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Routenverfolgung zu www.geocaching.com [63.251.163.200] über maximal 30 Hops: 1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms fritz.box [192.168.178.1] 2 * * * Zeitüberschreitung der Anforderung. 3 8 ms 8 ms 8 ms 92.79.251.56 4 9 ms 8 ms 8 ms 88.79.22.104 5 11 ms 10 ms 10 ms 92.79.214.236 6 11 ms 11 ms 11 ms 145.254.2.199 7 11 ms 11 ms 11 ms ae38-100-xcr1.dus.cw.net [195.2.18.189] 8 14 ms 14 ms 14 ms ae23.pcr1.fis.cw.net [195.2.20.178] 9 15 ms 15 ms 15 ms be3001.agr41.fra03.atlas.cogentco.com [130.117.14.73] 10 15 ms 15 ms 16 ms be3187.ccr42.fra03.atlas.cogentco.com [130.117.1.118] 11 18 ms 19 ms 18 ms be2814.ccr42.ams03.atlas.cogentco.com [130.117.0.141] 12 110 ms 109 ms 109 ms be12488.ccr42.lon13.atlas.cogentco.com [130.117.51.41] 13 111 ms 110 ms 111 ms be2490.ccr42.jfk02.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.42.85] 14 110 ms 109 ms 109 ms be2890.ccr22.cle04.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.82.245] 15 110 ms 109 ms 110 ms be2718.ccr42.ord01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.7.129] 16 122 ms 121 ms 121 ms be2832.ccr22.mci01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.44.169] 17 159 ms 159 ms 159 ms be3036.ccr22.den01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.31.89] 18 159 ms 159 ms 159 ms be3038.ccr32.slc01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.42.97] 19 171 ms 170 ms 170 ms be2029.ccr22.sea02.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.86.110] 20 171 ms 171 ms 171 ms be3321.rcr21.sea03.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.42.206] 21 172 ms 172 ms 171 ms Internap-Network-Services.demarc.cogentco.com [38.104.124.82] 22 172 ms 171 ms 171 ms border1.ae1-bbnet1.sef.pnap.net [63.251.160.4] 23 173 ms 173 ms 173 ms edge1.ae1-edgenet.sef.pnap.net [64.94.137.18] 24 171 ms 170 ms 171 ms www.geocaching.com [63.251.163.200] Ablaufverfolgung beendet.

Nicht super schnell, aber auch keine wirklichen Probleme: Routenverfolgung zu www.geocaching.com [63.251.163.200] über maximal 30 Hops: 1 1 ms 1 ms <1 ms fritz.box [192.168.x.x] 2 13 ms 12 ms 12 ms 192.0.0.1 3 13 ms 13 ms 41 ms 62.72.71.113 4 22 ms 19 ms 23 ms xnl1002aihb001.versatel.de [80.249.209.109] 5 22 ms 21 ms 19 ms ams-ix-ae6-inap.com [80.249.209.187] 6 24 ms 20 ms 32 ms 216.52.199.46 7 99 ms 99 ms 99 ms bbr1.ae101.bsn003.pnap.net [64.95.159.33] 8 130 ms 116 ms 116 ms bbr1.ae101.chg.pnap.net [64.95.159.182] 9 157 ms 157 ms 157 ms bbr2.ae102.sef.pnap.net [64.95.158.85] 10 156 ms 156 ms 157 ms bbr1.ae7.sef.pnap.net [64.95.158.77] 11 157 ms 159 ms 156 ms core1.po2.inap-31.sea.pnap.net [64.95.158.154] 12 157 ms 156 ms 175 ms border1.ae1-bbnet1.sef.pnap.net [63.251.160.4] 13 158 ms 156 ms 157 ms edge1.ae1-edgenet.sef.pnap.net [64.94.137.18] 14 157 ms 156 ms 156 ms www.geocaching.com [63.251.163.200]

