kunarion

It seems to have been almost exclusively signed by muggles, with the possible exception of "4S" (if that's what it is) and "Bowmanfam". Maybe someone from the area knows Bowmanfam or can identify who signs with the stylized "4S". I even saw someone with a cachername that starts with "4S" who found caches in the same area. It's not panning out, but it would be a longshot anyway.

Whoever made the Missing log deleted the Missing log.

You didn't say what folder you placed them on the Etrex. You must place the GPX files into the folder Garmin/GPX.

Can you provide an example of the steps you take that cause the error? There were previously a couple of different but similar errors which now seem to me to be fixed. I tried a few links in Brave, Chrome and Edge.

You could search by coordinates of a place, or use a cache as a central point, and reduce the search radius to just the park. But as mentioned, you may instead place some nice, big boxes in creative ways in whatever park you like. Then you know they're all available, in good condition, and contain fun things (whatever you want to put in them). Plus, there's no saturation restriction, so you can place a bunch, with no concerns about cache longevity. Give everyone a paper map of the hiding spots. You can include puzzles and clues to make them trickier. Pick up everything after the hunt.

+1 My caches that are stuck to structures and in popular spots are designed to look like "box o' fun", and less like "military camo mystery device". To do that, it doesn't need to be "clear". But consider the location, and if someone stumbles upon it, what their likely first impression may be. Some of mine are designed to blend in, to be not visible at all.

When you ask a question, please read the replies. It seems like you're doing rapid-fire interrogations, and ignoring the answers. But I've found that semi-transparent or clear lock-n-locks are available in a selection of sizes, and are less expensive than the opaque version. So clear is better.

Here's a thread where I've posted pictures of my custom Swag. Are you crafty or can you use a paint pen and draw cool little things you think people will like? If so, find objects that are small enough to fit most cache containers that Swag is in, and paint stuff. Waterproof or weatherproof materials are good. And if you get them inexpensively or free, even better. Even if you are artistic, you may have little items that you collect, and place those. Or clip your findings together to create a theme. Add that and a little note tag in a tiny ziplock bag, and maybe tell what the item is in case people don't know. For example, I have a lot of little fossils and sea-polished agates, but they're not gem quality, they're Swag quality. I may include information on what it is (because it looks like a "rock"). It's fun to discover Swag placed by cachers I've heard of, I think that's pretty cool. Do you have access to a machine or tool that you could make cool trinkets with? For example, I have a pin button machine, circle cutter, and a bahzillion parts to make buttons. Whenever I think of some button that I'd like to place as Swag, I can make some super fast. Consider serializing your items, number them. Totally optional. But I do that on a lot of my Signtature Item series because I noticed that Geocachers kinda love numbers.

When I was new to Geocaching, I quickly learned not to use the word "first" any context in my online logs. The power users found a new cache, then I logged that this was the first cache I hunted today. Almost got my head bit off for posting that. Even now, even in the case of finding it before everyone else finds it (we often see the insistance that "there is no such thing"), I may log the time of the find, the blank log, etc. So, yeah, the "thanks for FTF" log is then still available.

I have a bunch of 50ml centrifuge vials (comparable in size to bottle preforms), and glued a long flat magnet to mine. Then I covered the magnet with my cache label and a themed vinyl sticker, for extra magnet security. It sticks to the metal post behind an information sign, where it's out of view. I have a small lock-n-lock that has a big old-fashioned hard drive magnet glued inside the box. It sticks to its guard rail nicely. And I found two sizes of waterproof key holders which come with integral magnets and even a magnetic mount pad. One of mine magnetically sticks to a wooden fence post, using the mount pad. But they're expensive for such a tiny container. Those caches have worked pretty well. An advantage of a magnet cache is you can design it so that it's simple for finders to return the container exactly to its hiding spot.

That kind is easy to avoid. If I do find an unexpectedly soaked log sheet, never previously mentioned, I dry the log sheet enough to sign it. But you won't find mine like that. I know which of my caches are high-maintenance (mostly the Micros), and if they're in bad shape, I don't inflict them upon Finders. "Disable" is an option to Cache Owners.

Even more often, there would routinely be Find logs like "TFTC! Code Word GX7852". So I'd have to go change the Code Word in my cache, and now there are old and new Code Words to sort out. All because of gross Micros full of mashed up spitwad log paper that no Owner maintains, and Finders who perpetuate them.

For TBs that are not for other cachers to move cache to cache, the Reference Number (shown in the upper right corner of a trackable item's page) may work just fine on a car decal, or especially on a T-shirt that might appear in a group photo. Persons finding that number can't mess around with its TB logs the way they can with a Tracking Code. And there are no tricky settings. Yet all the log options are available to the owner, who can do Visits or whatever. The log available to others is "Note", so they don't accrue Stats from it, but worse case scenario, you can tell someone the Tracking Code at times. I started that plan with my car TB, although diligent persons can obtain the Tracking Code. And I've already done it on T-shirts. I'm considering it for my hand-crafted bamboo hiking sticks. Just an idea.

