lee737

We found a T5 cache (technical tree climb) on the ground on the weekend..... so you can get lucky. Not with this one now, we retied it in place....

How many could a person find? The other week at a mega, we found 180-odd in a day. Mostly pre-solved Wherigos, so basically a D1.5 T1.5 trad trail. I was pooped by the end of that day. So I don't stand a chance of finding them all!

Honestly out of the last 100 caches I've found I seriously wouldn't have a clue if any were premium or not....

#1 - we've had a cache smasher in these parts on and off over the years.... they do seem to get bored and move on/grow up.... making easy-access caches premium seems to help keep them safer. #2 - I've never seen anything like that..... it sounds like he has some sort of personality disorder, or is just a jerk, probably both.... The paper-only guy.... I wouldn't claim FTF if someone had legitimately signed it before me - could they be caches from a sock-puppet account of his?? He seems the type!

I write about the find, then cut and paste the output text from the checker page, and paste that under my log text...

Sad, isn't it.

And with the find types being differentiated based on the number of FPs, sort of makes it an FP challenge....

I wonder why AL's are included in this one - they have nothing to do with FPs whatsoever??

I'd like to see that too....

Cachly is an iOS app - superior to the official offerings in a lot of regards IMO (not all), it does retain the solved coords of puzzles etc, and even provides you with your own red circles to judge new hides by. GPSr - GPS receiver - just a handheld GPS - it retains coords as well, and standing at a hide allows you to quickly assess your distance to all unfound and found caches, as long as you have those coordinates.... (see above)

Sorry.... you need to obtain the final/physical coords for nearby puzzle caches, and multis.... you need to solve the puzzles (or otherwise get the coords.... ask friends??) or do the multis generally.... there is no other easier way....

As you've found out, only visible waypoints will show up on the map.... you'll need to work out where the invisible (puzzles/multis etc) ones are on your own.... I still don't think they will then show up on that map though. I then need to use third party assistance - Cachly, or my GPSr, as the website won't show found puzzles in their physical location.... I agree, the official tools are a bit useless for hiding (especially in cache dense areas), but I see their rationale for not revealing the red circles for puzzles etc....

We had a mega event start a few days after the challenge, so had nailed all three souvenirs by morning tea time on our second day!

I'm not sure.... I'm sort of keen to be surprised, and maybe challenged... Although I suspect I'll be surprised if I am surprised, or challenged..... The one thing that really tests us here, is a streak. Between work and school, and fading daylight, streaks become really difficult..... We were lucky the first challenge was the 'bulk finds' as we headed off to a mega a few days after it started, and bagged over 500 finds in a week, hundreds of kilometres from home.... we still have slim pickings around us though!

If I were the CO I'd probably delete the logs.... if I weren't the CO, I'd certainly put a log photo in my log, perhaps message the CO.....

We found Cachly an absolute gem recently in some fairly dense AL towns..... when zoomed in you don't get too overwhelmed, and often you would see an extra location from a different AL right there as well, occasionally at the same place... The AL app only shows the actual AL you are looking at.

It would be nice if they would show, not just the pin location, but all stages that are available to visit. I have to use Cachly on my phone to get this functionality.....

Do a search for 'geocaching stashnotes' or 'geocaching logsheets'..... there are a bunch of printable files around you can use or get inspiration from.

+3 on these.... I'll add pocket queries (although they do need an upgrade!) to this list. My family has three PM accounts, still the cheapest part of our #1 pastime, and worth every cent.

We all complain when they are too easy, and when they are too hard.... Nobody seems to like 'every-child-gets-a-prize' type promos, but everyone still wants a prize!

CITO them out....

Yep, if there's a more reliable way to make me not give you an FP, I'm not sure what it is....

I just go to my profile page, select 'Logs' at the left, then choose 'All logs' - that will give you a list all the way to find #1, plus all your other logs you've made.

This is great - now why can't/won't Groundspeak incorporate lab locations in our find history? Clearly it is won't rather than can't....

We did find it.... we were actually having a poke around for that D5 puzzle at the time, and thought we'd found it.... We've solved it (with help) since, so if you would like some help, sing out....