Power-trail Cache/ Cache Saturation

[+treasure_hunter]

I havent heard of this until recently could someone please explain this to me?

[Keystone]

From the Geocache Listing Requirements / Guidelines document:

 

Cache Saturation

 

The reviewers use a rule of thumb that caches placed within .10 miles (528 feet or 161 meters) of another cache may not be listed on the site. This is an arbitrary distance and is just a guideline, but the ultimate goal is to reduce the number of caches hidden in a particular area and to reduce confusion that might otherwise result when one cache is found while looking for another. This guideline applies to all stages of multicaches and mystery/puzzle caches, except for any “bogus” posted coordinates for a puzzle cache.

 

On the same note, don't go cache crazy and hide a cache every 600 feet just because you can. If you want to create a series of caches, the reviewer may require you to create a multi-cache, if the waypoints are close together.

 

Please note the second paragraph, which is often overlooked. The language in this paragraph was strengthened in the February 2005 guidelines update to authorize a reviewer to "require" several closely-spaced cache submissions to be combined into a single multicache.

[+Markwell]

This is NOT an actual power trail of caches - just a map with the scenario of what WOULD be a power trail...

 

[+treasure_hunter]

If you didnt place a cache every .1mi but only placed caches at locations that interested you along the trail. Some being .2mi or < away is that power trail caching? Im trying to learn so I will know when Im breaking guildlines.

[Keystone]

If you didnt place a cache every .1mi but only placed caches at locations that interested you along the trail. Some being .2mi or < away is that power trail caching? Im trying to learn so I will know when Im breaking guildlines.

It depends on the specifics of each case. If you place 50 caches that are each 1000 feet apart, they will likely be looked at differently than 3 caches that are each 1000 feet apart.

 

If the points of interest are all along the same trail, why not hide a multicache?

 

If you are in doubt, write to your volunteer cache reviewer prior to expending the effort to hide 15 caches. Describe your plan and give approximate coordinates, if possible.

[+Kit Fox]

Here are seven pages of discussion Power Trails

[+budd-rdc]

Why not recruit other cachers when you go on a hiding trip, so each one in the group can place caches alternately along a trail? This has been done quite often in my area and the approvers are usually OK with it.

 

It's not written in the Guidelines but "hoarding" an area with your own hides and not giving others a chance to hide there is considered rude, like marking your territory.

[+WeightMan]

Personally I would rather people concentrated on placing caches in places that they think people should come to see instead of trying to place as many as possible. I would much rather find one spectacular location with a cache than do some power trail with 25 or more caches.

 

Just my $0.02