In that case, a Code Word is definitely out. But the OP was created due to "scraps of crumpled paper or wet paper or full paper in caches". The code word is "Needs Maintenance".

+1 For a car, don't buy the reflective kind where the lettering is bordered by the reflective material. I was stopped at an intersection and the car in front of me had that sticker, and the numbers were washed out by my car headlights. I couldn't read it. The Tracking Code is a mix of 6 letters and numbers. The Reference Number doesn't allow all the log options, and typically starts with "TB". I have the latter for my car TB, because the Tracking Code is hidden (the idea is that you find it). But the commercial decals and stickers have a Tracking Code.

Pocket Queries available for download appear on your Pocket Query page once generated. The download can be deleted from that web page, but that's because the idea is you generate a Pocket Query due to wanting to have the Pocket Query, plus the ZIP file may be saved from the web page. It remains in the App because that's one of the few generated PQ files you are allowed per day, and it's good to err on the side of keeping it available. Otherwise, the Forum posts would be more often about "I deleted everything, and now I can't generate another one today". Are you sure you didn't delete the download from the web page? If not, and if it seems to still not appear, that's kind of the opposite of the OP, which was about wanting to delete them all and not being able to. So for that other point, you should start Topic in that case, or post in the previous Topics where downloads seem to not be available.

In The Official App, Pocket Queries are handled a little differently than Lists. But they all show up in the "Lists" section. You can quickly identify a Pocket Query because it will show "Last Generated". Lists show as "Last Modified". Lists can be deleted. Pocket Queries that you generate are available for 7 days. And they automatically vanish from the App once expired, if not generated again.

I'd say to at least make a Note log. Consider adding the info to the cache Description somewhere. Just to clear up any confusion by people who found it already. As for changing the cache name, edit the cache page as usual, type the new cache name, and save it. Done! Here I added an exclamation point to my cache name. Worked fine:

OK, I found it! Thanks!

The Note Log capability has vanished from https://coord.info/GCAJ7ZF, and at least one other Event that I checked. It's still available within the App, and on other cache types.

I still own two phones that have battery compartments, the only reason the phone is still alive. My awesome HTC phone is dead for sure because the factory-installed battery has no 3rd-party replacement, the factory replacement batteries are as old as the phone, and they're impossible to find. Also, no, dead phones are not accurate, in case anyone asks. So if you hear of some cool new solar-powered handheld GPS, be sure it can accept ordinary batteries, or it's yet another brick in 5 years.

When you say "accurate", do you mean compared to a surveyed point? Because for Geocaching we mean "precision" instead, where you are consistently guided to the same point. If I "put the GPS away when I'm close, and start looking", than it's more important to know how Geocaching works than to have an "accurate" device. But we use the term "accurate" when saying "close enough to the posted coords to find caches". Phones are as accurate as a handheld GPS, if you keep buying phones until you buy one that is as accurate as a GPS. Once you get phones, you keep buying phones anyway, because last year's phone doesn't run anything. You keep getting Apps, too, because the old Apps don't run. And there's constantly an "update" of this and that. Better keep up. My iPhone 8 will wander 300 feet or more (unaddressed issue). Sure, there are times when it's as accurate as a GPS. So if I say that phones are as accurate as a GPS, I said it on a good day. My Samsung S22 map will invert and then roll left and right a little (unaddressed issue) when it's in the car phone dock. It's as accurate as a GPS unless you're talking about bearing, in which case it's 180 degrees out from accurate. Everyone else (except for all the persons who posted in the Forum about their inaccurate phone) says that phones are just as accurate, just try this setting and that setting, just get it updated, just try another App. Still doesn't work? Why not just buy another phone. And now try more phones. But phones are not only not designed to be accurate, they're designed for communication. Just go look how long the linked problems have existed, many can't be fixed, ever. If issues such as I see on my phones occur on a Garmin GPS, Garmin works on those issues for me. Because a handheld GPS is designed to be accurate.

I brought my little match tube to the city Welcome Center in my town, in person, to ask if I could place it in the small city park. They were all very excited about the idea! Way more excitement than I expected a match tube to create. I strapped it to a tree limb, and it worked well until 6 months later when landscapers cut that limb off. I previously went in person to the county parks office with a map, pamphlet, and the cache container. No problem.

If I place one of my revived TBs, I'll definitely add a lot of info about which version is which. In case the original turns up.

HQ made its own Virtual Trackable and invited all comers. I have a personal Geocacher card made almost every year, and these have a Tracking Code. So I get a lot of Discover logs, most of which are like "I mass-Discovered a bah-zillion Cache Cards today, and yours is one of them!" ...yay? Anyway, lotsa people do that. But I'd need an exceptional reason to log the Virtual kind, GIFF or not. YMMV.