TheVoytekBear

Especially "texting while [your violation here]". Likely the most common way for phone issues related to not paying attention. Now blamed on an imaginary animal. I believe the reason why it works is the full set. You go for the physical cahe and you get a trip/hike/nice view/interesting new place/knowledge about the area in the process. This is why the game survived for so many years without changing the general idea.

And PG game has just gone full-retard in Poland - you can catch a pokemon in Auschwitz... Polish version but I assume that google translate will be enough to understand: http://tech.wp.pl/kat,1009783,title,Muzeum-Holokaustu-apeluje-o-zaprzestanie-grania-w-Pokemon-Go-na-terenie-pomnika,wid,18420427,wiadomosc.html P.S. Up to now I thought people making selfies there were idiots...

Wherigo still has a physical cache at the end of the process. The upside is that you can place the scenario in an interesting but "cache infested" place with the final somewhere else (preferably in a reasonable distance).

Jak to fajnie jak Francuzi i Niemcy zakładają, że wszyscy powinni mowić w ich języku

Drilled wooden logs are nice, I've also seen a real stone drilled (?) just enough to hide a PET container (that one IS going to last long). Once I've seen a wooden "man" hung on a tree (Thick branches were drilled and a steel pipe was put inside. One of the hands was a torx screwdriver needed to open the container.). As for the leaves - they look nice... in summer .

Definitely agree! On my first few caches, there were two things that made geocaching exciting and interesting for me. The first was thinking how cool it was to use satellites and a gpsr to find the container. The second, finding those containers of decent size which gave me the feeling that i was finding something that a person put some thought into hiding. If i started caching today, i'm sure i'd still think it cool using sats and gpsr but at the same time, i would have gotten bored quickly and dropped the game. I had never thought of geocaching as being a fad. Because of the creativity, the challenges, and the nice places it offered up, i thought of it as a hobby that i wanted to put time and effort into. Now,,, it's just a points scoring game with people finding stuff they'd normally not be interested in at all. One of the first caches I did with my friend that I was introducing to geocaching was a brick empty inside hidden in a XI century castle wall. The guy has been in the game since then (although has less time for it than I do). It's obvious that you don't take a new person to a power trail but rather to caches in interesting places (or multicaches). But power trails are good too. I sometimes like to take a walk and boost the stats in the process and there is nothing bad in that (PT's and PT-like series are usually located in forests or other nature connected areas here).

If you think everything now has to have social features, remember that "The Witcher 3" doesn't have a multiplayer. By that I mean that events and gradually meeting your local fellow cachers is enough. You don't have to enforce it in the game. As for some final thoughts, yes Pokemon GO will become popular and have more users than GC (polish Internet is just starting to bocome flooded with the topic), the AR is appealing, but like with all pay to win games (free to play is such a misleading name) after some time people will realize they are just waisting their time and money (especially if you end up visiting the same places over and over). And taking a picture of picachu with your local neighbourhood as background will never be better than finding a well crafted cache (especially when all your friends will have their facebook flooded with similar photos). So enjoy your next geocaching trip wherever you go and dont worry about the muggles - they'll be probably bumping at each other under a local church with their noses stuck in their smartphones.

Like I wrote before - let it drag them away from geocaching. When they grow up and understand what is it really about they can join. I'm 31 now and I'm (among other things) using geocaching to explore areas near my home town that I ignored or wasn't aware of when I still lived with my mom (so till being 19). This comes with age and experience. No need to rush In the mean time it will boost our stealth mode in the crowded areas. Now everyone will think we are looking for Pokemons

Disclaimer: I really don't like anything Pokemon themed. /Disclaimer How I see it, the Pokemon Go game might be good for geocaching by dragging away from it youngsters who would normally destroy or muggle caches. Geocaching is more demanding in terms of physical effort (being in the right spot is not enough, you have to really find the cache which sometimes takes alot of searching, crawling, getting dirty and so on). The same cachers who would normally log a find just because of being in the area or who wouldn't be cautious enough to fully lock or mask a cache would be better off with Pokemon GO, where there isn't enything to destroy (intentionally or not). On the other hand geocaching won't rather miss them. As for ranks, levels and so on, there is already the badges and belts system on Project GC. The thing is nobody can really verify your badges if you cheat. Unleas you are a guy like MT Jonea who is famous for it (even I saw missing geocaches that he "found").