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    Geocaching Confessions

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    8 hours ago, ecanderson said:

    I'd guess the majority won't be with you on this one.  It's the moral equivalent of insider trading (Insiderhandel to you) if one FTFs a cache based upon info from the CO or whomever prior to publication.

     

    There was an event a couple of years ago where one player  said that he was putting out a mini power trail.  No more than that, no location or anything else.

     

    One attendee went home, studied a local map, made a guess where the trail was going to be and headed out.  He managed to FTF every one of the trail a week before publication.

    The local FTF-hounds were not happy.

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    Challenge Suggestions?

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    On 1/30/2025 at 12:00 AM, Vooruit! said:

    I've got a couple of challenges I deem original myself. For some I even had to write a checker script.

     

    Graven in de sneeuw (GC98C8F) (translation: Digging in the snow). Requirement: find 10 caches in January and February with the 'Not available in winter' attribute.

    Skiën op het zand (GC9CF1B) (translation: Skiiing on the sand). Requirement: find 10 caches in July and August with at least one of the 'Snowmobiles', 'May require snowshoes' or 'May require cross country skis' attributes.

     

    These would be easier down-under, but then, getting to GZ is more difficult.

     

    Great ideas

    Challenge Suggestions?

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    On 2/11/2025 at 5:43 PM, Nite*Owls said:

    I really wish they'd allow cache title/name challenges again. I always love getting those. Like X number of caches with Blue in the title, Christmas, Bird, etc.

    And ones that require colors, numbers, animals, places in the name, etc. This would open a lot more fun challenges and some can be made with a checker. It would be great if they opened up more possibilities for challenge caches since they are pretty popular! Mostly what you see now are the same type of new challenge caches being recycled since they are so limited by the rules. This makes it a little less fun, when the goal should be to add more fun and different challenges!

    And what has been needed and wanted for a long time is for challenge caches to have their own icon. They are very different from the usual mystery/puzzle caches. I think it would also help with the confusion some newbies may have with challenge caches since they would be a separate type and could be explained better - I think it would make a lot more sense and is long overdue.

     

    I agree

     

    My favourite challenge was "Find a cache whose name begins with the letter A.  At least one day later find one beginning B.  Repeat until Z"

     

    I was up to about L or M when I found it and it was in Florida, so I had a hard deadline to complete the challenge.  Q and Z were tricky and there was only one X within 200Km of home and I attempted that on a trip to Sydney- and DNFed it!

     

    Fortunately a puzzle "X marks the spot" appeared near home and that one I found.   I completed the challenge and found the cache.

     

    It was definitely a geocaching achievement.

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    Lab cache find order

    in Playing Adventures

    Posted

    That isn't what I need

     

    I went to the Sydney Geoquest block party today and found a lot of lab caches but spread across a lot of adventures.  One from Adv1, then 2 from Adv2, one from Adv3 then two more from Adv2.  I want to keep my finds in  order, so I need the order regardless of adventure.

     

    These adventures were created today and I couldn't get them into my GPSr.

    Can a cache disappear?

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    I have a GSAK macro which triggers when I open a database which hasn't been updated for more than 30 days.

     

    I opened one database and it advised me that it hadn't been updated for 90 days, so I updated it.

     

    The next day the macro told me it hadn't been updated for 91 days.

     

    There was one cache which hadn't been updated in last run and, when I opened the  cache page I got a 404, page not found.

     

    How is this so?

    This is obviously some strange use of the word "new" that I wasn't previously aware of

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    I received the newsletter today and saw a link to "New geocaches near you", so I clicked it.  212 caches were listed.  Wow, I wouldn't have thought that!

     

    So I had a look.

     

    Of those only 6 were placed in the past 6 months and 25 were placed within the past 12 months.  66 were placed more than 10 years ago and 5 placed more than 20 years ago!

     

    What a waste of time.

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    My D/T chart is confusing

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    According to my D/T chart on my dashboard, I have one cache 3.5/3.0

     

    Checking my finds in GSAK I do not have any finds with that combination.

     

    How do I tell which cache  my stats think is 3.5/3.0 and how can I correct it?  Probably the rating has changed and I need to refresh GSAK.

    Release Notes (Adventure Lab®: Read to me) - January 24, 2024

    in Geocaching HQ communications

    Posted

    14 hours ago, HHL said:

    You could check it by just trying it out.

    Once I managed to move the map to the middle of the Pacific and find New Caledonia (Why isn't there a "move to location" feature?  Seems a much more useful feature than this speak to me) I did try it out.  It doesn't translate (which would be useful) and the French pronunciation (even to my schoolboy French ears) is horrible.

     

     

    Formatting logs into columns

    in How do I...?

    Posted

    Many challenge caches ask for a list of qualifying caches.  Is there a way to format this list into columns?

     

    Multiple spaces get compressed into one.  I can't see how to insert tabs, and I'm not sure that would work anyway.  There doesn't seem to be a markup language tag for this.

     

    Am I missing something, or just wasting my time?

    Thanks

     

    Tony

    What is this coordinate format?

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    I'm tackling a puzzle cache which has coordinates in a format unknown to me.  In order to not ask for the solution, I have changed some of the characters in the string, but the sequence of letters and numbers is correct.  The coordinate format is

     

    r1f83kt4p8nq

     

    This may not be a valid string, due to my changes, but does anyone have any idea how to convert this format to something more recognisable?

     

    Thanks

     

    Tony

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