Mic&Lou

Geocaching and Letterboxing are similar, but two different things. People still letterbox, and some Geocaches are letterbox hybrids, combining the two, but they are separate games. Yes I know. Thanks for the confirmation.

"Just curious here-since geocaching started in 2000, that means it's 14 years old. How could you know about geocaching for decades? " It used to be known as letterboxing.

This has been debated in the past, but keep in mind there are some very clever people in our Community that would be able to "Battleship" hidden waypoints under such a scheme. Even if you limit the number of coordinate changes to frustrate this sort of behavior, I've heard that it can be done with as few a number of guesses as two. If you're submitting a Listing in an urban area, I highly recommend that you request coordinate checks prior to placing a cache, in order to lower the frustration and the amount of walking or driving you need to do comply with the Saturation portion of the Guidelines. Link for reference: Checking for Geocache Saturation I did do the saturation check first and we did find the cache that was said to be in conflict to ours and all is well within the criteria for placing a cache in the location we desire (Further than 161m). This listing is out of suburban area and it has some significants to us. (Hence the reason for placement) Any way I will just wait and see how the submitted location comes back from reviewer once again and see what happens.

Thnks guys. Yes I find the instructions simple and I guess it would be a matter of looking at the criteria every time you place a cache as a refresher and not try to remember them all. I understand the need to find the final location of a multi cache as it is not disclosed on the map but maybe this could be a feature in the future on the "Hide a cache" page where the hider sees a map with red circles indicating where all the physical caches may be?

Hi guys n gals. We have recently joined the community of the hunt and recently we placed our first cache BUT, After reading all the material and following all the guidelines and found a place that would be perfect we acquired the co ords and submitted them online. Thats when it went down hill. We received a welcome email form the reviewer and a few questions we needed to answer in which we did. The second email we received from reviewer stated that maybe we needed to find more caches and be a member longer and talk to more people before we were to hide a cache of our own. I immediately became offended as this person seemed to be questioning our intellect in regards to following simple instructions. They told us that our cache was too close to a physical cache that was the end of a multi cache and he/she suggested we find this first. We found the cache and our co ords were more than 300 meters away from the other cache so we were well away and within the criteria for the placement. They came back to us to try and tell us we were wrong and to look again? Not sure how often we can find the same cache in the same spot still 300 plus meters away from where we want to place ours. Has anybody else had any trouble placing caches and the review panel? Feeling frustrated.