I recently completed couple of challenge caches that I started a while ago, which basically meant going through my list of found caches to meet the requirments. I thought I’d like a Challenge Cache that made me find new caches rather than just compiling a list from my “Found Caches”. (I know I could do that anyway rather than going through my “found” caches, but I’m just not that energetic apparently).
So after thinking about it for a month or two and bouncing ideas off Cabarche, I came up with a challenge idea. Then: found a location, waypoint averaging, put the cache contents together, more waypoint averaging, having my 14 year daughter decorate the ammo box ( I can’t draw a decent stick figure), then place the cache at F. Burton Smith Park. Finally my new Challenge Cache was ready for submission. Yah!
Within 24 hours of submission I received an e-mail stating that “New Challenge caches are currently not allowed. There was a moratorium put on them back in April. You can read about it in the Help Center at this location: http://support.groundspeak.com/index.php?pg=kb.page&id=206 “
The reviewer was very nice in NOT pointing out that I hadn’t bothered to read the regulations for Challenge caches (who knew there were rules for that?). So after all that work I decided I would just wait for the moratorium to be lifted then resubmit the cache. But I didn’t want to give up the location to another cache. Thus the birth of this Moratorium on Challenges! What? cache which will be in place until the moratorium is lifted on Challenge Caches.
New Challenge cache rules prevent the type of cache I had intended to place and you can't require people to not use caches they have already found. Plus you have to figure out coding or something to make the cache page automatically track the requirements. Not a coder here and I couldn't find any directions that made sense. So I won't be replacing this cache with a challenge cache - so sad.
T If there is lots of rain then there will be standing water to get to the cache location. Try not to feed the skeeters.