TheLimeCat

Is there a hint? The hint or title or images in the gallery may help. Sometimes additional hints are hidden as white text or in the page's source code. They can be revealed by highlighting the page or using the f12 key respectively. Otherwise, I would try to pick out commonalities in the text. For instance, are many specific characters or items mentioned by name? Is the summary divided into sections such that each section could be attributed to a particular game? If the solution is a set of coordinates (as opposed to a keyword), then the CO is limited by the fact that the solution must be a set of numbers. Usually it helps to think about how numbers could be related to the games. Oftentimes, simple puzzles about pokemon will be based on numbers in the pokedex, or a minecraft puzzle might be based on block IDs, etc.

What kind of word puzzle is it? Are the words plain English? Do the sentences make sense, or is it some kind of cipher or encryption? There are lots of ways to perform cryptanalysis both manually and with automated tools online. One of the first things I do when I encounter encrypted text is to run it through the dcode cipher identifier, which performs a fairly accurate automatic cryptanalysis. Other tools include boxentriq and a github page simply titled Cipher Statistics. For a collection of common ciphers and codes, you might try the Geocaching Toolbox website. If the puzzle is some kind of riddle, I would first try searching to see if similar riddles exist elsewhere on the web. I have found lots of puzzle solutions, even to very difficult puzzles, with some careful Google searches.

I could see mystery caches being a problem for a challenge like this, although I was thinking of setting the bar at 5000ft, which would rule out every mystery cache in the state based on posted coordinates. It would unfairly rule out possibly one mystery that I can think of with posted coordinates below 5000 and a final above that.

Hey all, I have worked on a couple challenges regarding finding caches in specific elevation brackets, and because I enjoy the mountains, I have always enjoyed these challenges. Until recently, I thought they were grandfathered because cache elevation is not an official statistic on the geocaching site. However, I have seen a couple elevation-based challenges publish since the moratorium and of course elevation statistics are widely available through project-gc. I wondered what the rules are regarding elevation and how elevation might be combined with other restrictions, such as X number of caches above X feet in X state? I've been thinking of publishing a challenge in this vein for Washington state but wondered about the rules, and if other geocachers would find this enjoyable in their own home state/province/region. The only elevation challenges I have logged have allowed caches from any region. I wonder if anyone has completed a fun elevation-based challenge they might share.

Apart from the virtual in Africa, the most seldom found are Labyrinth Canyon, GC7E, and Bovine Hill Stash, GCD4. Both have a terrain rating of 4.5. I haven't found either of them, so I have no idea if that's accurate.

Email notifications from the in-app message center can be disabled by the user, whereas a direct email will always be sent to the user's inbox. Whether it's an inbox they still monitor or have access to is a different question.

If you sent a message through the built-in geocaching message center, you could try sending an email instead. If the CO hasn't logged in for awhile, an email could be more likely to reach them than a typical geocaching message.

Mine hangs suspended above the lake bed, so no mud. The algae coats it pretty well after awhile though. Right now I use RITR paper, but I am thinking of switching to an aluminum log. It gets damp, but I've never found it filled with water.

I use a length of paracord, run through the center of a few washers and tied into a loop, then I clip the weight loop to the pelican case with a carabiner.

I have a cache underwater, though it is retrieved by pulling up a rope. If I recall, the magnet used by magnet fishermen is pretty solid, so I'm guessing it would be able to haul up a weighted pelican case. Someone near me has hidden a couple caches with a thick sheet of aluminum spun around a dowel as a log. Cachers can use to tip of the dowel to basically press their name into the foil. I'm guessing this would work pretty well for an underwater cache.

I think the problem for many people is not the difficulty of completing the challenge, but the tediousness of it. A person could consume a bowl of rice by eating each grain individually, but that's not a particularly rewarding feat. Eating the rice as usual and then claiming to have eaten it grain by grain would somehow be even less rewarding.

