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I'm not particularly into streaks, I just completed my longest 16 days while on holiday, and on the 17th day when back home I couldn't be bothered to drive 8 miles for a find to keep it going. But in your situation, if you're able to find a cache every 24 hours during your travel and vacation, then I would probably log the finds on the dates in my home timezone, then the dateline issue doesn't come into it, I would certainly feel that's legit.

I usually keep in the notes the answer to any question that can not be solved from home, the ones that requiere you to measure something, count or do a task at the gc. If I get a correction after I log from the CO, I correct the notes as well, same for multis and mysteries. Regarding the pictures I don't delete them from the galery so if something comes up I just need to search by date to rescue the correct picture and send it. I rarely have to use them to relog a cache but it is useful for me if I revisit with somebody else. Only once I got a log deleted that I couldn't do again but it was because I took the picture in the wrong place.

My oldest is Bastille By the Bay (GCHYTA) on a bluff overlooking San Quentin prison, hidden on 3-19-04. I finally got around to visiting Mingo earlier this year. I was not sure whether I was going to stop for it, but I thought I had been trying to get out to Potters Pond (Utahs oldest) for a long time — defeated by early snow or a late opening —so I might as well stop for Mingo as we drove past.. I also have found Europes Oldest but walked right by Jordan’s oldest in Petra without stopping. I have a conflicting ideas about whether I should attach any importance to an old cache.

I started with a bunch of note that I rended to lose, got a palm pilot to help with that, but began using the iPhone app Geosphere in 2008 and held on to until around 2019. It set the standard for what an app could be and had features that still go beyond other caching apps. In order to delay the inevitable I held out upgrading the iPhone for as long as possible. There is a remarkable history to the game, some of it developed as Groundspeak built on a simple stash hidden by Dave Ulmer, some of it involved competing databases. I used to go into to go into of the old Usenet groups as well as various forums to learn about what came before I learned about the game. It can be a fun exercise as long as you don’t fall into the rabbit hole.

When I checked my setting a couple of months back when the question came up, it was unticked and I'm pretty sure that, at some point at least, that was the default as it's not something I would have intentionally unticked. That said, the logic in that part of the Privacy settings is rather bizarre, with the first checkbox needing to be checked to block stuff and the second one needing to be unchecked to block stuff.

Living in a region where caches are fairly sparse and ones I haven't found even sparser, I have to do a lot of travelling and take what I can get. The only streaks I've done were 7-day ones for the Streak Week promotion in 2019 and the Wheel of Challenges streak challenge in 2023. In the first one I was battling heavy rain on a couple of days and for the second, it entailed a long drive to Sandy Hollow in the Hunter Valley, a train trip to Newcastle, a couple of train trips to Sydney and a ferry-bus-bus-ferry trip to Scotland Island in Pittwater. After that came a 10-day slump to recover before my next cache.

As a CO I usually wait about a week before querying a finder if I haven't received virtual/EC answers, then follow up a couple of weeks after that, and then give them another couple of weeks hoping to hear something, anything...

There are tons of officially-sanctioned challenge caches that request that cachers do exactly this. There's even a line in the geocaching.com stats for every member that lists their longest streak. Everyone caches in their own way. Some prefer to find caches to fill their Fizzy grid. Some prefer to find non-Traditionals. Some prefer to streak. None of those is "wrong". The cacher in question is well-adjusted and a decent person, and I certainly wouldn't characterize them as mentally ill. This is just the way they cache.

If you copied the Bookmark list before 7:15 pm July 6, 2025, you should copy it again. Caches 70 thru 90 were not on the Bookmark list. JimT Terrible Ts

I have no idea what the first geocaching app was. But I was using an Android smartphone for geocaching before Groundspeak had their first app. IIRC, I started by transferring the routine I used with my Palm Pilot to my Android smartphone, except my Android smartphone had Google Maps. Then I started using GeoBeagle, then GeoHunter (a fork of the GeoBeagle code base), then NeonGeo (which supported corrected coordinates for puzzles via the PCN long before Groundspeak's app supported corrected coordinates for puzzles, and was my first app to use Groundspeak's API). One of the first iPhones that I saw was in 2007, when a coworker showed me his new iPhone, and used it to show me the YouTube video Will It Blend? - iPhone. Yes, I watched a video of someone pulverizing an iPhone in a blender, on a coworker's iPhone. Yeah, I knew a GeoBeagle developer from work, so I started using it before it reached v1.0, so I was using it in 2009.

This is exactly what I use it for. The more I geocache the more I realize the useful information that can be stored here. And I think in the past 2 years so many people I have spoken to said they need to start using the personal notes feature more often too. As someone else suggested, it's too bad we can't add a photo to the personal notes.

