Cacheism 500

It surprised me too that at events there is a definite skew to the older generations. With the use of technology you would think more youngsters would be at it. Maybe they're Pokemon Going!

Would we have to then subdivide geocaches into Terracaches, Lunacaches etc.........

I wanted to do one where you have to first find two trads within 60 seconds of one another on foot and upload 'proof.' (161 metres minimum distance, achievable if you leg it!) Anyone else had any good but unpublishable ideas?

Theres still the time zone midnight possibility though! (cache published between 12am-1am, cross 1 hour earlier.)

As long as you physically reach GZ* and look (even for a second and then get muggled off) if you don't find it its a DNF. * Although I still call these DNFs, tree climbs (say) where you see the tree and sometimes cache but don't attempt don't universally go down as DNFs, I was once caching as part of a Meetup group who 'agreed' not to log such a tree climb as DNF, not wanting to break group consensus I didnt! Not reaching GZ and logging DNF is lazy and bad etiquette.

Oh yes, 'bits' of cache only left. If I am certain enough they WERE the cache and not something else I generally log these as FOUND.

The only time I think this is acceptable is if you don't find it, say so, the CO checks, confirms it wasn't there and gives you the option of logging it as a find as you 'would have' found it. On the other end of the scale is where you find it alright but can't extract it/open it etc to sign it! I once tried logging one of these as a find but the CO wasn't having it!

If you ever stumbled on a cache hidden before it is actually published:- 1. Could you log it as a find? 2. Would you be 'zeroth to find' as you can't be FTF as you would have deprived anyone else of the find after publication. No, this has never happened to me but.............

Say you visit an Earthcache and complete any research required to fully answer it a different day. When should you log it? Visit day or completion of research day? If the latter, does this not create a very sneaky way of calendar filling on days you don't want to leave the house?!

Weirdness is possible I suppose if you find a cache right by the International Date Line. Suppose it is found 20 metres east of where it was hidden and published that day with the date line being 10 metres east of the original hide. Hey presto you could legitimately log it the day BEFORE it was published. And find it chronologically first but not be FTF! Etc!

My battery dying just before getting to the last of a series

In the UK we have power trails but not that many and those that exist serve as a challenge to complete them in (say) a day. Some cachers like them, others wont. Horses for courses.