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I've considered going for it, but like many others have said there are a whole host of issues if you are to attempt it. The first being that you have to geocache every day. Even when it's snowing, or raining, or you have plans, or you just plain don't want to. Also, you would probably have to pace yourself. 1 geocache a day, if you intend on spending the last amount of gas money as possible during the challenge, and a lot of planning. Then there's also the fact that, if you have a demanding job, you may not actually, physically be able to go every day. There are days that I have to work 16-20 hours straight. I would feel pretty frustrated if I broke a 100 or 200 day streak due to forces outside my control. Basically, there are a lot of things that can go wrong, and people who have completed the challenge don't seem to enjoy geocaching the same was as they did before. 100 geocaches in a day, however, is a challenge that I will be trying come this summer. Unlike the 365 day streak, the worst I would lose is a day of summer.

I would be interested to know what your ratio of NA/NM on visited caches versus the ones you arm chair log. I think your 'local reviewer' may be getting too many requests and just feels that you should visit the caches. This use of putting NA/NM on not visited could be seen as 'caching police' tactic, the more you do the less interested the 'local reviewer' may be. But targeting non-active CO's seems to me as nothing better to do, lots of people feel that helping out a CO is correct and helpful. I would replace the wet log rather than put a NA on it, it's my personal opinion that as a community we should support COs in maintaining caches, active or not. Especially if they cannot be replaced with a new cache publication due to new restrictions in place. I currently own 365 caches, so I'm happy when someone replaces a wet log for me.

Ganz deutliches und grosses NEIN! Ach nein? Das heißt "CITO" nicht etwa, "cache in - TRASH OUT"? (ok, mal abgesehen davon, dass der "cache in" Aspekt in der Regel viel zu kurz kommt). Klar, mehr machen kann man immer aber dafür hat man dann ja auch 365 Tage im Jahr Gelegenheit.

arisoft, I can see you could look at the logic of the wording as confusing. If 1-find per date of a year is allowed, then technically every day is "one day" a year to work on the challenge (for each date); in the same way, if you limit it to holiday dates, that's still "one day" a year to work on the challenge (for each date). But I think in this case it can be seen that there are many fewer dates in the year to work on the challenge. If you have restricted to 12 dates, then that's only 12 times in a year a person can work on it, as opposed to 365+. So in that spirit - "a cacher only has one day each year to work on each date’s requirement" - your challenge would be declined. There's a lot more waiting for the next date to work on the challenge. The only reason I can see them limiting the dates to 1 per day is for those instances where say someone waited a year to work on the next date they need and say they need 4 caches. But they were only able to find 3. Now they have to wait another year. Limiting to one greatly reduces the chance that more than a year will be needed to complete the challenge. I guess I can understand that. But man that must have been a small fraction of appeals overall... I'm personally not too upset about limiting the time-required aspect of challenge caches though. There's a 2000-finds-per-year-for-3-years challenge in my region. Nope, not a chance. I had 2k in one year, a couple years back, didn't hit 2k the next year, and I'm not going to dedicated my next 3 years to year long high-count geocaching just for this challenge. 12 months of 150/month was active enough for me. If others can hit that, great for them; but high count priority has gone down a lot for me recently.

Counting logs per time for determining whether a a cache is lonely maybe works in an ideal world, not everywhere. There are geocaches that have 24 finds in 12 years, then the final coordinates end on a list and all of a sudden groups start to log the cache, so another 24 finds within 3 weeks. Maybe they were there, maybe one of them was there. So this cache is only half as lonely as before. The lonely-factor no more tells the history of the geocache. The same is true also for D and T, Logs don't tell the truth about D and T any more as soon as hordes start logging caches where everything from riddle to hike was skipped and only finals are visited, sometimes by only one of them. I found a cache where the last entry in logbook was like 450 days before. Someone logged online 84 days ago without evidence in logbook. Does that make him qualifying for a 365 days span between finds? Sometimes people tear pages out of logbooks, sometimes people log online whenever they want, even before they put their signature on the paper or even without visitng the geocache. For a challenge there would be geocachers that make sure no one else can find the cache for the necessary timespan or after them. FTF is a sidegame that from time to time shows the less favorable traits of some of the involved geocachers, no need to widen their sphere of action to other fields. I think challenges should not further encourage all sorts of competitive and unfavorable behaviour. Geocachers that like to find geocaches that weren't found for long time do it also without challenges. And without forcing the owner to have a look at their remote cache when it goes unfund for longer before they attempt to find the cache. And without posting NA if the owner doesn't jump immediately.

