GCKBFA What an Intrusion! (Bute) (Traditional Cache) in Southern Scotland, United Kingdom created by Billy Twigger

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Professor Xavier: Hi

One of my roles as a reviewer is to monitor my region for caches that have been disabled for a long time, have had a reasonable number of DNFs or appear to require some maintenance. This is done through running a query on a database of all the caches in my region that looks for such things or by cachers submitting Needs Archiving logs as it appears maintenance may not be being carried out by the CO.

It would appear that this cache may benefit from some attention by the CO. May I ask that the owner checks the cache and sort out any problems with it or gives an indication of when it may be up and running again for people to find. If this cannot be done or if the CO no longer wishes to maintain the cache then the listing should be archived.

Of course if the CO has visited the cache recently then please post an Owner Maintenance log indicating that they have done so, enable the listing, and all should be fine.

In the future, if a listing is going to be disabled for a long time then posting periodic notes to the page (once per month or so) keeps people up to date with what is happening.

This isn't a requirement to fix the cache immediately but if it's unlikely to be done within 30 days could the CO post a note to the cache page giving an indication of when the maintenance will be done, or an indication of why it cannot be carried out.

By all means send a mail to me through my profile, quoting the cache name and GC code, but please also post a note to the cache page. Emails to me may be missed or go astray and it would be a shame to archive the listing due to missing correspondence.

Guidelines: "You are responsible for occasional visits to your cache to maintain proper working order, especially when someone reports a problem with the cache (missing, damaged, wet, etc.). You may temporarily disable your cache to let others know not to search for it until you have a chance to fix the problem. This feature is to allow you a reasonable amount of time - normally a few weeks - in which to check on your cache. If a cache is not being maintained, or has been temporarily disabled for an unreasonable length of time, we may archive the listing."

Sadly if there is no response to this log after 30 days I may have to archive the cache.

Please note that the guidelines say that if a cache is archived by a reviewer or Geocaching HQ staff for lack of maintenance then it will not be unarchived - Unarchiving a Geocache

Regards

Ed
Professor Xavier - Volunteer UK Reviewer
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A cache by Billy Twigger Message this owner

Hidden : 8/22/2004

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Size: Size: regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

This is the first in the Bute Geology Geocache series and we explore a volcanic intrusion!

Park at the West Island Way car park at N55 44.824 W5 00.948, and pick up the path heading south.

The cache is an black turtle cache, hidden near to a tertiary dyke. This is one of the most interesting of the many intrusive dykes on Bute.

The Old Red Sandstone was laid down under a warm Devonian sea over 400 million years ago. (The red colour comes from iron oxide discolouring the grains.)

In the Tertiary period, around 65 million years ago, there were violent volcanic eruptions around Arran and molten lava forced its way up from the magma core through fissures in the sandstone. The extreme heat metamorphosed the sandstone, baking it white and producing a quartzite rock, harder than the black lava (basalt) and the surrounding sandstone. The basalt and the sandstone have eroded over the years leaving the metamorphic quartzite standing at a precarious angle.

This cache contains a domino