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http://coord.info/GC5N6K2 There's some info in the archive log. There's ONE cache dating back to 2001. The remainder are recently placed powertrails.

If caches that you've already found have altered D/T ratings, then you'll see that change on your stats. I assume that's what happened here.

I'll second those who've said "no inkpad". Letterboxers carry their own, and rarely leave them in boxes. They dry out, or they get wet and make a terrible mess. Geocachers don't need to take your stamp impression, they're not carrying a book to save stamp impressions. If you leave stamp and ink pad, your logbook will be full of your own stamp impression. Geocachers should just sign it, like any other log. Re birdhouse, hang it, don't nail it. Re cache listing. It must have GPS use. Not parking coords plus story line. Be sure that at some point, you offer coords for a discrete location, necessary to the cache hunt. Cache at coords is fine for a Geocaching.com listing.

It's very large. I just went to a Lorem Ipsum generator, http://www.lipsum.com/feed/html asked for 5000 words and copied that into a cache description, no problem. Generated 54 paragraphs, 5000 words, 33862 characters. A better question is what is the reading limit of your potential searcher. Remember, they're outdoors, playing.

There is no maximum distance for multi-caches, other than the cache owner's ability to maintain. There are multi-caches that begin in the US and end in Europe, with maintenance plan for both parts. That said, I think the reviewer was generous here to permit these to be published as Multi-caches, and not Mysteries. As Mysteries, they violate the 2 mile limit between bogus and actual coords. There is something of a gray zone when using an off-set, and the reviewer clearly decided to let the cache owner have it their way.

Use the Help Center contact form, you want to request deletion of souvenirs, so use #6 http://support.Groundspeak.com/index.php?pg=request

"appeals" is the staff process to determine if a cache can be published. So appeals relating to "finder that get their smiley deleted" is zero.

It's been 2 days. You could just wait and let this happen. Instead of deciding that no response from the reviewer in such a short time frame = conflict. Sometimes reviewers take a few days off. Relax. Thanks

Appeals handles unpublished caches. The "breakdown of appeals..by finders having their logs deleted" would be zero.

After you enter the GC Code, you must click "Lookup" to the right of it After you enter the username, you must click "Go" to the right of it Then you must enter some text in the box, and THEN you can click "Send Adoption Request" I think that both of those buttons should read "Enter", and then this question about the grayed out "send" button would likely stop coming up.

I assume the cache info was released at the event that finders attended on April 11. The reviewer published it the next day.

A bit of nomenclature: on Geocaching.com a bookmark list that shows up on a cache page is shared and PUBLIC. So the list you saw on the cache page was a PUBLIC list. It shows on the cache page, and it appears on the profile of the list owner, under their lists tab. A bookmark list can be shared, but not PUBLIC. To see it, you need the specific URL of the list. It does not show up on the list owner's profile. This is a handy way to create lists that you only wish to share with friends, say a group of caches to find together. And no, there's no way to search for public bookmarks.

The planning map isn't showing hidden stages that might block, so I'd assume that you are being blocked by a Premium Member Only cache. BDark2755, put your proposed cache coordinates into Search, and from there, you'll see a list of caches, including the title of one that you're too near. The cache that's inside 528ft of your coords.

This topic went a bit sideways with discussion of this part of the challenge cache article, "If a geocacher is required to alter their caching style or habits, such as avoiding a particular geocache type to attain a specific percentage or average, the geocache will not be published." A challenge cache cannot be designed such that finding caches outside the challenge parameters damages your progress towards the challenge. Example: a challenge to find only Multis for one month. You can't attend an event or any find any other cache types for the entire month. Find X number of Multis in a month is fine, even though it might require unusual effort on your part (altering your habits - but that's the challenge); only Multis is not. Ratio challenges (example: average T rating of your finds greater than or = 2) can force cachers to stop logging caches at 1.5 or below. They're no longer published. To the OP, there are at least a couple of 1000 in a day challenges in the US. I wouldn't expect to see higher numbers any time soon, but who knows how the ease of finding more caches faster might develop in the future.

I still think this is confusion over cache permanence, per this statement by YBNORMAL@54 Early in his hiding career, he archived a short lived cache, and came back with a new hide in the same spot. Reviewer told him no, per cache permanence. YBNORMAL@54, if the caches that you've archived recently for your geo-art project were active for at least 3 months, then you can archive and place in the same location again immediately.

I speculate that the original poster placed a cache it was published. Then in less than 3 months, he archived the cache and submitted a new cache of the same type at the same coords. A reviewer likely tell him that if the location is viable, then the original cache should have been placed and maintained for 3 months, per the cache permanence guideline. http://www.geocaching.com/about/guidelines.aspx#permanence From time to time, a hider will place a cache and have it published, then in very short order have a new idea, archive the cache and submit a new one. =

Log on, click your username in the upper right corner of the page. That takes you to your "quickview" profile http://www.geocaching.com/my/default.aspx Along the top navigation bar, click Lists, it's the first item http://www.geocaching.com/my/lists.aspx On that page, on the right side at the second header Bookmark Lists there are 3 useful links. On the right side, Create New Bookmark List http://www.geocaching.com/bookmarks/edit.aspx Under that header, links to a how to screencast and webpage.

