Part 5 - Maintaining a cache

  • Have a plan for recycling the cache. Most caches have a limited lifetime. After three years, consider archiving the cache and recycling it into a new cache at another location. When archiving a cache, consider consulting with other geocachers, as they may have good reasons for keeping the cache active such as historical significance or a lack of nearby caches.
  • If you get a number of negative logs for a cache, investigate the reasons and consider modifying or archiving the cache.