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I think the have the sciences backwards ... Rocket science: 50 points Geology: 100 points Environmental science: 200 points Futurology: 300 points Rocket science is a lot harder than geology or environmental science. And I don't even think futurology is a science.

https://www.geocaching.com/blog/2021/03/new-souvenir-challenge-the-science-of-discovery/ It’s 21 years into the 21st century and geocachers continue to be experts in the science of discovery. Recently, geocaching innovators have experimented in the Adventure Lab® to create new experiences. From interactive food tours to local trivia, cachers are formulating Adventures in new ways. Let’s combine geocaching with Adventure Lab to create the perfect solution for discovery. April 12 through July 11, find Adventure Lab Caches and other geocache types to earn up to four scien-terrific souvenirs. Join this challenge to learn more about Adventures and the undeniable chemistry between geocaching and science. How to play From April 12 at noon UTC through July 11, 2021, collect points on your leaderboard by logging Adventure Lab Caches and other geocache types. Earn up to four new souvenirs by collecting 300 points during the promotion period. How do I find Adventure Lab Caches? Download the Adventure Lab® app for Android or iOS and start playing! Open the app, go to your profile, and log in with your Geocaching account. Select a nearby Adventure from the map or the directory list. Read the description to learn more. Tap Start and navigate to the nearest available Location. Follow the instructions in the description. Find and enter the Location answer. After submitting the correct answer, you earn an Adventure Lab Cache find for your geocaching statistics and 10 points on your leaderboard. Visit all Locations. Enter the solution for each Location to complete the Adventure. Be sure to rate it and share your experience! What are the four souvenirs I can earn? Rocket science: 50 points Geology: 100 points Environmental science: 200 points Futurology: 300 points

I mean of course if it was implemented then it could be optional what notifications you get, I guess when like yourself you have 200+ hides it would be a bit spammy

It's hard to imagine how someone might find so many caches in one day or in their geocaching career, when first starting out the hobby But there's a whole lot of selective geocaching that can happen, and the more caches you find the more 'styles' of hide you can recall and some of the harder caches can become park 'n grabs. You don't find 1000 in day with forest hikes. You'd be selecting an area with loads of park 'n grabs, or powertrails with a vehicle (bike, car, etc) or as mentioned with a group. There are many strategies. So if you're ever comparing find count, always take the strategies, tools, vehicles into consideration. One person's 500 in a day may be impressive by car solo, while another person's 200 a day on foot would be an even greater accomplishment. Ultimately, try not to start 'competitive' thinking. That just brings people down and makes arguments about "right" or "wrong" ways all the more prominent. Same with statistics like number of times you've completed a full DT grid. Some people just live in areas with more variety and have it easier, so 20 'loops' is nothing, where 3 loops for someone else is extreme. Numbers have to be interpreted. It's not super interesting these days assigning value to what seem like high numbers, because we never really know the circumstances that led to those numbers on the surface. Enjoy the hobby. Find as many as you can quickly if you want, but don't be discouraged by accounts with 100,000+ finds, or crazy high stats. Push yourself if you want, but try not to compete with people across the globe (or even around the corner)

Hello everyone, We recently started geocaching again with a friend of ours. At the moment we just use our phone to geoache, but we would like to upgrade to a walking gps. We tried the gpsmap 62s this weekend, and we liked it very much. After reading a lot of reviews, I am still doubting between 2 devices. We can get the Garmin etrex 32x for €144. Advantages: 25h battery, preloaded topomaps of europe, electronic compass We can also buy the gpsmap 64sx for €200. Advantages: electronic compass, faster scrolling and zooming, great antenna. I'm scared that the etrex 32x is slower than the gpsmap 64sx and that it will bother us. I also couldn't find anything about the difference in accuracy for these 2 devices. We geocache about 1 time per week, and we also love to go walking long naturewalks. Is there anyone who can help us decide wich gps to get with geocaching in mind?

