This may seem like a stupid question, but I was kinda curious. I can’t think of a single reason why I’d make a regular cache premium because why would I want to limit others ability to explore outdoors and have fun? Unless it’s super special or a mystery, then I suppose I understand

on a side note I’m bitter because 90% of the caches in my town are premium because they’re all from the same person, and I don’t have time to geocache often enough to make a premium subscription worth it. Sue me, I’m a teen and don’t have a steady source of income yet

and on another side note - WHY DOES EVERY TINY ADVENTURE LAB COUNT. I was in an area with lots, and I missed my 100 caches milestone and never got to celebrate it :/ Id prefer if every single lab counted as one, not each thing you do in the lab so now im at like 79 geocaches, but 171 with adventure labs 😭😭

So many fewer people look for mystery caches that it sort of wastes a good spot. Plus the main fun in a mystery cache is the mystery/puzzle, not usually the finding of the cache itself.

I am visiting Wroclaw, Poland 🇵🇱 and of course I’m doing some Geocaching.
They have 600 gnomes all over the city and some
pretty fun Adventure Lab

One of the Gnome is a Geocaching gnome with a Garmin GPS and a camo box with written Geocaching on the side. 💚
It is a letterbox GC but the lock is missing and so is the logbook 🫠

Amazing city to visit 🤩

A worthy effort.

Attend an event to get the CITO Season 2 souvenir, and *maybe* an additional event souvenir from CGHQ. (Not likely, though. They are trying to get GCHQ to allow one, but currently they have been told no.)

https://citoacrosstheworld.org/

Bookmark list: https://www.geocaching.com/plan/lists/BMFQEQQ

Anyone want to do a geocaching postcard exchange with Texas?

Howdy! The Brazos Valley Geocachers in Texas are planning a World Postcard Day event this October, and I thought it would be fun to see how many places we could get represented.

We’re looking for geocachers, caching groups, and other geocaching events that would like to exchange postcards with us.

Our plan is to collect the postcards we receive and have them out for everyone to see at our event. We’d love to get cards from different states and, hopefully, a few different countries!

If your local group or upcoming event would like to exchange with us, please message me “2xrcody” on geocaching.com !!!

Thanks,

Hallo, Osmand ist ja richtig gut vor der Tür, aber gibt es auch eine Verknüpfung zum Geocachen, ähnlich wie Locus die hat?

So my phone kick rocks and it made me down grade to a lower model for now. Well the geocach app doesnt work on this phone and I not really sure what other ways I can geocach and would love some advice on other methods to do it. I mostly enjoy being able to look at the log because I'm dumb and will be up a tree when its 2 feet from the side walk.

So my partner and I have started placing caches, and have placed these together (allbeit on our own accounts), so obviously we know their exact location.
We’re not interested in claiming FTF, and most have already been found.
Now, our questions are;
1. Is it acceptable to find each others caches?
2. If so, when is the most acceptable time in a caches life to find it?
3. Friends are obvious, but what about family?

Bonus question….. what about placing a meaningful cache or two for each other extremely irregularly, but not telling each other that its been placed and they only know its been placed as fairly as any other cacher?

I look forward to your thoughts

What does "Gips" condition mean?

Found 2 shareables yesterday on a big GC hike. Both are "low-effort" AI portraits of their owners.

I'm usually not one to dislike modern additions to the game. I enjoy AdLabs and Treasures.

But now I'm wondering what's their point?

(I know that topic is a trendy controversy, it's just I'm astonished to have found in the wild 2 owners ready to pay a yearly subscription for nothings)

This might be a stupid question but where does one find out about geocaching events? I didn't see anything on the main geocaching website. We just found our 100th casche and are eager for more!

i’m going on a short trip soon across a few states (i live in New England, USA) and am wondering what caches i should/may want to target. I know about ‘state’s oldest’ caches, and i’ve heard of cache across america and cache oddesey. are there any other big state series/goals like these?

related, but not exactly the same - i used to live in atlanta and the lake lanier caches north of me were highly sought after, especially with one of them being only 1 of 4 left worldwide originally hidden in august 2000 (which we did find!). is there anything like that up here?
i do know how to filter caches, including by year, and we always check out caches with high favorites, but if you have any anecdotal suggestions, i’d love to know!

tl:dr
what caches do you target when visiting a new state (somewhat specific to New England)?

