CAVinoGal

OK - let me preface this by saying my husband and I challenged ourselves to find a cache every day in 2018 (we started geocaching in March of 2017), so, we cahllenged ourselves to streak for at least a year. We had our own rules for what qualified as a "find", and since this is all unofficial, it's whatever works for you. If you want your stats to show consecutive days of logging finds, and you "save" the challenges you have qualified for to log as a find on those crazy busy days, then your stats will reflect that ... consecutive days of logging a find. As you said, YOU would be comfortable logging this as a legitimate "find" on one of those busy days, and unless people dig into your profile, your stats will relect xxx consecutive days of finds. The "spirit" of a streak is different though, in my opinion. When we set our goal to find a cache every day of 2018 (eventually ended up with a few days at the end of 2017, and we continued into 2019 to finally NOT FIND a cache after 404 days, WHEW!!!!) we said we had to go out and find a cache every one of those days. We didn't count events (our own personal preference) or challenges that we could CLAIM on a specific day. We had to go out and find a cache we could log (Virtuals and Earthcaches we did count, as you had to go to the location and DO something) as found EVERY DAY. Our own rules, YMMV. All the challenges I have signed, I have treated in this manner. I go back to them, and when I see that I have met the challenge, I will log a find then. I don't change my write note log, I reference it, and the date I signed it, then claim the smilie when I qualify. It might actually be months past the actual date I fulfilled the challenge, but whenever I realize I've met the challenge I claim it as Found. The CO's that publish challenge caches in this area are good with that method, and that's been the way we "learned" to deal with challenge caches in this area. Good luck with your streak - however you choose to attain it!

I did a couple of searches and the dates seem to be OK for me. I am in the same time zone as HQ, PDT.

Just checked again, and magically (or was it all that cookie wrangling they did?!?) the Browse map functions as expected, again. Thanks to all the engineers and others who have been working on this!!

I have cookiebot.com blocked, it has been for a year or more when this came up previously. And the Browse map headers, and non-clickable caches, as well as the header disappearing on certain pages happens regardless of my cookie settings. Even allowing all, advertising too, doesn't seem to fix this.

I'm glad for you! Both the Browse map AND the Search map? The Search map does work for me, but the Browse map does not.

Working off the main menu on the left side of the Dashboard, it seems random which pages have the top menu bar visible, and which pages have a blank green bar. Here's what I get: (Highlighted links lead to a page with a blank green bar - the rest have the header correctly displayed) Additionally, every cache page I visit has the blank green bar. The new Search map seems to work and has the header displayed. The Browse map, my preferred map, is missing the header, and the individual caches are not clickable; I can't view cache pagesfrom the Browse map. It also makes no difference whatever combination of cookies I select; the results are the same with Necessary only, all cookies, or any combination.

And here we are, a few days into the new promo challenge, and I have found ... one cache, and an FTF at that!! Actually, our geocaching has been more cache maintenance than cache finding this past week or so. It seems just as we get one back into play, another disappears! We've been doing a lot of rebuilding (lots of rain and damp warping the specially built container so it would not seal properly) and rethinking hides, and haven't got many locally yet to find. We'll get the souvenirs we get, and I highly doubt it will be the gold this month.

Ahhh, much simpler than my solution!!

On your Dashboard, scroll down on the left side to the Friends section, click on Find Another Player, and type their geoname into the box. If they haven't blocked it, you can see their profile.

The search map is gone for me as well, Chrome on Windows 11. The Browse map works, and is the one I use most of the time anyway, so I hadn't noticed. When I did try to open the search map, it gave me a blank page. This seems to be the case, as I have just the necessary cookies enabled. When I enable Statistics, the Search map appears.

It all depends on where you are planning to go find caches... Minimum gear is a GPS and a pen. Helpful tools are a hiking stick, tweezers, a trash grabber, flashlight, gloves ... footwear again is optional and depends on where you are going....though barefootjeff never needs footwear, and my daughter in law likes to cache in flip-flops in any season. Urban caches, nothing too special as far as clothing. Hiking in a grassy field, long pants, tick spray, Technu for poison ivy/poison oak exposure ... the list of potential gear is long. I have a backpack for hiking that has many TotT's (tools of the trade) listed above, and then some extra logsheets, containers, lots of pens, a couple of stamps for Letterboxes and my geoname stamp, hand sanitizer and wipes. As you cache more you find out what things you wish you had brought, and add those things to your geobag for the next trip! Happy caching! ETA: Water, especially when hiking, and maybe some trail mix to munch on,

I completely agree with this! Looking at my stats in Project-GC, I only have 3 months where I topped 100 finds, and my best month was 114 finds. All 3 of those months were in 2018, the year we set a goal to find a cache every day. One other month that year I hit 96, my monthly average for the nearly 6 years I've been geocaching is in the 20's and 30's most months. The streak year, the average per month was 76, but that's the highest it's ever been! So 5 and 10 finds a month is easily doable, 100 will be a real challenge, and quite a jump up from 10. If the second tier was 30, or 40, one or more a day, it would be more of a challenge than 10. ^^^THIS! +++ I don't need (and probably won't get) all 3 souvenirs each month. One souvenir, for whatever I do manage to accomplish, will be more than enough! My husband, my geocaching partner, and I both managed to earn all 12 of the Signal's Labyrinth souvenirs with our usual caching, what we would have done anyway. And we didn't stop when we earned the souvenir, waiting for the next one...we just did what we normally do. Example - we've both earned the final Labyrinth and the bonus for getting all 12. But there's an event tonight that we are attending, and there will be FTF opportunities handed out, and we will likely go find and log them, before the Challenges start on April 3. And we've pretty much decided we will not go far out of our way to grab all the challenges - if they sound fun we might target specific caches; if we are traveling and can find enough wherever we are to get one, we'll do it. Going for 100 caches in April??? We'll see. That's an average of 3 or 4 a day, every day. We would definitely be stepping up our game to accomplish that!