I've met someone who has now logged well over 100k finds. The first time I met him was at an event celebrating his 30k milestone a long time ago. And I've known people who have gone caching with him. He finds that many by finding caches one at a time, very frequently and very quickly. He may not find caches every day (he didn't maintain a significant streak as far as I know), but he's retired and he spends a lot of time geocaching. He finds them quickly and he keeps moving. He doesn't spend a lot of time with each cache (to put it mildly). The people I've known who have gone geocaching with him have said that it's hard to keep up with him. He moves quickly between caches, he finds each cache very quickly, signs the log quickly, and is then on his way to the next cache. Numbers trails (also called power trails) are the answer to this. Here's what it looks like in practice: Before the development of numbers trails, groups would do numbers runs, finding 200, 300, even 400 caches in a 24-hour day. That took a lot more planning, finding a cache-rich area with a lot of easy park-and-grab caches, choosing your target caches, planning a route to drive from one cache to the next as efficiently as possible, and preparing to drive from one cache to the next for 24 hours straight. I know a group that found 100 puzzle caches in a day, starting at dawn and ending after dark before celebrating with dinner with one of the more prolific hiders of puzzle caches in that area. The modern numbers trail makes that easier of course. You no longer need to choose your target caches or plan your route. You do need to prepare to drive from one cache to the next for hours at a time. And yes, there are "optimizations" used on numbers trails. Goldenwattle mentioned divide-and-conquer techniques, where the group splits up, each sub-group signs the same team name (or uses a stamp with the names of everyone in the larger group), and then everyone logs all the caches found by anyone in the larger group. Yep, armchair logging by any other name... Another common one is sometimes called "three cache monte", and involves bringing spare containers with pre-signed logs, then at each location, you take the container you find and drop a container with a pre-signed log in its place. On the way to the next cache, someone signs (or stamps) the log from the container you took from the previous location. The technique is named for the card hustle where cards are moved around and no one can figure out where any of the cards are. (And never mind the "Sign the logbook and return the geocache to its original location" that's supposed to be part of what geocaching really is.) But numbers runs don't have to use any of these "optimizations". I recall one person who found several hundred on a numbers trail (somewhere in the range of 600-700, IIRC), driving solo on a motorcycle. There was no divide-and-conquer, there was no three cache monte, and there wasn't even any group caching where one person in the group finds the cache and everyone logs a find.

Hello everyone, Years ago I used to cache a lot. I had a 60 series Garmin with a color screen. I lent it to a friend and got destroyed! Oops. Oh well. Reparations were made in the form of concert tickets at the time lol. My typical adventure would mean finding an interesting spot on Google Maps/Earth, mark the coordinates, upload them to the GPS along with any caches, and go exploring. I use GSAK at the time, and I remember doing something with KML files but don't recall what now lol. It's been a decade and I'd like to get back into caching/hiking/exploring. I live in the PNW near Olympic National Forest, and will be spending time in among the forests of trees, and the old 2003 Garmin Etrex just doesn't cut it! Assuming I want to spend $200-300, what's a good GPS these days? I see the Garmin GPSMAP 64x on Amazon for just over $200, and the Garmin GPSMAP 64 for $280. There's also the etrex series, but I rather liked having real buttons to push. So, I'm at a loss. There's so many options out there, and I don't know how to interpret all the new options. I'll appreciate any recommendations. Thanks, and as we say in the ham radio community, 73

So was? https://www.geocaching.com/plan/lists/BM2GNYP?sort=name&sortOrder=asc&skip=0&take=200

That's usually what happens in events and they publish caches during that one. In the end, you are just enjoying the hike, since when you are with 15-20 people at least, it is quite probable that you will not participate in each search. If this event is near your home, I would rather go another time and visit the caches and enjoy the complete experience, but... what should one do when those caches are 100-200 km away from your home? I suppose we shouldn't be so strict, but it depends on the person.

I'm home now and just fired up the phone and app to find everything is back to normal, all caches showing including the ones that weren't showing this morning. Hmm. However, when I zoom out the 200 cache "circle" is back in the same spot, no other caches statewide are showing.

I also had a problem using the app today that I've never come across before. I'm not sure it's related. I was doing a maintenance run and tried to access a cache to write an OM but it would not come up on the screen. All my nearby caches were not showing either. I thought it may have been a poor phone signal but a quick check showed signal strength was good. I found that if I zoomed out all my other caches north of where I was came into view. That seemed odd. I zoomed right out until all caches north of me were gathered together into a 200 cache "circle" which seemed to be centred around my home coords. To my knowledge I've never set any filters to do that. What's going on?

