If you’re going to talk about hiding geocaches then you should really talk about maintaining them as well right? So it only made sense to me to do the two back to back. Maintaining a cache may seem like common sense to some but not to all and there are so many caches out there that aren’t maintained well or at all. And so many cachers wanting to help a CO and doing maintenance on caches they find. It seemed like to good idea take a look at the topic and shed some light on the subject for newer caches and give a refresher course to the rest of us. Join me as I talk to returning guest Scott Miller, GSMx2, on everything from how to maintain geocaches, how to report a geocache needs maintenance, temporarily disabling a geocache vs archiving a geocache and more.
Places and Things Mentioned
– Whereisitnow! Podcast Episode 34: Interview with the Host of Geocache Adventures
– GSAK (Geocaching Swiss Army knife)
Sources
– Caching the Northwest 460: Cache Maintenance with GMSx2 (Podcast episode)
– Tips and Tricks for Cache Owner Maintenance (geocaching.com, Blog)
– 9 Tips for Responsible Cache Maintenance (geocaching.com, Blog)
Related Episodes
– S2E9: Refreshing the Game Board
– S2E17: Route 66 Adventure Lab Series
– S3E2: Adventure Lab Tips and Tricks
Timestamp Outline
1:29 – Intro
8:29 – What do we mean by cache maintenance
9:36 – How do you maintain 741 geocaches?
16:50 – Preventing maintenance
20:35 – Community maintenance vs owner maintenance
25:07 – Replacing containers
29:55 – Disabling a cache vs archiving a cache
37:34 – Cache maintenance run recap
44:07 – When and how to report a geocache needs maintenance
52:09 – Cache highlight
Cache Highlight: “Windmills and Wagons“
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