Need help

[+acachebox]

I have a note in my file of something I did on Jan 28. It refers to an cache GZGZ-- How can I look up this cache by it's number?

[+The A-Team]

I have a note in my file of something I did on Jan 28. It refers to an cache GZGZ-- How can I look up this cache by it's number?

GZGZ isn't a valid identifier for a cache. All Geocaching.com cache identifiers start with "GC". I tried looking up "GCGZ", but it doesn't exist. I tried "GCGZGZ", but it's in Montana, and it doesn't look like you were anywhere near there around that date.

Do you remember where it was? You could look on the map to find it. Other than that, I have no idea what the GZGZ might refer to. Was it shorthand for the cache name, maybe?

[+acachebox]

I have a note in my file of something I did on Jan 28. It refers to an cache GZGZ-- How can I look up this cache by it's number?

GZGZ isn't a valid identifier for a cache. All Geocaching.com cache identifiers start with "GC". I tried looking up "GCGZ", but it doesn't exist. I tried "GCGZGZ", but it's in Montana, and it doesn't look like you were anywhere near there around that date.

Do you remember where it was? You could look on the map to find it. Other than that, I have no idea what the GZGZ might refer to. Was it shorthand for the cache name, maybe?

 

I purposely did not complete the full number of the cache, note the 2 -- at the end, If you were able to look up several cache numbers that is what I asking. How do I look up a given cache by just it's number.

[+dfx]

You go to the "hide and seek a cache" page: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/default.aspx

and enter the GC code into the "by GC code" field.

[+acachebox]

You go to the "hide and seek a cache" page: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/default.aspx

and enter the GC code into the "by GC code" field.

 

That field will not take a GZ number. I have had this problem searching for other items like those with GW numbers.

[+dfx]

You go to the "hide and seek a cache" page: http://www.geocachin...ek/default.aspx

and enter the GC code into the "by GC code" field.

 

That field will not take a GZ number. I have had this problem searching for other items like those with GW numbers.

 

Which is kinda what the A-team tried to tell you. All geocache numbers/codes start with "GC". All all all of them.

[+acachebox]

All right I accept that but how do I look up items that do not start with GC? IE travel bugs, coins, and cards.

 

I think I have figured out my note. I dropped a TB on that day and noted the bug's number for posting later.

 

Still would like to know how to search an item by it's number.

Edited February 26, 2012 by acachebox

[+Gitchee-Gummee]

Use the "Play" link on the front page of geocaching.com

 

Here is the trackables search link http://www.geocaching.com/track/default.aspx .

[+Walts Hunting]

A search in google will turn up all references to that sequence

[+acachebox]

A search in google will turn up all references to that sequence

 

An interesting approach but had no results.

 

I am beginning to think it was the serial number typed on a TB I dropped that day but the TB reference number listed on line is not the number typed on the bug. Is there a way to search for the actual number on the bug?

[+Chokecherry]

Did you pick up the bug? If so you can look through the bugs in your inventory to find it.

[Pup Patrol]

I have a note in my file of something I did on Jan 28. It refers to an cache GZGZ-- How can I look up this cache by it's number?

 

On that date, you logged a "found it" for GC1W1PY BIG RED TRACTOR:

 

Found it 01/28/2012

 

Picked up ******

 

Maybe the note in your file had something to do with that?

 

It's this travel bug, and you need to edit your "found it" log to remove the tracking number, which is not supposed to be posted publicly.

 

Use the "public" reference number:

 

http://www.geocaching.com/track/details.aspx?tracker=TB2THJN

 

 

B.

Edited February 26, 2012 by Pup Patrol

[+Chrysalides]

Use the coord.info website.

 

For example, if the GC code is GZGZ :

 

http://coord.info/GCGZGZ

 

If the TB # is TB0001 :

 

http://coord.info/TB0001

[+Chrysalides]

Just for clarification : coord.info is Groundspeak's short URL redirector. You cannot use it with the code that is on the trackable or geocoin, but only with its "public" code (the one that starts with TB).

 

To go directly to the cache page of a trackable with its "secret" code, use :

 

http://www.geocaching.com/track/details.aspx?tracker=CODE