Das es hierzu sogar eine Petition gibt habe ich noch nicht gewusst und bedeutet einen wirklich markanten negativen Höhepunkt. Ich betreibe einige Hobbies und so eine Situation ist mir bisher aus anderen Hobbies nicht bekannt. Die über 200 Kommentare sollten sich die Reviewer mal durchlesen, ich bin wirklich sehr überrascht wie viele sich hierzu äußern. Wenn die Veröffentlichung eines Angebots und einem darauf folgenden Menschenansammlung strafbar wäre dann hat nun jeder Filialleiter einer Aldi Süd Filiale eine Anzeige denn was heute früh vor Aldimärkten los war ist der Wahnsinn.... hundert Meter lange Schlange und nach <1h waren alle Corona-Schnelltests ausverkauft. Also ich habe noch tausende ungefundene Caches in Bayern und sicher hunderte im Umkreis von 50km. Neue Caches sind mir da gar nicht so wichtig und ich bin eh kein FTF-Jäger, bekomme als Basismember eh keine FTFs mit. Ich denke hier geht es einigen nicht in erster Linie um neue Caches sondern um die herablassende Art und Weise, das anmaßende Auftreten der Reviewer und die Bevormundung von Cachern. Über die Tatsache das es hierzu eine Petition gibt bin ich auch sehr überrascht. Jedes Problem kann gelöst werden, jeder ist austauschbar. Das hier nicht deutlich mehr Leute unterzeichnet haben liegt evtl. daran das viele davon nichts wussten.

I take my time for any cache type I create (even for the one traditional and the one virtual cache I own). When I am creating a puzzle cache there's always something to do outside, a (more or less) little outdoor part with stages. The indoor part - the puzzle itself - rarely is only one level of task, it usually consists of many steps to take. I am not a very good tinkerer so building the final cache box usually doesn't take too long but creating and refine the puzzle may take about 50 working hours averaged. I would estimate that my longest creation phase was at the cache GC5RY0X (sorry, it's German) and took me about 150 hours (only the indoor part, outdoorpart adding up some hours). I remember that I was working almost each night after work and sports until 2 a. m. - that's because it was a fun one to create. I created a similar puzzle cache lately (it is betatested right now) with an even longer story but it took me less hours (getting better? :-)). But in the end there might be another 100 hours of working time. Let's see how many changes I have to do after the betatest. :-) Some people want to hide many caches. They can't affort taking their time. That's not for me. With all the time put in my own hides others would have been able to hide 200 or more caches but that's not what I want to do. I have decided that it's nice to create one effortful (for me and the finders) per year - that's enough and for me that's better than creating 20 simple ones getting many "quick found" logs. I don't get too many logs for my caches but the ones I get usually tell me that the finderst had fun! :-)

What about somewhere like Fiji where there are only 35 caches in the whole country? Or the Philippines with 196? Even here in my local area, a basic member using the app will only see 32 caches: Upgrade to premium and they'll have about 150 to pick from in that area: But half of those are higher terrain ones (T3 and above) and you don't knock over dozens of those in a day. Getting to 500 finds in this part of the world takes a lot of time, a lot of effort and a lot of travelling. Edit to add: There's a local cacher who joined in 2018 and is one of the more active cachers in this region. He's hidden 20 caches which have all been well received and is a conscientious CO who always prompty attends to any maintenance issues. Yet in the 3 years he's been playing, he's only made just over 200 finds, so by your measure he's a raw newbie who shouldn't be allowed to log NMs or NAs. Really?

