Thewins5

Certainly has happened to me - I have two TBs that appear to be on the list and though I get the notification, there is nothing on the log (have had 3 and 2 hits so far - but only one person on both) I contacted a couple of people and they said that Groundspeak had deleted the logs. By the tone of their response they may have also been told that it wasn't appropriate (or maybe they were just trying to cover up their dodgy ways). Maybe they are not announcing it as that might just encourage more people to find the FB page and bulk log (but pretty well every local group on FB has already discussed it). Would be good to know as it saves having to monitor the TBs and just look at genuine logs.

I have had two of my TBs logged from Germany in the last few days. One I know is sitting in Temora (was lost for a while but is waiting to be re-released), the other has been missing for over a year (though I think is with someone - maybe I should message them). The interesting thing was once I checked the logs, the "Discovery" was not listed. I contacted the first two who were apologised but seemed to indicate the logs were deleted by Groundspeak - unclear whether they asked for this to occur or if it was automatic. I didn't bother with the next one but it was gone as well. Does anyone know if GS is deleting logs that are being generated from these lists - or is something tricky going on here. Hopefully something is happening but maybe I was just lucky and got 3 with guilty consciences

Thanks dprovan - I think that is the key comment (forgot there is a diffrence in what a CO sees and the rest of the world does). Will submit the details and ensure that there is sufficient information so that all know whether to start or not. Thanks for the helpful and informative comments all - hopefully will improve my cache design and placement. Cheers

barefootjeff - have tried that with a Mystery cache and found that some of the detail still appeared on the cache page (maybe I needed to leave the "Description" field blank?)

Yes - this will be a car-based cache (the road is not a great one for cyclists). I am always careful with parking, and the one I have in mind will be picnic areas so plenty of off road parking at the sites. Likely to be 10+ kms between caches - so too far may be the issue, but I will see how it goes (will have others where the final will be <200 metres away) - I like to give amix of options and see who does what!

Thanks on4bam - that was my thought on the physical caches - will set up that way and see how people go with it

I intend to list that the cache will take a number of hours (and is part of a trail that is likely to be 50+ caches - each cache already states the entire length of the potential trail). I also suspect some may need to visit multiple times But take your point that a general sense of time would be required (even if the specific number of waypoints may not)

Apologies if this question has been asked before - don't use the forums much and I couldn't make a useful search. I have created a few multis, but have a couple planned that will be multiple sites along a reasonably long drive (50+kms) where they will essentially be a series of containers with the waypoints for the next one. There will be a warning that the cache will require a drive (and I have created a number of other caches along the route to keep interest going). My question si when I create the cache do I need to put all of the waypoints in to be reviewed, or can I get away with just putting the starting point and the final GZ? I assume because of the potential (in this case very low likelihood) of other physical caches being within the 161 metres the reviewers may want to see each stage, but my preference is that the number of points remains hidden - even if you hide all the details my understanding is that there would be an entry either way and so searchers would know that they are approaching the end (maybe I guess I just want them to be never certain whether the end is in sight). As I said apologies if this has been raised before, or it is clearly in the rules what I need to do (I did look) but any thoughts appreciated. Cheers Thewins5