uberclimber

I had a somewhat similar problem - a lot of my hides weren't appearing on my own iPhone app map. I logged out and logged back in, and all the missing ones immediately reappeared.

It's not the bench itself, but where the bench is located...on a viewing platform in a beautiful park, overlooking a lovely pond surrounded by those old stone lanterns. But yeah, maybe it would be better to rethink the whole thing.

As do caches themselves...hence this entire thread!

It belongs to the city, I guess. I'd debate whether drilling a hole is 'destroying' it...'damaging' at worst. And since the hole will have wood inside put back inside it (in the form of the dowel), is it really so bad? But I take your point...and I do have some qualms and reservations on this point about the idea.

Yeah, all that litigation. I did see a notification somewhat like that on a cache on private property in Fiji stating that the owner knew about the cache. The owner - a beautiful woman - came out when we arrived, welcomed us, told us to enjoy the search, and reappeared with a big plate of fresh local fruit. It was one of the loveliest experiences I've ever had while caching.

I have no experience with caching outside Japan, NZ and Australia, so please re-educate me if I'm completely wrong about this, but I seriously doubt that everyone who hides a cache on public property 'gets permission from the agency or association that manages the land'. I'm 100% positive that the majority of caches hidden over here are done so on public property WITHOUT permission. And I'm yet to see a single cache over here with that disclaimer written on the page.

That would annoy me, too...which is why I'd like to provide the magnet, close by. 'Goldenwattle'...does that mean you're Australian?

...and just require them to bring their own magnet?

Umm...no, tbh.

One of the first caches I ever hid - a simple hidden-under-a-bench, magnetized container type - has been found and removed a couple of times, and I want to make something a little harder-to-notice. My girlfriend suggested that a nano container be attached to one end of a short length of dowel rod, which is then inserted into a hole drilled into a nearby wooden beam, sanded flush and then painted so that it's hard to notice. To extract the dowel, you would wave a magnet over the dowel and (hopefully) the magnetic attraction would cause the dowel to pop out and draw the container out with it. I like the idea...it seems sneaky and challenging. Do you think this would work? I wouldn't expect everyone to carry around a strong magnet, so would want to provide a magnet as part of the cache, somehow. The searcher first finds the magnet, then uses it to extract the container, is what I'm thinking. Is there a way to do this within the confines of cache types available? If so what cache type would it be? (Forgive me if this is obvious to all of you. I'm in Japan, and there doesn't seem to be a lot of imagination put into the caches over here, so I haven't run into a lot of variety of cache types myself...)

Ah, really? That's great! Thanks!

The cache was published, so I went into my geocaching app to check it out. Even though I had indicated that the final coordinates not be displayed during the creation process, you can still see them in the app. If you go to the info page for the cache and scroll down past Description, Activity etc to Waypoints, the final destination coordinates are clearly displayed...which defeats the whole purpose of the cache type, IMO. What gives?

Yes, that's right. The other caches are scattered across a pretty wide area, and since most geocachers to come here are just visitors passing through (there are NO local geocachers other than me), I think it would be best to be able to solve the puzzle in about 10mins while sitting at the dummy location and using your smartphone. Thanks for the replies and help. It clarified what I was doing and I have submitted the cache for review.

Surely they could look up the listed GPS coordinates for the other caches in their geocaching app without actually having to go back to the traditional caches they may or may not have previously visited? I kind of like the idea of including the numbers on the logbooks of the traditional caches, but if someone goes to the last train geocache before any of the others, I'd still like them to be able to find it...albeit with a bit of research on their device.

I need some advice on this subject too, please. I have a number of traditional caches in the area all located on retired steam trains. I have one more steam train to hide a cache on, and I want to make it a bit more interesting than the rest (since it's the last). I was thinking that I could use certain digits in the GPS coordinates of the traditional caches to form the GPS coordinates of the final cache, using a kind of substitution code in the last cache's description. But I'm not sure how to go about it. The format of the mystery cache registration webpage has me a bit confused because it seems to be designed for some other style of puzzle. I don't want the actual final coordinates to be visible, so apparently I'm required to add a stage...but what is the stage supposed to be? A bogus, unrelated location? Is there a different type of cache that would be better suited to what I'm trying to do? Thanks in advance for any help.