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I can no longer SELECT caches on the geocaching.com map. This inability to select caches occurs after I set the map to display more than 1000 caches. I have tried doing this on a Windows 10 PC with Google Chrome, Edge, Windows Explorer, and Firefox. I have the same problem with all of these browsers. I had experienced this problem in the past, but was able to resolve it by either enlarging or shrinking the map. After changing resolutions in this way, I could get cache selection to work. I can no longer do that. I simply cannot select caches after I set the map so that it displays more than 1000 caches.

I've found a number of challenge caches myself, but at the same time feel there is something questionable about the practice. Consider a 5 X 5 difficulty/terrain rated challenge cache that is awarded to people who find it and fulfill a challenge requirement that they must have logged ten previous 5 X 5 caches. The problem is this challenge cache is generally much easier to find and log than another cache rated 5 X 5 based on the actual difficulty and terrain of the cache itself. Challenge caches of this sort really are not, in and of themselves, comparable to true 5 X 5's. If the moratorium on challenges is lifted, why not create challenge cache power trails that work as follows?: The first cache on the trail is awarded to those who find it and fulfill a requirement of having found ten 5 X 5's. The second cache on the trail is awarded to those who find it and fulfill a requirement of having found eleven 5 X 5's. The third cache on the trail is awarded to those who find it and fulfill a requirement of having found twelve 5 X 5's -- and so on ad infinitum.

I have a premium Wherigo membership along with LG G4 smartphone(android) and a Garmin GPSMAP 64st. Can I use these devices to seek Wherigo caches? I have no intention of purchasing new hardware in order to do this.

Well, premium members could log a Find for the ones they find, and add the ones "others find for them" to their ignore list. Sure. But unlike geocaching, tennis and golf are competitive sports. Find logs aren't points. They're just a record of which geocaches you've found. If your signature is on the log, then you can log a find. It doesn't matter whether you found it alone, or whether you found it as part of a group. Well yes, golf and tennis are only analogies, but your suggestion that geocaching is strictly non-competitive is inaccurate. If it were non-competitive we wouldn't keep count and there wouldn't be web sites with elaborate statistics on each member's findings as well as rankings locally, statewide, and worldwide. It makes absolutely no sense to me to log a cache as "Found It" if I did not actually "find it". On the other hand if I could log a cache as "Team Find" or "Group Find", that would make much more sense to me.

So how do you see this playing out? When I go caching alone, I log as niraD. When I go caching with a friend, we create a new account to log our "doubles geocaching" find. When I go caching with a different friend, we create another new account to log our "doubles geocaching" find. When I go caching with a group, we create a team account for our "team geocaching" find. When I go caching with a different group, we create another team account for our "team geocaching" find. And what happens when I go caching with a large group that includes both individual friends, some people from the first team account, and some people from the second team account? And what if I go geocaching with a group of people who don't have geocaching accounts? And does it matter if they later create geocaching accounts? If you want everyone in your group to get a chance at the "Aha!" moment when they spot the cache, then play huckle buckle beanstalk style. No one says the game has to be over when the first person spots the cache. But logging my finds against different accounts depending on whether I'm alone or with someone else or with a different someone else seems ridiculous. I'd lose all the advantage of having all my finds logged in one place. I am new to geocaching and haven't given much thought to how I see this "playing out". However, there is a fundamental difference between counting a cache that you find and counting one that someone else finds for you. It makes sense to me to create categories that distinguish these cases. One option would be to establish two user accounts, one of which would be for caches found individually and the other for caches you "find" in groups of 2 or more individuals. There are precedents for this kind of distinction in other endeavors such as tennis where successes achieved as a singles player are counted independently from successes achieved as a doubles player. Golfers achieve great notoriety based on their successes in team competition such as the Ryder cup, but these never count as individual wins. The reasons for measuring individual achievement and group achievement separately are obvious to me. If it makes no sense to you, then clearly you won't be open to the idea of creating any kind of framework that acknowledges the differences.

