Originally Posted by brdad
This seems to be the natural progression of caching. Maine, as usual, is just behind the curve.
As it gets harder to find impressive locations and cachers get acustomed to a "typical" hide, a percentage of cache hiders will up the ante by hiding tougher and tougher puzzle caches and often hide smaller caches which can be stuffed into tight corners at less visially appealing locations. Ask a cacher from the <A href="http://"http://www.geocaching.com/seek/nearest.aspx?origin_lat=37.759881&origin_long=-122.437392&dist=25" target=_blank>San Fransisco where there are over 1700 caches within 25 miles. How many of those do you suppose are ammo boxes? :)
I'm not knocking puzzle caches or micros. I've always promoted variety in caches. I hid Maine's first puzzle cache. I hid Maine's 3rd (I think) micro. But odds are, we are heading in the same direction as other areas. Hopefully, not as quickly!
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