; and you shall take a firm stance.
That was just beautiful, Nemodidi. Awesome stuff there… I have 10-12 hours a shift so what ever fills that time…
I find it insulting when a cache becomes archived before I have the chance to find it… but I’m just selfish and spoiled and find it difficult when I don’t get my way.
How does adoptions fit into all of this?
WOW Nemo is quite the poet.
I archived a couple of caches recently, one because of the number of muggles who have grabbed it and the other because it is way out in the wilderness and has not been claimed in two years.
I understand what Rev is saying but I have noticed a lot of new cachers around lately. Maybe they could be getting these caches.
I have a large number of caches in the Shediac area and north toward Kouchi. Most have been found by the local cachers but I have no intention of archiving them because most of them get many hits during the summer by the tourists.
A poet indeed.
“friendly cacher with no hairs.”
bahahahaha!
I have no problem with people archiving caches that no longer get visited in order to open up an area, but there are also other options.
Sometimes if you have found all the caches in an area, you may find that a short drive will bring you to beautiful beaches and views in the Shediac, Cocagne, Bouctouche area. You may also discover that there are some great hiking series out there and some drive by series. Looking at the map will also show you that there are great series of caches in Petitcodac area, Salisbury road, Scooudouc, Sackville, etc.
All along 114 between Riverview and Alma there are caches in many interesting and beautiful places, along the Fundy coast and up in the hills. There is a great series for bikers and hikers in the marsh near Riverside-Albert. Also close by are the caches on Shepody Moutain and in the Caledonia hills.
I realize that people have families and jobs and other responsibilities which can keep them from venturing far, but I wanted to present another option
Pa
I agree Pa, and like you said, other responsibilities keep me from going out too often and using up a tank of gas so I tend to pick up close ones when I have time and try to get out with a few others to do the further away stuff.
Well like I said: people have families and jobs and other responsibilities which can keep them from venturing far.
In my case there is the job: Oops I have none, well maybe geocaching.
OK there is family: Well I have only MA here with me.
Well I have other responsibilities. Mainly taking MA geocaching everytime she wants and everywhere she wants.
She sure is a lucky gal!
Yep. Today she is making me take her and Belladan to Adairs and to do part of Catamount trail and the bluffs in Sussex.
Life is tough.