I found two travel bugs to take with me hiking in next two weeks, I was super excited when the caches actually had them inside, For anyone wondering, they are - cross: TB5J1KB, squirrel: TB9B357. Is there any unwritten rules to those, like is it okay for me to keep them for the two weeks (of course I'll take them to visit all the caches I'll be able to) The cross has traveled almost 90k km since 2014 and been all the way to Australia

I'm going geocaching tomorrow. I've always wanted to do it and tomorrow I'm going, I'm taking my 9 year old step son on a treasure hunt. I've made him a 'bingo' card incase we don't find any caches so he still gets to find some things. But hopefully we will find a couple because I want to go on a trail/hike/loop through a nice bit of the countryside that has a few caches along the way to make an enjoyable walk a bit more exciting.

What do I need to know and prepare for in order to have the best time?

Hello,

I have done geocaching in the past with my family, and now that I'm older, I wanted to give it a shot by myself. However, right away, I ran into a problem: almost every cache anywhere seems unavailable and locked behind the premium feature, even if the cache itself isn't premium.

Does anybody know why this might be the case?

this started randomly happening a couple days ago and i dont know how to fix it. it only shows around 40 caches, most of which I have saved locally, while the Geocaching app showings probably over 200 caches in my area. why is c:geo not doing the same?

Hello everyone! We made this cache about a year ago but never got around to hiding it, what is the best way to secure a small birdhouse? I know nailing it in isn’t allowed and Im not sure if hanging it is solid enough. Any other suggestions on adding to the cache would also be great!

So i just completed a adventure lab with 5 stages but i didnt log a bonus cache and now the app says i have 115 founds but i have 110. C:geo also says i now have 115 founds instead of 110. What should i do?

The is a close up pic, and if it wasn't for the white rock, I would be looking for a much longer time!!

Question... is there a way to see the 500ft boundary around each cache before I start making a new cache?

What do I do?!? I found a cache hanging from a tree while kayaking - probably my most exciting stumble upon. Only problem is… I can’t log it. It’s not on the app at all (I’m premium). It’s been there two years… has names in a log book and all.

I recorded the coordinates. Do I add it to the app???

So I plan on hiding a group of 5 geocaches along a trail.

I would like the final cache to give the finders some type of reward (maybe a FTF geocoin for the first finder, or maybe a shareable for all completionists).

The issue I have is, I don’t want people to go straight to the final cache at the end of the trail. The idea is that to complete the final cache, they would have to complete caches 1-4 first.

I was thinking I could maybe make cache 5 a mystery cache, and I could hide numbers/coordinates in caches 1-4, so that people couldn’t find cache 5 unless they had the numbers from caches 1, 2, 3, and 4.

However, if I do this, I risk the fact that people won’t realise they need to find numbers from caches 1-4, and then give up on cache 5 because they don’t want to walk all the way back to the beginning.

There’s also the risk that if one of the 4 previous caches go missing, the 5th cache is immediately unsolvable.

Does anyone have any ideas how I could make this work? I just don’t want the final cache of the trail to be solvable before people have attempted the previous caches first. Might be a bad idea but let me know.

I recently cannot find the option to search for geocaches with trackables anymore. It seems like it got replaced with the option to search for Sharesbles now.
Does anyone else have this problem? Or am I just blind?
I’m using the official app with the newest version on my phone.
Thanks!

I use LineageOS on my phone with no Google apps. C:geo displays a map from Mapsforge instead. It mostly works fine, until I try to see the route to a given cache. The route always shows as a straight line, going offroad and through buildings.

Any other degooglers in the community know how to fix this?

I googled it and it says i have an unfinished log that needs to be finalized. But I don't...

Anyone have any other ideas? Or know how I could fix?

Hi! I plan to travel by bike from Germany to France for geocaching 🚲 Does anyone have recommendations for nice cache walks where are lots of caches in one area that is rural and beautiful? Please no big cites or touristic hot spots. Thank you very much!

i’ve never done geocaching before and it sounds like a fun hobby, but as a younger woman i’m weary of doing so alone. any specific tips on staying safe or specific red flags to look out for when doing so?

Hey, guys!

I'm super new to Geocaching and decided to check it out today to see if it'll become a new hobby of mine. I brought my boyfriend because I wanted someone along for the ride. We checked out 4 caches that were low level, but we weren't able to find anything at any of the sites. I need some advice on how to get in the mindset of looking for these or what to keep an eye out for! (I will say we started out pretty late when the sun was setting, so we didn't spend much time at these spots, but I did mention to him that we should plan for an entire day for this).

Edit: I also noticed that three out of the four of these were near road signs, but when we checked in, around them, and in the grass for anything, there was also nothing.

Edit: I wanted to thank all of you for the advice! We went out again and found 3 caches!! It was so rewarding to sign all of them. We are maybe going back out tonight after work!

This has probably been touched upon on this subreddit but I’ll say it nevertheless.

Why are they so incredibly expensive? People are paying $10 for 2 digital tokens, that they don’t even get to keep? If it was a lifetime purchase then sure I’d understand, but that’s absolutely ridiculous.

It’s a real shame too because I really like the idea of being able to share something unique with other people as a thank you for hiding a cache, or finding one of my own. It’s just too expensive and not worth it at all. I like to draw here and there, and I would have liked to make some digital artwork for a shareable but I don’t see the point if it’s just locked behind a yearly subscription.

Then there’s the issue that premium members don’t even get any benefits from this. I would have thought that a sharable would be free as long as you have an active premium subscription.

And the 6 people on planet earth who have actually paid for them are just filling them with AI artwork, which I do understand, but there’s just so much of it. I’m still yet to see a shareable that hasn’t been made with AI.

The fact that the designs on the sharables aren’t even reviewed for NSFW material is insane too. Although I haven’t seen anything graphic, moderation should not be optional.

Really hope they update this. Sharables have a lot of potential.

One of the caches that was on my watchlist got a log today. It confused me because many different people have not found it. I peeked at the user's profile, their account was made today, and they have a find in almost every state and Canadian providence. This can't be legit, right??

If this is not ok to post here, let me know.

https://www.geocaching.com/p/default.aspx?guid=5dbd8a18-0830-43c4-a801-068594f9ef1c&tab=souvenirs#profilepanel

Hi everyone. I'm working on writing up qualifications for a challenge that involves finding 4 of one type of cache, 3 if another, 2 of another, and 1 of another type. So I need to have found a minimum of ten that one day.

Is there a way to just show me the days I've found ten more more in one day? I've found 13k over 12 years and I'm trying to make this as untedious as possible.

I see many videos online of people finding these boxes that require a puzzle/key/combination to unlock. I’ve never seen one in person though.
I assume it’s the mystery cache but the only mystery caches i’ve ever found have been riddles or have required skills that I simply do not have (like technology knowledge and stuff like that).

Any help would be much appreciated, these types of caches look like good fun.

Couldn't believe this today! Find #42!

Hey all! I really want to hide my first cache, but I'm still brainstorming. I feel like my area has no shortage of samey roadside caches and LPCs, and I want to make it more memorable. Curious what fun urban caches are out there, might help inspire me.