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[Clarinetcat]

Hello all!

 

Over the past few weeks, I've spent as much time (if not more) looking for new potential cache locations as I have been finding caches. My efforts have brought me to many new places on the map, exploring where there are no caches, and finding interesting new hiding spots in my area.

 

As of today, I have one cache ready to deploy. Two more for different locations that I have been working on will be ready within the next 3-4 days. Two questions:

 

1) How long is the average time for the review and approval process prior to publishing a new cache?

 

2) Do most owners try to place several new listings at once? Or, should I stagger these three caches so they are published on different dates?

 

Thanks for your input!

[+Gitchee-Gummee]

1) Listing time can be from a few seconds (literally) up to quite a while (depending on possible issues).

"Target time" I think is 10 days. Much of that depends on how busy the volunteer reviewer is.

 

2) Entirely your choice to do one, a few or many at a time.

[Pup Patrol]

Hello all!

 

Over the past few weeks, I've spent as much time (if not more) looking for new potential cache locations as I have been finding caches. My efforts have brought me to many new places on the map, exploring where there are no caches, and finding interesting new hiding spots in my area.

 

As of today, I have one cache ready to deploy. Two more for different locations that I have been working on will be ready within the next 3-4 days. Two questions:

 

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1) How long is the average time for the review and approval process prior to publishing a new cache?

 

1.5. My geocache has not been reviewed

http://support.Groundspeak.com/index.php?pg=kb.page&id=81

 

just a snippet of that article:

 

If you've successfully submitted a geocache for review, and have read the email from noreply@geocaching.com, you know that geocache listings are reviewed by community volunteer reviewers.

 

Reviewers strive to begin the review within 7 days of enabling your listing. You may experience longer than normal waiting time in the week following a holiday, or after a large geocaching event. We ask for your patience. Please keep in mind that reviewers are volunteers and sometimes things come up in their lives that delay geocache review.

 

2) Do most owners try to place several new listings at once? Or, should I stagger these three caches so they are published on different dates?

 

I would submit them at the same time. Some cachers place 100 or more at one time/place.

 

If it's just 3, and they are all in the same approximate area, then it might be quicker and easier for the Reviewer to deal with them at one time.

 

You could ask the Reviewer to spread the publish dates out, but if it's not that important, there's no need to add to the Reviewer's to-do list.

 

Some times caches are held off being published until a particular date for events. That's a special circumstance that the event hosts need to work with their Reviewer.

 

B.

[+cerberus1]

Listing times depends on how much homework you did for placement (guidelines, proximity to another, permissions and such), and how informative you were in your note to the Reviewer.

 

If you stagger cache placements, some hope they aren't on the same trail as the one earlier.

Passing caches you did just yesterday to get to one today can be annoying.

Different locations, I'd stagger 'em.

 

BTW, keep the "red jingly" (in your gallery) on your pack for awhile.

Black bear are now hitting the ground cover (lowbush) blueberries in your area like crazy.

Good luck with your first hide !

[Clarinetcat]

Thanks for all the responses so far, folks.

I'll read up on the links, although I think I may have ready most of them already (I'll double-check).

 

BTW, keep the "red jingly" (in your gallery) on your pack for awhile.

Black bear are now hitting the ground cover (lowbush) blueberries in your area like crazy.

 

The red-jingly was found in our "Unlucky #13" find yesterday, check the log here

I put the bell on my son's pack, as he was the one to find the cache.

The bears will probably eat me, instead.

[+cerberus1]

Sorry - a bit OT...

 

Once in NJ, a fellow hiker/cacher noticed my small bell and said, "Great. Now the bear will know it's dinner time..." .

[Clarinetcat]

Sorry - a bit OT...

 

Once in NJ, a fellow hiker/cacher noticed my small bell and said, "Great. Now the bear will know it's dinner time..." .

 

LOL!!!

 

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[Keystone]

I see you're in Northeast PA - your area's reviewer normally processes initial reviews within hours to a few days at most. Welcome to the world of cache hiding!

[+jellis]

Depending on the area your placing the caches you may want to check with your reviewer.

Your a basic member and you can't see PMO caches.

You have only done Traditionals, you should be aware of puzzles and multi stages.

And make sure you aren't putting them on private property without permission or in a park that may have restrictions.

And just because a cacher placed cache that maybe questionable does not me everyone should.

 

Always double check your coords. If you are using a smartphone, sometimes they give off a different reading then a GPS. Look at the coords against a map.

 

Other then that...Good luck.

[+NanCycle]

Depending on the area your placing the caches you may want to check with your reviewer.

Your a basic member and you can't see PMO caches.

You have only done Traditionals, you should be aware of puzzles and multi stages.

And make sure you aren't putting them on private property without permission or in a park that may have restrictions.

And just because a cacher placed cache that maybe questionable does not me everyone should.

 

Always double check your coords. If you are using a smartphone, sometimes they give off a different reading then a GPS. Look at the coords against a map.

 

Other then that...Good luck.

 

+1 to everything jellis said; just want to emphasize though, PLEASE don't use a map to take the coordinates. We have one locally that was done that way and the coordinates are off by .6 mile and the CO won't get them corrected.

[+Mockingbird559]

Sorry - a bit OT...

 

Once in NJ, a fellow hiker/cacher noticed my small bell and said, "Great. Now the bear will know it's dinner time..." .

 

Still laughing. Thanks for making my day.

 

PS...not only does the bear know it's dinner time, but he knows where to find it.

 

Cache Happy

[+Mockingbird559]

Hello all!

 

Over the past few weeks, I've spent as much time (if not more) looking for new potential cache locations as I have been finding caches. My efforts have brought me to many new places on the map, exploring where there are no caches, and finding interesting new hiding spots in my area.

 

As of today, I have one cache ready to deploy. Two more for different locations that I have been working on will be ready within the next 3-4 days. Two questions:

 

1) How long is the average time for the review and approval process prior to publishing a new cache?

 

2) Do most owners try to place several new listings at once? Or, should I stagger these three caches so they are published on different dates?

 

Thanks for your input!

 

I have seen anything from 7 minutes to 7 days.

 

If I am doing more than one, I usually stagger publication give more people a chance at the FTF, rather than have one person make a run and grab a bunch on one trip.

Edited July 4, 2015 by Mockingbird559

[+T.D.M.22]

Hello all!

 

Over the past few weeks, I've spent as much time (if not more) looking for new potential cache locations as I have been finding caches. My efforts have brought me to many new places on the map, exploring where there are no caches, and finding interesting new hiding spots in my area.

 

As of today, I have one cache ready to deploy. Two more for different locations that I have been working on will be ready within the next 3-4 days. Two questions:

 

1) How long is the average time for the review and approval process prior to publishing a new cache?

 

2) Do most owners try to place several new listings at once? Or, should I stagger these three caches so they are published on different dates?

 

Thanks for your input!

 

I have seen anything from 7 minutes to 7 days.

 

If I am doing more than one, I usually stagger publication give more people a chance at the FTF, rather than have one person make a run and grab a bunch on one trip.

 

That doesn't make sense. If you stagger them, I will get the first one when it comes out. Then the second. Then the third.

 

If they come out at the same time, I'm getting the first cache, while someone else is getting the second, and another person is getting the third. It works because I can't be at all the caches at the same time, so others can be at the other caches at the same time.