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Earlier this week Geocaching.com's official app for Android decided my player location is in halfway around the world. My Player.ObjectLocation is normal on my computer. My Fake GPS app location, I discovered from changing it three times, doesn't affect the Geocaching.com's Android app location. Rebooting the Android phone does not help. The 'settings' menu options for the Geocaching.com official app for Android do not adjust nor correct the Player.ObjectLocation in any way. I am at a loss from layperson/non-techie troubleshooting, and I ask for help. Years ago I did root my Android phone and have Developer Options open. ETA: I did NOT install nor remove any apps on the US Android phone affected. My workaround, and I feel sleazy and unclean for doing this, was to install Geocaching.com on my non-US phone, and let the Location setting be toggled to 'ON'. I rebooted the US Android phone, and lo! my Player.ObjectLocation is no longer in eastern Europe.

I read the Guidelines. This is controversial, but subject matter and tone meet the guidelines. Read if you must, and if you can't say something constructive, know that I'm imagining a broad range of unkind responses and you can't match or top any of those, so don't try. I lived in Seattle when I started geocaching. I've met some of the Lackeys, my husband and I attended some events. My family and I moved to British Columbia in the fall of 2019. In mid-March 2020 as everything was locking down due to the coronavirus pandemic, my husband of 25 years was diagnosed with metastatic late-stage pancreatic cancer. I continued geocaching in Washington State this spring and summer while he had chemotherapy treatments in Bellingham. He died last month. Some of you down in the Evergreen State have, I am confident, bookmarked challenges, puzzle caches here in British Columbia's Lower Mainland (by the way, did you know "West Vancouver" is not recognized by Geocaching HQ's autocompletion database as a place name?). I can tell you I have bookmarked challenges and solved puzzle caches in Whatcom, Skagit, Snohomish, and King counties. I'm a Canadian citizen, always have been, and since my Green Card was surrendered and my Essential Travel reason and love of my life has passed on, I don't know if I'll get to those solved caches soon. I certainly can't get them now. You might be wondering likewise about your Vancouver-area ones. If you're interested in "proxy signing" trades/swaps, do let me know privately. I'm not an all-terrain geocacher, so please know your T3.5-T5.0 mountain- and island-placed caches are beyond my scope.

I've lived in Vancouver and now am a little south (but still north of the border). Hello!

You are not wrong, you are right. My husband was diagnosed with life-threatening cancers at the end of March, getting out every few days from hearing him moan, groan in wide open spaces, not small parks or urban areas, saves my sanity. 'Forest-bathing', long hikes are good -- even Washington State Governor Jay Inslee has hiking and large parks visits in his Proclamation 20-25 as "essential" Vitamin D3 from sunlight has anti-viral propertiies and can protect against upper lung infections, and the benefits of longish walks in the open air, away from pollution and crowds are well documented. I am thrilled to have geocaching as a self-care item, and I laud the geocachers who keep widows-to-be like me in mind when they launch new caches, and the ones who keep their caches involving 1 km treks by grassland and seawalls available to us.

I've had snark from a CO, because I posted a NM. In my situation a long-standing Atlas Obscura curio was the host for the Premium geocache. As soon as I attained Premium Member status, I went to the GZ and saw the curio had gone, with a taped note on the ramp-rail behind it that the Atlas Obscura went "walkie bye bye." I didn't have a camera on hand to post proof, and the CO posted "Geocaching Rule #2847: finder's inability to find the cache did not necessitate any work on the Cache Owner's part." The curio was a pop/soda machine, about 1.85 metres tall, so hardly concealed or tricky to find. I'd seen it and used it for years prior to it being used as a geocache location.

I've seen two of these, and logged one, but want to know how to create one perfectly. I have a willing geocaching partner in another area and a theme in mind, I'm using this post to "think aloud" and ask for suggestions and constructive critiques. She'd create a companion/complementary multi for her city too, I gather. Our WP1 or starting coordinates would contain offsets or coordinates to give to the finder's 'remote partner', or some trivia question about the remote location that gives the numbers needed for the offset. The remote partner would go to WP2 to find the offset or coordinates to help the local cacher to get to WP3. Repeat for n number of waypoints until completion, Is that the basic procedure or recipe for success? One logistics complication is my remote partner for creating this is on an island that has "real" (i.e. snow for months) winter, and I'm where winter usually is one to six snowfalls that last for less than a day. Another is, as one'd expect from the first complication, the matter of population in the remote community. The cachers there would likely be approached more than once by my local cachers, but would receive a smiley for their location's multi only once. In that case, is the optimal solution for contacting us, the cache owners and devisers for coordinates as a last resort, or should we raise the difficulty and/or terrain as recognition that these caches have limitations and restrictions?

Small is beautiful. We attended a local event that attracted four people, excluding the host (an official Lackey). My husband was attracted by the theme of the event, had a terrific time. I created an event cache whose theme is at least partly about my love for the venue's refreshment offerings; I have bad luck with the available dates (I have to drive 120 km to the event). I'm telling myself that the venue space cannot hold a large number of people. If my family are the only ones who show up, at least we're going to have terrific food and drink. I'm now wondering what happens if nobody attends an event cache. Has that happened?

: Specific steps to reproduce the bug. 1. Have Premium Membership account. 2. Open Firefox Browser. 3. Log in to Account. 4. Go to https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC80A77_scrabble-dabble-3-elements 5. Work out solution. 6. Enter solution in solution checker input box, replacing digits and keeping notation format. Observe 'real estate gap' between input field and chck solution 7. Click 'Check Solution' green button below input field. 8. 'Recaptcha validation failed' (Source: Lines 1828-1831) if (!response.Verified) { textResult.text("Recaptcha validation failed."); $('#recaptcha-br').show(); $('.g-recaptcha').show();) Operating System. Linux Mint 18.3, 64-bit Browser and version number. Firefox Quantum 63.0 Does it happen in other browsers on your computer? Unable to reproduce error on Chromium. Will add later if this happens with Vivaldi; Firefox is most commonly used. GC code if the bug occurred on a cache page GC80A77 Additional information that can help. See above line excerpt from page source) https://screenshots.firefox.com/JhnG8KJlIcHu0zTj/www.geocaching.com

Aren't we lucky! A shorter drive to GIFF for you, if you're attending in November. What's that large thing in the background of your avatar photo?

Hello everyone! My name's Christina and I live in Seattle, Washington, Cascadia. I'm trying to remember how I got into geocaching, I like scavenger hunts and puzzles, love exploring urban environments and park trails, I was probably keen to keep the GPS joy going after participating in an annual "Greenwood Gumshoe" event in August. My favorite cache container so far is a birdhouse, and my favorite GZ so far is the one with a park overlooking the sound, with a view of the Olympic Mountains.

1. I ENJOY MOST that I live in the same city as GCHQ (not the UK intelligence community, I shouldn't have to explain that here) so LOTS of caches where I live, and 2. I ENJOY SECONDMOST that it's easy for me to meet people who've logged a five-digit number of geocaches on my first Geocachers Association attendance. 3. I ENJOY THIRDMOST the mental health and well-being of getting some exercise exploring parks and open spaces close to me. Even when it's cooler outside. A special plus is getting a view of the mountains and water in one GZ. 4. I ENJOY the variety of containers and the cleverness of how some are concealed. 5. I ENJOY it when an observer watches me and gestures "getting warmer", "no you're getting colder." I happened upon two young gents smoking pot in one park and said "sorry to bother you, I'm looking for something" and they said "yeah, go to the other park entrance and follow that trail." I am a newbie, and am not yet so much into the stealth. At some point one of those top five will be ENJOYing a group excursion, I hope.