+Clan Mack Posted June 23, 2019 Posted June 23, 2019 Despite having started caching in 2003 and being a premium member, I still consider myself a newbie. We used to do long hikes for a single cache. Now it's all puzzles, park and grab and a race for numbers. I see "lab caches" in my statistics (obviously a 0), but it isn't something you can search for with the filter. What are they and how do I find one?? I'd love to try some of these new new cache types. Quote
+K13 Posted June 23, 2019 Posted June 23, 2019 Look in your app store for Adventure Labs app. These are a separate app and cache experience. That app will show you the ones nearest your location. 1 Quote
+cerberus1 Posted June 23, 2019 Posted June 23, 2019 39 minutes ago, Clan Mack said: Despite having started caching in 2003 and being a premium member, I still consider myself a newbie. We used to do long hikes for a single cache. Now it's all puzzles, park and grab and a race for numbers. I see "lab caches" in my statistics (obviously a 0), but it isn't something you can search for with the filter. What are they and how do I find one?? I'd love to try some of these new new cache types. I was gonna give a link to explain lab caches for you, but some reason they now go to this new "adventure" labs thing, a phone app... The sorta-official explanation is "lab caches are an experimental geocache type often played at Mega-Events." When the site wants to try something new, they might make it a "lab cache" to see what folks think. 1 Quote
+NYPaddleCacher Posted June 24, 2019 Posted June 24, 2019 12 hours ago, K13 said: Look in your app store for Adventure Labs app. These are a separate app and cache experience. That app will show you the ones nearest your location. Did that. The closest lab cache is 110 miles away. Quote
+K13 Posted June 24, 2019 Posted June 24, 2019 4 hours ago, NYPaddleCacher said: Did that. The closest lab cache is 110 miles away. My closest ones are 165 miles. Quote
+steve4nlanguage Posted July 30, 2019 Posted July 30, 2019 I've been playing since 2014 and have often wondered what lab caches were. I just downloaded the app and I'm afraid I beat NYPaddleCacher and K13. I live in Taiwan and the closest lab cache to me is 3,215 km (1,997 miles) away, in Kuala Lumpur Quote
+NYPaddleCacher Posted July 30, 2019 Posted July 30, 2019 2 hours ago, steve4nlanguage said: I've been playing since 2014 and have often wondered what lab caches were. I just downloaded the app and I'm afraid I beat NYPaddleCacher and K13. I live in Taiwan and the closest lab cache to me is 3,215 km (1,997 miles) away, in Kuala Lumpur I've found a few caches in Malaysia but they were in Sarawak, the Malaysian state on the island of Borneo. The closest I would have even been to the lab cache in Kuala Lumpur was when I spent the night in Singapore. Quote
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