If you go to the messaging center on the website on your computer, there is a gear on the top left for Settings - there you can set up email notifications when you receive a message via the message center. And yes, I have a dedicated email for geocaching (a gmail account with my geo name) and a distinct ringtone/alert sound for any email that comes to that address. It works well for me! Especially since gmail acocunts are free and easy to set up.

And that is what I have chosen to do. If our normal caching activity gets us the souvenir, then it happens. Occasionally we will see that we might be close, and go for a cache specifically, but typically our normal caching will earn us the promotional souvenirs. I'm curious as to what the "Challenges" will be... We'll be traveling to the East Coast in a month, affording us new territory to explore, and that may make it easier to meet whatever challenge is presented for that particular time frame. We introduced a friend to geocaching as a retirement hobby, and she has really gotten into it, so she motivates us to earn all the souvenir promos now - even though our usual caching gets us there anyway. She watches us and prods us along...

Yes, as Keystone said, you can delete the photo and leave the written log intact. You may want to send the cacher a polite note explaining why you deleted the photo, and perhaps encourage her to post another photo that does NOT give away the hide. I enjoy posting photos of surrounding area, traveling trackables, maybe some wildlife that happens by while out caching... but I try not give away anything related to the cache/container/hide style.

ZLooking around for similar topics is always a good idea. However, if/when you DO find a topic that aligns with your question/comment, check the date of the last post and read through a few of the newest posts - if the topic seems to be "closed", and it's been a year or more since the last post, then yeah, start a new one. If there are a LOT of posts on the topic, then read them; your question may get answered without adding yet another post on the same topic. And if you feel there's somethi8ng new and idfferent to add, or you don't find much of anything, then start a new thread.

Are you talking about something similar to this? The souvenir symbol for California (and all the other states where I have earned a souvenir), is simply the 2 letter state abbreviation and an outline of the state. Open up the description, and you get another, more elaborate image, and info about the state.

This is so coincidental it's funny...we were visiting our son yesterday, I went through the travel bugs in his hotel and grabbed several as I will be able to help with some of the goals, and I'll be headed to the East coast and can give them some miles. One of the bugs I picked up was released by .... shellbadger!! I thought the name was familiar as I read the description and goals... and it looks like it was marked missing, then grabbed, and ended up in my son's hotel. Now I have it! https://coord.info/TB9FG5B

Same here. I enjoy the travel bug aspect, I enjoy sending bugs out and watching where they go, and seeing pictures of my bugs on their travels. So I try to reciprocate by taking photos as I'm caching with ones I have picked up (especially if I can get a photo in a spot that fits the theme or goal). It slows down my caching partner(s) as they wait while I "pose" the bugs and get my photos, so I don't always get the photos I'd like... The hardest part seems to be finding the best place to leave them to continue their journey. Caches are too small, or not found very often, or not in great condition. Thankfully, my son has an awesome TB Hotel on his front porch, a Letterbox hybrid complete with a stamp, a stamp book AND a logbook, and he keeps good track of what's there. We visit often enough that I can drop bugs if I need to, and pick up some to take when we travel. There are a couple of other nice TB hotels fairly close by too if I need to use them, but I prefer to find caches a bit further from home to drop off bugs. So sometimes I end up keeping them for longer than planned, but eventually they do get dropped off, with photos of where I have taken them.

It works as expected. I typically do drafts in the field, but I will tap the heart if I want to remember to give it a favorite. It's there when I go to compose the log on the website later. Those rare times I do log in the field from my phone, it has worked to add the favorite point (and a photo, but only one in the app)

Just a couple of thoughts on this - the app is primarily (I think) for geocaching - finding caches. It is NOT a cache owner tool. You need the website to do most everything connected with creating and maintaining a geocache, so it makes sense to me that notifications to cache owners regarding finds and logs on their owned caches are not a part of the app. Because I do own a few caches, I do get the email notifications when they are logged, and I also get those email notifications on my phone, which works just as well as an app notification would (IMO). I don't need the app to notify me as well.

Go to the trackables page, and in the top right corner, toggle on or off the "Watchlist". You won't get notified of all the "Took it to" logs, but you will get an email when it is dropped or retrieved. And if you want to see all the visits, you can go to your Watchlist, and choose whatever trackable you want to see, and go to that trackable's page to see the full history.

I can get to techblazer.com, and the logsheets, and I use it often. https://techblazer.com/ Googling "geocaching log sheets printable" will give you a lot of other options as well, or create your own as niraD suggests.

This is exactly what I am seeing. Maybe it's being worked on right now (though it's a weekend....)

As previously mentioned, "nice graphical style" and "nice descriptions" is very subjective. Keeping things simple is usually better. I like to use background images to enhance cache pages, but those don't come through on the app, only seen when viewing the cache page on the website. Keeping the description as simple as possible seems to work best for me to keep the experience consistent across platforms and apps.