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Really, there should be one container, and it is at the correct coordinates. Anywhere else is the wrong coordinates. But there are some caches that have decoys, but only one real container. Sometimes the GPSr is a little off, sometimes there is more geosense than not, sometimes there are many hiding places that are close enough to each other to be 'in the zone'. This is basically allowed. There are other times that someone adds a throwdown, but the original container is still there, thus resulting in 2 containers. This is not really a good scenario. Inside and outside of a building doesn't seem right to me -- you should not need to interact with anyone, just leave it outside for better access.

huh... interesting that the 67 is built on android.

Oder man schaut mal beim Geoclub nach

That's pretty common. Just note in the logs what's happening so the cache owners know what's going on. "Found this with brandy_000 but now have my own account!" or something. There are special terms of use that apply to children - under 1.3, you must manage your children's accounts until they are 16, and they cannot post in the forums until they are 18.

Hi! I started geocaching years ago - the last 10 geocaches I found together with my kids. As they are very excited about it, I want to log their finds with their personal account. Is it okay, if I register new accounts for them and log the past visits with my username, althought they´re not in the logbook? Thanks a lot!

One more example, what was discussed above. Would you just believe the log below, or would you check to see, if this is correct? GCAHMJF - I - 75 County Challenge (United States) [Mausebiber](https://www.geocaching.com/profile/?u=Mausebiber) has used [Project-GC] https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GCAHMJF/84045 to see if they qualified for this challenge and they did. User has 5846 finds (1000 needed) Filters:( county:Hamilton County (OH) , country:United States) User has 9863 finds (1000 needed) Filters:( county:Butler County (OH) , country:United States) User has 3512 finds (1000 needed) Filters:( county:Montgomery County (OH) , country:United States) User has 1790 finds (230 needed) Filters:( county:Miami County (OH) , country:United States)

