bernsa: The cache and all its contents have been removed. I have the cache container and log sheet in my possession and anything found at this location from this point forward I claim no responsibility or ownership thereof. I make this claim specific and targeted to NJ DEP, whom I thank for the years for maintaining this wonderful trail and allowing us to play geocaching unsupervised along this trail up and until this point in time.
The only problem I had with this cache was specific elements of the new NJ DEP new rules. It's my decision ultimately, but the way the rules were set forth, I felt my options limited and my hand forced. Here are the specific issues I have:
1) A few months after I placed the cache, I came to live out of state about 200 miles away and the requirement of maintenance visits on a fixed schedule was not something I could guarantee. My weekends are my time and while I do visit NJ often (once every 6-8 weeks on average) I can't promise I'll have the opportunity to always take the 45 minute walk to the cache and back as often I travel outside daylight hours. I would routinely perform needed maintenance visits as required, but for scheduled regular checkups it was closer to 1 visit every 8-12 months. This was out of policy with the new NJ DEP rules requiring 6 month regular visits.
2) New NJ DEP rules require that placements could not be kept for more than 2 years in the same spot. This was a unique location and cannot be replicated safely short of moving the cache to the Pennsylvania side. Even then it would be complicated involving projections. NJ already declared this cache dead just by the inclusion of this stipulation. Maybe not this week, but in 2 years. I chose not to prolong this process out and pulled the plug immediately.
3) The overall bureaucratic nature of this process has proven much desire for improvement. When recently threats of immediate fines and mass collection efforts were made by people who portend to represent NJ DEP's interests were advanced, that was ultimately the last straw. I don't take kindly to threats. Whether there is standing to those comments, it doesn't matter. I perceived a threat with financial liability by a large bureaucratic entity outside my home state and it worked.
Best of luck to NJ DEP, but I'm not ready to play this game as a hider under the rules set forward.
Thanks to all those who visited this cache. I hope you enjoyed it as much as I had enjoyed developing it.
DYLIN (GC1MB32) was active from February 5, 2009 to April 10, 2015 (6 years, 2 months, and 5 days).
In that time there were 89 finds, 2 DNFs, and 59 TBs that traveled through the cache. It had 15 Favorite Points (19%) at the time it was archived.
Congratulations to One 4 All for the FTF!
Honorable mention to jimmyg7929 for STF and Twisted Lemons for TTF and Ericles for FoTF.
Thanks Team Superfly for the LTF.