curlingfan11
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I'm working on getting more geocache types per month. So far I have traditional, mystery, and virtual.
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Same. I refind caches a lot. It's actually common sense for it to do it.
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You have to buy the full app, or become premium. Isn't obvious that they're bribing you to buy? Before, the app was the Geocaching App. Now it's a grown up app. If they should do this, they should just make you require to buy an account, no matter what. I know it's just a game, and everybody should be able to do it. It's common sense. If pocket queries, filtering, and other stuff should be premium only, 'everything' should be. Most users, and I mean MOST. He's a secret: I don't know if you're allowed to do this, but:
SECRET!!!!!!!
You tap the cache you want to see, tap the button that says 'view geocaches in a list', you close the app, open it again, and it will show you the cache. It won't show you the description, so you have to open your browser, or something similar. It should work on yours, it works on my. I don't if this is a hack, (not really). Also, if you can: By a handheld GPS!!!
Hope this helped you, and 'inspired' you !
Maybe other apps like 'Cachely' can give it to you.
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You have to buy the full app, or become premium. Isn't obvious that they're bribing you to buy? Before, the app was the Geocaching App. Now it's a grown up app. If they should do this, they should just make you require to buy an account, no matter what. I know it's just a game, and everybody should be able to do it. It's common sense. If pocket queries, filtering, and other stuff should be premium only, 'everything' should be. Most users, and I mean MOST. He's a secret: I don't know if you're allowed to do this, but:
SECRET!!!!!!!
You tap the cache you want to see, tap the button that says 'view geocaches in a list', you close the app, open it again, and it will show you the cache. It won't show you the description, so you have to open your browser, or something similar. It should work on yours, it works on my. I don't if this is a hack, (not really). Also, if you can: By a handheld GPS!!!
Hope this helped you, and 'inspired' you !
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This question is such a toughie! Because newts are small, and most nicknames are to short?
need a hint! 
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Sometimes, it does that. Try refreshing, or try later
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Ernest Shackleton.
Because I am new to this, Me N u can post the next question if i'm correct
I don't know about the hint, but I asked my dad, (who is a teacher of expeditions') about it, and he said it was Ernest
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Is it on the back, or another page of the log? Was the person caching with others and signed a team name, initials, or something else to that effect (some groups do it to save space on the logbook) is it an older cache? Maybe someone replaced the log (got wet, they tire it, or whatever other reason) so previous finders wouldn't appear on there.
Whatever the reason, it's up to you, but if you do delete it, it'd probably be nicer to send the person a message.
If they replaced the log, wouldn't they say in the log that they posted?
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It's already a rule to trade even or up. The problem is that humans are human - some are selfish, some are inconsiderate, some are thieves. Unless there's an armed guard at the cache site watching the trades, how does the CO enforce it?
I love the Found It logs that mention that the CO should come out and refill a cache with swag, because it's running low. Ummm, it's not a prize box; it's for exchange.
As to bad swag: I've thrown dog biscuits out of caches, removed what I assume is vape fluid (I guess? It was like cough syrup but said it contained nicotine) and cigarette lighters from caches, etc. All these things are listed as not allowed in the rules, but who reads and follows rules anymore?
*Edited for really bad composition*
Agreed.
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It definitely isn't me! lol 1 country!
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As a CO, has anybody ever experience having a bad trading item? Once, there was money in one of my caches. I guess someone really wanted it, so they traded it for a leaf. (even worse, the leaf was from a plant like 1 foot from the cache
). We need rules like that. Having a connection to that story, I think I read a post on the Help Center, that said that 'nature' shouldn't be trading items. For example, a leaf. Doesn't it really bug you?Any stories? Comments? Opinions? Ideas of other bad trading items excluding food, smelly items, or something that is dangerous?
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Archive it. Just like all the other posts
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I don't get this. The size descriptions are fine. Nano's are considered 'other'. No problem with that...
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I have a TB that wants to go to Japan. I would like to have the info and goal translated to Japanese so that it will be easy for Japanese speakers to know about the TB. I don't want to have to use google translate because it does a terrible job of translating sentences correctly most of the time. So if anyone knows of a fluent Japanese and English speaker, that would be great, or if you could point me in the right direction to finding one. It would also be helpful if they knew about geocaching. The most that I need translated is 15 sentences.
Do you know what the paragraph is?
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Should I ask a owner of the owner of a geocache if I could show their cache in a vlog? I know a cacher around my area that doesn't ask the owner. I'm puzzled now! I need help!
It's good etiquette to do so. I think you're around the same area as I am. If we're thinking of the same vlogger, he's created a lot of angst with his videos. One CO is archiving all his caches in a certain town before they're spoiled by a video.
