Quo Vadis Horreum Terrae?
- You hear/read about geocaching
- Download the app
- Go on a hunt close to home
- Have an average experience because
- It's a mint tin in the park because that's what's close to most homes
- You can't find the cache because you lack experience
- It's all too much at once: guidelines, etiquette, creed, ...
- Think it's a quirky hobby but not for you
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It's Going Downhill
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Geocaching Stickiness
3/4
of all people who’ve cached in Australia stopped logging caches at or
before 224 days! 1/2 of them (55,000 or so) stopped caching within two
weeks!
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The End of Geocaching as I Know It
When I started, premium membership was just a few added bonus features,
it wasn't necessary for every day use, just some luxuries to help things
along. It made sense, pay a few bucks, get a few perks. That's rather
changed now, both as geocaching and the website have evolved, membership
has gone from a luxury to a near requirement. The current website
operation and your interaction with it are quite crippled without
membership.
There rarely seems to be any new exploration. It's all to common to find
myself showing up at the exact same spot in a park I've visited many
times or partaking in the same activity at the same venue. The poison
ivy, bugs, scrapes and bruises, dirt and sweat all seem to weigh heavily
against enjoying nature. Even the amount of exercise has diminished as
it's all too easy or required to drive from parking lot to parking lot.
Finding a nice walk to a cache takes a special effort. The challenges
involved in the activity seem to have stretched from fun and accessible
to difficult and time consuming, to arduous, expensive and life altering
to impossible. They just aren't worth it, not only has the difficulty
increased but the rewards have decreased. Social activity is the biggest
hold out, but even that has diminished to a great extent.
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Has Geocaching Finally Peaked, and on the Decline?
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