I do not understand how it is different to require every day of a year or some days, weeks, months etc. of a year. It is illogical. The requirement was some (holy)days. Actually 12 days. Not 366 or 365 days. I thought that only streaks are allowed but it seems that it is not true also. What is the difference if a challenge requires a find only at 1st January compared to days between 1st January to 31rd December? I think that it is not a miss by anyone. It is just vague guideline which can be interpreted so many ways depending on current situation. That is why I wish a better explanation, not because my challenge was rejected but because there may be a real problem.

2017 Statistics, part 3: Most found South African caches (corrected) The following South African caches had the most finds during 2017: 1. GC31WXR Table Mountain Travel Bug Hotel CapeDoc 328 finds 2. GCMYYZ Table Top Trove AndyT1 224 finds 3. GC707WR Nobel Square 2.3 Andredj 195 finds 4. GC62NFH Birth of a gentle giant scubie999 190 finds 5. GC6JCHV V&A Waterfront: Bay Vista SawaSawa 184 finds 6. GC37VF3 Tip of Africa Zephyr2 173 finds 7. GCVDHN Sailors' Star vespax 162 finds 8. GC6ZB58 SAS Somerset krazikatz 133 finds 9. GC2CG7X Hiddingh Security TB Hotel mr panda 131 finds 10. GC77E Cape Agulhas Peter Scholtz 123 finds The first non-Western Cape cache is GC19QVQ Three Rondavels, owned by CrystalFairy in Mpumalanga, with 98 finds for the year. If one looks at the whole of Africa, Madeira and the Canary Islands dominate: 1. GC6BK02 CR7 Madeira 1131 finds 2. GC6Z01C Puerto de Mogán - Between the old and the new Canary Islands 820 finds 3. GC4QQD3 Horizonte Canary Islands 804 finds 4. GC1QB6K Palm Beach Canary Islands 741 finds 5. GC6Z00Q Puerto de Mogán - Parking Canary Islands 722 finds 6. GC1G6MP Vista dunas-View dunes-Aussicht Dünen Canary Islands 711 finds 7. GC6AAJR Boardwalk 3 Canary Islands 688 finds 8. GC31AT3 Christoph Columbus 1502 A.D. Canary Islands 633 finds 9. GC6Z015 Puerto de Mogán - "Boatparking" Canary Islands 618 finds 10. GC6FM0H C.I.T.O.-CacheBox - Dunes of Maspalomas Canary Islands 616 finds 58. GC6KAP6 Al Baraka Morocco 365 finds 73. GC31WXR Table Mountain Travel Bug Hotel South Africa 328 finds

Not only a lack of respect, but dishonesty towards others. Not as big a deal with geocaching but it does make me wonder how far their dishonesty goes in their daily life, Of course this only pertains when a person sets out to deliberately cheat. I've seen many times, people doing questionable things that they believe are perfectly fine. For instance, i know one person that claimed they completed 365 consecutive finds. The thing is, they did not go out and find a cache every day. What worked for them was to find more than one cache in a day, not date or log all of them, and save those non dated caches for days when they couldn't or didn't feel like going out. It would never occur to me this would be an acceptable practice but in their mind, it was perfectly fine.

I'm not sure how someone can feel good claiming a find on a cache they never actually found. Like you implied, it's apples and oranges, comparing a single honest person's achievement with a "team's" claimed achievement. But here again, it's just another silly way that people have come up with to get them numbers. To the OP, i know a few people personally that claimed they met the 365 day challenge. Except for the one that admitted they "fudged" and did not actually go out everyday, they all complained about halfway through, how tiring and monotonous the challenge had become. It was almost like they were on their death beds at times and i never heard so much moaning. But of course that went away the day they completed their challenge. All that previous misery was forgotten about at that point. Good luck with your mission!

