stijnhommes

Have you tried contacting the owners of those nearby caches? For them maintenance would be easy since they could do multiple caches in one maintenance run.

Yes, you can, assuming you attended. Make sure you write a nice log for the other attendees too.

Look at the checker on my puzzle cache from globalcaching.eu It allows you to check anything, not just coordinates.

I'm really confused. If there is no link, could it be the page has no checker? How can you click it without seeing an icon? Also, the numbers aren't supposed to upload, you have to type them in. If that fails to get a green light, there's nothing wrong with the checker: you will have entered the wrong numbers. If you have a technical issue with geochecker, you'd need to give a little more detail about the browser and extensions you are using and EXACTLY what you are trying to do and what happens afterwards.

You have several options: 1) Contact the person who placed the cache through their profile and ask them to move it. If they don't respond in a timely manner or fail to move it. 2) Contact Groundspeak directly on http://www.geocaching.com/contact/ or for a faster response, 3) go to the very first post in the logbook and use it to contact the reviewer who published the cache through the email on their profile. They should be able to sort it out. Is this cache a traditional cache (green icon), or some other one? If the first, you've most likely found the right listing. If not, we need a little more details to properly identify the cache owner or reviewer you want to contact.

With a premium account you can search the attributes of caches. So if a cache owner selects the attribute "kid friendly" that would be one way of filtering them. You could also try simply googling for the description...

Yes, some people are all about the numbers and won't be willing to get out of their way for just one cache. You're free to place a however far away from town as you like. Just make it fun and interesting to attract more visitors.

Ein Geocache in der Gegend werd Geocachers bringen die die geschützten Vögel stören. Es könnte möglich sein, aber man sollte wohl nicht vom Weg abkommen. Es gibt nur einen Weg, das herauszufinden: Bitte um Erlaubnis den Cache zu legen!

It appears from your description that you can log one of them without visiting the other one, but the one that requires a rock comparison should have an additional waypoint included.

Du gehst zum Profile von cache owner, und sende ihn eine Nachricht. Ein Foto einhangen ist moglich durch die Edit Funktion on the oben rechter Ecke.

If you have to find multiple caches for a challenge, the difficulty and terrain in doing so are already starred on those caches. I don't see why they should also be included in the challenge cache itself. The reviewer is making a lot of sense, but it would be nice if all the reviewers in the area agreed and it was not a solo action.

It shouldn't matter if the CO is active in this particular case. Based on that description, it sounds like the DNFers didn't look hard enough. One find should be enough to have these enabled again. If CO's need to check if a cache is still there after every 4 DNFs, the number of challenging hard caches will go down until everything is a nano on a street corner.

Geocaches have a "view logbook" link where you can select your own logs from the lot, but this option is also missing with trackables. I'm afraid I don't know an easy answer.

If you put a cache in the same tree as a letterbox, you're going to have at least one person, probably more, who doesn't read the description well enough (or not at all) leading to missing stamps and faulty logs in the letterbox. I would recommend against doing it. If you do it anyway, please coordinate with the letterbox owner so they can clearly mark their letterbox as NOT a geocache (while you label your cache as not a letterbox) to avoid any potential confusion.

I recently found a cache that was placed in honor of a particular cacher's work for the community. He made the FTF. I was second to find. As long as they've not been given the coordinates, I see no reason why they shouldn't get to go for the FTF. It's not like I made it easy for him...

Sad to hear. Let's hope this proves to be a lesson for other cachers and eventually saves some lives. Water can be a treacherous place. Only go in when you're well-prepared.

If you click the link "View logbook", you'll find a tab with all your friend's logs, so you can see if they found it and if they made any attempts that failed, assuming they log their DNFs too.

Reviewers often have additional information about the hide that regular cachers don't have. I find it weird if they make a find on a cache they publish - an FTF would be even weirder. I'd call it fishy. Not necessarily illegal, but it draws the fun from everyone else.

If your account names are similar, you might want to consider mentioning it in your comments to avoid confusion. I regularly cache together with other people, but I always write a comment of my own. Sometimes, it's longer, sometimes it's shorter than what the other people wrote, but it still has added value, since most of the time it's different.

Anonymous proxies are IP addresses people use to remain anonymous online. Could someone else in your home have changed the IP address used to get online? If not, you should go talk to your internet service provider, or perhaps sign out and back in.

Your local reviewer might have a different opinion, but over here, a cache was disabled and locked for all logs because it didn't have a logbook. Also, there is a pretty clear description on the support pages: http://www.geocaching.com/about/glossary.aspx#geocache

You're right to mention covered areas. With a little bit of tree cover, a GPS unit can get seriously confused about where exactly it is located causing the distance to jump around.

Yep, the minimum distance between two caches (of any kind) is 0.1 miles or 161 meters.

While I'm someone who dislikes a nano in a traffic sign and someone who would probably dislike LPC hides if I'd ever come to the US, I think there's a time and place for anything and a good CO can make an LPC hide exciting and fun. I'll reserve judgement until I see the final product. I wouldn't put a cache on my ignore list because it happens to be an LPC.

You can download coordinates to that unit, but pictures and listing information won't be downloaded (at least in my own experience). If you truly want to go paperless, you'd have to upgrade your unit. If you download your PQs to GSAK and send the coordinates to your GPS from there, at least the coordinates will be compatible.