I see you found the NC County Challenge - excellent. It appears the plaque is actually tied to the NC Delorme Challenge - there is a photo in the gallery of the Delorme plaque visiting the county challenge cache. It also isn't clear how much the plaque has been updated since 2015, but perhaps @OzGuff can weigh in on that if the plaque is a deal breaker. I love hunting county and Delorme caches, it's my favorite way to get acquainted with the different places the Army has sent us over the years. For caching outside your local area, if you don't have a solid week or so to dedicate to caching, I found it was easier to divide the state up into chunks so I could knock it out over different weekends. That approach worked for me in Virginia, Alabama, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Maryland/Delaware. I'd recommend you also make sure you're tracking both counties and Delorme pages when you're out and about. When I first lived in Virginia in 2009, it didn't yet have the independent city and county challenges it now has, just the Delorme challenge, so I skipped several cities and counties while I was going around qualifying for the Delorme Challenge. And then, of course, the city and county challenges were published after I'd already done my big trips, and I didn't have time to go back out. When I moved back to the state years later, I had some more trips to take in order to get all the cities and counties I needed. (Not that I'm complaining, mind you. It was a labor of love. But if I'd done the legwork for all of those at the same time, I might have had time to go through North Carolina and hit those challenges instead of retracing my steps through Virginia.) I also recall at least one other county/Delorme run, maybe it was Oklahoma, where I didn't plot a cache correctly and thought it was on one page, when it was actually on another. Thankfully it wasn't too far from home and I could fix that in a day, and I didn't have to go 200+ miles out of my way. Good luck, and have fun.

Tatsächlich habe ich den Junkie so verstanden, dass er schon mehr Caches gefunden hat, diese aber nicht mehr online geloggt hat. Das ist sicher tatsächlich ein weiterer Nachteil von Nichtloggern: Man ist kein besserer Mensch, wenn man die 1000- oder 10000- oder was-weiß-ich-Schallmauer an Cachefunden durchbrochen hat. Aber natürlich bekommt man mit jedem Cachefund - und auch jedem DNF! - mehr Erfahrung und auf dem Papier (!) wird da bei ihm jetzt natürlich der 1-Fund-Newbie bleiben. Und das hat schon einige Konsequenzen, wie man "behandelt" wird: Ein DNF eines Anfängers werde ich zum Beispiel weniger ernst nehmen als den eines erfahrenen Cachers. In meiner Anfangszeit habe ich urbane 1/1-Caches oft nicht gefunden, die ich heute in Sekunden erspähen würde. Ich habe schon Mysterys an den Pseudokoordinaten gesucht, weil ich das nicht wirklich geblickt habe. Usw usf. Auch - und gerade? - bei versteckten Caches bin ich sehr vorsichtig geworden, wenn sie von einer Person mit sehr wenigenFunden kommen. Da weiß man nie, was die für Anfängerfehler einbauen. Und das soll nicht respektlos erscheinen, wie sollen sie das besser hinkriegen? Sie hätten lieber einfach noch ein wenig warten und Erfahrung sammeln sollen. Wer seine Statistik über alle Maßen boostet, wird aber auch wieder suspekt. Am meisten "Respekt" habe ich vor denen, die normale Fundzahlen generieren, laut Logs Spaß am Cachen haben usw. usf. "Normal" ist da sicher relativ, vermutlich bin ich mit 10.000+ Funden für viele auch suspekt. Auf jeden Fall gilt nicht: Je mehr Caches jemand gefunden (bzw. geloggt!) hat, desto mehr Respekt habe ich vor ihm. Für die Cacher mit 200.000+ Funden (führt immer noch Alamogul die Liste an?) habe ich eher Mitleid. :-\ Trotzdem sollte dir das bewusst sein, Insulinjunkie: Ohne zu loggen, wird dir dauerhaft ein Anfänger-Status anhaften.

Is the Oregon 700 worth $200 over the GPSMAP 60? Yes, if you are going to be geocaching frequently enough. It has everything you really need for geocaching, hiking etc. If the GPSMAP 66 worth $300 more than the Oregon 700? Absolutely not in my opinion. If you don't want a touch screen, I would recommend a GPSMAP 64 for half the price of the 66. Another option since you said you are hiking and perhaps size and weight are an issue is perhaps something like a Etrex (except for the 10) which is smaller in size and saves an ounce or two. As others have chimed in, geocaching accuracy isn't a factor anymore, all units will get you to a cache site, FINDING that micro or hard to see cache, well, that's a whole other matter.

