[Az-Geocaching] Re: Both fixes have been made

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Correct.  Or the Spring Training cache I listed in mid-December can't be
achieved until March 1st, therefore it has a mandatory 75-80 days wait
before the first log.  The same is true of the Humphreys Peak virtual cache
I did.  Someone could do Humphreys Peak now (with winter hiking equipment as
it is done), but most likely the first log won't be until June (150+ days
after listing).

The 100 day gap between listing and first find log has a lot of multiple
interpretations and reasons, but with some subjective analysis, the long gap
can be discounted on some as irrelevant to difficulty.

Bronco Butte I think did probably intimidate some people and it did take
time for a strategy for conquering it to be determined.

The others I listed that went over 100 days before the first find log...
Yes, temperature was a factor for some of them, but if you look at
geocaching activity during the summer months, people are still going after
caches.  Doing a Hundred Dollar Cache in August is possible given that
someone has the desire to do it then.  And we know there is an
attractiveness or status that can be associated with being the first to find
a cache.  (Look at the logs of people cheering that they were first.  On a
lot of them.)

Bass Ackwards and the underwater one on Lake Havasu are two (that I can
easily notice) that deserve special attention to the first to go find them.
Of course I expect to see a yellow jeep log on both of them any day.....

>Or it was hotter than hell when the cache was hidden
>and everyone was waiting for the temperature to cool
>down to a tolerable level before trying it so they
>didn't end up being a statistic themselves.
>
>I did Bronco Butte because I thought it would be a
>fun hike, and it turned out to be just that.  Doing
>it in July would not have been enjoyable at all, IMHO.
>
>Bob