Gestern und heute keinerlei Probleme. Die generelle Erreichbarkeit kann man mit Diensten à la "down for everyone or just me" gut testen: https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/geocaching.com Da zu einer Web-Verbindung von Browser zu Server verschiedene Wege durchs Internet möglich sind, kann es sein, dass zwar Dein Internetzugang prinzipiell gut funktioniert und der Server bei Groundspeak auch - aber irgendwo dazwischen eine Verbindung "lahmt". Meine läuft z.B. über diese Zwischenstationen (Telekom als ISP): tracert www.geocaching.com Routenverfolgung zu www.geocaching.com [63.251.163.200] über maximal 30 Hops: 1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms fritz.box [192.168.x.y] 2 7 ms 6 ms 7 ms blabla-irgendwas.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [a.b.c.d] 3 20 ms 19 ms 20 ms a-b-c-d-e-f-i.F.DE.NET.DTAG.DE [217.x.y.z] 4 28 ms 29 ms 27 ms 80.157.201.198 5 26 ms 25 ms 25 ms be3186.ccr41.fra03.atlas.cogentco.com [130.117.0.1] 6 32 ms 32 ms 32 ms be2813.ccr41.ams03.atlas.cogentco.com [130.117.0.121] 7 117 ms 117 ms 117 ms be12194.ccr41.lon13.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.56.93] 8 116 ms 116 ms 116 ms be2317.ccr41.jfk02.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.30.185] 9 116 ms 116 ms 116 ms be2889.ccr21.cle04.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.47.49] 10 116 ms 116 ms 117 ms be2717.ccr41.ord01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.6.221] 11 130 ms 128 ms 128 ms be2831.ccr21.mci01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.42.165] 12 169 ms 174 ms 169 ms be3035.ccr21.den01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.5.89] 13 171 ms 171 ms 170 ms be3037.ccr21.slc01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.41.145] 14 185 ms 190 ms 186 ms be3284.ccr22.sea02.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.44.73] 15 184 ms 187 ms 185 ms be3321.rcr21.sea03.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.42.206] 16 185 ms 184 ms 184 ms Internap-Network-Services.demarc.cogentco.com [38.104.124.82] 17 166 ms 166 ms 166 ms border1.ae2-bbnet2.sef.pnap.net [63.251.160.68] 18 169 ms 167 ms 167 ms edge1.ae1-edgenet.sef.pnap.net [64.94.137.18] 19 170 ms 171 ms 171 ms www.geocaching.com [63.251.163.200] Ablaufverfolgung beendet. Also erst meine Fritzbox, dann der Telekom-Einwahlserver, dann Router der DTAG (telekom), dann ein Internet-Anbieter namens Cogent, dann über einen namens PNAP und dann zum Web-Frontend-Server www.geocaching.com. Bei Dir läuft das vielleicht ganz anders, und irgendein Techniker bei irgendeinem der Provider hat irgendwas falsch konfiguriert, und nun hakt es. Wo genau? Keine Ahnung. Wer das beheben kann? Erst recht keine Ahnung. Die Webseite an sich scheint es nicht zu sein.

A lot of improvements have been made, including making the game more accessible to a new generation of geocachers through the use of the free Groundspeak geocaching app and other third party geocaching apps. I love that you can just be sitting someplace unplanned, like a highway rest stop, pull out your phone, search for nearby caches, and find one nearby. I started 11 years ago with a Garmin eTrex H without a serial cable and had to type in all the coordinates that I wanted to find by hand, using the enter - up - down - back buttons. Finding the 32 stage multi cache "The Bridges and Arches of Central Park" was brutal planning-wise (though still my favorite cache ever). Adventures have been introduced, which I describe as a location-based game created by Groundspeak that is not geocaching but similar to it. You need a separate app for Adventures. Each lab cache (the individual parts of Adventures) found counts as a find on your geocaching profile, which was a great marketing ploy by Groundspeak because they had a built-in community from their main game of geocaching. Lab caches are like geocaches except they lack physical logbooks (as do virtuals, webcams, and earthcaches), they lack difficulty and terrain ratings, online log write-ups, coordinates for finders to use their GPS receivers, lack of GPS receiver support, they don't show up on your find list, and they don't show up on the geocaching map. You must use a smartphone, and when you get within a certain radius, the ability to answer the question you need for a find is unlocked, and when you enter the answer, you get your +1 find count and that's it. I'm a little snarky about Adventures (as you can tell) but I'm hoping they get more integrated into mainstream geocaching, though from what I've read there are no plans to do that. The thing I miss most about them is writing logs, I enjoy that part of geocaching and feel cheated when I just type in the answer to some question and get a +1. ("What is the first name on the gravestone?" "Bob". +1) Webcams are almost gone (I heard around 200 left worldwide) but virtual caches are awarded through a lottery system occasionally. Premium membership is the same price as it was 20 years ago, which is pretty amazing considering inflation over the last 20 years. Oh, and the GIFF, the Geocaching International Film Festival. That's my favorite thing. In 2013 the folks at Groundspeak started an international film festival, asking geocachers to send in short films (1-4 minutes) for consideration to be chosen as part of a 1 hour film reel. From 2013-2014 the films were only shown in Seattle at an outdoor film event and on Groundspeak's YouTube channel, but starting in 2015, because of a rainstorm in Seattle (seriously), Groundspeak asked locals around the world to host this film festival in November of each year (except for 2020 and 2022). On a whim, never having made a film before, I entered one in 2017 and it was selected, and my film was shown to over 15,000 geocachers in over 50 countries at over 600 events. Pretty cool. My films have been in the film festival in 2017, 2019, and 2021, and it helped me start my YouTube channel (see my profile if you're interested). Who knew as a middle aged engineer that I'd one day become a filmmaker thanks to geocaching. Welcome back, enjoy the game, it's a lot of fun still.

