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Apologies for the response in English, but my French is very poor. You own four geocaches that were archived by reviewers. Two of them now have active geocaches hidden within 161 meters, so it is not possible to reactivate those. While it is possible that a reviewer could un-archive GC4F35M or GC4T7DF, that is a question for your local reviewers and not for the forum. Since the locations are available, and since it has been so long since the caches were archived, I would recommend you submit new cache listings instead.

That sounds very similar to the U.S. Forest Service policy in effect for North Carolina, USA. Blanket permission is given for non-physical caches on those properties, so I don't require cachers to get it. If I was submitting a cache in such an area,* and a reviewer asked me to provide proof of landowner permission, I would politely remind the reviewer in question that the land manager's policy does not require it. *I don't publish my own caches. It's very important that I be held to the same standards as everyone else, so I submit 'em for review, and I fix whatever I'm told needs fixing.

Visit logs typically don't require a comment, so I presume you mean either "discovered" or "retrieved," which require comments. While you could just leave a space or a period, remember, there's a person on the other end of that trackable. Since the owners will get an email for all of these logs, it's nice when they have content worth reading. So you could put something nice, like this one that was just left on my trackable nametag: It lets me know where they saw it, and it contains a friendly message. Isn't that better than this?

I am listed among otherwise auspicious company. I'll try not to let it go to my head. Thanks!

I guess this leaves me with two questions: what's your real user name, and what's your issue with @GeoDesertTiger?

Some reviewers cover part of a state. Some cover an entire state. Some cover multiple states. For example, I review earthcaches from New Mexico all the way to Virginia. Sure. Reviewers are normally familiar with the territories they cover, but they don't have to be present in them to review an online listing. After all, I can't live in all 14 states I cover at once. I currently review from Virginia. This summer, I'll move to Texas and will review from there. But I've lived in six of the states I cover, and I've at least been to, if not traveled throughout, the rest. When I was tapped to be the earthcache reviewer for the southeastern US, I had just moved to Germany. I reviewed from there for a couple years until I moved back to the US.

If they were trackable, no, you shouldn't keep them, you should move them on. If not, treat them like other swag, trade up or even.

Moved to GPSr forum.

...or if you don't, then it won't.

It would not count a log change. Try copying your log text, then deleting the Found It log and logging it again. That should count it.

If you can provide a specific example, this might help the engineers address your issue.

p.s. There are some caches in Bhutan, just not many. 21 at most as of today, and at least a third appear to be tourist hides that have since gone missing.

Merged a duplicate topic.

And you did a GREAT job at this one, @Keystone. Well done! Permission may be an issue. I have no experience with Bhutan, though I long to visit. The other issue is going to be language. The earthcache guidelines require that a cache be in the local language, and while English is spoken there, the official language, Dzongkha, might be difficult to work with. Maybe ask the owner of this EC and see how they handled these issues?

This can happen at the beginning of a new souvenir campaign. The server is on UTC (aka Greenwich Mean Time), and the challenge starts at noon (12.00) UTC. If you logged your finds after 12.00 UTC, give it some time (a few hours), then refresh your leaderboard to see if the points have correctly calculated. If they have not, try contacting the Help Center. Or, if you logged.your finds prior to 12.00 UTC, you unfortunately logged them too early for this new.souvenir. The quickest solution is to delete your finds and re-log.

Just a reminder to please not seek specific puzzle solutions in the forums. I agree that contacting the owner should be the first resort, followed by contacting previous finders.

This recent bump has brought it to my attention that this is a request for an option, so, moving to the appropriate forum.

This seems to be more of a bug report than a general geocaching topic, so I'm moving it to the website bug forum.

p.s. As to this point: When I was in college, I only gained access to a fine automobile such as this one in my second year. During my first year, I rode a bicycle, which was much cheaper (and, as it turns out, more reliable) than the '86 Sentra.

For purposes of challenges, a "streak" is normally defined as a period of time during which a cacher actually goes out and finds and logs caches on consecutive days. That means, regardless of the weather, or illness, or helping out the kids with a science project, or the fact that the boss wants that report on their desk first thing Monday morning, the cacher is going out and finding caches, day after day. Think of it like the Postal Service creed, but slightly modified. Something like: "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these cachers from the swift completion of finding and logging their daily appointed cache." So, yes. Banking challenge caches, which you've both signed and are qualified to log, in order to "find" them on a particular day, would most definitely be against the spirit of a streak. I heartily agree.

I heard once that slipping @Keystone a little baksheesh can help speed the process, but it turns out this is only a baseless rumor.* *perhaps started by @Keystone himself.

@Geocaching HQ Admin will periodically sweep for unpublished listings and archive them after an extended period of inactivity (around 10 months). If a conflict comes up, and it's clear that an unpublished listing is taking up space but is not going to turn into an actual geocache, a reviewer might archive the listing prior to that. So, to answer your question (which you appear to have re-asked in another thread but perhaps meant to post here): Proper etiquette is that a cacher should not "reserve" a spot with an unpublished listing for more than three months. If a cacher forgets, the listing is normally archived automatically after ten months of inactivity. (Since these two threads have now been confused, I'm going to go ahead and merge this one into that one.)

I agree with you both that my initial comment was overly broad, and there are some situations in which a couch OM log would be apropos. I went back and edited it: I think that's a more accurate statement and addresses the situations you both brought up.

I got some results from searching Google for "who wants to be a supercacher" (in quotes). Initial results: Signal Bouncer DNF Duo Phantom Logger

It might also help your chances if you edit the cache descriptions, and/or put a note on the cache pages, letting folks know these are up for adoption. The regional forums don't get as much traffic as they used to.