The video is interesting, but there are at least three guys and clearly they are not finding and logging these caches individually. What they do is analogous to having track & field 4X100 meter relay teams compete against individuals in the 400 meter run. In spite of that, the cachers in the video have only found 350 caches with less than 1/2 the day left. It seems highly unlikely they will reach 900 before the end of the day. I don't see how a lone cacher could find and log 900 caches in a day.Who said anything about finding caches individually? Usually, numbers runs are a team effort. For that matter, group geocaching trips are often a team effort. Personally, I prefer to play huckle buckle beanstalk style, but a lot of people play three musketeers style instead. And who said it's a competition? I've seen Alamogul at a number of local events, and no one has ever proclaimed him the winner of anything (even at the events celebrating another of his major milestones). None of the geocachers I know who have done these big numbers run trails (as shown in the video) claim to have won anything. From what I gather, they mostly compete against themselves, trying to optimize their own numbers run. Some accounts represent a single person. Some accounts represent a couple, or a whole family. Some individuals use multiple accounts. We're all geocaching together. There is no "solo geocaching" that is distinct from "pairs geocaching" that is distinct from "team geocaching". It's all just geocaching. But for what it's worth, I found a post from humboldt flier that mentioned finding 640 caches solo, between 2:34am and about 6pm. But I think someone else (perhaps Lil Devil) has found more than that on a solo numbers run, perhaps in the 700-800 range. For me, it isn't a question of competition. I simply don't feel comfortable logging a cache found and logged in a joint effort as my find. It isn't the same achievement and I prefer not count it that way. To me it is mixing apples and oranges. On the other hand, if they had separate geocaching memberships for groups of two, three, four etc., I would have no problems logging a cache achieved in one of these groupings. It would be kind of like doubles vs singles tennis -- a different category. While this may not be competition, clearly those guys in the video are trying to get as many caches as they can in the shortest possible time. They are motivated by count. Personally, I don't feel that counting a cache that someone else may have found as mine is the same as counting a cache that I found as mine. I don't feel there is any comparison.

It is VERY doable. With careful planning well over 1,000 is well within the realm of possibility (even without leapfrogging, 3 cache monte, and other tricks) if you are into that kinda thing. But it ain't for everyone. Well that is good to know, but my question was: how is it possible to do that? In particular, I wonder how it is possible for one individual operating ALONE to do that? In order for someone to get more than 1000 in 1 day, which you claim is possible they, must drive to, find, and log each cache in an average of 1 minute and 26 seconds over a period of 24 hours. That includes any bathroom breaks, meals, rest etc. I don't see how it is possible. Like I said...careful planning. First, you find a big power trail and carefully plan the route; take extra gas, food, and water; be rested so you can go 24 hrs straight, be sure your vehicle is the right one for where you are going and that it is ready for the run, and so on. It is much harder, and not terribly smart in many cases, to do it solo, but it's still possible. One of my caching buds does at least 1 major power run a year with another friend of his. They pick a target area somewhere in the country and spend months planning the route and the logistics and getting themselves physically ready. They have done well over 1200 in a day (24 hrs) together. Those guys are machines! As for the time, it takes far less than 1.5 minutes to get from cache-to-cache along a power trail if you know what you're doing and it is a true power trail with all hides being the same thing hidden the same way and easily accessible every 528' along a road. Thanks for the feedback. Personally, a cache that I find with the help of someone else just does not feel like my find. Perhaps if they had a category of "doubles" geocaching members, kind of like doubles tennis, I would be OK with logging finds I made with someone else.

It is VERY doable. With careful planning well over 1,000 is well within the realm of possibility (even without leapfrogging, 3 cache monte, and other tricks) if you are into that kinda thing. But it ain't for everyone. Well that is good to know, but my question was: how is it possible to do that? In particular, I wonder how it is possible for one individual operating ALONE to do that? In order for someone to get more than 1000 in 1 day, which you claim is possible they, must drive to, find, and log each cache in an average of 1 minute and 26 seconds over a period of 24 hours. That includes any bathroom breaks, meals, rest etc. I don't see how it is possible.

The video is interesting, but there are at least three guys and clearly they are not finding and logging these caches individually. What they do is analogous to having track & field 4X100 meter relay teams compete against individuals in the 400 meter run. In spite of that, the cachers in the video have only found 350 caches with less than 1/2 the day left. It seems highly unlikely they will reach 900 before the end of the day. I don't see how a lone cacher could find and log 900 caches in a day.

I am new to geocaching and have noticed that some geocachers have logged more than 900 caches in a single day. I wonder how it is possible to do this given that there are only 1440 minutes in a 24 hour day. That means that in order to log 900 caches, you have an average of 1 minute and 36 seconds to do the following: Travel from one cache to the next, find the new cache, and log it. That seems physically impossible to me and I wonder how they do it. Thanks.

I am new to geocaching and while this question isn't directly related to competition, I wonder how some people manage to find 100 or more caches in a day? That amounts to one cache in less than 15 minutes for 24 hours. I couldn't travel from one cache to the next in an average of less than 15 minutes let alone find and log that many. Does anyone have any idea how people do this?