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Change to Browse Geocaches (upper right corner) should get you all the caches visible, but I also see that it's not working. Example: https://www.geocaching.com/map/#?ll=43.76192,-79.36695&z=12

It's probably a Premium Member feature. I am not certain, though.

Well, I doubt it means finding a cache on the actual day and year it was published, unless it specifically states that. But you can check the other people's logs and see if that's the case. If it's asking you to find a cache on the same date, regardless of year, then look at your local caches and note the placed date. Find a cache on the same month/day as one of those caches were placed.

Going by your hidden cache, your area is Mesa, AZ. There are several challenge caches in the Apache Junction area, and then down on Baseline Ave near the Apache Creek Golf Club, and in the area just to the east of the golf club. Look through those, and focus on the easier ones for now. While you can sign the log just like any other geocache, you are not allowed to log it online until you complete the challenge outlined in the description.

It would probably not be listed as an event, but rather as an Adventure Cache or something.

Not on the Geocaching website. Perhaps something in GSAK? I don't use it myself, so I don't know.

Yes, either by attaching a trackable tag, or you could engrave or otherwise permanently add the code from a tag to the item (keeping in mind it might not be noticed, and thus be mistaken as swag).

Hmm. A ten-year-old thread resurrected for a simple agreement.

You'd rather have non-existing caches with a spot on the map? Seriously? If that's not a way to kill future interest in Geocaching, I don't know what is.

Use a different caching app.

Aaaaand, now we're back to the off-topic topica of absentee owners causing archivals, and the lack of caches in some areas of the world. Isn't this thread supposed to be about posting NM on caches one hasn't found?

The author of the blog, as demonstrated throughout this thread.

On the page for the TB, you should be able to unlock it. Then you can delete the visits you made with it.

On the "official" app, you as a basic member will only see low difficulty / low terrain, traditional caches. (I think it's 1.5/1.5 and below.) So if you live in a high terrain area or in an area with a lot of caches that aren't traditionals, it'll be harder to use the official app. If you go to the website, you can see a map with other cache types, terrains, and difficulties. You just can't view them on the "official" app. Example/link: https://www.geocaching.com/map/#?ll=43.86226,-78.95634&z=11 You could try a different app. You don't have to use the "official" one. Other apps, if I'm not mistaken, don't limit the terrains/difficulties of the caches you can see, but they do limit you to X number of caches in 24 hours. Link to authorized iOS apps: https://apidevelopers.geocaching.com/ios-partners And Android: https://apidevelopers.geocaching.com/all-api-partners Probably the top item in the list is a good option to try.

Nope, sorry. There are cases in which it's clearly okay to log a NM/OAR log even if you didn't find the cache. Examples: - A D1 where the hint totally gives away the hiding spot, there's nowhere else it could be, and there are multiple DNFs already (along with your own) - Where the area has been cleared of all vegetation, etc., so the cache cannot conceivably be there anymore - Where a previous log says outright that they removed the container If I were in Greece, I'd still log such cases with a NM/OAR and stick my tongue out at the reviewer from safely behind my computer screen.

Agreed.

The CO seems to be open to giving hints, judging from the logs. This one might be a bit of a "guess the CO's method," judging from the hint. Remember that it's against TOS for us to give any help to specific caches here in the forum.

It's in a Premium Member Only cache: https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC3EZ6F_the-secret-vault-of-scrat-the-squirrel-by-itwl Because you're a basic member, you can't see the cache details. This cache is in Parksville, BC.

Yep:

You are a basic member. Are you sure you want to change the cache to Premium Member Only? That is to make its details (location, etc.) only visible to paying members. You as cache owner can still get to it, of course, but others won't be able to. Is there something else you are trying to achieve?

As long as the previous one wasn't archived for something like landowner permission issues / trespassing, you may. You may call it what you want ("[archived cache name] Tribute" or something like that is nice). And it could either be in the exact same spot or a little bit away - as long as it is still 528 feet from any existing, active caches. If I recall correctly, my second cache was a "tribute" type cache to a previous one in a similar spot. I did move it a bit for a slightly different experience, but that's up to you.

I don't see why not. There are scuba/underwater caches, and there are magnet retrieval caches on land. Why not combine the two (sorta)? There might be a potential problem with lazy cachers not replacing it correctly, but that's true for almost every cache.

Yes - use the "grab from somewhere else" log to get the TB, visit it to the caches, and then if you (physically) give it back to your wife, she can "grab" it back from you.

Yes, retrieve it again so it's back in your inventory. Deleting the log doesn't undo the action, as you've discovered.

(Gotta do it, sorry.) It's "kit and caboodle". https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/kit-and-caboodle https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/kit-and-caboodle.html