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Looking at the 2 logs on that cache the one who signed the logbook says: the one who didn't says: And looking at the satellite view it seems to be possible to get within a hundred yards or so in a 4x4, so perhaps the FTFer got very close but just didn't make the last yard, so maybe didn't make it to GZ but not exactly an armchair log either.

No as a bonus caches has to be a mystery cache. And if you use a Wherigo Cartridge that cache needs to be a Wherigo. So that is not possible!

I've never been to the country in question, so maybe I should fly there and do the cache for real, and then log the FTF

Always glad to help with challenges. Yo generally can't code them yourself; only approved people can make them on PGC. My goal for this year is to reach 1500 favorite points on my hides. Without doing too many hides. Likely a stretch goal since I am only at about 1325 now.

Hello, I'd like to know if we could create a Bonus Adventure Lab in the form of a Reverse Wherigo. The 3 codes would be supplied in the sequential lab and the user would just have to encode the 3 codes in his cartridge and then play the Reverse Wherigo. Thanks

Where do we draw the line??? What if I'm poor and can't make the airfare to the US, but qualify for a bunch of challenges there.... can I log them too? Sorry - this game wasn't built on convincing someone you 'couldn't make it'.....

That's not easy for everyone. Can you imagine many 80 yr olds managing that for instance, but they have completed the challenge. I would give them the find if they convinced me that they couldn't make it.

I looked at the OP's challenge cache. From what I could get via Google Maps, it's not like an extremely difficult place to reach. About 3 km / 250 m elevation (one way) over easy hiking trails. Not every cache has to be a park&grab, including Challenge finals.

Clearly there are mountains of caches around of all difficulties and terrains, that should suit any 'less-able' geocachers around - challenges/puzzles/whatever. Some cachers wish to place higher terrain caches - it is their choice, and we should just appreciate they are hiding them at all. For those who need to clear out there local area.... well, I guess sometimes we run into obstacles we just can't conquer! It happens to us all.....

One of my challenge caches (GC752YF) requires 20 finds with the Takes more than 1 hour attribute and I wanted the cache itself to be in a scenic location that takes more than an hour to get there and back. In the challenge description I say this: In this age of instant gratification, one might easily think that geocaching is all about the quick smiley, be it power trails, park-and-grab or that bison on a fencepost. But not everything's like that, there are still some caches that take time to savour like a slow-cooked winter meal. Stroll along the track, climb that hill, listen to the birds, soak up the views, find those far-flung waypoints and take heaps of photos. For the actual cache I settled on Scopas Peak in Brisbane Water National Park, which for me ticked all the boxes for what would be the epitome of caches that are likely to have that attribute. Being a long hike to the top of a mountain, there is of necessity some elevation change involved, enough to give that cache a terrain 3.5 rating. I would have expected most qualifying caches to have a similar or even higher terrain rating, but no, a quick search shows up quite a number of terrain 1 and 1.5 caches that have that attribute. Some are Wherigos, which makes sense if just doing the Wherigo takes more than an hour, and likewise for EarthCaches and multis I suppose, but there are traditionals amongst those too. Looking at the logs on a roadside 2/1 traditional with the attribute, a recent finder says they found it in about 5 minutes, so I have to wonder what about that cache would be expected to take more than an hour. Perhaps I did the wrong thing putting that challenge cache at the end of a long hike to the top of a mountain, and should have just hung a micro in a bush close to a road, but a few years back someone locally did just that on a difficult challenge and copped a lot of flack from those who want to keep their local area clear of unfound caches. It seems no matter where you put a challenge cache, someone's not going to like it. For the sort of challenge caches that interest me, getting to the actual cache is just as much a part of the challenge as doing all the qualifying caches. I get the greatest satisfaction and sense of achievement when the challenge cache itself really is the epitome of its qualifiers.