Others have already mentioned the most useful strategies. The main one is not to waste opportunities. Leave the caches near home for when you really need them later. If you are traveling away from home, then find a cache wherever you're traveling. And if it's somewhere you'll visit again, then find only one, to save the rest for when you need them later. If your commute is flexible, then you can find a cache anywhere between home and work. If you start a new job, then you've got a whole new territory to work with (one cache at a time, of course). The only time I found more than one cache a day during my streak was when I was invited to join a group geocaching trip in an open space that was nowhere near any of my usual locations. I figured that I wouldn't need any of those caches later, so I went ahead and found more than I had ever found in a single day before then. 366 consecutive days with finds from 2013-08-01 to 2014-08-01 I started with Groundspeak's 31 Days of August Souvenir promotion that summer. Then I just kept going to see how long I could keep it up. At some point, I decided to end it after a year. Then I decided to end it with a local Puzzling Month challenge cache. Then I decided to end it after 366 days, because I discovered a 366-Day Streak challenge cache. I found puzzle caches to qualify for the Puzzling Month challenge on the first 30 days of July, then found the cache itself on the 31st of July. Then I found one more cache to make it 366 Days (which should have been the local 365-Day Streak challenge cache, but I forgot about it at the time). Then I very deliberately allowed a day to pass without finding any caches.

Impressive self-control! And side note, that's also why many streak types aren't allowed as challenge caches any more - it can prompt people not to find caches. Glad that >365 day streak challenges aren't allowed any more I'm happy with my 366, that was hard enough.

Genauso ist es, wenn das Hobby im Stress ausartet, ist es keine Hobby mehr. Bei uns haben ein paar Leute in 24 Stunden alle Bundesländer und drei angrenzende Länder besucht, ist schon lustig aber eben auch stressig. Diese 365 Tage Challenges ist wohl eher was für Rentner, Arbeitslose oder so. Ich habe diesbezüglich aber schon oft Caches gefunden, in dem ein Datum vom nächsten Tag, nachster WWoche usw. drin stand. Wenn man dann sowas macht besch... man sich selbst und ist dann auch wirklich nicht mehr eine Challenge - aber jedem wie es ihm gefällt

Hi, Grundlegend stimmen wir frostengel zu, ABER.... Es gibt Challenges, die setzen z.B. voraus, dass man 365 Tage am Stück jeden Tag mindestens einen Cache findet oder eine Ratio von genau 5 Caches pro Tag für ein gesamtes Jahr erfüllt. In Cache armen Gegenden wird das zur Qual, wenn man bereits den Großteil der Tradis usw. eingesammelt hat, da man dann mitunter längere Strecken fahren muss, um einen Tagescache zu erledigen oder die Ratio oben zu halten. Im Umkehrschluss sind aber Challenges wie 360° von Deutschland eher eine Langzeitaufgabe, bei der man sich auf jeden Fall Zeit lassen sollte, da es sonst wirklich nervig wird. Letztlich ist es persönlicher Geschmack, was man machen und erfüllen will, bzw. ob man sich überhaupt für Challenges interessiert. Das ist somit jedem selbst überlassen. Die Beispiele sollen nur zum Nachdenken anregen, da man die ersten beiden z.B. irgendwann einfach kaum mehr erfüllen kann ohne sich wirklich komplett zu verbiegen. Am Anfang sind sie allerdings eher einfacher zu erreichen. Gruß die_Schnoeldner

We had a cacher in our area who succeeded in finding at least one cache everyday for 365 consecutive days one year. He followed that by finding no caches (0) for the following year (and then some). Lesson to this story is : Be careful about your goal as it could make you come to despise what you used to think was an enjoyable activity.

