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The original was posted on /r/geocaching by /u/psychedellen on 2025-07-12 20:05:38+00:00.


I found a cache today that was about 60 feet off in the coordinates and put you more or less in someones someone's back yard. Many posts noted that the coordinates were incorrect, stay on the pathn look low, and you'll find it. The cache description had a enough of a hint that piecing everything together to find the cache wasn't too hard. I got the correct coordinates with my GPS. Should I post the correct coordinates in my log or that considered wrong? I feel like someone would have already posted them off it wasn't frowned upon.

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The original was posted on /r/geocaching by /u/FilFoxFil on 2025-07-12 19:22:16+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/geocaching by /u/unmgrad on 2025-07-11 19:04:33+00:00.


I purchased a magnetic travel bug decal for my car. It’s been there a couple of months, with zero finds. I have never seen one in real life. How many times have you all found and logged something like this?

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The original was posted on /r/geocaching by /u/platypus10000 on 2025-07-12 23:40:03+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/geocaching by /u/FilFoxFil on 2025-07-12 19:20:42+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/geocaching by /u/botanic_cloud on 2025-07-11 18:25:00+00:00.


So my in laws found a box with a geocaching logbook and small figures in it. They took it, because it layed open on the pathside in the forest and because they are my grandparents in law they thought maybe someone from us wanted these figures. Then I told them that it's geocaching and we should put it back. Please mind I never played geocaching, but I think it's pretty cool and did download the app at some point. They didn't care... They want to keep the figures, but I did save the logbook. I want to know what is the best thing to do now? Can I do something to safe this?

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The original was posted on /r/geocaching by /u/CacheCrikeyGeocaches on 2025-07-12 00:39:14+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/geocaching by /u/SuspiciousCompany543 on 2025-07-11 19:28:41+00:00.


I recently read a post from a parent stating that their daughter and a friend (early teens) were out searching when they received a message from someone I forget exactly what it said, but it was basically like I'm watching you be careful. They even mentioned what clothes the girl was wearing.

I am very new to geocaching. How do people know who or when someone is searching. Someone stated not to log it while you're there. That makes sense, but wouldn't they have to be at their cache all of the time waiting?

It has occurred to me that some caches are at the edge of properties, so they'd notice if someone was searching, but how do they know who and how do they message them?

Sorry for the ignorance but I LOVE this new found hobby!! So know that your time helping me is not falling on deaf ears (blind eyes?)!!

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The original was posted on /r/geocaching by /u/Annual-Cat-2568 on 2025-07-11 17:30:51+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/geocaching by /u/jkpaterson04 on 2025-07-11 16:00:39+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/geocaching by /u/CacheCrikeyGeocaches on 2025-07-11 04:24:59+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/geocaching by /u/DAL59 on 2025-07-10 15:52:36+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/geocaching by /u/Annual-Cat-2568 on 2025-07-10 14:10:07+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/geocaching by /u/s-sential on 2025-07-09 21:50:18+00:00.


Just checking in with other cache owners. I have a virtual cache where the only requirement is to upload a photo at the spot. Recently, someone logged it but no photo. I messaged them and they complained I didn’t have an alternative way to log. They were with a large group as stated in their post, so I politely asked them to get a photo and update their log. I even updated the cache description to even more clearly state that uploading a photo was the only requirement. Several weeks has gone by so I have now deleted the log, citing the reason was missing the criteria and that they are welcome to log again with a photo. Just wanting to check if other COs have had this? I don’t want to be unfair, but when I log a cache, I always make sure I fulfill the requirements.

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The original was posted on /r/geocaching by /u/Tatziki_Tango on 2025-07-08 23:10:16+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/geocaching by /u/Annual-Cat-2568 on 2025-07-09 17:40:22+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/geocaching by /u/MistaKD on 2025-07-08 22:11:51+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/geocaching by /u/PoukieBear on 2025-07-08 20:54:32+00:00.


I released a trackable two years on Canada Day to celebrate our great country. Its goal is to travel to each capital city in Canada. This is clearly detailed on the trackable’s goal page.

The trackable was immediately picked up and taken to the US. (Ugh) It has been with the same person for two years, (Ugh!) and I ended up messaging him/her last year to see if it had been lost? It wasn’t, and I was promised it would move on soon…..and by soon, I guess that meant another year. (Uuugh!!)

Today I finally got a notification that it had been handed off to a new player who will be taking it across the globe to drop off in Scotland. (Gaaaah!!)

Part of me wants to message that person to ask them NOT to drop it off is Scotland, when its goal is to travel Canada. And another part of me just wants to let it be…..as we know, each player plays the game their own way.

What should I do?

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The original was posted on /r/geocaching by /u/uudawn on 2025-07-08 18:10:33+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/geocaching by /u/BellasarExandrunok on 2025-07-08 07:26:43+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/geocaching by /u/bizarrekitties on 2025-07-06 19:50:57+00:00.


Newbie as of 5/17. I’ve came across a few geocaches where either the container, the bag containing the log, and/or the log itself are broken, torn, etc. If I had extra paper, tiny plastic bags, and/or containers (say, empty medicine bottles) on hand, is it ok to use them to help preserve the geocache? I have replaced a bag for the log once because the geocache was inside a wet tree cavity and the bag was no good. Then I saw a comment somewhere in this sub recently that it is absolutely not okay to do things like that.

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The original was posted on /r/geocaching by /u/Opalo_brillante on 2025-07-06 15:25:24+00:00.


Hey there cachers!

I found my first ever geocache 7 years ago in Central Park while visiting NYC. I found about 4 that day and they were all in the south-most part of the park, I remember that it felt like I had really just scratched the surface as far as the amount I uncovered vs the amount that were actually available There were really a ton of them.

I am back in NYC 7 years later and wanted to do some geocaching in the park and was surprised to see that there are only 4 traditional caches in all of Central Park! One of which I had found 7 years ago (the rest I had found have been archived). The park is full of mystery caches, virtual caches and earth caches (not really my thing) but I was surprised that there were so few traditional caches.

Since I only really do geocaching when I am travel in manda therefore this is the first time that I am revisiting the same place for geocaching, I am wondering if anybody else has noticed this as a trend in geocaching? Are the traditional caches becoming rare and dwindling in numbers, or is this just a coincidence and bad timing? Are alternative caches types taking over the game?

Thanks!

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The original was posted on /r/geocaching by /u/Jone_08 on 2025-07-05 17:46:36+00:00.


Have you ever found any D5 traditional caches? If you have, what were they? I personally haven’t found a single one yet.

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The original was posted on /r/geocaching by /u/FietsFietspatrick on 2025-07-06 19:49:11+00:00.


You often discover interesting places when caching. Be it old bunkers or some abandoned huts in the forest etc. Sometimes some places give me the creeps. My absolute horror scenario would be to find a corpse. I recently had a chat about this with a friend who also caches. He also finds the idea horrible. We wondered how often something like this has happened, where a cacher makes such a terrible discovery by chance.

Have you ever been very scared while caching or discovered something very strange?

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The original was posted on /r/geocaching by /u/TracySezWHAT on 2025-07-06 00:04:04+00:00.


I'm a little less than 2yrs into geocaching and I recently came across something I thought odd. The CO's cache description says that this is a "self-sustaining" cache and if you look for it and it's missing to just replace it. All of his hides have the same instruction.

I didn't think this was good "CO etiquette." Isn't the primary rule of being a CO to maintain your caches? Or does the CO's instruction in the description trump the rule? Asking because I'm still learning...

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