Hi-5ers

I can see the leaderboard but it tells me nothing about the souvenirs.

Similar complaint here. I can find the Leaderboard at https://www.geocaching.com/play/leaderboard but on that page there is the phrase "Search for Reach the Peak on the official Geocaching Blog to learn more." Surely there should be a link here - this is how the internet is meant to work! So, I have to use Google to find the Geocaching blog, or guess to click "Community" at the top of the page. Once I find the blog, I search for "Reach the Peak" and the first link is to an article which tells me to subscribe to the newsletter to find out about the points structure. Again, surely a link to the correct blog entry would be more useful? The second link in the search results is the same as the first, but in Spanish this time, again with no link to the blog entry I want. The third is in German (again no useful link) and finally I find the article I want in fourth position. It's a great idea but can the communication be improved with a few links, please?

Many thanks for this info. No way of doing it through geocaching.com though?

Apologies if this has been asked before... In Pocket Queries (or by some other means) is it possible to search for caches PUBLISHED during the past week/month/year rather than PLACED? The reason stems from us trying to find all the "Church Micro" caches in Bedfordshire, UK. We had a list of all caches in the series and created a weekly Pocket Query to show us all new caches placed in the last month in Bedfordshire. We could then see if any new caches in the series are hidden in Bedfordshire. However, at one point we thought we had reached our goal of finding all the caches in the series Bedfordshire, only to find that others had been published which had not shown up in our Pocket Query. We worked out that these additional caches had been "placed" a long time before being "published". As a result, when they were published they did not show up in our Pocket Query because they had been "placed" more than a month before. An example is https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC7W7N1 which was placed on 15/Aug/2018 but published on 16/Apr/2019. Many thanks for any ideas about how we can keep track of newly published rather than newly placed caches.

I had a play with it, but reverted to Firefox. The reason? No print preview (yet) in Google Chrome (that I could find).

Thanks for the update - it is good to know that TPTB are aware and there are plans to fix it. We can now be patient and wait for the fix or another update.

Please can someone give some definitive answer about this (or at least a link to a thread where an answer exists)? If there is a technical problem then please let us know about it and we can all sympathise with the people that are trying to fix it, and 99.9% of people will be patient. However at the moment it sounds like a problem that nobody is trying to fix which I am sure is not the case.

Sorry if this is being covered elsewhere, but I am certainly not getting automatic notifications when one of our TBs is "placed". I appear to be getting "retrieved" logs and have also recently received a "note" log, but have not got "placed" logs for a while. Anyone got any ideas?

I know that some time ago, someone had put together some clever website/gadget/something which showed a map of caches that contained a TB and where the cache had not been visited for ages. I feel like I might want to do some TBs a favour and deliberately visit caches to rescue them, but can't for the life of me remember how to find this map-thing. Many thanks, Hi-5ers

One key question is "how many "finds" have the 5 caches you have hidden obtained"? If this number is more than the number of finds you have yourself then you are a net contributor to geocaching. If this number is less than the number of finds you have yourself then you are a net recipient. Consider Alan, Betty and Charlie. If Alan and Betty each set 5 caches and Charlie only sets one, then there are 11 caches out there. If they all go and find each other's caches then Alan and Betty have 6 finds each and Charlie has 10 finds. Alan and Betty have each had two people find their 5 caches and thus have 10 finds for their caches. They have each found 6 and set up caches that have contributed 10 finds. Charlie's single cache has had 2 finds, but he/she has gone and found 10 caches. Of course, this should never be more than an indicator. The quality of the caches you have set in terms of enjoyment for others is a major factor that the above calculations cannot take into account. Nor does the above take into account your own ability to hide caches or if you find loads because your job takes you all over the country (and can therefore maintain fewer of your own caches properly), etc. Also, of course if some people set up loads of caches and make themselves into net contributors, then this forces others to be net recipients!

Just to add my 2p-worth, I would suggest that you make it clear on the cache's page that it will take more than one visit to complete the cache. You might get some disgruntled cachers who have gone out to get the cache and only then discover half way through that they can't finish it that day.

Does anyone out there know anyone who might sign themselves "Chaz & Mary" in a micro's log book? We ask because a TB went missing from our "Bidlake Cash Cache" (GCVKK5), and looking at the written log book, there is one entry between ours when we dropped off the TB and one by another cacher who said the TB wasn't there. It appears to read "Chaz & Mary", and was made on 25th February 2007. There has been no entry made on the cache's web page, and there appears to be no geocacher with "Chaz and Mary" as a name. The Hi-5ers' Detective Agency thank you for your assistance...

Well I am a setter who would like to see 3 DNF's before I go to maintain unless the finders contact me off cache page and I can confirm it's gone. Remember, a DNF doesn't mean it's not there. It means the cachers couldn't find it! I do understand what you mean though. If one of our caches gets a couple of DNFs, we try and visit because the DNFs logged probably put others off trying to find it. When we visit and find all is OK, it's good in some ways, but also frustrating ... particularly when you get completely soaked to the skin finding the cache is exactly where it should be!

We spent a long weekend in Barcelona at Easter and did Castell de Montjuic and Parc Guell. Both were excellent. The Castell de Montjuic took us along great paths with views of the docks, and Parc Guell was great as it took us to various Gaudi-related architecture places we would not otherwise have found.

We have done this cache (Curious Beds 4) in the past (actually after Nellies Knackers - we found the necessary info elsewhere, but think that the board itself was later put back in position anyway). Now we have the unusual situation where our profile says we have found 129 caches, but when you list them, it says 128! At least we haven't completely lost the cache from our count.

When I get sent e-mail notifications of new caches published within 25 miles, I get details of the cache name and links, etc., but not WHO has hidden it. Some cachers have reputations for setting very good caches, and if I saw one of theirs that was 25 miles away, I would be more interested in it than one hidden by someone I had not heard of before. Is there any chance of getting the cache owner info sent out as well?

Are there any geocaching rules about whether or not caches are allowed to be hidden in graveyards? Perhaps we are being more sensitive about this than other cachers, but it does not seem very appropriate to us for caches to be placed in graveyards. We are not talking about getting the odd number off an old gravestone (that could be another topic), but this is where the actual cache (micro or otherwise) is hidden in the graveyard itself. Today, we tried to do a cache (it appears to have been muggled) that was meant to be a micro at the base of a tree right in the middle of a graveyard, in amongst the graves. We felt rather uneasy searching, and were puzzled why someone had hidden it there when there was a public footpath down the side of the graveyard where it could easily have been hidden. We look forward to hearing views.

FTFs on puzzle caches have got to be the most satisfying!

We have set a puzzle cache that we are quite proud of (<snip>), but have also recently set another, traditional, cache not far away (<snip>) that contains a clue as to how to solve the puzzle cache. This gives people who want to do the puzzle the chance to do it without help, and also gives help to those that need or want it. Edited by Lactodorum to remove inadvertant cache advertising