Thank you for all the answers. Let me give an example. I made three trips and was unsuccessful on finding a cache and put a new container there, BUT DID NOT LOG the FIND. I emailed the owner when I got home and he asked me to NOT leave a new cache so I went out the next day and removed the cache I placed. Two more trips back and I eventually found the cache, first find in over 3 years of the cache and it has NOT been found since (about 6 months ago). As for the FIND DATE, I am not talking about the actual day you found the cache it should be logged. Many of us don't get to logging for days, weeks, months and even years later. I started in 2002 and could go on a cache and log that I found it December 1, 2002. As for being on vacation, just wait till you get home and then log the cache on the date you found it. People are worried that a thief is reading logs on caches, and while possible, I think it is rare. And even if a thief did read your found log, how does he know where you live by your Geocaching Profile? People worried that their boss is reading found logs on every cache in the county, highly unlikely (unless they are a cacher too). The thing that I feel is dishonorable is for a cacher to do a Power Trail on January 1, find 365 caches, and then log one find for every day of the year without every going out again that year. I mean, what is the point? Filling in a day here or there due to an extreme circumstance such as a death, a funeral, surgery, etc... can be understood. My first attempt at a streak was interrupted by Dental Surgery where I had 4 implants, so my streak ended as I was in extreme pain for over a week. I could have cheated, but I would only be cheating myself. And that is my point, WHY cheat yourself? By the way, great responses from everyone, thank you!

I had proposed an attendee management feature back in the day but I can't link to it because I can't find it. Is it just non-PMO forum users whose searches are restricted to no more than 365 days? Someone want to do me a solid and find the [FEATURE] thread I started on this? Thanks!

Not anymore. There are statistic hounds that do this to up their logwordcounts, which some third party sites record on a person's profile. Wordy is no longer an indication of quality. This recent log on a roadside micro (66 finds, one FP in 2014). The logger (over 10000 finds) posted this on the 21 caches he found that day : Found it 07/21/2017 Day 335 of my current caching streak as I work towards a goal of 365 days straight. Day 44 of my caching road trip from Salt Lake City, UT to Ohio, Rhode Island, North Carolina, Texas and then back to Utah on the 21st day of July with partly cloudy skies and temperatures in the mid 90's. All is well with the cache container and log. Thanks for the cache. With all the time we spent caching, have you ever stopped to think how much news you've missed out on since this crazy game of geocaching was created back in early 2000? I hope this helps....This Day in History - July 21, 2000, 2001 & 2002: 2000 - Group of Eight leaders met for an economic summit on the Japanese island of Okinawa, where President Clinton also sought to soothe long-simmering tensions over the huge American military presence. 2000 - Special Counsel John C. Danforth concluded "with 100 percent certainty" that the federal government was innocent of wrongdoing in the siege that killed 80 members of the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, in 1993. 2000 - Norm Mineta, the 1st Asian American to serve in a president’s cabinet, was sworn in as the 33rd US secretary of commerce. 2000 - Researchers reported that human general intelligence, as measured in IQ tests, came from clearly defines regions in the frontal lobes. 2000 - It was reported that warming climate was causing Greenland to lose 11 cubic miles of ice a year, or 12.5 trillion gallons, enough to raise sea level by .005 inches annually. 2000 - It was reported that computers at Los Alamos simulated a nuclear blast in 3 dimensions for the 1st time. 2000 - In Hawaii a tour helicopter crashed and killed 7 people on Maui. 2000 - Marc Reisner, author of "Cadillac Desert," died in Marin, Ca., at age 51. His 1986 book was an angry indictment of water depletion in the American West. 2000 - In Chechnya 4 Russian soldiers were killed when a land mine blew up their truck in the Shali region. 2000 - In Russia 19 airmen were killed when a Mi-8 helicopter crashed north of St. Petersburg. 2001 - Over 140 UN nations agreed on a voluntary pact to stem small arms into conflict zones. It required manufacturers to compile records of sales and to mark weapons to enable their traces. The US managed to keep out some restrictions. 2001 - In Japan 10 people, mostly children, were killed on a crowded pedestrian bridge as they left a fireworks display in Akashi. 2002 - WorldCom filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy about a month after disclosing it had inflated profits by nearly $4 billion through deceptive accounting. With $107 billion in assets, it was the largest US bankruptcy ever. 2002 - In south central Oregon an 87,000 acre wildfire burned along a mile-long front. 2002 - Ernie Els won the British Open in the first sudden-death finish in the 142-year history of the tournament. 2002 - In Israel an explosion under a moving passenger train near Tel Aviv moderately injured one Israeli. 2002 - In the Philippines 3 people drowned in floods and a landslide buried alive a family of three as heavy rains pummeled the main island of Luzon, including Manila. 2002 - In Russia fighting started when a vendor at the Moscow Orion market opened fire at a group of wholesale buyers who allegedly refused to pay him for his goods. The armed vendor was from the Dagestan region in southern Russia, and the buyers were from the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan. 2002 - A methane gas explosion tore through a Ukrainian coal mine, killing at least six miners and leaving more than 28 missing.

