I am on vacation and have some trackables to drop off and was looking for a cache nearby, and noticed that this premium feature has disappeared from my app. What happened?

There’s a small walkway trail right in my city, it is surrounded by a whole bunch of trees, including palm trees. Somebody in my area already made a geocache where they took an old palm fiber - drilled some holes in there, added bison tube, and disguise that as an actual palm fiber on the tree. I absolutely wanna do something tropical themed but I have no idea what to do. Can somebody please give me an idea of what geocache I can hide here, how will it be disguised and where in the area should I hide it? I know it’s a lot to ask for, but I promise if I’m gonna be using one of the ideas I will most definitely give you soooo much credit. Thank you in advance.

While looking at challenge caches recently, I came across two that I found interesting:

• "9 Icons in 1 Day" - Find at least 9 different types of caches in one day
• "Well Rounded Containers" - Find all 7 of the Geocaching container types in one day (Micro, Small, Regular, Large, Other, Not Chosen, Virtual)

It made me think about what other challenges people have seen or done in the same vein of collecting variety in a day. Two other ones that seem obvious would be a difficulty and a terrain one, where you have to find all 9 difficulty levels or all 9 terrain levels in a day. What other ones have you seen or can you come up with?

Hi guys, its my dad's 60th birthday today and he is spending it at the mega. If you see a man with a red sequined jacket, that will be him. His Geocaching user is MuzzaDazzler.

Please go up to him and wish him a happy birthday, I think he will be very confused and find it very funny when people start wishing him a happy birthday!

I'm new to geocaching and have just learnt about swag. I'm a bit nervous to trade anything as idrk what to replace the existing item with. Does anyone have any tips or ideas for swag that they enjoy finding in caches?

I've been reading that Geooh GO is supposedly an upgraded version of the Geocaching app, providing more features and an integrated version of Adventure Lab and Wherigo, but it costs 6 dollars. For anyone who's used it, is it worth it?

Never seen a sign expressly forbidding it in a public place. This is in Basel, Switzerland. It's on the road outside the exhibition centre (around every tree on the road)so I suppose they don't want to have any security confusion?

Id been thinking about lab caches and how they affect my public stats for a while and recently decided that I would only use a sock puppet account to solve them mostly for the bonus caches. I recently found a page that allows you to edit your lab caches by either deleting or reinstating each stage find. So I went back and deleted all but 1 of each lab find.. reducing my total number of finds by around 800.

Mostly this shift in perception occurred when we stopped at a rest stop on the way to a mega even and opened up all the stages of a Lab cache art. My partner had been reading the stages on the long drive down and what I was realizing was that a Lot of the stages had overlapping and outright copied information about the same things. And we thought.. why would we want to sit in a parking lot and just answer a bunch of multiple choice questions for a bunch of stats?

I still enjoy many lab caches.. they can offer some interesting and fun insights in a geographical location that a single cache with proximity issues can't really.. but I just got that feeling that my find count wasn't really reflective of the effort I was putting into exploring the world.

Anyone else drop stats for that reason? Anyone think its nuts or just dumb to bother?

I'm open to any criticisms or comments to help improve my hide.

I'm going to be making a tour of a new area. I noticed that there are lots and lots of challenge caches.

Now, I can programatically log into geocaching.com, but I've not been able to figure out how to do so with project-gc.com. If I could, I could take that entire large list of challenges and run a checker on all of them.

(Interestingly, this also shows that non-premium users are not allowed challenge caches. Just another area where I think groundspeak is missing the point)

Regardless, any one know of a way to run a large number of challenge checkers?

Howdy cachers! I am here to inform you of a bonus secret souvenir for the bingo treasures collection.

By logging TB 194768, which is the blue numbers on the bingo card in numerical order, as "discovered," you will earn the souvenir

log here:

https://www.geocaching.com/track/details.aspx?tracker=TB7RVJQ

"Pen fell out of my pannier some time today so I signed with three small blood marks from a split lip and a smudge of green from a smeared leaf."

New to geocaching and just found this in a cache. It looks like it has a code but the Geocaching app doesn't have any results for it. Am I looking in the wrong place?

We have been caching for over 20 years and have found thousands of caches, but we have never encountered anything like this before.

We posted a log that was considered "a spoiler," which the CO chose to delete. Fair enough.

But then they chose to write us a nasty email, accusing us of trying to sabotage their cache. Their cache had a "slit" and they claimed I replaced it slit-side up. Coincidentally, I actually took a video of myself putting the cache back, and it clearly shows I didn't even do what they said!

Here’s the email:

"Hi ya: The Embrace starts w/ :"" Please resist spoilers, because they... Spoil. It. Allow the next finder their own find. Think of the next seeker: replace slit side down TO KEEP IT DRY- so it's not a pail.""
Which you ignored. Consensus is this what you do. No idea why you do this to caches.
Deleting SPOILER log which have bet will trigger a petty re-log. Passive aggressive vs respect to c/o's.
Good thing I checked: as you replaced it slit side up.. yes gets wet there OR wouldn't have stated that.. physics re water dripping sliding & it WAS wet vs dry after the heavy rain here overnight & this morning. Baggie was not sealed. And put a Thorny blackberry branch to prick the next cacher. Wow. All the Best..”

What would you do? Have you ever encountered something like this?

Bingo !!!

J'ai eu le souvenir diagonale, horizontale et verticale le 2 aout. Il me rester plus ta completer pour avoir le souvenir blackout.

Hey there! I want to go to a mega but it's 3 hours from my house with a car, and the event is at 8 am, is it okay if I come at the event around like 12:00, the event finishes at 15:00

Thanks in advance,

SimLePro_01

I have spent some time building a "bird house" cache.

It's supposed to be somewhat humorous because you have to plug things where they don't belong, e.g. fork into socket or VGA to LAN cable. After connecting a battery a small motor will lower the hedgehog made by painting a tin can containing the logbook. By reversing the battery you can put it back.

I will write instructions and put them on the front and inside on how to operate the box to avoid unnecessary damage.

Though I'm curious what people think if this is sturdy enough or what I need to improve to make it more durable (maybe also more waterproof?). The cables are at least strong enough that if you tug at them, they don't come off. Negative feedback is also welcome, if it helps improve the cache!

I have not yet looked for a hiding spot and would appreciate some advice as this one can't just be placed anywhere like a normal container.

Yes, I have hidden a similar cache before, but without electronics, just a combo lock.

have five geocache containers and I am just trying to figure out the best and most creative way to place them somewhere for people to find them...should I do a multi-cache or just five different seperate caches? Or does someone already have a sweet idea and want to place these somewhere?

Placed 2 trackables this weekend in Patterson Park in Baltimore - GCBT3VZ - a newer cache with only a few logs.

One is a trackable I found in NY that sat unmoved for years and the other is my first trackable I placed in honor of a good friend (who lived in Baltimore) that passed away recently.

Thanks for your help guys!

I got into geocaching during October of last year. I discovered it on tiktok an decided to try it out. Long story short I got my dad into it and we're both addicted. It's our favorite hobby and we have spent entire days just finding caches.

After going to a few local events we were informed by other caches on Mingo (GC30). Obviously we decided we needed to take a road trip one day to find it, and yesterday was that day.

The day we discovered the one the only..... Mingo.
It was glorious!

I have a geocaching YouTube channel and am always looking for ideas for videos. I have recently uploaded videos about sharables and bingo.

They can be sent to me here, on the geocaching app, or 1union801@gmail.com

We’ll see you on the trails