'Level Run' check? Any nearby educational institutions teaching surveying? Looks like several marks along a three mile reach of that road could be tied to. EZ1183.The orthometric height was determined by differential leveling and EZ1183.adjusted by the NATIONAL GEODETIC SURVEY EZ1183.in June 1991. 'Nearby' out here in Montana =< 200 miles. kayakbird

Our first hundred or so FTFs were as basic members with no notifications, so It's not a faster car, but being observant. Every once in a while we just "refreshed" the "newest" link of our profile. - That helpful link has now gone... We became PM just so the other 2/3rds could get notifications, yet I got my fair share too just by refreshing. I get them off n on now simply because a cache is more than 200 feet from parking. Realize that all other FTF hounds are seeing that notification around the same time.

there was a cache that I found (I think I may have been FTF) that was along a trail not far from here. There are a couple of places where one could get onto the trail. Just before I got to the trail was within a few feet of a steep drop, about 200 feet to a rocky river bed. There was nothing in the cache listing about appropriateness for children. When I mentioned the cliff in my log the CO thanked me and said that she'd come in from the other direction so was unaware of the steep cliff. She subsequently added a note in the description and a "not recommended for kids" attribute.

I need 200 more graves of centenarians. Do you have any you want to send my way?

This coin is #141 of only 200 Summer 2006 Geocoins released by the Texas Geocaching Association. Though the coin is seriel numbered, it is not trackable except through the Travel Bug tag attached. It commerates scuba diving in the natural springs located at Balmorhea State Park in Texas. Check this link out for more info: https://coord.info/TB1CJPK

Here I finally reached my challenge: 1500 consecutive days with posts. Next Challenge 200 days. And you, where are you?

Sagen alle. Der verlinkte große Multi hat 126 Funde in mehr als 8 Jahren (und ja, ich stimme dir zu, für einen solchen Cache sind das viele Funde). Eine Runde, die ich vor Kurzem auch gemacht habe war eine Adventsrunde, das ist der 24. Cache: https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC90N3N_24-turchen: Dieser Cache hat mehr als 200 Funde in 3 Wochen (inklusive des zugehörigen Trails aus 23 anderen Döschen, die natürlich für die vielen Funde Adventskalender-bedingt ein paar Tage mehr Zeit hatten). Ich weiß nicht, wie man das anders sehen kann. Ein aufwändiger Nachtcache-Multi von mir hat nach über 2 Jahren 21 Funde - allerdings habe ich den auch nicht für Massenandrang gelegt, da bin ich also gar nicht böse drum, dass hier nicht jeder hinläuft. Hätte ich an der gleichen Stelle einen Dosentrail gelegt, wären nach 2 Jahren vermutlich 500 Personen durchgelaufen. Das ist halt einfach so, aber zumindest für den Owner ist das ja gar nicht schlecht. :-)

It depends on the cache, but for unusual caches, there are a few typical logs that make me suspicious. I mean custom caches, gadget caches and well as many high T caches, and high D that are not solve-at-home-mysteries, caches that are intended to give a unique experience of some kind. Simple caches, a plain petling in some dull place or a lock-and-lock under a pile of branches, for those anything goes, but if an unusual cache gets: TFTC Easy find (imagine that on a 4-stage D4T4 multi with field puzzles or similar) "We logged 200 caches today and this was one of them" LOOONG copy-pastes without a single word about the cache or anything else that just treats my special cache as dirt, as just-another-boring-cache then I get suspicios. I call them "half an NM", if nothing else I should check the log, if it has been signed. I know that many beginners log TFTC on everything, they havn't realized what the log is for yet, but experienced cachers are not expected to log TFTC on a custom cache. (Some do, yes.) And often it hasn't been logged. Sometimes it is just the same old "saw it but couldn't reach it". There could be a throwdown, or the cache may be broken. I have had one cache with a lock where the lock was forced, destroyed. Another was quite weird‚ a T4 at about 7 meters up in a tree where there is a fake cache at the ground with a clear message that this is not the cache. Someone climbed up, brought the log down and put it in the fake! (Straight up sabotage, just not as destrucive as the broken lock.) Of course I got suspicious logs after that. So, my answer to the question is simply, if the log just doesn't match the cache, then I get suspicious.