[Found an Archived Cache.]

Sage advice! When I was placing my "Great Scot" series, I found a Planters jar about 10' from one of the stages. It had been painted flat black, and was stuffed with swag. Inside, I found a blank logbook and a dollar bill. The only thing missing was an indication of ownership such as a stash note or GC number. I signed the log as FTF, claimed the dollar and carried my cache back out.

 

I contacted a local reviewer to see if someone had hidden a cache there which might be waiting for approval, and was told "No". I then checked TC & NC to see if it might be listed there, and it was not. After 3 weeks, I again checked my 3 available sources, and again determined there was no listing, or even a pending listing, so I hid mine back in it's original spot, and made a reference to the unlisted "bonus" cache nearby, in the hopes that whoever hid it would recognize it and claim it. No one ever did. The unlisted cache was located in an area prone to seasonal flood debris, so it might have floated up the St John's River from God only knows where.

 

In retrospect, I probably should've pulled it.

 

Yep... and when we all went to find yours, we found this one first. Our name was put on that cache log as LASF right after Riffsters. I thought at first it was yours, but then it didn't have the puzzle pieces that were needed from yours. Then I stumbled around for about 20 minutes or so before I found yours only about 10-20 feet away.

[Archived Caches]

There is one other way to find Archived caches. If you know the owner of the archived cache, and he/she has other finds that are still active, you can go to one of those. Click on other caches hidden by this user. It will bring up all caches that person has hidden including archived.

[A cache that is not only a challenge to find...]

Monkey Puzzle II Reborn

 

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...60-5fe3aa9e7f25

[Changing coordinates]

You can only alter the coordinates to a little over 100 feet as I recall. But as Vesak said, post a reviewer note that you need to change them. There might even be a new log type for altering the coordinates. I'd look but like everyone else right now. The site seems to be having issues.

[Clever clues]

HOw about if you give them 20 coors on the first stage and only one is the final cache?

 

After the 20 coors I wouldn't be able to see or stand let alone find the final.

[How many Caches within 50 miles?]

1615 where I live now in Florida. A big chunk of area to the east is swallowed up by the Atlantic Ocean.

I have found over 1000 of those.

 

For you people that live in Southern California, you should move to the Inland Empire. From where I used to live in Riverside there are 6,307. I need to go back for a cache run.

[Strange Places to Hide A Cache]

I watched that on TV as it was happening. As I recall the bad guy that bled to death was shot at the back of a car in the street. How are you going to put a cache there? Overall I think this is a bad idea, unless somehow you make all the stages tributes to the policemen that were there that day.

[Tiny Cache Page Print]

My text size is smaller. However sometime in the past 20 minutes the text has reverted back to normal. So right now mine is fine again.

[Tiny Cache Page Print]

Sometime yesterday mine went really small too. Smallest it's been so far. I use IE 6.0.2900.2180.

[Gsak (geocaching Swiss Army Knife)]

First of all I don't know if this was happening on previous releases or not.  I just started using GSAK to create a database of solved puzzle caches.  I was experimenting uploading that database along with a pocket query from GC.COM.  I am uploading these to a GARMIN 60C.  Because I hadn't changed the SmartName the pq was being overwritten.  OK I solved that, but then doing some compares after the uploads I noticed that every once in a while the uploaded coordinates were off by .001 less on the west when the got to my GARMIN.  So something like W81 49.900 might end up W81 49.899.  This happens on both my entered puzzle solutions AND data from a pocket query.  Any ideas?

Please see this post

Ok... thanks. Just never looked that closely before. No wonder sometimes I find them 6 feet from GZ.

[Gsak (geocaching Swiss Army Knife)]

First of all I don't know if this was happening on previous releases or not. I just started using GSAK to create a database of solved puzzle caches. I was experimenting uploading that database along with a pocket query from GC.COM. I am uploading these to a GARMIN 60C. Because I hadn't changed the SmartName the pq was being overwritten. OK I solved that, but then doing some compares after the uploads I noticed that every once in a while the uploaded coordinates were off by .001 less on the west when the got to my GARMIN. So something like W81 49.900 might end up W81 49.899. This happens on both my entered puzzle solutions AND data from a pocket query. Any ideas?

[Puzzle Cache Help]

Kestrel is just lame IMHO....

1) No HINT!?! come on, if you solved it without a hint it was pure dumb luck.

At least an off hand clue in the description would have been nice.

2) Cannot be solved within the typical browser.

3) Not PHYSICALLY possible to be solved by a fair percentage of the population.

 

BTW, yes I did solve it... using the subtle clue give here in the forums. If I lived in the area I still wouldn't go find it.

1) A lot of puzzle cache makers don't like to give any hints on the cache page until someone finds it. And even then he/she may decide to leave the puzzle as is for all those that come later. The owner of this cache will gladly give out very subtle hints or tell you if you are on the right track if you email him.

 

2)What is a typical browser? I solved it and I use Internet Explorer. I'd say that is a fairly typical browser.

 

3)This is a fair statement. I know for a fact that someone who wasn't able to solve it the correct way, was given another way to solve it by email from the cache owner.

[Puzzle Cache Help]

I see many puzzle caches that I just don't understand where to start.  Like "Kestrel Trap" and "Olives are good" to start.  Is there some big secret to understanding how to solve these kinds of puzzles?  Please help.

I'm pretty sure I know how to solve the Olives are good cache. I found a similar cache here in So-Cal. As for Jackie & Bob caches, they are tricky. I met Bob when he lived out here, and his puzzle caches can get down right evil at times. He is very cool, so e-mail him if you get stuck. Tell him ShowStop said hi!

ShowStop.... me EVIL? I think I know of the puzzle you speak of. Now that I'm retired I have even more time to think about puzzles. Say hi to my So. Cal. geofriends. Kestrel Trap... the owner of that one is a good friend of mine. We like puzzles.