Premium Member 3676 Temporarily Disable Listing 07/08/2017 We'll check on this one. Premium Member 234 Didn't find it 05/08/2017 Found remains of what the cache was likely hanging from. Neat spot though. Premium Member 10619 Found it 21/07/2017 Day 335 of my current caching streak as I work towards a goal of 365 days straight. Day 44 of my caching road trip from Salt Lake City, UT to Ohio, Rhode Island, North Carolina, Texas and then back to Utah on the 21st day of July with partly cloudy skies and temperatures in the mid 90's. I found what appears to be the remains of the cache container. Thanks for the cache. With all the time we spent caching, have you ever stopped to think how much news you've missed out on since this crazy game of geocaching was created back in early 2000? I hope this helps....This Day in History - July 21, 2000, 2001 & 2002: 2000 - Group of Eight leaders met for an economic summit on the Japanese island of Okinawa, where President Clinton also sought to soothe long-simmering tensions over the huge American military presence. 2000 - Special Counsel John C. Danforth concluded "with 100 percent certainty" that the federal government was innocent of wrongdoing in the siege that killed 80 members of the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, in 1993. 2000 - Norm Mineta, the 1st Asian American to serve in a president’s cabinet, was sworn in as the 33rd US secretary of commerce. 2000 - Researchers reported that human general intelligence, as measured in IQ tests, came from clearly defines regions in the frontal lobes. 2000 - It was reported that warming climate was causing Greenland to lose 11 cubic miles of ice a year, or 12.5 trillion gallons, enough to raise sea level by .005 inches annually. 2000 - It was reported that computers at Los Alamos simulated a nuclear blast in 3 dimensions for the 1st time. 2000 - In Hawaii a tour helicopter crashed and killed 7 people on Maui. 2000 - Marc Reisner, author of "Cadillac Desert," died in Marin, Ca., at age 51. His 1986 book was an angry indictment of water depletion in the American West. 2000 - In Chechnya 4 Russian soldiers were killed when a land mine blew up their truck in the Shali region. 2000 - In Russia 19 airmen were killed when a Mi-8 helicopter crashed north of St. Petersburg. 2001 - Over 140 UN nations agreed on a voluntary pact to stem small arms into conflict zones. It required manufacturers to compile records of sales and to mark weapons to enable their traces. The US managed to keep out some restrictions. 2001 - In Japan 10 people, mostly children, were killed on a crowded pedestrian bridge as they left a fireworks display in Akashi. 2002 - WorldCom filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy about a month after disclosing it had inflated profits by nearly $4 billion through deceptive accounting. With $107 billion in assets, it was the largest US bankruptcy ever. 2002 - In south central Oregon an 87,000 acre wildfire burned along a mile-long front. 2002 - Ernie Els won the British Open in the first sudden-death finish in the 142-year history of the tournament. 2002 - In Israel an explosion under a moving passenger train near Tel Aviv moderately injured one Israeli. 2002 - In the Philippines 3 people drowned in floods and a landslide buried alive a family of three as heavy rains pummeled the main island of Luzon, including Manila. 2002 - In Russia fighting started when a vendor at the Moscow Orion market opened fire at a group of wholesale buyers who allegedly refused to pay him for his goods. The armed vendor was from the Dagestan region in southern Russia, and the buyers were from the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan. 2002 - A methane gas explosion tore through a Ukrainian coal mine, killing at least six miners and leaving more than 28 missing. Premium Member 526 Didn't find it 27/05/2017 Well, we found what looks like the way it was attached on the ground. Now, finding this could have caused us to give up too early, but still doesn't look good… DNF =( The two DNFs included a picture of the attaching devise.

