rideabent

[+dshifter]

Does anyone know the cacher named "rideabent"? The reason I ask is that he has not logged onto geocaching.com since 27 May 2005 and he has several caches here in the Lewiston,ID/Clarkston,WA area that need help. We have tried to contact him over the years and have not received any response. My wife thinks that he no longer lives in this area and has since moved to California. Looking at some of the photo's he posted back in 2004 showed that he is an older gentleman which makes me wonder if he is still alive or just unable to geocache anymore. Some of the local cachers have unofficially adopted his caches or at least helped to maintain them over the years. I'm sure there are local cachers in the area that would be willing to adopt some or all of his caches. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[+cerberus1]

Without his approval, no one gets to adopt a cache.

Hasn't cached, or logged in since '05, if no one's been able to contact him, probably not gonna happen.

[+hydnsek]

Cerberus is right. Caches don't have to live forever. Best thing in this situation (and what usually happens) is that the ailing, abandoned caches are archived. Making way for new caches with active owners. If desired, the new caches could echo the old ones, or pay tribute to the original placer.

[+dshifter]

Cerberus is right. Caches don't have to live forever. Best thing in this situation (and what usually happens) is that the ailing, abandoned caches are archived. Making way for new caches with active owners. If desired, the new caches could echo the old ones, or pay tribute to the original placer.

 

I understand what you two are saying. I just kind of hate to see these old caches go away with their old GC numbers. I guess myself and other area cachers can try to keep them going until we too, fade away or lose interest.

[+cerberus1]

I understand what you two are saying. I just kind of hate to see these old caches go away with their old GC numbers. I guess myself and other area cachers can try to keep them going until we too, fade away or lose interest.

I'm in the "don't keep caches not yours going" group, but we've seen areas that do.

Good luck.

One somehow even has a Reviewer help with removing the NM wrench.

- I don't believe most will.

 

Maybe what bugs me about this, is often it doesn't have anything to do with the CO, cache, or history at all, but just a scheming means of completing yet another challenge.

[+_Shaddow_]

Here on the wet side, a few years ago we (many difference local cachers) were able to track down an absent CO, the owner of some very cool multi caches and others, and he adopted them out. Ironically, one of those cachers was hydnsek who posted above. I say, if you find them interesting and think worth saving, do it!

 

Community care works well for the physical cache, there are still issues that come up on the page which requires access, those issues can be archive worthy so know that even the best community care will still not prevent the cache from being archived in the long run.

 

My best suggestion is to try and figure out who the CO used to cache with and see if you can contact them for more information about the CO, or if they might be able to directly contact the CO. Researching the CO's old found logs on their profile page is a great place to start. Often the logs will mention who the found the cache with, or it can be deduced by a pattern of logs on the same day.

 

Good luck

Edited May 22, 2016 by _Shaddow_

[+hydnsek]

Cerberus is right. Caches don't have to live forever. Best thing in this situation (and what usually happens) is that the ailing, abandoned caches are archived. Making way for new caches with active owners. If desired, the new caches could echo the old ones, or pay tribute to the original placer.

 

I understand what you two are saying. I just kind of hate to see these old caches go away with their old GC numbers. I guess myself and other area cachers can try to keep them going until we too, fade away or lose interest.

Yeah, but can you update the cache pages to update cache info, hints, coords (if needed), type of container (if size changes), etc.? This is one of the overlooked issues with community maintenance of abandoned caches - the posted info on them becomes outdated or wrong, which frustrates searchers. If that happens, better to let them go.