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A cache owner can change their cache's status to "Premium Members Only" at any time. For example, if a popular cache goes missing or gets damaged often, the owner can reduce the "traffic" at that cache by changing it to PMO. Your question might also be about "Advanced" caches, which are available to all players on the Geocaching.com website, but only available to Premium Members on the official Geocaching smartphone apps. The difference in features on the app are explained in this Help Center article. So, for a basic member using the official app, a cache can "suddenly" become inaccessible on the official app if the cache owner adjusts the Difficulty and/or Terrain rating to higher than 2 stars.

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I am locking this thread at the OP's request.

A Traditional Cache is defined as being located AT the posted coordinates. A Traditional Cache with an "extra step," like figuring out a lock combination, can be listed with the "Field Puzzle" attribute or, in some communities, as a Mystery Cache. If someone has to "find numbers in the area," this might qualify as a Traditional with Field Puzzle Attribute IF all of the numbers are easily visible by someone standing at ground zero. For example, there's a sign on a tree or post at ground zero, and the numbers from the sign provide the combination to open the lock on the cache, that's located at the bottom of that tree or post. If the "numbers in the area" are at various locations more than a few feet from Ground Zero, then this would not be a Traditional Cache. In many communities, this would best be listed as a Multi-Cache.

I moved this thread from the General Geocaching Topics forum, after removing an unnecessary reference to an unauthorized third party application.

As there is no discernible geocaching topic in this thread, I am closing it. Please post on-topic to geocaching, rather than other hobbies.

So, reprise last year's souvenir challenge?

As @Smitherington has answered the question, and the question is unrelated to geocaching, I am closing this thread.

I read your reviewer's note - it is getting more at "the location is wrong" than it is saying "you used the wrong coordinate format." Your coordinates place the cache in the middle of the road, towards the side of the road that has no trees, etc. This location did not match what you described to the Reviewer.

I was referring to the linked thread, where the concept of cache permanence was "new news" to the OP. Thank you for posting this follow-up thread, to discuss the details about "cache churning" vs. "refreshing the gameboard."

Do you have permission from the owner of the building with the roof? Does the party granting permission understand what geocachers will need to do in order to access the cache? Have you stated your permission (and any restrictions) on your cache page? If so, you may be good to go, provided that your cache meets all of the other Geocache Hiding Guidelines.

Do you mean combining a CITO Event with a Community Celebration Event? If so, then generally the answer is "no," if the events are close to each other in time and/or distance.

That can't happen within 60 miles of the Giga Event, as the crow flies. And, as you know, it's easier for a crow to travel 60 miles from Morgantown than it is for a human in a car.

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Normally, when I post about a Geocache Hiding Guideline, I'm stating fact, based on having been a Reviewer for 22 years and watching the Guidelines evolve. It always amuses me when someone discovers a "new" guideline. The Cache Permanence Guideline has been around since March 2003. The original text of that Guideline section read as follows: The 90 day presumption for "permanence" vs. "temporary" was added in the very next update, in November 2003. The problems that the Guideline intends to solve were moving caches (which used to be a thing) and temporary caches hidden for events or private competitions. The Guideline is not intended to discourage healthy turnover, like when a CO notices that all the locals have found their caches that take up all of the available space in Memorial Park. Archive those after a few years and give people a new reason to enjoy hiking in Memorial Park, to find new caches. There is a difference between "churning" and "refreshing the gameboard."

You can login with your husband's account and click the link on the public profile page to show all the forum posts for that account. I just did that, and there are none. You should just write your post, whatever it is.

You have no posts that are "pending approval." Only a community member's first post is screened by the moderating team before appearing in the forum. This is to stop spammers, which is a daily battle for the moderating team. Your most recent activity was on Thursday, when you posted to your thread titled "Questions before activating my first hide." So, whatever you wanted to say, please compose a new post in the applicable existing thread, or start a new thread if there are no recent discussions of the subject.

How are the "hardware" and the "false limb" attached to the tree? The test is, if you removed all the objects you placed, is there any remaining trace that there was a cache there? If yes, then your Reviewer will likely ask you to confirm permission from the land owner/ land manager to alter the tree in that manner.

@holu99, please try opening the Adventure Lab app independently, instead of using an unauthorized third party app to launch the Adventure.

You're correct. The maze find will default to the date shown on the cache page. The "wiring" is the same that's used for event caches.

Here is a helpful reference from the Geocache Hiding Guidelines on Cache Saturation. Also read the Help Center article, "Check for Minimum Distance." There's a link to that right in the Guidelines.

Intenta cerrar sesión y volver a iniciarla, o reinstalarla. Además, si compraste tu membresía premium hace poco, espera aproximadamente un día para que la aplicación se sincronice con el sitio web.

Hello, fellow old-timer! It is nice to see you posting in the Forum again, after a 12 year absence. I'd like to advise you to look for "gadget caches." They are often close to parking, but are way more fun than peeking in the end of a guardrail.

As this isn't a bug, I'm moving the thread out of the Geocaching.com Website forum section.