At GeoWoodstock in Ft. Worth, I overheard a couple geocachers talking about how in their 200-some-odd finds that day, they had completed two full Fizzy Loops. I laughed out loud at that. (There were a couple GeoArts that were placed prior to the events that had the false D/T ratings to bolster the egos of those grid fillers.) That's why the old date and cache type restrictions should remain on those Challenges with one.

I was first and last to find a cache once. Around 200+ miles off, but at least in my state. The cache name was my clue, only one in the state, and fly fished there for years. Just happened to notice it when we used to have new caches in the regional forums. After finding, it turned out to be on NPS property, and had to be archived anyway. - So on top of incorrect coordinates, lack of permission did him in as well.

It's nice to see new countries being introduced. I am still missing New Caledonia & PNG, but they might be coming. They can't all be done at once. However, it seems I now only have 32 souvenirs, but it's the important ones, so not a big problem for me. Fortunately though I got enough for a challenge that needed 200 souvenirs to log it before this.

Dass (nicht nur) hier im Forum händeringend davon abgeraten wird, einen Cache zu legen, bevor man selbst 100, besser 200 Caches verschiedener Typen gefunden hat, möchte ich immerhin kurz erwähnen. Laut Eurem Profil habt ihr acht Caches gefunden, und alle waren Tradis geringer Schwierigkeit. 🤐 Insofern: viel Glück und gutes Gelingen!

May I present to you the power of photoshop and what amazing GeoArt images you could potentially produce. Could you imagine just how crazy it would be to build such a thing in real life. I mean, that would be almost 200 containers! And it would be a bit cheeky to have a British flag in the middle of Idaho, a place that loves to fly flags that are not British.

HHL: You are having more success with your Swedish lists, than I do with my Alberta and Saskatchewan lists. I note that your last four are all over the maximum of 750 caches to which I now appear to be limited. That is, my button "Add 750 to list" never goes higher than 750. I have tried several times with lists of 850 or more, and 750 is the maximum that I can add. Also, I have now worked out the process of creating lists from the search map which is a little trickier than I remember it being before. For example, before I figured out the process, when I had my map set to show only 50 caches at a time, (or 100 or 200), then, until I worked out the correct procedure, when I tried to add the geocaches I wanted to a list, my list would only contain 50, or 100, or 200, depending on what setting I was using for the number of caches to be shown on my map at the time I made the list. I have now worked out the crucial need to select the "Sort by" box on the upper left side of the screen beside the map. When I do that, I get the "Add 750 to list" box. Now that I have figured that part out, then (as you say), the procedure works "flawlessly" for me as well :-) Das Leben ist in der Tat eine Reise, aber für einige von uns hat es ein paar Wendungen mehr als für andere. :-) Vielen Dank für Ihre Antwort auf meinen Hinweis. MartyWalker1

I am having trouble creating lists, where I never had difficulty before. Even though I add as many as 800-950 caches to a particular list, the list I then create only contains 50, 100, or 200 caches, the number coinciding to the "Show 50", "Show 100", or "Show 200", options given on the drop-down menu that may be open when I am creating the list. Have I unknowingly set up some sort of limit on the lists I am trying to create, all of which exceed 200? Thank you for any assistance you can provide.

