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Stepped in the long grass while trying to find a park and grab on the side of a minor road when there was a pretty bad pain in my foot. Felt like some sort of sting and since I live in Australia, rushed to the doctors which was nearby to see the problem. Arrived and soon had the conclusions that it was probably some kind of sting insect but I would be fine, and all I had to deal with was some pain and swelling. Overall, not that bad... https://www.geocaching.com/seek/log.aspx?LUID=7981d79d-5ed0-4204-a239-237ed71a8a38 Another one that comes to mind was me disturbing a wasp nest next to an abandoned train track. Some others include: Lots of awkward stacks involving the bike on the way to caches Getting swooped by magpies at GZ ALMOST falling off the side of a rock face while trying to reach a cache Slipping while rock hopping to a island in the sea, falling into a separation in the rock and almost drowning as well as pulling a muscle Those are the ones that come to mind, never broken any bones and all of them were minor injuries

Tree climbing is dangerous, a fall from even 3m could be fatal if you land wrong. As stated previously, you need to know what you are doing. Find somebody who knows and learn from them. They will know all about how to use/get the equipment. Some hides out there (Melbourne has quite a couple nasty tree climbs) aren't for everyone and requires years of learning. Your safety is more important than a smiley face.

One of my favourite caches required a bicycle (or you had to be a literal speed DEMON) A T5 (special equipment required) Wherigo where you had to ride 16km (+100m of elevation) in less than 45 minutes, very enjoyable (https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC7HMF7)

I hide all sizes, but they are mostly micros for a couple of reasons. 1. Easier to hide, a ammo can won't last long in the middle of a city 2. Cost, you can get bison tubes for $1. Mind you, the one (and only) large cache I have hidden was a $3 20L water holding container I got at the Greenshed. 3. Attachment, you can attach micros and smalls a lot easier (bison and mega bison) with things like zipties or wire so they don't go missing. Larger caches require a bike lock or a chain if you want to attach them so they don't get muggled (important to keep in mind that larger containers are more expensive so more of a loss if they go missing). 4. Size, I can easily attach a bison tube to my bike for easy access if I find a spot I like, ammo cans, not so much. (I cache on a bike so lugging around a ammo can is a lot of effort) 5. Difficulty, some hiders want to make REALLY difficult caches, and a large isn't the best at hiding (on the flipside of this, a field puzzle in a regular or large is great fun)

I hide some terrain heavy caches, and none of them are 5km into the bush. If you were standing at the bottom of the tree, but the actual cache is 10m up the tree, can you count that as a find even if you were at the tree? No. For me, if my cache is more difficult or more physically challenging to get to and sign, I will be more likely to check the log and police it than if it was just a simple cache. It just isn't fair for all the people that put in the effort. I still police the easier ones, I just don't do it as often and I'm not as strict.

Same here! I'm very happy about that

Look on the bright side, extra cache container if you need it!

16, two are archived. Also I have one being reviewed.

There is a cache near me which involves crawling through storm water drains. There was a very serious warning to not attempt during rain, before or after.

https://www.geocachingtoolbox.com/ has a log sheet printer as well as some really useful tools for puzzle caches.

When I started I wanted to be a reviewer, to help people publish caches faster and to take the workload off the current reviewers. However trust me, being a reviewer is not easy. It isn't just reviewing the details of how the cache is hidden. It involves stuff about the location and whatnot.

I was meaning that the cache is near a river or a dam which would make it dangerous to attempt during or after rain.

One time I was looking for this D4 cache by a bridge and dropped my pen in the water. Then when I went to get it I saw the cache.

I have a AR where I live. Have not tried it though.

Ministro is a good guy. I have him too. I once placed a cache on what I thought was a electrical box and Ministro disabled it. I then asked him what the problem was and he kindly explained it to me. He is also currenlty taking over from Hersien so he has a lot to do.

A not available during rain/floods would be pretty handy. What about a attribute for LPC? Like maybe a bored emoji or something. But great list!

I almost always bring a pen during my caching journeys but for me it isn't BRINGING a pen. It's DROPPING a pen. I can't tell you how many times I have been geocaching in the bush then finding my pen had dropped out of my pocket

Try submitting a "Check Coordinates" The reviewer will analyse if it comes in contact with another.

There is one called chose your own adventure near me. You have the option to find GZ by either 1. Night Cache. 2. Chirp. 3. QR codes and 4. UV light. It is listed as a mystery but that might be because you have to solve a puzzle to find WP1.

Be patient, some caches take awhile to get published, the longest for me has been about 5 months from when it was placed because of the Covid Pandemic. They are volunteers who spend hours of there time improving the game. They can have massive lists of caches to review and older caches get reviewed first.

Try to go out for some FTFs most of the time quite a lot of cachers will be there to attempt to get it! I also agree that events are some of the best ways, either attend one or create one.

In my area I had this cache published which was one where you had to bring water and the reviewer asked me to change it to a mystery because you had to bring something, so you are probably right. If you don't know who WVTim is, apologies, but lots of his caches are very complex and most are traditional because they provide you with everything. That does make a lot of sense.

I am almost certain that it is a personal note on the cache page.

For me it is probably this new cache called Undercroft (GC91KBA). It is under this rather strange bridge and you have to extract a 3m long pole with a magnet on the end from the roof and then drag a magnetic geocache out of the other really long tube on the roof, so far it has a 100% favourite point rate!

I was just wondering what would the type be of a gadget cache? Because it is kind of a puzzle but what splits the traditional and the mystery if they are both at the original coordinates? So would it be a mystery cache or a traditional? I am mostly wondering this because I am about to put out a gadget cache.