It's up to each owner/hider to make it as hard or easy as they wish. In some spots there are only one or two *possible* places where a cache could be hidden. Once you've gotten to the co-ords it's fairly easy. However this particular cache I wanted a bit harder than my other two. There are literally *dozens* of possible hiding spots there. I would rather keep the difficulty the same if possible.
When I take a photo of myself with a cache camera I take pains not to include the actual cache location (off to the side someplace or 180 degrees from the hiding spot) However, others may not think about things like this (giving away the hiding location in the picture) in the excitment of finding the cache, or they may be "newbees" and just haven't thought things thru.
Also, photography is one of my (other) hobbies and some of these cache camera pics have *scads* of "wasted space" that screams at me to have cropped ... besides a "cropped" pic is a smaller pic and a smaller pic can be downloaded faster ;-)
Richard Amirault N1JDU Boston, MA, USA www.erols.com/ramirault "Go Fly A Kite" ----- Original Message ----- From: Subject: [gpsstash] Spoilers
> > ...and I've cropped the photos to eliminate extranious > > matter (and reduce the value of any "hints" the photos may give away) > > > > Richard -- > > Could you give me your perspective on hints, photos, and spoilers? > > I have been uploading my cache descriptions with full details like "At > this coord there is a sign, 2 feet to north is the cache, visit XXXX web > page for pictures, maps and more directions". I am starting to wonder > if I should put all that description in the encrypted section of the > geocaching.com listings. > > Do you just write the gps coords and then go hunting? > How many people do? >