What does a person pay premium for when they don't download Pocket Query. We wait for hours and nothing. Instead of 1000 caches, we will give only 200 and nothing. s*** services

Recently, I have discovered 2 geocachers in my area who have logged caches as 'found' but their caching handles do not appear on the log sheets. While they are relative newbies (one <100 finds, the other <200), they should have sufficient understanding about claiming a find. I have reached out to both... with no response. I do not believe that they just "didn't have a pencil"; I believe this is claiming a find without physical presence, and hoping the owner does nothing. I know I can delete the log, but if this is a habit, and I'm the only one 'policing' my caches, then this pattern will continue. I can check one because 'his' handle is public to review other caches claimed; I cannot check the other as 'his' handle is private. comments? suggestions?

Bonjour je comprends parfaitement le fait d'utiliser le langage anglo-saxon que je maitrise surtout concernant les données techniques mais beaucoup moins dans les méandres du langage commun lui même en évolution , le français va inévitablement se retrouver en minorité dans la tête des développeurs ( même si l'on dit que c'est la langue diplomatique ...) ce qui est paradoxal peut être . Si bien que je n'arrive pas à ouvrir un post concernant la distance réelle (par la route) entre deux caches , à cause du menu incomplet en Français Exemple : à vol d'oiseau = 200 m au dessus de la rivière , mais par la route 10 Km , on fait quoi ? Je suis hors sujet et vous voudrez bien m'en pardonner ... mais ceci illustre en partie le pourquoi je m'exprime ici Cordialement DDV24 ( tout nouveau owner , je dirais "poseur" en bon Français )

The simple caches are almost always legit. I think most people's concerns or doubts are quantities of high terrain caches. An easy way to accrue high terrain finds is via challenge caches (often misrated for the physical cache to find for sake of the challenge), or tree climbs where you're with someone who climbs. Paddle caching is another easy way, but not typically a super-fast way to increase the find count. So it's possible, but I find it harder to believe that someone with oodles of high terrain caches has only found caches where there's a "loophole" to physical requirements towards a legitimate find. As for high D's? Puzzle solving (c/o friends or shared final coordinates) and challenge qualifications are easy ways to accrue high D finds. All that said, it's not unreasonable to believe that people with 100-200,000 finds has been to every cache. Can't make any judgment call on the famous top finders though, just my thoughts on stats

By right-clicking a cache on the new Search-Map and then "Download GPX" results in an error-page. Result: https://www.geocaching.com/error/404.aspx?statusCode=200&referrer=/play/map If you open the cache via left-clicking, it works in the sidebar as expected.

There is a tool on project-gc.com which lists the sums of hidden caches per country. https://project-gc.com/Challenges//22565 There are 12 entries on that list which have no hidden caches: # Country nr caches Per 100 000 Population Per km2 Area km2 Population Density 238 Netherlands Antilles 0 0.000 172261 0.000 999 172.433 239 Bouvet Island 0 -nan 0 0.000 49 0.000 240 North Korea 0 0.000 24213510 0.000 120538 200.879 241 Saba 0 0.000 1911 0.000 13 147.000 242 Heard Island and McDonald Islands 0 -nan 0 0.000 412 0.000 243 Comoros 0 0.000 806153 0.000 2235 360.695 244 St Eustatius 0 0.000 3543 0.000 32 110.719 245 Nauru 0 0.000 10084 0.000 21 480.190 246 Swaziland 0 0.000 1132657 0.000 17364 65.230 247 Equatorial Guinea 0 0.000 1222442 0.000 28051 43.579 248 St. Martin 0 0.000 33609 0.000 54 622.389 249 Bonaire 0 0.000 17408 0.000 294 59.211

I've stayed from social media, so a chinese company their government has a "1+%" stake in is a definite no. Hopefully someone looks. But with so many sites still calling this location hobby a real world, or real-life "treasure hunt", we can see that happening... New, weekend n done folks look for a cache, find a damp log and a broken mctoy, and say, "where's the loot? I walked 200 feet in woods...". I still feel that next to hoarders, "treasure" is a big reason so many trackables go missing. A once-and-done finds a plastic soldier, and a trackable tag or coin in the gladware. - Which one would they be taking as their treasure/souvenir of their day...?