One example, what it would look like, if everyone would post the result of the log requirements. The part where users are talking about their cache experience is almost disappearing with all the other information. [Mausebiber](https://www.geocaching.com/profile/?u=Mausebiber) has used [Project-GC](https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GCA42BG/74543 "Project-GC Challenge Checker") to see if they qualified for this challenge and they did. Completed countries: France: 9 types. GC25Q33 Earthcache Grotte Sainte-Reine Cave GC8ATW6 Wherigo Cache Matrice LXXXI #36 GC7B9YZ Virtual Cache Arbogast et les ermites de la forêt de Haguenau GC264K8 Unknown Cache COMMANDO DANTES INFERNO GCJW6Y Traditional Cache Far East GC3CHDH Multi-cache Petit Ouvrage de Welschhof GCTWJ1 Letterbox Hybrid Extrem4 -"Stonerose"- Nachtcache GC7D6YH Mega-Event Cache GeoBretzel Event 2018 GC7D6YG Event Cache Meet & Greet - Premiers forages Spain: 8 types. GC8M90M Lost and Found Event Cache JimJinks and Ems on Holiday GCHXPA Virtual Cache El Gordo (Lost Place) GC668Y8 Unknown Cache 02 Corral del Niño GC12FKJ Traditional Cache Punta de n'Amer GC21CE3 Letterbox Hybrid Barrage II - Lost Place GC16PWE Earthcache Coves de Campanet GC2YBDC Multi-cache La Orotava - Stadtführung / Sightseeing GC5CWV3 Event Cache Beachtime Tenerife #2 Austria: 6 types. GC7B79Z Virtual Cache Goldenes Dachl - Golden Roof - Tettuccio d’oro GC3MK2Q Unknown Cache Rund um die untere Möll Part V (Finalcache) GC18FX5 Traditional Cache Kreuzweg GC2TT79 Letterbox Hybrid 2. Osttiroler Letterbox & TB-Hotel Nussdorf-Debant GC16DKY Multi-cache Schatz_am_Klausenwald GC1T568 Earthcache op.13 Die Granatschlucht-The Garnet Gorge Germany: 14 types. GC57V0R GPS Adventures Exhibit GPS MAZE EUROPE - Germany GC26Y8B Lost and Found Event Cache 10 Years! Schriesheim, Germany GCHJQ9 Webcam Cache Mannemer Webcam GC4K089 Giga-Event Cache Project MUNICH2014 - Mia san Giga! GC115Y4 Earthcache Prähistorisches Aquarium GC26E8N Cache In Trash Out Event Heidelberger Frühjahrsputz GC19R08 Wherigo Cache Oase der Ruhe GCDBCE Virtual Cache Philosophy or Platitude? GCTE22 Unknown Cache Die Urne GCHC5W Traditional Cache Forest Trail GC13YRJ Letterbox Hybrid Hexentanzplatz GCHMK4 Multi-cache Riesenstein - Giant Stone GC21CET Mega-Event Cache Nacht der Vulkane 2013 GC1115N Event Cache 7. Stammtisch Kurpfalz Malta: 7 types. GC890NR Virtual Cache Memorial Siege Bell GC6FWTD Unknown Cache Crazy Cacher in Space GC5RA1E Traditional Cache Villa Rosa View GCA04H4 Earthcache Triton Fountain from travertine rock GC97F89 Multi-cache Sliema Revolution GC842DA Wherigo Cache Christ the King A Reverse Wherigo GCAG3B8 Event Cache Meet at the Siege Bell Memorial Netherlands: 8 types. GC2DE4 Webcam Cache Haarlem Webcam GC6EB6 Virtual Cache Round 'n Round GC4412P Unknown Cache Biljarten 01: Van acquit GC2TE74 Traditional Cache Hockesberghe~6~Jurisdictiepaal GC6XFEK Letterbox Hybrid 07~~ 81 langs de A7 [HCE2017] GC7J6JE Wherigo Cache Where I Go # 10 GC2V262 Multi-cache Ter nagedachtenis aan.... GC2DQ90 Earthcache Grondwatermeter in 't Grintenbosch United States: 7 types. GCDFD4 Virtual Cache ANOTHER Las Vegas wedding GC32A0H Unknown Cache Ode to the Golgafrinchan Phone Workers GCK3N5 Earthcache A Home of "Dragons" Earthcache GCCCC7 Traditional Cache STOP AND GO,GO,GO, 3 GCK25B Groundspeak HQ Geocaching Headquarters GC4K2E2 Letterbox Hybrid Bear Lake State Marina GC8FR0G Locationless (Reverse) Cache Find Signal the Frog® - Locationless in 2020 Czechia: 12 types. GC45GGA GPS Adventures Exhibit GPS MAZE EUROPE - Czech Republic GCM3R4 Multi-cache Expansion`s magnetic child (Prague) GCPDPE Webcam Cache Zbraslav Cleaner Webcam Cache GC371Z1 Wherigo Cache Tourist Guide round Prague I GC25G2H Letterbox Hybrid GEO-POST OFFICE Praha - Dolni Chabry GC6F37 Virtual Cache Prague, Staroměstské náměstí GCV17D Unknown Cache PraGeo - Jewish cache D1/T1 GC27ZYH Traditional Cache Bílý Kostel GC4F67C Cache In Trash Out Event GCF EU 2013 - CITO GeoStromovka GCN8PQ Earthcache Komorni Hurka Earthcache GC3JJJJ Mega-Event Cache GEOCOINFEST EUROPE 2013 - Prague GC45H5T Event Cache GCF EU 2013 - 24 hodin GeoStromovka Switzerland: 10 types. GC4AVH7 Letterbox Hybrid MEGA Switzerland 2014 - Letterbox GCPM3E Webcam Cache Appenzell -Hauptgasse-Webcam GC4NNQ3 Earthcache Das Basler Münster / The Basel Münster GC4VQ2R Wherigo Cache Ohne Most in Mostindien GC4FPY0 Unknown Cache Qwiss #6: Schweizer Puzzle GC4ZMPR Traditional Cache Horse Race #1: Skyfall GC7B8ZA Virtual Cache catch the Fasnacht (virtual reward) GC4TZ3D Multi-cache Hier entlang - This way GC4DJ98 Mega-Event Cache MEGA Switzerland - meeting friends 2014 GC4XTK2 Event Cache Hello Geocacher Portugal: 6 types. GC890NN Virtual Cache Feeling “ZEN” GC7N0CW Unknown Cache S.Miguel #091 GC5CGPE Traditional Cache LPPD - Controlo de Tráfego Aéreo GC1N2Q8 Earthcache FF12 - Ying Yang GC8MPJF Multi-cache Ponte 7 Cidades GC6P1E0 Letterbox Hybrid A lenda da Princesa

I don't treat FPs the same way as I treat logs. I know FPs are lifetime-contributed, and I know that logs - far more descriptive - are much more temporally relevant. I think most people are capable of grasping that fundamental difference. But sure, I can cede that that's an assumption.

You are not the first to get those two events mixed up. It happens!

A souvenir is awarded for finding an Earthcache on Earthcache Day, which is 12-13 October this year. To my knowledge, no souvenir is awarded for Earth day.

I reported an earth cache as found on April 22, 2024 but did not receive a souvenir. How come?

For a whole website I'm willing to pay annually. Not for an app - not for geocaching or anything else.

For the past few weeks, I get the message that my session has expired. It happens once every week. I need to login again into the Geocaching app. This is quite annoying I have never had that before. If this is an intentional feature then why??? It is not that I have any sensitive information stored in my geocaching app. App version: 9.50.0 Android 14 (all updates to OS installed)

I have two multis (created in 2015 and 2018) sharing the same virtual waypoint at a trig marker on a headland and they even use the same digit on it. It's not difficult to get to, though, just a short walk from the nearest road, and I'm not sure now why I did it except I needed a "9" for both and that was probably the only "9" I could find anywhere around the area. Sigh.

