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Drat! I'll be on the Scillies in April! I have an event there in April - GC69E88 heartradio That's on the date we arrive! Not sure if we will have landed by then but I will put it in the diary.

If you know what state you will be in on certain dates then you can check the events calendar which is under the Community tab on the Geocaching home page. Each day on the calendar shows which states have events listed for that day. You can then click on the day followed by the cache listing for more details.

Looks like a great event, sadly I'm in the UK and doubt I will have time to travel to Italy this year (I have found only one cache in Italy). I wish you the best of luck with your event.

You won't be able to list caches and events on geocaching.com if they are private. One option would be to hide caches around the school grounds and hand out printed sheets to your students with the cache co-ordinates and hints on, an "event" could be achieved by having sets of co-ordinates to meet at before and after the hunt.

If you wanted an encoded message inside your geocache you could write on the inside of the lid or on the logbook in ROT13, the code that geocache hints are encrypted in. That way cachers could work out what the secret message says once they have identified the cipher.

Having a large number of finds or being a premium member doesn't necessarialy mean you'll plant good caches. Anyone can spend a day finding lots of caches behind street signs and there are loads of great caches out there planted by people who, for whatever reason, choose to remain a basic member. Allowing a "honeymoon period" might solve the issue of people caching for a week then abandoning their caches but I'd like to see a way of encouraging new cachers to read the guidelines and how-to guides. Education like this might also help prevent TBs from going missing due to incorrect logging or being picked up by people who quit soon after.

There were 2 co-operative multis in the UK and New Zealand, each starting in one country and ending in the other. The cache owners allowed them both to be logged as long as you'd co-operated with a cacher in the other country. I don't know if anyone ever found them by visiting both locations or if the caches are still active.

After being placed in a vacation cache on a "party island" in Florida, the cache getting trashed, someone finding it and taking it to Delaware and it sitting in their house for 4 years until one of their geocaching friends recognised what it was, then a cacher holding onto it for another 2 years TB14REN seems to have gone missing again, dropped in a cache in South Carolina and no mention of it since July 2014

I prefer to attatch them to things I'm not going to release into caches now, I have 2 backpacks, a small one for day hikes and everyday use and a large one for camping/travelling. I have a TB attatched to each one so cachers can discover them if I meet them on the trail or at events. It also might help return them to me if the packs ever become "lost property". The Big Green Rucksack

Yes you can move and carry as many trackables as you like, just make sure you remember which one you place in which caches TB owners will appreciate you moving them on rather than having them sit in the same cache for ages.

This is something that surprised me as well. There are actually alot of cachers in my area, myself included, who are obese. Some are much bigger than me and you'd be surprised at the thousands of finds they have. I think there's an inverse correlation here. My biggest weekend was three finds (plus one DNF and one aborted search due to high winds), and involved a nine-mile hike with an overnight pack. In contrast, the easiest way to get thousands of finds involves rarely going more than a few yards from the car. This is it. Last year I did a 4 day trip and was typically hiking several miles a day with camping and cooking gear and up to 10 kilos of coal in my pack for the fireplaces in the wilderness huts. I only found 6 caches but I got alot more exercise than the days when I have driven from church parking lot to church parking lot picking up loads of micro caches.

I know of at least one cacher who started as a way of getting out of the house and getting more exercise, and it worked for him. What you have to remember is that caching can be as strenuous or as easy as you want to make it. Driving 5 miles to a cache and getting out the car to look for it isn't going to burn as many calories as if you cycled there. If caching helps give a sense of purpose to your outdoor activities (walking, cycling, kayaking etc) then that's got to be a good thing as part of a healthy lifestyle.

You will probably get more visitors if you list the series as 6 or 7 Traditional caches and one Mystery bonus cache as this means finding them all would give you 7 or 8 finds. Listing the whole lot as one Multi-cache will put some people off as people will feel it's alot of work for just one smiley.

The simpler option that I have seen on alot of cache pages is just to add a line at the bottom of the cache description. "FTF: Cacherteam123 on 01/06/2016" for example.

The houses overlooking the cache location would have been a problem too. I find the best cache locations are found by just going for a hike or cycle, if you wouldn't want to hike or bike somewhere recreationally then people probably wouldn't want to go there for caching either. Another way of finding locations is to study local history and see if there are any interesting locations with a good story to put in the cache description, then visit the site and see if there is also a suitable hiding place. That's what I did for my "Forgotten Houses" caches that were near sites of impressive historical buildings that were no longer there.

I knew of a cache that was called QUACK! and was stuffed full of rubber ducks!

Drat! I'll be on the Scillies in April!

This has been done before, the best thing to do is to contact your local reviewer beforehand (give them lots of notice) and tell them what you'd like to do, they may be prepared to review your caches and then publish them on a specific day/time for you.

Making a cache a multi is a far more effective way to increase the quality of visitors than adding attributes, scolding people in owner logs, writing lengthy cache pages, or making a cache PMO. Agreed, no matter how many attributes you add or what you put in the description some people are still never going to look at them and just follow the arrow and expect an easy find. By making it a multi or mystery (depending on what's involved) cachers that choose to look for it will know there's more to the cache and reading the description/attributes will be necessary. You could of course do away with the hidden tool and call your traditional cache something like "BRING A 1/2" SPANNER" with a similar guideline added to the hint. There was a series near me that told you on each page what tools you needed to bring.

I don't know about "official" but it's considered the done thing to only log trackables if you have seen them in person, such as in a cache or at an event. To log a trackable without ever seeing it because you've somehow guessed/randomly generated the number is like looking at the wikipedia page for Brad Pitt then claiming you've met him! When I purchased my trackables with real money and released them into the real world my understanding was that the only people who would log then would have really seen them. We might as well randomly try a load of GC codes and log cache finds without ever leaving the computer.

Search for caches with the abandoned buildings attribute, they're usually scary! Also it may be worth searching for caches with words like "ghost" and "cemetary" in the title.

I've never read anything that said Letterboxing involved moving the container. B. That does not sound correct to me either. They are called "hitchhikers" and are described as a letterbox that is placed in another box and moved from box to box - similar to what the OP proposed. I came across one a few months ago. Thanks for adding this explaination, geodarts. I should have explained it better. I think they also have boxes which can travel with a person or be posted to another player which seems to be straying too far from the original game for me.

Thank you! You're welcome

I once did a cache that said in the description "Help is hidden in a tree 5m away" and that's where the "special equipment" was that was required. Another option would be to make it a Mystery cache, have the start co-ordinates at the hidden tool and say the cache is 50m away on a bearing of 180 degrees or whatever.

There used to be moving cache types but this type of cache was removed and I believe no more are allowed to be created. I doubt Groundspeak would be interested in reinstating moving/travelling caches, just look at the amount of times people have asked for virtual caches to come back! There are other hobbies that allow moving boxes, the hobby of Letterboxing is one that I can think of. If you really want a "cache" that travels around then the best compromise would probably be a Travel Bug with its own logbook. This would be set up as a TB though and not as a cache.