Hello, I am new to the forum though I have been geocaching with my better half for nearly a year, and actually became a volunteer translator a few months ago. My name is Laurence and I live in Rouen, Normandy (France). I am an English teacher with a fondness for riddles, history, travel and hikes with a goal, so geocaching kinda hits all the right buttons ! My current goal is to reach 365 finds before the anniversary of my first find. It may seem easy but I do try to have à social life, and of course my job keeps me occupied at home too. Happy to meet you all !

You've pretty much captured the essence of why we Waymark now, too. Geocaching just lost its lustre after so many tupperware and pill bottle chases. Too, Waymarking can keep us - me at least - busy 24/7/365.25. Sit here, watch a few ball games, listen to some music and spew out a few Waymarks; that's my day... ... Keith

I'm curious...and perhaps a mod or someone with more imagination than I can answer...what happens on Aug. 24, 2018 when a large number of the rewards go unclaimed? I can think of a dozen or so 'cachers local to me who are imminently qualified (according to the speculations for criteria used in the algorithm, which are admittedly only speculations), but those 'cachers have quit the game because, hey: life happens. I would expect that for at least one of them an unread message announcing the award of a virtual placement has been granted. I'm assuming this will happen with some frequency, as the closest new virt. to me is several hundred miles away. I am planning, though, to make a special trip for at least one new virt. If we get to the end of the 365 day limit and have only half of those new virtuals in place, do you suppose Groundspeak will "extend" the invitation?

AS CACHES MAIS ENCONTRADAS DO BRASIL (1 de junho de 2017) Frederico Engel 647 O Viajor - Aeroporto Internacional de São Paulo 643 Corcovado 623 Mission 4: Southern Bowl 565 Solitary Tinamou 410 A ocorrência do Filito na Serra do Mar 391 Along THE trail 384 Tipuana 374 Bom dia from Canada 368 Woodpecker 365 AS CACHES MAIS FAVORITADAS DO BRASIL (1 de junho de 2017) Mission 4: Southern Bowl 370 71% Corcovado 149 30% Mirante (Viewpoint) 91 26% TATU - A Cave in Intervales State Park 72 22% Lapies (Lapiás) 54 17% Pão de Açucar 53 28% ARQUIVADA Giant Antshrike 45 19% Frederico Engel 43 9% Bem-vindo a Intervales / Welcome to Intervales 38 14% Pão de Açúcar 35 23%

No widać delikatną zmianę . A tak na serio, to za pierwszym razem poczułem się jak bym wszedł do panelu administracyjnego Office 365.

AS CACHES MAIS ENCONTRADAS DO BRASIL (1 de fevereiro de 2017) O Viajor - Aeroporto Internacional de São Paulo 600 Corcovado 578 Frederico Engel 579 Mission 4: Southern Bowl 488 Tipuana 365 Solitary Tinamou 347 A ocorrência do Filito na Serra do Mar 324 Along THE trail 314 Bom dia from Canada 306 Woodpecker 304 AS CACHES MAIS FAVORITADAS DO BRASIL (1 de fevereiro de 2017) Mission 4: Southern Bowl 326 74% Corcovado 139 31% Mirante (Viewpoint) 77 27% TATU - A Cave in Intervales State Park 67 24% Pão de Açucar 54 29% ARQUIVADA Lapies (Lapiás) 42 15% Frederico Engel 40 10% Giant Antshrike 39 19% 007 Moonraker 37 22% ARQUIVADA Bem-vindo a Intervales / Welcome to Intervales 34 15%