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One of the few large-size caches I've found was a plastic footlocker lowered into a hollow stump. The trail passed on the uphill side of the stump, and the top of the stump was about even with the trail. It was pretty easy to walk over to the stump, reach down, and lift the cache out.

And aren't events about socializing with other geocachers. It irks me when people show up, sign the event log, and leave. Dashing off to find the caches hidden for the event is just one variation of that.

I have friends who are lawyers. Not all lawyers are created equal. But yeah, the ones that demand idiotic "you clicked a link" popups when the user clicks a link are right down there with the marketing types who demand similar usability nightmares.

Where did this expectation come from? Do geocachers really think they can contact the CO and get answers to questions immediately?

Dear Groundspeak, The fact that users are going to the effort to create/use third-party scripts to fix the UI of your website should be a lesson in what you should fix, not a challenge to thwart their efforts. Consider it free usability testing, showing you what changes should be made to your website.

Has the system ever allowed the CO to provide an explanation when deleting a log? I know the system allows the CO to provide an explanation when deleting an image, and I know we've asked for a similar functionality when deleting a log, but I didn't think that functionality had ever been implemented.

I'm still trying to wrap my head around this one...

Because it's your 54th birthday?

Canned worms? Yuck! The only way to eat them is when they're very fresh...

Yeah, I think quad challenges and DeLorme challenges make a lot more sense (being based on the qualifying caches' locations) than some of the allowed challenges that are based on trivia like publication dates, difficulty/terrain ratings, etc.

With apologies to William Goldman (author of The Princess Bride): Life is unfair, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.

We...don't do that here. That's not so much unholy as heretic. We don't talk about Mm-mm, no, no, no! We don't talk about Mm-mm! Grew to live in fear of Mm-mm being mentioned here Newbies post, thread is toast, moderators near I associate Mm-mm with the sound of locking threads (click, click, click) ...

Yes, there was a time when the volunteer reviewers would ask a CO to merge a series of related traditional caches into a single multi-cache. They haven't been encouraged/allowed to do that for years.

The challenge caches that I've actively worked on the most have been this type of challenge cache. Of course, I didn't qualify for either before we moved out of the area, so I probably won't log either at this point. I did get a one-year streak challenge cache, but I was already almost done with a one-year streak when I checked to see whether it would qualify me for any nearby challenge caches. Although I did save a bunch of puzzle finals for the last month of my one-year streak, so I could qualify for a "puzzling month" streak challenge cache. But that really wasn't that much extra work, compared to the streak itself.

While the reflectors are not listed as stages (an exception to the general rule, as Keystone noted), the location where you look for the first reflector is indeed listed as the first stage. Thus, a standard trail of reflectors has two stages: the first stage where you start, and the final container. So any T5 cache (and many D5 caches) should be listed as mystery/puzzle caches because they require tools of some sort? Really?

One of my favorite night caches was very clearly a mystery/puzzle cache. It involved a reflector trail, markings with fluorescent paint that required a UV light, physical puzzles, etc. But yeah, the basic reflector trail style of night cache seems more like a multi-cache, since there's no puzzle to solve: just go to the start of the trail and follow the reflectors to the cache.

And apparently, Ms Maddy didn't find it either (because it's an elevated cache designed to be retrieved with a special tool).

Before we left California, I was working on the Bay Area Quadrangle Challenge. Unfortunately, it (and any other quadrangle challenges) are grandfathered. The current guidelines prohibit "Challenges based on geographic areas other than countries, states/provinces, counties (or their local equivalent). Examples: user-defined mapping polygons, latitude/longitude, radius, etc."

Yes, a better analogy would be the way Geocaching Challenges (not to be confused with challenge caches) were retired.

So give us your definition of a cache and we might or might not agree, but at the moment I don't... How about: cache - A newbie can pull up the listing and find something right now. event - A newbie can pull up the listing and meet other geocachers at some point in the future.

The CHIRP-based caches that I've found have avoided the "special equipment" issue by putting the chirp and a slip of laminated paper in the same container. Seekers can use the CHIRP data if they want, or they can simply find the hidden container and get the same info from the slip of laminated paper. Not having a CHIRP-capable device at the time, I found the container and used the slip of laminated paper.