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One of my favorite challenge caches required finding benchmarks. In meeting the challenge, I found out how much fun the benchmarks were - no moldy logs, no cracking plastic, and in some cool places. I hope GCHQ will reconsider both the benchmark removal and the challenge cache archival. I'm also wondering how we will find the benchmarks associated with numerous puzzle caches if the "find closest benchmark" feature is gone.

Usually when things change, there is an option to use the older version - is that possible with the search results? If I search for caches in a state, Is there a way to get the distance to be from me rather than from the center of the state? That was the old way and I liked it a lot.

I enjoy adventure labs but I don't like that they are messing with my statistics. I care about my FFEDotY; I'm working on finds per day for pyramid challenges; and I am slowly working on having different icons on my milestone caches. My geocaching stats are now different from project-gc. I also don't like having my total numbers inflated. I'd like to see one cache counted for completing the adventure, as a fully functioning cache. Or, not count at all. I wonder if HQ is experimenting with having all caches have a location check on the logging? I would hate to have to use my phone for every cache. I prefer using my GPS.

Thanks all. Sounds like I need to upgrade the first edition that I just bought. I noticed there is a $6 upgrade book available.

I'm hoping for a hint on "Come And Knock On Our Door". Google gave me a reference to a popular book series. Without buying the books, I don't know if that is relevant. Looking up TV addresses seems like a google puzzle not a funny papers puzzle... any hints?

This is disappointing. For the past decade or so, I've started my day by looking at the geocaching state page. People drop trackables in interesting caches, trackables themselves are interesting. new caches pop up around the state. Events are listed that I may have forgotten about. Now HQ says I should just go look for the specific things I'm interested in? The point of looking at the state page was to see things that I wouldn't think to search for. I hope HQ will reconsider their decision to drop the state pages.