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One that might have been a favorite (if I had completed it) was a multi-cache that started at a public phone booth outside a nature center. You had to call a toll-free number that would recognize that phone number and respond with the coordinates of the final. Unfortunately, the final was 20+ miles away, and I never did get around to finding it.

I resemble that remark...

I once found a cache that was hidden in front of the local police station, placed by an officer who was also a geocacher. And I've been asked whether I need help by a few park rangers, and by a couple private security guards. Apparently, I look more like someone who might need help than someone who might cause trouble.

FWIW, that doesn't sound like a D5 cache to me.

I visited a GPS Maze years ago. It was definitely interesting and worth the short side-trip on our family vacation. The icon was purely secondary.

Well, for a numbers trail of T5 caches, all you have to do is hide dozens of caches in a location that requires "specialized equipment" to access. The location is still T5 even when there are dozens of caches there. For the OP's numbers trail of D5 caches, it could be a series of puzzle caches that require "specialized knowledge, skills, tools, or significant effort" to solve the puzzles (from the comfort of your home), with the caches themselves being easy finds about 528ft/161m apart. Or the caches themselves could require "specialized tools" to access, but they all require the same tools, and are relatively quick and easy for someone with the necessary tools. My experience with both difficulty and terrain is that 5-star caches are usually a lot easier than 4-star caches. A 4-star cache is difficult, and there is no equipment/tool that will make it significantly easier. Most 5-star caches require the appropriate equipment/tool, but if you have that, then they're relatively easy.

And the problem goes away if you wait until you qualify for a challenge cache before you sign its log. Just sayin'...

Thanks. This makes more sense: "From June 20-22, 2025, find and log any geocache, Event, or Adventure Lab® Location to earn your June solstice souvenir." My guess is that there will be at least one event around here that weekend...

I might create a separate account for Adventure Labs, and actually give one a try. But probably not.

I've never had as much trouble with micro/nano logs as some people seem to have, but I have occasionally used the tweezers built into my Leatherman Micra, which is part of my EDC.

Have you tried pasting text with the "Paste and Match Style" function, or the "Paste Without Formatting" function, or whatever your system calls it? Basically, instead of pasting with formatting, you can paste plain text.

I really don't geocache that way. I tend to go places, and then find a few geocaches while I'm there. And right now, the places I'd like to go aren't geocaching destinations, but places where people I haven't seen in a long time live.

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How about cookies? Have you accepted all cookies for geocaching.com. The site likes to pretend that it is possible to accept only essential cookies, or something like that. But it often breaks if you don't accept all cookies.

Anything other than Oh, wait, that's an attribute, not a type...

I first used niraD werGcM as a nom de plume in high school, when I wrote a paper styled after Horace Miner's "Body Ritual among the Nacirema". For the record, I pronounce niraD as "NEAR-add", and the similarity to the Indian name Nirad is entirely coincidental.

While scouting hide locations early in my geocaching career, I found a magnetic keyholder. I used the names and dates in the logs to identify the cache listing. Someone had "hidden it better", then the CO couldn't find it and assumed it had been muggled again, and then the CO had archived it. I contacted the CO and returned the container.

I specifically avoid using the term "treasure hunt" when I describe geocaching. I prefer terms like "scavenger hunt" or "hide and seek" that don't imply that geocaches contain anything with any real (monetary) value.

I know someone who was STF for a wilderness multicache. As I recall, FTF had taken a couple years, and then she was STF a few years after that. The cache required a 3-day backpacking trip: one day to get to the cache area, one day to do the cache, and one day to return to the trailhead. As I recall, one of the stages had been compromised, but she was able to work out where the final had to be without it.

I would love to find another multi-stage puzzle night cache like Initiation: difficulty 4, terrain 4.5, field puzzle, flashlight required, UV light required, tree climbing required, and intended to be found by a team of people working together for a couple hours or so. The park closed at 10pm, and the first stage was a series of reflective trail markers, so it was hard to complete in a single trip during the summer (sunset at 8:30, full dark at 9:00).

I have been known to trip over a regular size cache that was sitting out in the open. Context: I was with a group of 8 or 10 people, and we were using the "Huckle Buckle Beanstalk" method so everyone had a chance to spot the cache before anyone else spoiled the hide. We were searching for a regular size cache with a low difficulty rating, and I was the last one to spot the cache. The others had started giving "warmer" and "colder" hints to direct me towards the cache location. I found the container by tripping over it. It was painted in a camo pattern, but sitting out in the open.

Technically, the didn't require teamwork; that was just the recommended approach. Before I carried a computer in my pocket, I found a few webcam caches on my own by setting up my PC to save webcam photos, then going to the webcam location, then sorting through the saved photos to submit the best one.

It looks exactly the same on your profile when I look. I did a little experimenting, and it looks like your profile image is a 50x50 image. On the forums, profile images are displayed as 150x150, so a 50px black border is added to your 50x50 image. On profile pages, profile images are displayed as 250x250, so a 100px black border is added to your 50x50 image.

I recall the description of terrain types including a reference to a climb where you needed to use your hands at one of the higher terrain levels. That made it clear that a cache that requires tree climbing is higher terrain. But that changed when they added descriptions for the half-star ratings. Still, T2 requires "no significant elevation change" which should eliminate any tree climbing. The "small elevation changes" for T2.5 could conceivably include a small climb, except that T3 specifies "too difficult to ride a bike due to elevation changes" which I would think includes every tree climbing cache. And most tree climbs would match "widely variable terrain" (T3.5) or "significant... elevation changes" (T4) or "potentially hazardous terrain" (T4.5). And of course, if climbing gear is required, that's T5. Assuming that seekers are supposed to climb up to where the cache is hidden, of course.

Again, what was the difficulty rating? I've found T1 D5 elevated caches where CO expected cachers to use a tool to retrieve and replace the cache. The paved surface at GZ was wheelchair accessible, and a wheelchair user with the appropriate tool (D5) could retrieve and replace the elevated cache just like anyone else.