Used To Be... Traditional Cache
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Difficulty:
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Terrain:
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Size: 
(micro)
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Used to be, geocaches were not contained in 1/1 park-and-grab
saturations peppering urban areas forming huge almost-uniform grids
with cell dimensions of 529 feet.
Used to be, there were not light pole hides everywhere. Not every
single parking lot had one, two, or three film cans hidden
somewhere within.
Used to be, it was not possible to drive in a car, from spot to
spot, and find a total of 60something geocaches in a single day
without walking any farther than 50 feet from the car, or for that
matter, even turning off the car.
Used to be, easy drive-up geocaches existed, but in moderation.
They were the exception and not the rule. The geocache in the
recreational park area, which required that you walk at least a
quarter-mile or so, was the much more common type.
Not anymore.
Today, large areas are flooded with effortless geocaches. I am not
against the occasional easy and simple hide. In fact, I appreciate
an occasional light pole, especially when I have just had
three straight dnfs. So we need some of those. But such hides
become meaningless, when it reaches a point in an area where there
is one after another after another. The overall integrity of the
sport is reduced. Groundspeak seems to share the concern. They even
have a guideline stated like this, "...don't go cache crazy and
hide a cache every 600 feet just because you can..." Regardless
of that statement, there seems to be quite a bit of cache craziness
going on out there. I imagine it is not easy for reviewers to apply
that guideline. Perhaps Groundspeak will establish better guidance
and a better system one of these days.
About this geocache...
This geocache is an easy one. Furthermore, it is a micro, hidden in
a common way. It is similar to so many of the park-and-grabs out
there. However, you won't be able to drive up to this one. You will
have to walk (or roll if you roll). If you do it the right way,
your walk will be at least a quarter-mile one-way. That is over a
whole half-mile round trip!
Have fun. Enjoy the walk, and the nice view. This is a nice
area.
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