If I stayed close to home all the time I would have quit geocaching entirely by now. I find geocaching's value is mostly traveling, even daytrips. The total number of caches in the region is currently 506, down from about 550 a year or two back. I have a new one that's nearly ready to submit, although in visiting the location yesterday I ended up collecting about a dozen leeches so I might have to wait for some drier weather before placing it. This year's doing a bit better, with 25 new caches so far (1 already archived). Last year there were just 16 new caches in this region, one of which has already been archived. I've archived five of my hides so far this year, about half due to rain damage destroying access to the cache, and have another two long-term disabled due to trail closures which will likely end up archived too. This region (the NSW Central Coast, Australia) was largely spared from the fires of 2019 but the almost constant rain and flooding since then has taken its toll. The spate of natural disasters in recent years hasn't helped either. When I started in 2013, there were between 100 and 200 new caches being published in my region each year but that's now down to a couple of dozen.
It's been like that here for the last four or five years.
Has anyone else noticed a recent trend of more caches being archived than new caches being published? Or is it a local thing?
Still, 1 find in nearly a month is unusual for this area. 30), and it’s a puzzle, so I know it’s not one that will be found by casual cachers. But better places and better caches take time and effort, which I am willing to do – as long as people still enjoy finding what I hide! My newest cache has only one find to date (published Aug.
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And my reaction, other than being frustrated and feeling the need to archive hides, is to find better places to hide caches. So, is it just this area? Are others seeing this? I recently archived one of my hides due to homeless activity too close to the previously good hiding spot, and changed another to a different style hide to hopefully make it less attractive to vandals – but it’s not the experience I wanted for that final on the mystery series. And the new cache notifications? There have been 7 new caches, and 4 events published so far this month. Of those archived by the CO’s, some don’t give a reason, but of those that do, it’s due to the area not being a good place anymore – homeless camps, trash dumps, construction – whatever, there seem to be many areas no longer conducive to hosting a geocache. In September for example, 24 caches have been archived by CO’s, and 3 by Reviewers “cleaning up” and the explanation is that the CO has not responded to DNF’s or requests to check on the status. The past several months have seen a reversal – I’ll get more archive notifications than new caches. Typically, (based on my 5 years of geocaching experience) the newly published caches outnumber the archives by a good margin 10-12 new caches a week vs maybe 1 archived is a good estimate (discounting events, and within my home radius of 25 miles). It’s pretty cache “rich”, there are a lot of caches by many CO’s, and lots of variety, and we don’t have to go too far to find enough caches to meet whatever souvenir or promo HQ comes up with. I have notifications set up for newly published caches and archived caches in my local area. It’s something I’m hoping to turn into something positive, but it will take some effort and right now it’s just something I need to talk about and see if it is just me! Maybe it's just part of the natural flow of things - survivial of the fittest (caches) and it's time for a purge? TL NGR (Too Long Not Gonna Read) – Has anyone else noticed a recent trend of more caches being archived than new caches being published? Or is it a local thing?Ī fairly recent trend seems to be occurring in my area (Northern California, SF Bay Area in general) and it’s really beginning to get to me.
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