NYPaddleCacher

Because that will prevent someone from trying to find it.

I DNFd the first cache I attempted. A little while after I posted the log I got a PM from the CO asking where I had searched and if I wanted help. It was that reaching out by someone that had played the game for awhile to a new player that drew me into the game. As it turned out, the cache was missing and the CO offered to let me log it as a find. I waited until he replaced it and found it later. I ended up caching a couple of times with that CO and spent a day kayaking with him as well before he moved out of the area.

Been caching since 2007. I have no idea how many spaces I need to fill but think it's probably closer to 30.

That's not true in the case of cache located in place that are legally closed to public access during the winter, or do you consider a cache to be "available" even requires breaking the law to find it?

A long time ago I found a cache that was placed at the top of one of those parking lot snow piles. Obviously it didn't last long, but winters are long here.

We get both conditions in our area. Typically, if a cache has the Not Available in Winter it means that it's hidden near the ground. Technically the cache *can* be found, and there is nothing to prevent someone from trying, but it's going to be more difficult if there is snow on the ground. We also have many hiking trails and seasonal roads that are not maintained in winter. Some of the city maintained trails are officially closed in the winter and one could potentially get cited for trespassing if one attempted to find a cache along the closed trail. Typically a CO for caches along closed trails will disable them over the winter. As a CO I would allow a found it log in the first example, but might consider deleting a found it log for the second if an area where the cache exists is legally closed.

I qualified and the list of caches included many that were memorable. It also included one in Tanzania and one in Malaysia.

Yes, there are only a handful of things a CO can change on the listing, and this is one of them that is sometimes used for puzzles. I adopted several caches early on and used the placed by field to recognize that they were originally hidden by someone else.

I bookmarked Mingo (GC30) and put it on my bookmarks bar. If I want to see the cache page for a GC code, I click on the bookmark, then copy-n-paste the GC code into the URL (replacing GC30_mingo) and hit return. That takes me to the page I want.

the trick is to add site:geocaching.com to your search criteria. That limits the search to the GC site. Using the auto-suggest feature on the geocaching.com website makes it easy to find a specific GC code though. I use auto-suggest on several search interfaces I've developed.

I wouldn't say that it solved the problems the led to the grandfathering of the original virtuals but the guidelines used for the virtual reward program did a pretty good job of avoiding those issues.

So that means that everyone should be able to nail signs to trees? What do you suppose the the trees would look like if anyone could do it. The national park service might do it because they manage the park. Letting anyone do it wouldn't be managing the park very well.

You don't have to come up with multiple paragraph (a complete sentence is more than a lot of logs) *on the spot*. Finding the cache and logging the cache can be separate activities, one done while in the field, and the other once you're home with a computer or tablet. I much prefer logging through the website than on an app. If you're finding more caches in a day that you can distinctly remember, you can write down a note in the app or small notebook with just a couple of words that will remind you of the find once you get home.

That's certainly possible for a 20 cache geo-art. And certain for a geo-art of only 20 caches, coming up with 20 distinct but thematic puzzles shouldn't be too hard. There's a geo-art of a steam train with about 1000 distinct caches (most are traditionals though). There's one in Indiana that is an outline of the state with 125 caches. In Iowa there's an area with four different geoarts fairly close to each other. Coincidentally, most of the roads in the area are long, straight, and for some reason there on few caches along them.

Someone may have no desire to go out and find the caches but want to hide a cache in the same area. Geo-art that is made up of puzzles is usually all about the image on the map that it produces. The location and quality of the caches is typically secondary and often indistinguishable from a power trail (albeit, a short one). However, someone that wants to place a cache in the area might have to solve every puzzle in the series to avoid proximity issues.

It's working fine on my Macbook Pro. I usually use Chrome but I have Safari an Firefox on it for testing. And what about Big Sur?

That's how you'd do it on a PC. On a Mac, the Command key + F. sequence will view source, I have standard wireless mouse for a PC on mine, but a mac doesn't come with mouse with a left and right button. A "right click" can usually be done by selecting the Control key and clicking on the mouse. Behaviour also depends on what browser and any extensions that might have been loaded a user is using. In Safari, there isn't a menu item to view source or the background image. I use Chrome with a developer extension to view source code.

Would such a tool be set up to log the finds at the time the tool was run, or to enter the date for when the find was made? The tool might not know when a find was made. Someone might use a handheld GPS to find caches then log them later. That's how this game was played before mobile phones and an app with an internet connection was used for geocaching. Some still prefer to log their finds at a later time.

Finding caches and logging caches are independent activities. While these are clearly bogus, where are auto logging tools that can post found it logs at that rate even if it took weeks to find the caches. In the "old days" people would find caches, then come home and log what they found that day, rather than immediately log a find with the app as they find the cache.

Yep. Happened to me. There's a 10 mile long trail on which I had placed a couple of caches. One is an ammo can (and a simple puzzle cache) and the other a large lock-n-lock. There may have been one or two others from a different CO. Then that trail had an "official opening" as a new rail trail, which included building a bridge over a small gorge near the lnl cache. Now that trail has a PT from one end of the other. When I started getting frequent logs thanking the owner of the PT (which exclusively uses pill bottles for her caches), I archived mine.

Sort of. The lid has four clips, that click onto the side of the container.

It's good that you're keeping the ability to maintain your future caches in mind, but often some of the best caches (IMHO) are those that are not in places that are easy to get to. It's easy to drive to a nearby strip mall, but that doesn't mean I want to find a cache there.

Though that would usually affect the terrain, not the difficulty rating.

If you've got a Garmin GPS: Garmin Maps from OpenStreetMaps

Huh? Most handheld GPS receivers have an option of navigation routing "by road" or "off road". If the setting is set to "by road" it *will* follow roads, but otherwise it will basically ignore roads. I've often wondered how much of an impact that auto navigation GPS devices, which defaulted to routing by road, had on the hobby as it locations were always on/near a road.