The notes could be put in the 'Personal cache note' before getting rid of the paper notes. I should also start doing this. I do put workings for other caches in the Personal cache note, and if a difficult find, often a note where it is hidden.

This happened to me about 2 months ago. I always send the answers before I log, but if I remember correctly like a month after I logged it, the CO said they were going to delete my find for violating the rules of geocaching. I was scrambling to locate the answers and resend them. My opinion, is to keep the documentation a month after logging. If there's a problem, a month is plenty of time for them to contact you.

What and when was the first geocaching app? I didn't know anybody with an iPhone until 2009, and the first official app was out that year. I don't think the API came out for another couple years. When I started with my Droid in 2010 I was using GeoBeagle or something variant thereof, which was clearly not new.

If there is a problem with a log, what is a reasonable amount of time for the CO to contact you? I'm thinking of Virtuals and Earthcaches, not "I checked the paper log and your signature isn't there." On a recent trip, I logged a lot of Virtuals when I returned home, sending the info before logging. One CO contacted me almost two weeks after I sent my answers to their good but elaborate Virtual. Part of my answer was wrong. I had to fish my notebook pages out of my trash can to recover all the information. It turned out I found everything correctly but made an error in the subsequent calculations. Now five weeks after logging I got a message from a different CO that one of my Virtual logs was missing the required photo. I might have field logged that cache and the photo didn't upload with the log (this problem occurred a couple times on my trip), or I might have simply forgotten to attach the photo during my post-trip logging marathon. I probably still have the photo I need, but many cache-specific photos I don't keep after logging. This hasn't really been an issue before, but now I'm wondering how long I need to keep my notes and photos in case a problem comes up. Especially for vacation finds where there's basically zero chance I could go get the information again.

OK, got it. I was testing this on a phone, and yeah, the "Latest Activity" column was not shown. And when back on a PC, I also needed to select "The new dashboard experience" because the old dashboard doesn't show Latest Activity. AND my own "Friends Settings" had "Show my activity on my friends' Dashboards" (at the bottom of this page) not selected for some reason. As I understand it, my friends then would not see my Latest Activity. So I've re-enabled that on my own settings. I do see Latest Activity from some friends. I don't know if that setting is de-selected by default, or if I had de-selected it at some point. Not sure about the OP's issue, but at least my own Latest Activity may now be mostly functional, at least when I switch to the New Dashboard to view it.

"Latest Activity" on the Dashboard, https://www.geocaching.com/account/dashboard It should be straight below "Recently Viewed", middle column. If you're on a phone, all bets are off. It needs a lot of pixels horizontal if it's going to show the full three columns of stuff. EDIT: not available on my phone even in landscape; it only shows the relatively unimportant first column. Layout logic has always needed work - why can't it move everything into a single column?!? - though the page is otherwise brilliant.

Shade, semi-shade, full sun can change throughout the day, and with the weather, or season. An attribute for that would be, in my mind, pretty meaningless. And forested or rural, you can pretty much tell by the satellite images...and other attributes would give hints as well - thorny plants, ticks and other critters, terrain rating, etc.

Where is the "Latest Activity"?

Wow... this is amazing. I always thought I was familiar with the site's frontend. I was not. A great thank you, @Viajero Perdido! :-)

I don't see that as a bug, but I do wish they would make a statement about how the treasure is awarded in that case. The software has no idea which treasure you wanted, they only know which one it meets the requirement for.

As of today, for me, the little arrow icon to the right of "Latest Activity", the unlabelled one, needs to be pointing UP for the activity to be seen. If it's pointing down, there's nothing below. Try clicking it. This is the opposite of the screenshot at the top of this page. I can't explain this.

Guess I don't see how it would make a difference. One cache we had got hit by fire. Its area changed every year, attributes would change too. It was a quiet, easy stroll from parking along a creek, in a unique area that you could hear/see in spots water rushing under your feet. Had parking coordinates and the trail was wide n visible from the car. Some mentioned how "steep that cliff was", one mentioned "no trail to follow", and some admitted they came in from a different direction. - Bushwacked in by their car GPS... Most our caches changed with the seasons. Leaves make shade then doesn't in Fall. At least that's how our part of the world works...

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It seems like the treasures should be awarded based on the oldest outstanding one rather than randomly awarded. Went after the Letterbox Hybrid 2.0+ specifically to complete the Easter Egg since these are far and few between. My geospouse received the egg, while I was awarded a planet. Now we need to seek out the next closest Letterbox Hybrid and hope that it does not randomly give me another planet. Sounds like a bug that needs to be fixed.