Do people actually do that? Now THAT is just wrong!
I am one of those people who has a cache out of state.... I adopted a cache in NH this spring that had been neglected. Although I live in VT, I work in NH and spend a good portion of my waking hours in NH (its like a 2nd home to me)so I wrote to the cache owner and asked if I could adopt his cache. He had gotten out of geocaching and was happy to allow me to adopt the cache. Its a beautiful hike and I hated to see it archived. I turned it into a log only cache and used a waterproof Otterbox type container so its virtually maintenace free. I have no problem hiking up there to maintain it if I have to.