GC9728Y et al. is a similar-but-not-identical construction. All nine use the same sign for stage 1, before sending you off to individual finals.

See the thread from just a few days ago: But there's a reality that GPSes don't degrade (well, unless you left batteries in it while recovering) and Garmin's out of ideas. If you were happy with your Montana, it should still work as well as it ever did. The new units might be better in some super incremental ways, but there aren't huge differences in the actual player experience. It's not like tracking 38 SVs instead of 32 is going to help you much when the placer hid it with a phone and mistyped the coordinates when listing the cache page. Sure, the touch screen on an Oregon 600 is more responsive and the UX faster than that of an Oregon 400 (both models are discontinued, emphasizing my point...) but it's not like you're going to have 10% more fun replacing hardware that's a few generations back. If you're suitably determined, you can put aerial imagery on units that are 18 years old. Any of the Montanas (hint, there wasn't an 800) were pretty high-end devices, so as a fellow patient, my advice would be to get back on your feet responsibly, go outside, and play!

The frustrating thing about building pocket queries for me is finding the dates to split the PQs by. It is just tedious. If I can go to Project-GC, who is a partner with Groundspeak, put in the area I want, and have it give me a list of the split dates, why can't there be a way to automatically generate the pocket queries for me?

I have seen caches using the same virtual waypoint. They can also start from the same virtual waypoint. There is nothing special in this arrangement as long as the shared waypoint is virtual for every cache. It is also possible that one puzzle gives coordinates for many caches without any shared virtual waypoints.

I was using GCDroid until this problem came along and their choice to go to a subscription model has caused me to start looking at other apps. Do you know if Geooh GO has solved this issue with their $5.99 one time purchase version of the app?

Hypothetical concept to run past you lot: Picture a variety of multiple stage geocaches, (whether they be multi, mystery, letterbox, or even Wherigo), each starting at a different waypoint, but sharing the same second virtual waypoint. Maybe there is a small sign on an island in a lake with numbers on it, for example, but it could be anything that counts as terrain 5 (T5)and pre-existing and able to be a virtual stage. Each of these different geocaches (shown as different colors in my example diagram) could then use the information at the shared second virtual waypoint differently, based on the info at the first stages and on the cache pages to lead on to different final locations. For this to be legal, of course, all physical waypoints of different geocaches have to be at least 528 feet apart, and all placed with landowner permission (same for virtual stages). As far as I can see, this doesn't break any rules. Each individual geocache has no physical waypoints too close to another's, there are no bonus caches or equivalent since no physical waypoints are being doubled up and any of these can archive and the rest still all work. It does mean that you do T5 work one time and get rewarded with many caches, even if the T5 location is small. This would get boring if it was done ad nauseum, but as a concept, I think it works. It could be done with T4.5 and others too. I don't know if the same argument could be made for difficulty 5, but it could be considered similar. I recon you could also have ONE physical waypoint near the shared virtual second stage as it takes two physical waypoints to create a clash. There are no plans to do this yet and I don't know of it existing anywhere. Whaddayathink?

Buena-N or Viton-C are the best O-ring material ( Viton is pricey and mostly for high temp. applications). I've used Buena for years with great success on all sizes of bison and also on match holders ( which I hide mostly ) where the flat gasket is problematic. I usually pick them up at Home Depot or Ebay.......I think I carry 3 sizes.

Also having the same problem on my iPhone.

I'm repeating myself over and over again because it's new people asking various spin off questions from stuff I already posted about. A new question comes with a new answer. I'm not archiving it, oops repeated that again..sorry not sorry. If I wasn't open to their arguments, I would have archived my caches, instead, I'm running the checkers, keeping up with who posts what, and when necessary adding finders qualifications to the electronic logs as a common ground.

After creating a module with Earwigo and get it to run without problems in Webwigo, I usually still find some issues when testing it in the apps WhereYouGo (Android) and Wherigo (iOS), experiencing the range of differences between them. I am an Android user and familiar with reading the .owl log file from the WhereYouGo app, making it possible to debug. But iOS throws to me a lot of frustration: On an old iPhone which I have acecss to I struggle finding the log file at all. I found a .gws file and was finally able to copy it into a computer. Opening it in different text editors it shows mostly a lot of ### between some text. The text indicates to me that the file might be only the interpreted source code (module without medias) and not the log file I want to read. Does anyone know how to find (if the .gws isn't a log file) and open the iOS Wherigo log file in a user friendly way for debugging? It surely must exist somewhere, because on shutting down and restarting the app, it prompts me to reopen earlier saved games.

I am guessing sgerbs is referring to the limiting of some types of EarthCaches from 2019. Other than river gauging stations, most of the EarthCaches being archived may still be able to be published again, if the stipulations were met. 4.5 Limiting Some EarthCache Types