[Az-Geocaching] Response to Jason Poulter

[Brian Cluff]

On Mon, 2002-08-12 at 15:30, kenh199@cox.net wrote:
> Now that I have had time to cool down I would like opinions about removing "My Sign From The Past III" virtual cache site. I have mixed feelings about this but since it has impacted all of us I will go with the majority of the opinions here. One of the things I enjoy the most about geocaching is the great places that others have shown me and that was the reason for posting the cache. Randals posting was much more reasonable and intelligently written that the Az Repulsive story.

Yes, I thought it was a much more level headed reply than the article as
well.  The were only 2 things that I would argue with and that is that
the cache itself should be the reward and that everyone is going to take
the same path to the cache.
I haven't really ever considered the cache as THE reward... It's "A"
reward, but the new places that I am taken and the scenery that is
around are the biggest reward.  With that same thinking you could say
that a hike itself should be the reward, but if the hiking part is the
reward and the scenery or destination of the hike is not, I might as
well just go to the gym and "hike" on a treadmill.
As for the creating new trails... I would say that MIGHT be true for
caches that are a short distance from the caches, but for caches are are
a decent way off the trail people will either tend to take a game trail,
a wash, or go bushwacking... either way, there is no set markers in most
cases that people will automatically follow to get to the cache and
therefore won't be making any new trails.  Also with caches that are out
of town they get a significantly less number of people going to them and
I would harld think that 10-20 people a year going to a cache (and that
would be high for a lot of the caches) we even have a good chance of
creating a train even if they DID take the same path repetedly.... which
they most likely aren't

Brian Cluff
Team Snaptek