The CO should be policing their cache. However, that armchair log should not stop a person who logs the real FTF from logging first to find. They can write FTF to visit the coordinates and really log it. I once did a long distance multicache, with many WPs and about a 9,000km return drive and was the first to do this. However, someone claimed FTF by sitting at their computer, finding the answers online, or ringing roadhouses to ask them questions. They did sign the log so couldn't be deleted. The CO of that cache will delete spurious logs and I imagine wanted to delete this one, but couldn't. I was pissed off after my effort, so I logged FTF who actually visited the WPs and did the trip.

Any chance of this bug being acknowledged and put on the backlog?

I doubt this feature reqauest will come to anything. But I do sit on the side of a FP is a thanks to a cache owner for a great experience finding a cache. Taking a FP away is rude and it's removing that thanks, and acting like you never enjoyed it in the first place. I'll never take one back from a CO, because I appreciate the experience that the CO gave me and my thanks for that is permanent.

Wouldn't be the first time I've seen an FTF claimed by some who never even visited the cache. I was randomly scanning the map the other day (actually as a result of seeing a news item) and came across an earthcache on a remote island. Earthcache had some requirements including a specific photo. All of the photos fromt he group were extremely obviously from somewhere else, not even just somewhere else, but somewhere else quite identifiable as being nowhere near the T5 earthcache. What can you do? Just laugh at how some people cheat.

The difficult bit should be qualifying for the challenge, not logging it. People should consider for the final challenge, the less able people than themselves, and have some empathy. A tree climbing challenge might be an exception. A puzzle challenge is not, because there are puzzles with low terrain ratings.

GPSBabel works on MacOS, will read gpx, and will write Garmin POI.

Sadly, at least in my area (Twin Cities), those are just virtuals in the downtown core. Favorite point percentage + whatever specific type of hide you like to look for (I do 4.0, 4.5, and 5 T) can yield some good hides to plan a day around.

I could help out with any of those. I'm particularly interested in the gargoyle & chimera category, as I just submitted one.

For you? Absolutely! Plus since you've never found a cache in California or anywhere in the US, it'll be a new state and country on your map too! /s

Yeah hard disagree on this piece. Surely you wouldn't say that every puzzle cache should be a Terrain 1 just because it can be solved while sitting at a computer.

Someone selling any Hedgehog geocoin? I prefer Portugal, Algarve or Madeira Edition, but if you have other.... tell me something

My best friend who is 20years older has come on some bad luck about 5 years ago.... This man grew up on the Tenn river and in 2004 got the Magellan merdian gold hand held gps for christmas from his wife. How he has not maxed this thing out over the years is still a question I have to ask, but non the less Here about 5 years ago he put it up and the batteries leaked I tried to clean it up and was not able to get it going. I brought the unit back to kansas so i could work on it some more and still no progress. I purchased another unit used off ebay to use as soon as I could find someone to transfer the memory chips and what ever to get the waypoints off the old unit.....easier said then done. fast forward to yesterday I was watching you tube and seen a guy doing what i needed done. I quickly found the units and said lets just see if I get anything to happen after I put it all back together......omg the dang thing fired up and is working. Now my question to all of you how do I get the waypoints off the old unit to my pc and or to a sd card so i can get him a newer unit and transfer them over. I have read that the units will only take up too a 128gb sd card which I have ordered. I do have the db9 connector for the magellan merdian gold but I downloaded easy GPS and they do not go back that far. Is there another website That dose? Any help would be great, Thank you

In the case you decide not to remove the bogus log, may I ask you to sign it for me too, when you visit the cache next time. I need only two finds more to fullfiull the challenge and it would be great to have a find. Thank you for considering my request.

I think it's sad when someone has done what's necessary to qualify and then the cache is purposedly placed where some who have qualified can't get to it. You shouldn't place it in a place that's harder physically to get to than what it takes to qualify for the cache. Unless there's something I don't know, I would accept the log if they qualify.

Have you your phone in a case that has a magnetic clasp ? I found this can cause the coordinates to jump about.