Hi,

I'm very concerned about the implications for people placing caches in England and Wales in view of what has happened to an experienced cacher. He was subjected to a claim for someone's injury alledgedly sustained while trying to retrieve a cache. The forum thread with some of the details on this has now been removed from GC.com, the cacher himself has retired from caching and all his caches archived.

It's perfectly obvious that there are all sorts of natural hazards out in the English countryside and it's ridiculous to try to sue the cache owner or landowner for failing in their duty of care because of the specific cache location. The harder the cache is to get to, the more fun it is IMO! As so often in outdoor activities, the more there's a challenge, there's more of a risk of accident - normal people accept the risk.

Are there any steps which cache hiders can take (e.g. in the form of disclaimers) which will prevent these sort of ridiculous no win-no fee sorts of claims?

Any legal eagles out there?

Qichina