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    Is it okay to cache during Covid-19

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    Here's my take:
    1. I practice what are known as universal precautions whenever I go caching. Assume that there are germs everywhere, including on the cache container, and don't touch your nose, eyes, or mouth until you wash your hands.
    2. The COVID-19 virus could be on a cache, so all you need to do is "Clean your hands with an alcohol-based hand rub or wash them with soap and water. Avoid touching your eyes, mouth, or nose." (WHO)
    3. Just a guess here, but touching items in a grocery store (or any store for that matter) carries a much higher risk of cross contamination due to the number and frequency of touches vs a cache container.
    4. Assuming one follows universal precautions, the only other way I can see caching as being dangerous would be to break the "6 foot rule". I don't think I need to explain this one, lol.
    So I plan on continuing caching, following these simple "rules." The great outdoors is the perfect place to be during a viral outbreak with its wide-open spaces and clean air! Happy trails my fellow cachers
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    Awesome Challenge Cache ideas wanted

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    On 1/1/2020 at 1:05 PM, The Leprechauns said:

    Yesterday I had the pleasure of finding 14 of geocat's challenge caches, including his new ones that resulted from this discussion.  What a great way to end a decade of geocaching!  Thank you to geocat for hiding most of the 18 caches we found yesterday.  As I wrote in one of my logs, it is challenge caches that keep me motivated to keep going out and finding more geocaches.

    Well, all I can say is thank you very much!  I love challenge caches too.  I hope others that are in the area stop by to find my hides.  They are all just south of Dayton, OH and right off I-75 so it's super easy to access them all!

    Awesome Challenge Cache ideas wanted

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    17 hours ago, The Leprechauns said:

     

    New "Bingo" challenges are still allowed.  The most important things to remember are that each individual square needs to be a qualifying challenge all on its own (so no trackables, no cache names, etc.) and that you must demonstrate that enough people in your area already qualify or are close to qualifying for the challenge (to prevent "look at all the quirky things that only I have done in combination" bingo challenges).

     

    Yes indeed.  I already had a new, more challenging "bingo" creation made.  I forgot about needing to have a checker.  So I would basically need a checker for each box on the bingo card.  Not happening.  

    Umm...huh?

    in How do I...?

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    May I ask how you learned about Geocaching?  If you heard it from a friend who has been, I would suggest having that friend take you out and show you how it's done.  If you found it on your own, I'd still read the pages referenced above but then go try it with a friend.  Two heads are better than one!  Good luck!

    Weird Activity

    in General geocaching topics

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    I keep receiving notifications in project-gc.com that I am both receiving a favorite point and that a favorite point is being removed simultaneously.  The user is listed as §OPTOUT§4095§ which seems like some sort of bot.  Can anyone explain why a bot would give and remove favorite points.  Why would it even "care"???

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    Hidden Creatures--questionable finds

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    On 8/15/2018 at 9:20 AM, Mudfrog said:

     

    The cheater got what he wanted,  the souvenir.

    All that cheating is a lot of work for a computer-generated image, lol.  I wonder what goes on in the cheater's mind.  I mean, I worked rather diligently to get my turtle, but the little souvenir doesn't really matter.  It is the fact that I accomplished the challenge set forth.  My mind is satisfied by completing the challenge.  I guess the cheater's mind might say something like, "I hope all my friends notice how I have this souvenir so they think I am really cool!"

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    Hider's Stats

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted · Edited by geocat_

    I am a bit of a numbers junkie thanks to some sort of OCD I may have.  I have fun as a CO looking at some of the statistics related to my hides and the finders of my hides.  So here are some of my favorites via https://project-gc.com/ 

     

    • Day with the most found logs received:

      2018-05-27, 1254 finds

    • Total favorite points received:

      3059 (11%) (I am especially proud of the 11% part)

    • Caching karma (#hides/#finds): 2.72 (32989/12149)

     

    So I'd be interested in some of your statistics as a CO!  Let's shine a light on our fun numbers!

    Hidden Creatures - progress thread

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    Went out caching for the first time since the promotion started.  While logging my finds, I was surprised at how many "You've earned a souvenir" notifications came up on my laptop.  Wound up with 9 of them today.  Fully expect to get them all.  It's kind of cool that they make it easy for the casual cacher to get rewarded too.   

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    Too Many Small and Micro Caches

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    On 6/3/2018 at 7:58 AM, barefootjeff said:

    Things are a bit different here. Of the 436 caches within 20km of home, the breakdown is:

    • 81 micro (18.6%)
    • 205 small (47.0%)
    • 119 regular (27.3%)
    • 10 large (2.3%)
    • 21 other (4.8%)

    The most common smalls and regulars are the Sistema range of plastic containers, with a fair number of metal ammo cans in the more remote locations. About half the "other" ones are earthcaches or virtuals.

    How/where did you generate those numbers?

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