Two weeks in and if anything it is now more broken than before. I now get to see 5 pages of 200 future events from all over the world, no sign of the 30 mile radius from home that there used to be. At least the sort order seems to be correct 2023! is the first cache on the list, though it is over 10000 miles away. I can go in and add or correct all the parameters myself, but then that would be classed as a 'Premium' feature.

OOPS! Deleted again. Oh Well, Here's a sanitized version : April 2, 2020 - Gas is 89 cents April 2, 2022 - Gas is $1.89 - Diesel is $1.93 (Gas, in this area at least, topped out at about $1.99, somewhat higher on the coast.) What a difference seemingly small things such as oil prices can exert upon our lives!!! Got an email from France a couple of days ago, and I quote: "€200 for 60 liters" [for diesel]. That translates to $Cdn4.60 per litre!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Which becomes $Cdn20.49 per Imperial gallon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Now let's translate that further to US $ per US gallon for the US viewers: - $13.64 per gallon So, we can all quit our bitchin' on this side of the pond. The folks on the other side of the pond are taking an economic hit that we are, to date, fortunate to have somewhat avoided, in spite of what many may perceive! Keith

Those, almost blank puzzles, has been very interesting ones for me. Five years ago, a CO made series of ten D5 puzzle caches and each of them had 20 almost blank 500+ pieces Jigidi puzzles to solve in a row. I managed to make all of these 200 puzzles (about 100 000 pieces together) but got only six FTF of ten possible because some caches were too difficult for me to find. In Finland we have over 1500 Jigidi puzzle caches (list1 list2) and new ones are popping out continuously. In this context @Ms Maddy's complain about severe problems seems quite odd, because I have seen no discussion about such problems with Jigidi caches in Finland. In many cases Jigidi is only part of the cache idea to get more hints or another task (Like ROT-13). For example, in my own puzzle cache GC8YPR8 you must solve three Jigidi puzzles at first, but then you will get more challenges with another type of tasks. I think that you are absolutely correct, but statistics tells another story. The example puzzle above contains three jigsaws and when I open the leaderboard of the first one I see 478 solvers It is an amazing number of players!

Nope, they're not. When I started caching back in 2004 I don't think there was a premium cache with 200 miles. I still remember how offended I was when one showed up nearby. I swore I would never make any of my caches PMO. Times change, in 2004 you needed a $200+ GPS to play, now it's free. Anyone with a smart phone (which is pretty much anyone over 6 years old) can download the app and start caching (or pranking cachers). These days almost all my caches are PMO, it's not a cure but it helps cut down on all sorts of issues. Out of curiosity I ran a PQ of caches near his one find. (can you tell I'm retired) I put them in GSAK and searched for any logs by the user and, out of around 700 caches, the only one was his single "found it" on your cache. No bogus NM or NA logs or anything like that. My take is that he's a bored kid sending messages and seeing who will respond.

200% Agree

Hey all, CFE or Crit here. Located in Mid-Michigan and been caching on and off since 2014 as a wee lad. I'm quite younger than most veteran cachers, but have recently been reinvigorated with the love for the art by introducing a new friend to caching and we've been on a spree finding them since. For having cached for as many years as I have, it may be surprising that I just recently got over the 200-find mark. But as life tends to be, I do not have easy transport access and was really only able to find those within bicycle distance for the longest time. Hoping to change that soon and change is already in progress. I'm still very proud that the first cache I hid back in 2014 is still around to this day, even if I can't be there to do maintenance on it. I really want that ownership transferred, yeesh... Best find? Probably one in the woods with a bunch of multicolored bison tubes and only 1 of the tubes had the log inside. Either that or a walk down a deertrail to an abandoned piece of wall with elaborate graffiti on it. Cheers, and glad to be a part of this community for this long, and my goal is to keep the trade going for as long as I can, being part of the newer generation of cachers...

If I click the "map these" Button on the search/results page and have a given radius (e.g. 200 km) this is ignored for the zoom level. The zoom is always the default level 14. Also, if I save me a Link with a zoom level and open it, it will be overridden to the default zoom level. This is quite annoying if you have a search for specific ratings or other queries, which have not many caches near you.