r/geocaching

Has anybody created any shareables? I’d love to see what designs people have. Bonus points if they are authentic designs (not AI).

Hi,

I'm a noob with a staggering 5 caches found so far :D I'm using c:geo. I've had the app installed for AGES on my phone but always forgot to actually go and find caches. Anyway.

Am I supposed to post photos of the box/paper when logging the cache? It felt natural to do so because it proves that I was actually there, but I just figured out that I seem to be the only weirdo doing that :D And I'm not even sure if I can edit my logs to remove the pics.

Otherwise, apart from honesty, nothing really stops anyone from logging caches they've never found?

Anyway, as mentioned, I'm using c:geo and I think I configured it to keep things as basic as possible. Am I missing out from the paid geocache subscription?

Do you have general tips for a noob geocacher? I am very much into hiking and exploring stuff so I think this is a new hobby that I'll enjoy very very a lot :D I vaguely tried Ingress and Pokemon Go previously but didn't quite like the gameplays, Geocaching feels a lot more simple and more "raw" than the Niantic games.

Thanks.

Not sure if this is a controversial statement or not, but I feel like i’ve cheated after completing guest adventure lab.

I currently have 56 geocache finds, and decided to try my first adventure lab. I completed it within about 10 minutes. I did not realise that each stage of the AL would count as a find, so i’ve suddenly gone from 56 to 61. I would have expected it to go from 56 to 57, but it gave me one find for each AL stage.

It feels like i’ve “cheated” to get more finds. I wouldn’t mind if it was 1 point for completing an entire AL trail, but I feel like 5 is too much. I am considering finding a way to delete the AL log to revert this.

Has anyone else had this same problem? No hate to people who do enjoy Adventure Lab.

Any idea why a certain virtual will not show up on my Geocaching phone app but does on desktop? Other virtuals show up but not this one. GCBJ5K0

I was looking it up as a coworker told me his aunt owned this property briefly when it was on ghost hunters so I wanted to see if there was a cache there or nearby. This urban castle has a crazy history. When I looked it up at lunch it was not on my app. I just looked it up at home on the PC and it is there as a virtual.

I checked and my filters are off. I can see other virtuals. I am wondering if there are even more caches not being shown on my app?

How do we find email for caches requiring emails be sent?

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?

Edit to update: We had a lovely time going through woodland trails. We found 4 caches, 2 had 'swag' to trade which was super exciting. We saw a good range, 1 micro cache, 1 ammo box, a couple down low and a couple higher up We had such a good time hunting around and noticing things we wouldn't have usually noticed. Thanks so much for the advice and input

Aside from the geocaching itself we found some edible berries, a woodpecker, a 50m² area of hundreds of spiders, some shelf mushrooms, a coppicing area, an ancient ice glacia boarder and more!

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?

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!

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.