I looked at the first cache you logged, asked for nearby caches, ranked on last found...unfound events will always lead this list, then the other physical caches unfound. Limits to 50 miles (80km as noted by cezannne) http://www.geocaching.com/seek/nearest.aspx?lat=44.932000&lng=-96.046067&dist=100sortdir=asc&sort=lastfound Using "old search" (which is now linked in small white text on the right side of the search page) I asked for caches in Minnesota, ranked on date found (you click this twice to get the unfound to the top) With a whole state page, you often have to jump to page 4 or 5 to get beyond the events and recently published unfound. What you're looking for starts on the current page 4. http://www.geocaching.com/seek/nearest.aspx?state_id=24&ex=0&cFilter=9a79e6ce-3344-409c-bbe9-496530baf758&children=n&sortdir=asc&sort=lastfound

Hello AliJam - I strongly suggest that you delete your note, which includes a personal attack. Post an Owner Maintenance log for this, "have checked my cache it's still there". A few dnfs by a novice are simply going to drop off the page. Problem solved. I personally don't find any the logs offensive enough to delete as profanity, but if the last of them strikes you that way, you certainly can delete it.

When I was asked to "share my location" via browser, I said no, so the "Current Location" search doesn't load at all. I said no because my ISP originates quite far from my home, but yes, in Florida. Nonetheless, I expect that's my answer, thanks NYPaddleCacher.

I set my home coords to Dallas TX a few days ago. When I use Popular Searches, Home Coordinates, I get a list of Dallas TX caches, as expected. When I use Popular Searches, Top-Rated Geocaches in Your Region, I get a list of caches in Florida, distance 1000 miles? I can use filters to see Texas caches with more than 30 favorites, rank on favorites, but this is sure counter-intuitive.

I am not a moderator. I am a reviewer and I have editor privileges in some sections of the Help Center. My player account, Isonzo Karst, is regular forum poster. Some accounts were permanently banned from these forums. A day or so after I learned this, I realized how much more relaxed it made me in working in the Help Center. I'd reached the point of suggesting to staff that they make edits, instead of just handling it. I hadn't quite grasped that I'd lost my nerve for it, until going in to make a minor edit. It dawned on me that I could go ahead do the whole needed rewrite. It wasn't going to become the basis of 7 page forum thread, words being picked apart one by one, analyzed to death, with all manor of conspiracy theory about trying to force this or that on unsuspecting users. It's fine to complain about site changes, guideline issues. But everything you see on this site is the work of a person or persons, not a machine. The level of aggression by some posters is hard to stomach. ------------------ Pup Patrol, thank you. I often open threads and there you are, having answered questions, correctly, succinctly, nicely, with relevant links. ------------------ As jellis wrote above, "A few things I've noticed is bashing the OP". Yes, users get run out of these forums by those who quickly take the thread sidewise into other mildly relevant topics. Posting inside references, asides, and making the person who just wants to know HOW or has a question uncomfortable. Recently someone wanted to know how to make his PMO cache available to Basic Members. The first responding post was an attack on their premise. This is not unusual. Poster quickly asked to have the thread closed. I don't expect they'll ever come back.

I'm not quite sure what information you seek. Here's the Help Center article on Lab Caches in Statistics http://support.Groundspeak.com/index.php?pg=kb.page&id=558

Events in New Hampshire I went to the search page, https://www.geocaching.com/play/search clicked "add filters" on the filters page, I deselected all types, added back Events. In the Search Only In... pane, I started typing New Hampshire, and then selected United States: New Hampshire when that was offered. You could just bookmark this search. My understanding is that you can only select one location at this time, ie, you couldn't do a Events in New Hampshire and Maine

Re "creating pages with puzzles", which seems to be the core question, I'm not sure what the question is? the QR code resolves to a URL of a webpage, your puzzle resides there. Are you asking about html on a webpage? "creating pages", how to generate QR codes, how to create puzzles? where to host the page? the question is broad. I think you need to clarify what advice you seek. Speaking to design of the listing: as one listing, a single cache with 7 stages, this is a Mystery. You should check in advance with your reviewer about where the puzzles reside. It cannot be to a website that requires creating an account (often people try to use their Facebook accounts to host bits of puzzles, not realizing that viewing the page requires a Facebook login). What info may the host be gathering about visitors? these are guideline issues. You could start with a QR code on the cache page. Code resolves to webpage with puzzle, which when correctly solved, yields coords for the next QR code location. Repeat as needed, to the puzzle that yields coords for Final. As stages within a single cache, your QR codes have no lower distance limit; a practical lower limit is ~100ft. As a Mystery, they have an UPPER distance limit of 2 miles from posted coords. So your physical locations will need to be within a circle 2 miles radius from your chosen "bogus coords". QR code stickers are physical stages. I'd start with this practical real world issue myself, the locations for your cache. You've written about where it's NOT, but nothing about where it is. (The cacher in the field is interested in the journey - as in real estate, geocaching is about LOCATION.) You could create more than one listing, this opens up the real estate; each separate listing needs a final container with log. If you create multiple listings, you can add a "bonus" cache - one last listing, the large container, with coords for it hidden within the other music themed QR code puzzles, or the caches themselves. Various ways to do this. I see you own Mystery caches, so you probably don't need this info, but it confuses people often so I'll post it anyway - The cache report form will ask for FINAL first. Enter it, then your listing coords. Once you have 2 sets of coords, you can indicate the "first stage" as virtual and visible, and the final as physical and hidden. You can continue to add stages, each thereafter physical and hidden. The form will NOT let you save if any of the stages are more than 2 miles from your listing coords. edit speeling