Sounds like you might still be in the inspector tab. When you inspect the page, the inspector tab will open by default, but you can select additional tabs from within the new window that opens, including "debugger", "network", "performance", etc. The second tab is usually "console". This tab will display any warnings and errors associated with the page. For example, when I use f12 and switch to the console tab, I have four warnings. The first is: "The script from blah blah blah.com was loaded even though its MIME type (“”) is not a valid JavaScript MIME type". What you do next depends on the error, but it could be that GS is doing maintenance on the page that causes temporary outages. Earlier, I noticed that the text "testing" was being printed to the console, meaning that someone was editing the browse map code earlier today. The easiest solution is probably just to wait unless the error indicates an issue with your browser.

The f12 key I believe, or right click the page and click inspect. Once the inspect tab opens, there will be a tab labeled "console". Selecting that will display any messages being returned by the page. If there's an error, it will show up in red.

Have you tried inspecting the page to check for a console error?

Well, if you've never revealed your face before, I suppose you could photograph anyone in front of the bean and the CO would have no recourse.

Call the geocaching brute squad

You can't stop someone from going out into the world and finding caches. Geocaching doesn't have a brute squad to go out and detain everyone with a disabled account. I guess you think [Geocacher B's] account should also be suspended for colluding with the other user to find caches? Should geocaching.com accept photos of the logbook where the signatures appear together as evidence? Maybe they should send out a surveillance team to track this user and suspend anyone seen near them or anyone who signed a logbook immediately above or below them?

Disabled cache popups in the browse map appear to open, but the content remains empty, meaning the popup appears as a thin white bar. This does not occur with active caches. This is the case with both Google and Leaflet basemaps active.

Buy one of those grip strength trainers and you'll be bending your own in no time!

I don't leave negative ratings specifically because I know many of the AL owners in my area. I'm not rating them incorrectly, I just don't log or rate them at all. I've found terrible caches and terrible ALs, but I choose my words carefully when describing the experience. Often, I'll see that person at the next event I attend, or they'll find one of my caches, or I'll see them in the field, etc.. They're probably not going to tell me how offended they were by my failure to fawn over their cache or AL, but they'll probably think about it and I don't need to stir up thinly veiled hostility with a couple little stars. In a log, you can soften the blow with a diplomatic choice of words. Not so with a 1 star rating. I can't think of another reason why a person would leave an inaccurate or dishonest rating.

The problem is that geocaching has a limited pool of users and caches in most areas are often found only a few times a month. It would be very easy for an AL or cache owner to see when the rating suddenly increases or decreases when a single find comes in. It's tough to remain anonymous in those circumstances, even if the rating isn't technically attributed to you.

Presumably, the people who receive a new cache notification and dash out the door at a moment's notice to be the first to sign the log will not find it as fun to find that log already signed by another person. It probably doesn't need to be said that the FTF niche exists because it offers its participants a particular brand of fun not found in traditional caching; the fun inherent in competing with others and being the first among them. If it were equally rewarding to be the second or third to find a cache, why attempt to be the first? To meet other cachers, maybe, but I think that is just a fun side-effect for the vast majority.

The Ape cache is accessible for the adventurous. You will probably want traction spikes or even snowshoes (though I have hiked the Iron Horse trail in winter and have never needed them) and yes, you may have to do a bit of digging. The tunnel is closed, but the cache can be accessed from the west via the Annette Lake trailhead, though I'm not sure if that trailhead is plowed. In any case, you could probably take exit 47 and park along the road if it isn't. GCD is almost certainly inaccessible. I found it in June and used traction spikes. The cache was under about 2 feet of snow and had to be dug out. There are some die hard mountaineers around here that have been known to find caches in winter with snowshoes and a collapsible shovel, but I'm not one of them. In any case, you probably couldn't drive to the traditional GCD trailhead and would likely have to park on the road below and hike in. It would be a snowshoe job this time of year. I've been wanting to go up and do the new virtual there, which obviously wouldn't require any digging. Good luck! I think it could be a fun trip to the Ape cache right now. You can view traffic cams and get reports on I-90 conditions here - https://wsdot.com/travel/real-time/mountainpasses/snoqualmie

This one, from GC8A3B Or this one, from GC6NRTM Oh, the places you'll go

Try this link: https://project-gc.com/Profile/ForgottenFTF?profile_name=Jayeffel&submit=Filter Project-gc has a tool that checks for Forgotten FTFs by filtering caches that you were among the first to log, but didn't mark as FTF.