JustFindingOurWay
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Can you place a cache in a national forest?
JustFindingOurWay replied to alpinerabbit's topic in General geocaching topics
You can place a cache nearly anywhere - as long as you have permission! It's one of the first subjects covered in the Guidelines. -
Are Saturation Rules a Thing for EarthCaches?
JustFindingOurWay replied to Vicious Cycle's topic in EarthCaches
The Help Center article titled Create an EarthCache (https://www.geocaching.com/help/index.php?pg=kb.chapter&id=51&pgid=292) has the answer to your question. "You can place an EarthCache near a physical geocache. Content is more important than physical proximity. If an existing physical geocache or EarthCache highlights the same feature as a new EarthCache submission, the reviewer may reject the EarthCache submission." -
Just a note that deleting Needs Maintenance logs, either by the original logger or by the cache owner, does not remove the Needs Maintenance / Red Wrench attribute. The only action that removes the Needs Maintenance attribute is an Owner Maintenance log. There's only one person who can log Owner Maintenance. Quit fussing about inaccurate Needs Maintenance logs and do the maintenance you agreed to do when you submitted a cache for publication. Simple solution.
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Simple. Go to https://labs.geocaching.com/logs (you'll have to log in with your geocaching id and password) and delete as you see fit.
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No big deal if it's an existing post.
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Definitely from where the final is located, but possibly also from the posted coordinates if the CO of the mystery placed anything at the posted coordinates.
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GeoArt Caches - nothing more than PTs?
JustFindingOurWay replied to WearyTraveler's topic in General geocaching topics
Take a look at https://coord.info/GC427Z3 in New Mexico. 37 challenge caches forming a question mark. I've signed them all, but still have one that hasn't turned into a smiley yet. -
Favorite geocaching statistic
JustFindingOurWay replied to GeoElmo6000's topic in General geocaching topics
It's available on the map tab in Project-GC. Just click on the counties button instead of the regions button. BTW, I've got some of your caches on my Cachetur plan on my way home from Seattle this summer - I hope! -
Real World Geocaching encounters
JustFindingOurWay replied to LoggieOggie's topic in General geocaching topics
My wife and I were crossing the Canadian border northbound, headed for Alaska with our travel trailer via a lonely crossing in Eastern Washington. It was early, and the crossing wasn't busy. The folks ahead of us got pulled over for an inspection and we snickered since we'd never been "selected" - at least not until that morning! While we're waiting for the inspections to finish, we got to talking with the other folks who were also geocachers. With the inspections passed, we swapped our wooden nickel for one of their pathtags and went on our way. -
Fully themed challenge caches
JustFindingOurWay replied to thebruce0's topic in General geocaching topics
For me, the challenge is about the challenge itself so I don't much care about the final being thematic as long as the cache is clean and dry. (Almost all of my active challenge caches are preforms, even if they can be a bit challenging to spot.) As long as we're talking preferences, my preference is for challenges that DON'T end up at an LPC. -
Do new users get free premium memberships?
JustFindingOurWay replied to HoochDog's topic in General geocaching topics
Looks like no one has mentioned that the official app lets you buy premium by the month - at a premium I suspect that's where some of this comes from. My gadget caches are almost always premium, but after a couple showed up on TikTok within a week of posting (complete with spoilers) I was hit with lots of newbie premiums but haven't seen them logging any other caches in the area. -
DNF when not arriving at GZ?
JustFindingOurWay replied to terratin's topic in General geocaching topics
Any chance you could back up that global statement with some documentation? I realize SOME don't, but I know a lot that read every word except from that one Texas cacher that writes a meaningless book on every cache or WN log. I'll admit I just ignore their logs. -
What size is more proper according to you?
JustFindingOurWay replied to Kæmel's topic in General geocaching topics
Another vote for "other". While the host is regular sized, there is only room for a log. In cases like these, I always use "other" -
New-Cacher Education Cache
JustFindingOurWay replied to TeamRabbitRun's topic in General geocaching topics
Another approach would be a traditional cache with a "field puzzle" to determine the correct combination for the padlock. It might teach them to read the description and pay attention to attributes in the process. -
It depends on where they put it. If they added the photo to their log, you can delete the photo by going to their log, clicking on the view log link in the lower right, then when it comes up clicking on the edit link for the photo at which point you'll have the option to delete the photo. I'd suggest you send the cacher a note explaining that you deleted the photo because it was a spoiler. (BTW, I'm assuming you're doing this from the website. Don't know if you can do it from the app.)
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The Esri World TopoMap on the Geocaching "Browse" map also shows US county lines. I'm not sure if it does the same for other countries since I do most of my county trip planning with Project-GC and Cachetur.
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How do I pick a good hiding spot for a cache?
JustFindingOurWay replied to black_cat1's topic in How do I...?
You've been given some good advice, and since you've asked, I'll toss out a couple other things to ponder. 1) If you have the opportunity, I'd suggest doing some caching in other areas before placing a cache. Different areas often have different hide styles. You can leverage those differences when you start thinking about your first cache. 2) I'm a bit of contrarian. Many of my caches have some field puzzle / gadget aspect to them. As such, I build the cache, make sure it works, and then look for the place where it fits. I rated my first cache higher than I would if I were placing it now, but it is still in play. All but one of the group that I put out shortly later to increase cache density in my neighborhood are gone, simply because they weren't good enough (at least in my mind) to justify keeping in play. That said, experience will be your best teacher! -
OK to offer additional hint?
JustFindingOurWay replied to captnemo's topic in General geocaching topics
Sure - they're your caches! -
Prevelance Of Newbies (A Survey Observation)
JustFindingOurWay replied to JL_HSTRE's topic in General geocaching topics
The traffic on this thread seems to primarily agree that the surveys are a marketing tool to HQ. With that in mind, I'd love to see some efforts to improve the design of their app which is often the only source of information for newbies. I regularly see log entries by newbies on caches that require reading the description to complete the find. Earth caches, virtuals, or challenges that have additional logging requirements that the newbie is ignorant of because they didn't click through to read the description. Multis that use a virtual first stage, or traditional field puzzles result in logs expressing frustration simply because they didn't read the description. I can try to helpfully educate them, but all too often I don't get any response to my messages to them about the requirements of the specific cache with the end result being their incorrect find is deleted. In my opinion, it's a design fault of the app. Seems like the "less than 100" group, unless they are caching with someone more experienced, aren't even aware that caches have descriptions! -
Image Description for the visually impaired
JustFindingOurWay replied to Max and 99's topic in General geocaching topics
I'm quite impressed with both mustakorppi and thebruce0 and your abilities to take a tangential discussion down a rabbit hole. -
Prize for loooooongggg logs?
JustFindingOurWay replied to dealfarms1's topic in General geocaching topics
Many of the badges can get a number attached showing how many times a diamond level has been reached. For example, it takes 60 Wherigo to earn a Diamond for WIGs. A small circle with a number two on the diamond badge would indicate it had been looped twice, i.e. at least 120 WIGs had been found. The wordiness award requires 100 words AVERAGE for a diamond award. Sure glad they eliminated the looping for it!