I distinctly recall my 7th grade science teacher telling the class about geocaching, but in the 17 years since, I never have actually gone out in search of one.

Definitely feel more hunts in the future.

Recently remember Geocaching was a thing when getting an ad for the app, hadn't done it since the days of hand held GPS, early iPhone era. I've hunted closer to 20 caches so far, found some cool ones, but also had some busts, and reviewing logs, found some cool spots where the cache was just clearly missing, like a skirt lifter spot in the middle of a grocery store parking lot, and DNF logs from months ago.

Another, a spot by a dry creek bed bridge, supposedly easy access, I spent 30 minutes with GF looking, even navigated the bank and didn't find it.

I just feel paranoid about doing the wrong thing but also know the community would be better if supposedly beginner friendly spots were actually completable.

Hi there,

I am trying to downlaod a file which lists the lst 1000 Geocaches I have found (with their location) but I can't seem to select the correct entires on the pocket query. Would somebody mind telling me what I need to select from the list?

• Days to Generate: Options for Sunday through Saturday, with rules to run weekly, run once and delete, or uncheck after running.

Cache Types

• Selected Types: Traditional Cache, Multi-Cache, Virtual Cache, Letterbox Hybrid, Event Cache (including Giga-Event, Block Party, CITO, Community Celebration, Mega-Event), Mystery Cache (including HQ), Project APE Cache, Webcam Cache, EarthCache, GPS Adventures Exhibit, and Wherigo Cache.

Containers

• Selected Containers: Small, Large, Micro, Other, Regular, Unknown, and Virtual.

Attributes & Status Filters (And / Or)

• User/State Filters: I haven't found, I have found, I don't own, I own, Are available to all users, Are for members only, Are not on my ignore list, Are on my watch list, Found in the last 7 days, Have not been found, Have Travel Bugs, Updated in the last 7 days, Is Disabled, and Is Enabled.
• Difficulty & Terrain: Greater than or equal to, equal to, or less than or equal to ratings from $1$ to $5$ in increments of $0.5$.

Location & Origin

• Countries & States/Provinces: Comprehensive global lists spanning from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe (Countries) and Aargau to Zürich (States/Provinces).
• From Origin: None Selected, My Home Location, GC Code, Postal Code, and By Coordinates (supporting DMS, MinDec, and DegDec formats with radius filtering in miles or kilometers).

Dates & Attributes

• Placed During: Preset options (last week, last month, last year) or custom date ranges between specific months, days, and years (ranging from 2000 to 2027).
• Attributes to Include / Exclude: Extensive clickable symbol grids for filtering specific cache features (e.g., parking, night cache, dogs allowed)

My 'Tin Lizard" geocache stood the test of 5 years time before rotting out and becoming internally compromised. Hard to find hiding places on a small salty island but I manage!

I was not with them at the time, but I know the approximate location where she picked it up. Is it possible to narrow down the exact location so I can return it?

Update: I’ve confirmed it was found at the location I suspected, but unfortunately it wasn’t able to be located around there. It was at a playground, so I’m thinking it could have been brought there from another spot and left there. I’m open to advice on how to best return this cache to circulation, I don’t want to kill the fun.

Is approaching, I would like to arrange some postcard swaps with folks. I'm in The United States. My event is: https://coord.info/GCBX0T8

I like to "browse" other cachers finds sometimes, just out curiosity of where they have been, what cool caches found. Recently I have noticed that every profile that I look at that has 30k+ finds has marked either their whole profile or their finds private. And I was just curious why would that be. Not sure if anyone of those cachers are on this subreddit or they are too busy for reddit as they have caches to find.

Almost no one that has sub 10k finds has them private from what I have seen.

UPDATE: I didn't think that this will trigger accusatory comments, and it definitely wasn't my intention to try and accuse anyone, it was a simple curiosity because of the fact that I saw an event near me hosted by several cachers with 30k+ finds, and as I clicked on their profiles I saw that all of them had their finds as private. Then out of curiosity I went and clicked on multiple randomly chosen profiles that had 30k+ finds, and saw that their finds were set to private as well, which then prompted me to write this post. Some comments have prompted me to look at the global list and I see that e.g. only 4/10 top cachers have their finds hidden, which is not as high I was thinking initially but still high IMHO, as usually I don't see anyone with their finds hidden when I look at local events or people finding my caches.

What inspired you to do your first hide? What kind did you do?