So yes - ask the CO first!
Yes-kind of. you're in Durham, but i'm in York
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Issues..Issues...Issues...If your A CACHER who brings maintenance items e.g. logs, plastic baggies....etc.
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The first cache I found was a plastic footlocker, lowered into a hollow redwood stump. The top of the stump was even with the trail, and the plastic footlocker was turned on end and lowered into the hollow. It didn't seal very well. Everything inside was damp. (Condensation of fog provides a significant portion of a coastal redwood tree's water needs.)Has anyone ever found something as large as a 5 gallon bucket being used? How would something like that be hidden?I've also found some large size ammo cans. IIRC, they were ammo cans originally used for mortars, and had a volume of about 6 gallons. They worked well. One was painted to look like concrete, and was placed under a footbridge, next to its concrete foundation. Another was painted green and placed in a bush, near the owner's place of work, so he and his coworkers could keep an eye on it.
I don't recall ever finding an actual 5-gallon bucket. It doesn't surprise me that others have found them full of water though. I've used them as part of a "poor man's dry bag" on whitewater canoe trips, but the bucket provided only structural protection. The two 4mil plastic bags inside provided the waterproof seal.
I've found a couple wooden puzzle boxes. These were kept inside a sealed bag, inside a sealed plastic container, in a sheltered location, and they still showed signs of moisture damage.What about wooden boxes such as cedar chests or even heavy steel tool boxes or steel storage boxes?
Yeah, pretty much. I've seen any number of custom caches that used oddball containers that worked for that specific cache's unique requirements. One of mine (now archivedIn fact I think it even says a container can be anything that hold objects.
) used a wide-mouth water bottle:
And here's a section from the beginners tips that I've posted before: "[Look] at some of the cache containers available online. For example, check out the cache containers sold by Groundspeak. Also, take a look at the Pictures - Cool Cache Containers (CCC's) thread in the forums, and check out some geocaching videos on YouTube."
What this cacher said. Pintrest, YouTube, even online stores including the official Geocaching Store have 'ideas'
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Should I ask a owner of the owner of a geocache if I could show their cache in a vlog? I know a cacher around my area that doesn't ask the owner. I'm puzzled now! I need help!
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all multi's are different though.
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That's good manners.
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Wouldn't some cachers go and find your cache? Maybe a cache that's at the event, spots the cacher and tags along? There is many, many pro's...
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Ammo cans can rust. Plastic ammo cans can mold. Some people even have difficulty opening an ammo can! Ammo cans are certainly a favorite of people, but have con's and pro's just like ordinary geocaches.
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Hi I have been thinking of some caches that would get me lots of favourite points or make the cacher completely clueless on where the cache could be, does anyone have any good ideas (the more evil the better).
I have made a list here of some of my cache ideas.
- Pinecone with cache inside hanging from a tree, string to pull it down is hidden
- A book in a library
- Behind a footpath sign
- In a hole drilled in a stone (use a stone from the local area for best effect (the resin ones are often very obvious because of their colour))
- Multi cache that leads back to exactly the same location as it started after leading the cache a mile or two away
- Under a fake plant
- In a hollowed out log (this one works well i put one of these out a couple of weeks ago and it has already got (4FPs)
- A log painted white with squares on it where you sign your name
- A tape measure under some bark in a tree, you sign the underside of the tape instead of a log
- Stick a penny on the end of a bison and stick it in the ground (this one may be muggled though)
- Hang a cache from a tree with a bungie cord, make it obvious from the ground but make it near impossible to get to (i did this and got 7 DNF's before got one find
- Behind a brick that then slides out revealing the cache
- Have a pipe that you have to fill up with water for the cache to float up
- Have a cache that can only be obtained on extremely high tides
Edit: 15:00 14/02/16
I have thought of some more ideas to get fav points:
- A fake hunting pigeon with a cache inside it
- A cache with a motor that uses a battery from a GPS to obtain it
- A TB hotel, with rooms for TB's and Geocoins
- Decoys in natural places for a caches
- A cache that says 'under a rock' but it is under a rock 6 foot up in a tree
- A cache hidden under a waterfall in a stream, so that there is too much turbulence to see it, but if you put your hand in you can find it immediately
Please comment with more ideas for the most difficult or an extremely cool cache.
The problem with number 6 is that during the winter, people are going to see a 2 ft rose growing out of a snowbank.
- Pinecone with cache inside hanging from a tree, string to pull it down is hidden
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Wowww...
need a hint! 
). We need rules like that. Having a connection to that story, I think I read a post on the Help Center, that said that 'nature' shouldn't be trading items. For example, a leaf. 
:yikes: 
) used a wide-mouth water bottle:
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You can just go on the direct link to the Geocaching Map